Dave Filoni hopes to show us the “very cool” continuation of Ahsoka Tano’s journey
By Dan Selcke
The first season of Star Wars: Ahsoka aired on Disney+ earlier this year, spotlighting a fan favorite character first introduced in animated form in Star Wars: The Clone Wars back in 2008. With Rosario Dawson playing her, finally had a show of her own.
But is this all there is? Ahsoka ends on something of a cliffhanger, with Ahsoka and her pupil Sabine Wren seemingly stranded in a faraway galaxy while their friend Ezra Bridger makes it home alongside Thrawn, an Imperial officer who may have the sway to revive the Empire. Surely Disney plans to follow up on this.
Well, they haven’t announced a second season of Ahsoka yet. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, producer Dave Filoni says that he has an idea of where the story “should end up,” at least. “I’ve set up several threads that can continue, but if not, I feel like, well, at least I got Ezra home, and that was really important. But there’s always a plan. I hope one day we’ll see it. It could be very cool, but it took a while to get [Ahsoka] done, so you never know.”
He ended this tease by slipping into Yoda-speak. “Always in motion is the future.” And as the new Chief Creative Officer for the Star Wars universe, Filoni knows that future better than most. Word is he’s working on a movie that will follow up on storylines begun in shows like Ahsoka, The Book of Boba Fett and The Mandalorian, so even if Ahsoka itself doesn’t get a second season, her journey is very likely to continue.
For now, Filoni is still basking in the afterglow of getting to make Ahsoka in the first place. He wanted to explore the aftermath of everything she did in shows like The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels. “Who is she meant to be now that her whole world has collapsed?” Filoni asked. “It’s not just that the Jedi order fell apart, but her mentor [Anakin Skywalker], this person she looked up to, became one of the most evil people in the galaxy. It’s devastating, and I never showed her deal with that. I wanted a character we could watch have that transformation, where she fully accepts not just who she was but what her past was, what the good things were about this mentor she had. It changes who she is and who she can be in the future.”
Ahsoka also pays it forward by picking someone new to mentor: Sabine Wren (Natasha Liu Bordizzo), a Mandalorian warrior with some anger issues. “For Ahsoka, I could see a tendency to want to reach somebody that reminds her of her mentor, but I could also see the danger that would be present in that,” Filoni said.
Traditionally, the Jedi are supposed to avoid anger. It’s prone to lead to hate and then suffering, after all. Sabine Wren is also an unlikely Jedi candidate in that she doesn’t have much natural affinity for the Force. But that also makes her unique. “She’s a very talented warrior, but this is not something that’s easy for her, and I think that makes it relatable to people,” Filoni said. “Generally in Star Wars, we’ve always seen very gifted people be trained, and I wanted to show kind of the opposite. If she achieves her potential, there’s also a danger in that because of the way she is as a warrior. She is prone to anger, and all the things that make Ahsoka concerned could flare up.”
You can watch the first (and only?) season of Star Wars: Ahsoka now on Disney+.
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