The Disney+ Star Wars show Ahsoka aired its season 1 finale last week, leaving fans wondering about the fate of several characters. Beware SPOILERS AHEAD!
Ezra Bridger finally managed to head back home and reunite with Hera Syndulla, while Sabine Wren and Ahsoka were left stranded back on the planet of Peridea, the Purrgil graveyard and the former Witch Kingdom of the Dathomiri.
The action-packed, emotional eight episodes delivered, delivering that classic Star Wars feel. They also answered a few burning questions people had from previous shows and movies.
But at the end of the finale, a few mysteries remained unsolved, which strongly indicated that there would be a season 2. Let’s start with what we learned.
3 questions answered by the Star Wars: Ahsoka finale
Where were Thrawn and Ezra and how would they return?
Last we saw Grand Admiral Thrawn, he was forced to exile with Ezra aboard his Imperial flagship, the Chimaera.
Ahsoka revealed where Thrawn and Ezra had ended up. The purrgils that ambushed Thrawn’s forces at the end of Rebels took them to the planet Peridea in a distant galaxy. After waiting for 10 years, Thrawn finally found his way home in Ahsoka, thanks to Morgan Elsbeth.
In the finale, the Admiral returns to the galaxy where most of Star Wars takes place with the help of Morgan’s intergalactic hyperspace ring, the Eye of Sion. He leaves Morgan herself behind, using her as a sacrificial pawn to hold off Ahsoka.
Ezra manages to get on the Chimaera before it goes into hyperspace. At the end of the finale, he reunites with his Rebels teammate, Hera Syndulla.
Is Sabine Wren a Jedi?
When Rebels ended, fans assumed that Ahsoka and Sabine remained together as master and apprentice, and set out to find Ezra almost immediately after the war ended. However, in Ahsoka, we see that did not happen.
At the beginning of Ahsoka, the two are separated, and there’s a lot of awkward tension between them regarding their past. The show initially tells us that Ahsoka walked away as Sabine lacked any strong connection to the Force and showed very limited signs of improvement.
We later learn that Ahsoka feared Sabine wanted to become a Jedi so she could get revenge for the purge of Mandalore that killed her entire family. She felt Sabine was not ready to truly align herself with the Force. However, Ahsoka was also having trouble overcoming her own trauma and self-doubt stemming from her time as a Padawan. Sabine, meanwhile, felt abandoned by Ahsoka.
In the end, Sabine rises above these doubts and proves her worth in the final battle on Peridea. She successfully taps into the Force to summon her lightsaber during the fight with the zombie troopers, helps Ezra get onto the Eye of Sion, and stays behind to assist Ahsoka rather than go after Thrawn.
This character development, along with the Night Mothers saying she “reeked of Jedi,” shows that Sabine Wren is indeed a Jedi.
Does Force Ghost Anakin ever meet with Ahsoka Tano?
We have long wondered whether Anakin Skywalker’s Force Ghost, the one we see at the end of Return of the Jedi, ever showed up to chat with Ahsoka, Luke, or Leia. Fans were disappointed when he did not appear in the sequel movies and they killed Luke off without him having met his father’s Force Ghost.
Thanks to Ahsoka, now we know that Anakin’s Force Ghost appears in front of his former apprentice and even finishes her training.
Fans were so taken with the brief live-action Clone Wars sequence that they now want a full-length movie featuring Hayden Christensen and Ariana Greenblatt, the actress who plays young Ahsoka in the show.
4 questions the Star Wars: Ahsoka finale did not answer
What’s in the crates and why are they so important to Thrawn?
Before leaving Peridea, Grand Admiral Thrawn is seen loading thousands of crates onto his star destroyer. The crates are mentioned multiple times, but not once are their contents disclosed.
However, it is clear that they are important to Thrawn as he dispatches multiple troops to hold off Ahsoka, Sabine, and Ezra till all the crates are loaded onto the Chimaera.
Fans have speculated that the boxes look like coffins, presumably with corpses in them. The working theory is that Thrawn plans on raising a huge zombie army when he returns. We saw a preview of that in the show.
What is Baylan Skoll up to in Peridea?
Throughout the show, the fallen Jedi Baylan Skoll, played by the late Ray Stevenson, continues to look for a mysterious higher power on Peridea. By Episode 7, it is confirmed that he has no interest in Thrawn. Assisting Morgan Elsbeth in looking for the Admiral was only a means to an end.
In the finale, Baylan features in a single sequence: we see him standing on the outstretched hand of a massive statute of the Father, one of the Ones of Mortis.
The Ones, also called Mortis Gods, were first introduced in a three-episode arc in The Clone Wars. The story saw Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Ahsoka Tano transported to the strange world of Mortis. Set outside regular time and space, it was home to the three omnipotent Force wielders: the Father, the Son, and the Daughter.
There are no mentions of the Mortis Gods anywhere else, except in a mural marking the entrance to the World Between Worlds in Rebels.
We don’t know what Baylan’s ultimate goal is yet, but we hope to find out. With Stevenson having passed away, there is also the question of whether the character will be recast. However, the reveal has sparked some interesting fan theories about his true intentions. The most popular one is that he is searching for Abeloth, the once-mortal woman who became a part of the Ones as the Mother.
How will Ahsoka and Sabine return?
The last and the most obvious unanswered question is how Ahsoka and Sabine return to their own galaxy. They were left behind, along with Baylan Skoll and Shin Hati, when Thrawn left in the Eye of Sion.
There are many theories floating around. Some say they will be helped by the Force or the Force Ghosts of former Jedis, while others think they will find a portal or a path created by the Night Sisters.
One interesting theory is that Peridea is actually Mortis and Ahsoka would know her way home having been here once before. Alternatively, they could be helped out by the Purrgils once again.
What happened to Sabine’s Loth-cat?
Despite the characters struggling with more pressing concerns, Star Wars fans were extremely worried about Sabine’s Loth-cat whom she leaves behind in Lothal. Fans fell in love with it almost immediately, after it was shown waiting around for Sabine in her cabin to be fed.
Was it able to fend for itself after Sabine left? Surely there was someone around in Lotha to feed it and keep it company? Sadly, the show does not revisit the Loth-cat’s fate throughout the season.
However, Star Wars producers saw how much love the Loth-cat received and decided to go ahead and give the fans some reassurance. The franchise’s official accounts have now confirmed that the animal’s name is Murley and the ones babysitting it are…us, the fans.
Turns out Murley is safe, sound, and adorably asleep.
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