Star Wars is a franchise filled with characters who undergo a lot, and Ahsoka Tano has had a fairly eventful life. Since she debuted on Star Wars: The Clone Wars as an apprentice to Anakin Skywalker through the prequels, she’s been caught up in a single occasion after one other, from partaking in navy skirmishes to surviving Order 66 and being a key participant within the rising Revolt. Together with her upcoming solo sequence set to debut in a number of months, one of many present’s key threads will see Ahsoka (as performed in live-action by Rosario Dawson) studying to let individuals totally into her life once more.

Chatting with Empire Journal, showrunner Dave Filoni (and in addition Ahsoka’s co-creator) mentioned the titular present would discover how lonely her life has turn out to be since turning into Not a Jedi and leaping round from place to put. He mentioned the present would begin off together with her as a wanderer who’s “cautious of any group as such due to the facility that comes with it as a bunch.” Through the closing season of Clone Wars, this was one thing hinted without delay she was reunited with Anakin and Obi-Wan, however will probably be given extra focus right here.

Jedi residing solitary lives is pretty frequent, however the circumstances of Ahsoka’s loneliness are extra difficult than others like her. Between surviving Order 66, a number of Inquisitors, and a combat together with her previous grasp, she’s acquired loads of cause to be closed off. And it ought to assist clarify why the character’s live-action appearances in The Mandalorian and The Guide of Boba Fett have felt so…off in a method or one other the place she dips out anytime she will get a whiff of neighborhood being fashioned. (It’s not even all that unique to live-action, as she appeared and disappeared all through the second season of Star Wars Rebels.)

Whereas it’s been straightforward for Ahsoka to come back and go as she pleases from locations prior to now, that received’t be fairly as straightforward in her present. In Rebels, she was saved by that present’s protagonist Ezra Bridger (performed right here by Eman Esfandi), and he informed her to come back discover him. That is her means of returning the favor, and that’ll require her to companion up with fellow Rebels character Sabine Wren (Natasha Bordizzo) as they journey the galaxy in search of their lacking good friend. Filoni had no downside saying connecting with Sabine throughout their travels collectively can be a problem for her. “[Ahsoka] walks a path that principally died out a very long time in the past,” Filoni noticed. “What’s that life like? If you’re a loner, you could have a really small circle of mates. What’s it like, then, while you attempt to open again up?”

Star Wars: Ahsoka involves Disney+ in August.

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