BEWARE SPOILERS: The latest animated series has arrived – Tales Of The Jedi. In this spin-off from The Clone Wars we follow Ahsoka and Dooku across six episodes, and as always we post every reference, Easter egg, and some fun trivia in-between that we have spotted. To continue our guide here’s a look at episodes 4 – 6, ‘The Sith Lord’, ‘Practise Makes Perfect’ and ‘Resolve’.
Episode 4: The Sith Lord
The episode starts with showing us something we always suspected since Attack of the Clones: Dooku deleted the location of Kamino from the Jedi Archives, and used Sifo-Dyas access code to do so.
The Jedi Temple Archive voice is a cameo of Meg Marchand, who is a production coordinator for The Bad Batch.
The voice of Yaddle is another cameo, this time from Bryce Dallas Howard, the director of various The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett episodes.
Also about the voice of Yaddle: she was recently heard for the first time (in an official product) in LEGO Star Wars The Skywalker Saga, where she was voiced by an unknown actress. People suspect this to be Flo Di Re, who voiced Jocasta Nu in this series and earlier in The Clone Wars.
Count Dooku tells Qui-Gon he is eager to finally meet Obi-Wan. This of course does not happen for another 10 years, in Attack Of The Clones.
Qui-Gon Jinn never had a home planet in the Legends continuity, and it was not until the sourcebook Ultimate Star Wars that he received one: Coruscant, which this episode sticks with.
About sticking to canon: The recent novel Padawan established that while Dooku had left the Jedi Order before The Phantom Menace (as told in Master & Apprentice and Dooku: Jedi Lost), he was still welcome to visit. With this episode not stating him to a be a Jedi, this could just be another visit. Considering the news that his former apprentice brings, it would make sense he went there to hear more about it
Also sticking to canon: Yaddle mentions that she has resigned from the Council. This was also something that was originally mentioned only in a sourcebook: The Visual Encyclopedia.
Yes, that is indeed once again Ian McDiarmid reprising his role as Darth Sidious.
Episode 5: Practice Makes Perfect
Practice Makes Perfect, the title of this episode, is also that of a short comic which had Anakin being tested in the Jedi Temple by Obi-Wan in a lightsaber fight.
Anakin passes by a lot of familiar faces in the hallway: Ima-Gun Di talking to a female Jedi (using the same model as Depa Billaba?), Seasee Tinn walks with an unknown Jedi and Eeth Koth walks alone.
In the dojo we also see Caleb Dune (Kanan) and Depa Billaba.
Jesse is CT-5597, who we saw before as a member of the 501st and the one who demoted Rex for failure to carry out Order 66. So him hitting Ahsoka with a stun blast is alluding to his failed attempt to kill her as part of Order 66.
The final scene brings us back to The Clone Wars 7×12 Victory And Death, in a small scene that was not seen in the episode, but can fit in there easily.
Episode 6: Resolve
Bail Organa and Mon Mothma are seen attending Padmé’s funeral procession. This makes total sense as they were friends, but they were not seen among the faces that we know in Revenge of the Sith during this scene.
Ahsoka and Padmé bonding into a friendship happened in Season 3 of The Clone Wars.
Ashla is a word that has been used to represent the light side of the Force, and as a name for various beings, moons and other things, but also as the name of another Togruta Jedi in training, the Bear Clan member seen in Attack of the Clones. Originally Ashla is also the production name when Ahsoka and The Clone Wars was being developed.
The Inquisitor is another new Star Wars role for Clancy Brown, after such roles as Savage Opress, Ryder Azadi, Burg and couple others.
And let’s end with the canon elephant in the room: yes, this episode differs in many aspects from the Ahsoka novel. While we wait for more statements on what is now canon or how they work together, one must remind themselves that both stories follow the same outline as given by Dave Filoni: Ahsoka Tano hides in a remote farming community after the rise of the Empire under the alias “Ashla”. There she befriends someone, and the village comes under attack by an Inquisitor. Ahsoka next joins Bail and becomes Fulcrum.
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