AshokaThe focus on the relationship between the titular ex-Jedi and his reluctant Padawan Sabine was one of the most surprising, and yet paradoxically disappointing, aspects of the series. On the one hand, this helped expand star wars‘ The vision of the Force, and who can use it, pushes back the narrow-sighted Jedi principles of the prequel era, giving us a Force-wielding character with more parallels with Luke’s journey with the Force in the original trilogy. On the other hand, at the end of the day some of those Jedi principles were pushed back in order to make Sabine Force sensitive, Ashoka Turned the master and apprentice into more or less the same kind of Jedi we already had, with the same kind of teaching methods and understanding—teaching methods we’ve spent time dealing with the failures of the prequel era, and being told in the sequel that they Sure May a new generation of Jedi be allowed to truly flourish, free from the dogmas of the Order.
But one writer who helped shape Sabine’s journey rebels Disagree that this should have happened sooner.
Senior writer and executive producer Henry Gilroy said, “It wasn’t the plan at all… We really felt that not only did it step on Ezra’s story… It was a weak retelling, we’d already done that.” star wars rebelsIn a recent episode of rebellion podThe rebels The artist’s own Rewatch podcast series. According to Gilroy, Sabine’s ability to discover her Force sensitivity came to an idea during rebelsBut was ultimately rejected by the writing team. “The idea of Sabine training as a Jedi when she was already a brilliant warrior of her own kind, we felt like, ‘This is too much.'”
Sabine goes through an experience parallel to Ezra’s own Jedi education rebels When he had to wrestle with the ancient Mandalorian lightsaber, the Darksaber, which became a mythological symbol of the right to rule Mandalore – in the process he attempted to reconcile his own trauma related to the work he did, work that ultimately allowed the Empire to oppress its people as a student in its military academies. But although she trains to wield the weapon, she ultimately passes it on to others to lead the Mandalorians… so imagine Gilroy’s surprise when Ashoka Comes along and Sabine is swinging the lightsaber again.
“I had nothing to do with it Ashoka series, so I was shocked,” Gilroy continued. “What I love about the story of the Darksaber is that you don’t have to be a Jedi to have Jedi ideals… I think that’s really the more important thing, not pushing Ezra a hundred feet by the Force even though he’s never used the Force before.”
Although Gilroy raises some interesting points, his comments also serve as a challenge star wars There has been a massive conflict in recent years, particularly as the story within the galaxy far, far away gradually moves into the post-Originals, post-sequel era: the separation of what it means to be a Jedi from a philosophical and moral standpoint, and what it means to be a Jedi in taking up the mantle as a follower of the Jedi Order as an institution.
Much of this is seen in his own nascent commentary on the prequel’s post-glow and the Order’s twilight star wars Ink was spilled on the deep failings and flaws that allowed it to become complicit in Palpatine’s machinations: a legacy of institutional rot and dogmatic preoccupation that blinded the light to the Jedi’s deepest beliefs as a force for good. But we have also seen star wars‘The heroes – even some like Ahsoka Tano herself, who is a victim of the Order’s deepest flaws – and the broader franchise themselves struggle in the effort to revive the Jedi and either see them making the same mistakes or are not yet ready to make that separation and distinguish between Jedi ideals and Jedi Order doctrine.
Perhaps this will change with time. Ashoka Season two will see Ahsoka and Sabine become closer once again, and they will likely have a discussion. At some point we should still get a movie about Rey attempting to revive a new Jedi Order, and see how she combines the lessons she learned from Luke’s failures with the ancient texts she helped preserve after his death. Whatever the perspective of being a Jedi star wars Ultimately moving forward, the disconnect between it and what it once was means we’ll need more characters following in Sabine’s footsteps, and help broaden the franchise’s understanding of the Force in the process.
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