Elle Star Wars The Clone Wars Series Finale: Ahsoka Tano and Tonight's Surprise Guest What's Next? - 4 May
Visual awe and spectacle, more than the greater expansion of Star Wars mythology, was largely the star of tonight’s series finale of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, however, the show’s multi-hyphenate Dave Filoni certainly left us scratching for more in regard to the further adventures of former Anakin Skywalker Padawan apprentice Ahsoka Tano.
Twelve years. A movie. Seven seasons. A death (or two), and a return. It seems to be a lifetime since Star Wars: The Clone Wars told us to welcome it to our hearts and galaxy far and near. We have changed, and so are Clone War, and now it is the show's turn to ask him to leave, this time for good.
And technically, no, Anakin did not make a final appearance to speak with Ashoka tonight, nor was he transported from the Reich of the Sith to Mustafar events. However, Anakin's dark alter-ego, Darth Vader, kept him in an appearance during the final moments of "Victory and Death". The rule of the empire is in full effect.
During the final season, some fans wondered if the Clone Wars would end just as the Revenge of the Sith was starting. Filoni had already answered those questions tonight, leading us to Episode III, the previous Count Dooku and the deaths of General Greizius (about which it is talked), up to Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, Order 66 In, to purify the Jedi.
If anything, Clone Wars leaves us off heading into the Filoni-Simon Kinberg-Carrie Beck created 2014 animated series Star Wars Rebels. That animated series is set 14 years after the fall of the Republic in Revenge of the Sith and five years before A New Hope begins. Many continue to wonder whether Disney+ will bring back that series back for season 5.
Tonight's final shot shows Ahsoka confronting her crashed fritters on a moon. She is wearing her black kilt, and drops her lightbuster into the ground, a sign that she is actually done with this Jedi nonsense, even though she has already left the order. Cut to some time in the future where we see a group of Ice-Troopers and Stormtroopers who filter the area with Bruner.
There is snow around the crashed freighter, and he finds the lightsaber of his former Padawan. If you’ve followed, Rebels which takes place after Clones and before Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Star Wars: A New Hope, you know that Ahsoka is the architect of the Fulcrum spies in that animated series, and she ultimately meets her again and battles him during a pursuit for a holocron in the Sith Temple of Malchor in the Rebels season 2 finale “The Twilight of the Apprentice”.
In that episode, Vader tells him that Anakin Skywalker was weak and that he destroyed her. Ahsoka then tells her that she is going to avenge Anakin's death. She drops a part of her helmet, and watches for a moment, her former mentor. He is left for dead in that rock, but he eventually escapes as we see him again in Rebels, season 4, asap. 13 "A world among the worlds".
The final three minutes of Ashoka, along with the clone helmet on spikes (an obvious homage to the shot in the Mandalorian of chopper helmet on the bike), were also Wader scenes, and tonight's finale was the big aorta.
In earlier episodes, as Rex and Ahsoka fight of the clones that have turned against them, Unleashed Darth Maul destroys the freezer's hyper-drive, damaging the ship and disrupting it toward the moon. Ship, causing the ship to fall into its gravitational bridge. When faced with the dilemma of killing those for whom Palpatine had programmed against him, Ahsoka had no bone in his body: She respects him a lot. In confronting them, Rex acts as if he takes His hostage before lifting the platform from under the feet of most of the soldiers. Later as Maul tries to escape to his ship, Ahso forces pull him back, but he eventually calms down, taking pity on the Sith Lord, who was also the target of Order 66 (because the clones Jedi and St.S. Cannot tell apart). We’ll see Maul again (sans the title of Darth) in, yes, The Rebels two-part season 2 finale “Twilight of the Apprentice”. The great cinematic visuals, in particular, Ahsoka skydiving through the freighters debris to catch onto the Y-Wing Rex is piloting, are the by far tonight’s biggest star.
There is a paradoxical energy to the series finale, “Victory and Death.” It’s driven by the fact that it’s the final chapter in an arc of not just four episodes, this whole season, or of an entire show, but also in the way it simultaneously has to be a wild ride of some of the tensest action the series has ever attempted and an exhaustive, emotional endcap to 12 years (give or take a break) of some of the most profound Star Wars storytelling in the saga.
As we’re left to ponder what we know is to come, we watch Vader walk away through the cracked visor of a discarded Clone helmet—the masked iconography of the original trilogy, walking away from the iconography of its prequels—for one final time, The Clone Wars symbolically let's go.Even if not all of its former heroes are quite so capable of doing so.
