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Nov 27, 2020 · The return of Ahsoka Tano, played by Rosario Dawson, on The Mandalorian season 2 brings with it big implications for the future of the show and the Star Wars universe. This Star Wars article ...
Jan 9, 2024 · Ahsoka season 2 probably won’t be out for a while. It won’t arrive this year, with only Skeleton Crew and The Acolyte on the schedule for 2024. But with a new Mandalorian movie likely arriving ...
- The final scene in Rebels might be even more significant than we realized.
- The Mandalorian Season 2
By Jesse Schedeen
Updated: Dec 1, 2020 5:47 pm
Posted: Dec 1, 2020 5:08 pm
Warning: this article contains spoilers for The Mandalorian Season 2, Episode 5 and the series finale of Star Wars Rebels!
Ahsoka Tano may have finally appeared on The Mandalorian, but there's a lot we still don't know about her journey after the events of the original trilogy. And now "The Jedi" director Dave Filoni is casting even more doubt on the Ahsoka timeline, hinting the final scene in Star Wars Rebels may actually take place after The Mandalorian.
Filoni teased a possible nonlinear approach to Ahsoka's story in an interview with Vanity Fair (via ScreenRant). While not confirming one way or the other, Filoni makes it clear fans shouldn't assume The Mandalorian is taking place after the Rebels finale.
For those who haven't seen the entirety of Rebels, the series ends on a fairly open-ended note, with aspiring Jedi Ezra Bridger and his nemesis Grand Admiral Thrawn being dragged across the galaxy aboard a runaway Star Destroyer. The fates of both characters remain a mystery, though it's generally assumed both will eventually reappear, either on The Mandalorian itself or another Star Wars series.
While the majority of that episode takes place before the events of Rogue One and A New Hope, there is a time jump near the end. The final sequence in the Rebels finale features narration from Ahsoka herself, as we see glimpses of the roles Hera Syndulla, Sabine Wren and Captain Rex played in defeating the Empire, culminating in a scene where Ahsoka reunites with her friends on Lothal to seek out the missing Ezra and Thrawn.
Based on the context of that episode, it's always been assumed this reunion scene is taking place shortly after the events of Return of the Jedi. The Mandalorian, meanwhile, is set roughly five years after that movie, and Ahsoka makes it clear in "The Jedi" she's on the hunt for Thrawn. Fans have naturally assumed this means Ahsoka is continuing her quest from the Rebels finale, but Filoni's comments cast the episode in a different light. That Rebels reunion scene may have happened later in the Star Wars timeline than we realized. Perhaps Ahsoka doesn't reunite with Hera and Sabine until after she finds the intel she needs on Thrawn's whereabouts.
As ScreenRant points out, this would also imply Sabine has stayed on Lothal in the five years since the fall of the Empire. We've previously speculated Sabine might be the next Rebels character to make the jump to live-action, so it's possible Din Djarin and Grogu's adventures will eventually take them to that familiar planet.
If you need more help making sense of The Mandalorian's place in the larger Star Wars saga, check out our recap of Ahsoka's story so far, our explainer on Grand Admiral Thrawn and a full timeline for Mandalore and Baby Yoda.
Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on Twitter.
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The Mandalorian: Season 2 has been busy bringing all sorts of fan-favorite characters into the mix, from Temuera Morrison reprising the role of Boba Fett to Rosario Dawson bringing Ahsoka Tano into live-action at long last. And it appears that Ahsoka's live-action debut heralds the return of another major Star Wars character.
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Oct 4, 2023 · There's plenty of unfinished business left as Star Wars: Ahsoka wraps up its eight-episode season. Here's how the series lays the groundwork for Dave Filoni's Star Wars movie and a potential Season 2.
Nov 30, 2020 · Ahsoka plays a heavy role in Season 2 as she joins the Ghost crew and even forms a fleeting alliance with Darth Maul. Over the course of the season, Ahsoka battles members of the Sith ...
Jul 11, 2023 · According to Disney, Ahsoka will hit streaming on Aug. 23, 2023. We just caught up with Mando and Grogu earlier in the year with The Mandalorian, but it's already time to check back in with Ahsoka.