Visual awe and spectacle, more than the greater expansion of Star Wars mythology, was largely the star of tonight’s series finale of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, however, the show’s multi-hyphenate Dave Filoni certainly left us scratching for more in regard to the further adventures of former Anakin Skywalker Padawan apprentice Ahsoka Tano.
Twelve years. A movie. Seven seasons. A death (or two), and a return. It seems to be a lifetime since Star Wars: The Clone Wars told us to welcome it to our hearts and galaxy far and near. We have changed, and so are Clone War, and now it is the show's turn to ask him to leave, this time for good.
And technically, no, Anakin did not make a final appearance to speak with Ashoka tonight, nor was he transported from the Reich of the Sith to Mustafar events. However, Anakin's dark alter-ego, Darth Vader, kept him in an appearance during the final moments of "Victory and Death". The rule of the empire is in full effect.
During the final season, some fans wondered if the Clone Wars would end just as the Revenge of the Sith was starting. Filoni had already answered those questions tonight, leading us to Episode III, the previous Count Dooku and the deaths of General Greizius (about which it is talked), up to Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, Order 66 In, to purify the Jedi.
If anything, Clone Wars leaves us off heading into the Filoni-Simon Kinberg-Carrie Beck created 2014 animated series Star Wars Rebels. That animated series is set 14 years after the fall of the Republic in Revenge of the Sith and five years before A New Hope begins. Many continue to wonder whether Disney+ will bring back that series back for season 5.
Tonight's final shot shows Ahsoka confronting her crashed fritters on a moon. She is wearing her black kilt, and drops her lightbuster into the ground, a sign that she is actually done with this Jedi nonsense, even though she has already left the order. Cut to some time in the future where we see a group of Ice-Troopers and Stormtroopers who filter the area with Bruner.
There is snow around the crashed freighter, and he finds the lightsaber of his former Padawan. If you’ve followed, Rebels which takes place after Clones and before Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Star Wars: A New Hope, you know that Ahsoka is the architect of the Fulcrum spies in that animated series, and she ultimately meets her again and battles him during a pursuit for a holocron in the Sith Temple of Malchor in the Rebels season 2 finale “The Twilight of the Apprentice”.
In that episode, Vader tells him that Anakin Skywalker was weak and that he destroyed her. Ahsoka then tells her that she is going to avenge Anakin's death. She drops a part of her helmet, and watches for a moment, her former mentor. He is left for dead in that rock, but he eventually escapes as we see him again in Rebels, season 4, asap. 13 "A world among the worlds".
The final three minutes of Ashoka, along with the clone helmet on spikes (an obvious homage to the shot in the Mandalorian of chopper helmet on the bike), were also Wader scenes, and tonight's finale was the big aorta.
In earlier episodes, as Rex and Ahsoka fight of the clones that have turned against them, Unleashed Darth Maul destroys the freezer's hyper-drive, damaging the ship and disrupting it toward the moon. Ship, causing the ship to fall into its gravitational bridge. When faced with the dilemma of killing those for whom Palpatine had programmed against him, Ahsoka had no bone in his body: She respects him a lot. In confronting them, Rex acts as if he takes His hostage before lifting the platform from under the feet of most of the soldiers. Later as Maul tries to escape to his ship, Ahso forces pull him back, but he eventually calms down, taking pity on the Sith Lord, who was also the target of Order 66 (because the clones Jedi and St.S. Cannot tell apart). We’ll see Maul again (sans the title of Darth) in, yes, The Rebels two-part season 2 finale “Twilight of the Apprentice”. The great cinematic visuals, in particular, Ahsoka skydiving through the freighters debris to catch onto the Y-Wing Rex is piloting, are the by far tonight’s biggest star.
There is a paradoxical energy to the series finale, “Victory and Death.” It’s driven by the fact that it’s the final chapter in an arc of not just four episodes, this whole season, or of an entire show, but also in the way it simultaneously has to be a wild ride of some of the tensest action the series has ever attempted and an exhaustive, emotional endcap to 12 years (give or take a break) of some of the most profound Star Wars storytelling in the saga.
As we’re left to ponder what we know is to come, we watch Vader walk away through the cracked visor of a discarded Clone helmet—the masked iconography of the original trilogy, walking away from the iconography of its prequels—for one final time, The Clone Wars symbolically let's go.Even if not all of its former heroes are quite so capable of doing so.
