Fifteen years after she made her debut in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Jedi Ashoka Tano is finally getting her own Disney Plus series, Star Wars: Ahsoka. Originally voiced by Ashley Eckstein, her live-action incarnation will likely be played by Rosario Dawson who made her debut because the character in The Book of Boba Fett.
But unlike Andor, Obi-Wan Kenobi and The Mandalorian Star Wars T.V. shows, Ahsoka may require slightly more knowledge of the prolonged Star Wars universe, the world beyond the flicks. Everyone knows who Darth Vader and Obi-Wan Kenobi are, but who’s Grand Admiral Thrawn? And why is his return such a giant deal?
You possibly can expect Star Wars: Ahsoka to deliver an inexpensive amount of exposition. But with only eight episodes to fill within the gaps, it’s possible you’ll well end up scratching your head. Sure, it’s great for those who can find the time to observe your entire run of Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars: Rebels. Nevertheless, with over 200 episodes in total, that is an awful lot of homework.
That is why we have narrowed things down slightly. We have pored over The Clone Wars, Rebels, Tales of the Jedi and more to bring you a listing of ten episodes of Star Wars to observe before Star Wars: Ahsoka. Every episode is obtainable on Disney Plus so if you need to catch up there is not any time like the current.
1. Star Wars: The Clone Wars (movie)
Despite getting a theatrical showing, that is three Clone Wars episodes stitched together and it absolutely shows. It also feels as if Lucasfilm wanted the movie’s Baby Hutt to be as marketable as Baby Yoda later was (living proof, see the Lego Star Wars The Child construct).
Here we see Ahsoka’s first meeting with Anakin Skywalker, who’s been charged with training her. Though he initially sees her as a burden, we get to observe their partnership blossom into something special. You simply know that nothing bad is ever, ever going to interrupt them up. Honest.
2. The Academy
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 3 Episode 6
The Academy sees Ahsoka teaching a bunch of Mandalorian students, uncovering a sinister plot in the method. After they wish to charge in, she steps up and takes command, shining each as a pacesetter and a Jedi. It’s Ahsoka’s guidance (and her Jedi training) that helps her charges foil the episode’s villain.
Considering her impetuousness once got several clones killed, it highlights just how much she’s grown as a personality. This can be a glimpse of the Ahsoka we later see in Star Wars: Rebels, acting as mentor to Ezra Bridger and company.
3. Heroes on Each Sides
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 3 Episode 10
A reference to Revenge of the Sith’s opening crawl, the events of this episode sow the seeds of doubt in Ahsoka’s mind. She becomes aware that, as she puts it, “The politics of this war aren’t as black and white as I once thought they were.”
Except for humanizing the separatists, something that the prequel trilogy failed to perform, it also introduces Lux Bonteri. He’s the son of a Separatist senator and, turning up in later episodes, clearly has a crush on Ahsoka. Nothing comes of it, but when the Disney Plus series goes there it could make for an ungainly reunion.
4. Practice Makes Perfect
- Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi Season 1 Episode 5
In an unsettling piece of foreshadowing, Anakin decides to place Ahsoka through his own Jedi training program. As a substitute of just swinging away at training drones, he has her taking up Commander Rex and his clones, blasters set to stun.
It’s greater than slightly off-putting watching Ahsoka get repeatedly knocked unconscious, with Anakin looking on. This minisode says as much about his character because it does Ahsoka’s tenacity and Jedi skills. It also explains how, in comparison with other less fortunate Jedi, Ahsoka fared higher against the post Order 66 clone troopers.
5. Altar of Mortis
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 3 Episode 16
Have you ever heard concerning the time Ahsoka Tano died? It isn’t a story the Jedi would let you know. This episode sees her pushed to the Dark Side by an entity often known as the Son. A Dark Side Ahsoka is kind of something to behold, along with her holding her own against each Anakin and Obi-Wan Kenobi.
She dies by the hands of the Son, but is restored to life by one other entity. Nevertheless, that sort of experience, each her death and her dalliance with the Dark Side, is sure to depart a mark. We’re curious to see if the Disney Plus series revisits and even references it.
6. The Unsuitable Jedi
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 5 Episode 20
The Unsuitable Jedi is each the season finale and the conclusion to a four-episode arc that has Ahsoka accused of bombing the Jedi temple. She’s had her doubts, but she still believes within the Jedi Order and in her master, Anakin Skywalker. They’re sure to spring to her defense, right?
The court scene is barely undermined by the undeniable fact that, after the death of previous actor Ian Abercombie, Senator Palpatine is blatantly Tim Curry. Nevertheless, it’s still absolutely heartbreaking to see Ahsoka’s faith shattered and, on the conclusion of the episode, watch her exit the Jedi Order.
7. Shattered
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 7 Episode 11
Whatever happened to Ahsoka Tano when the remaining of the Jedi were being slaughtered? The Clone Wars’ final two episodes have the reply. She can have left the Jedi order behind, but that does not prevent her being swept up within the events of Order 66.
Trapped on a Republic Cruiser with a legion of trigger-happy Clone Troopers, she still refuses to kill her former allies and, as a substitute, is forced into an unsettling (and unwise) alliance. This episode also reveals how Captain Rex, reported to seem in Ahsoka, parted company along with his fellow clones.
8. The Siege of Lothal Part 2
- Star Wars Rebels Season 2 Episode 2
Ahsoka briefly appeared on the conclusion of Season 1 of Rebels, yet it’s this episode where she steps up and takes the fight to the Empire. She joins forces with the crew of the Ghost, three of whom (Ezra Bridger, Hera Syndulla and Sabine Wren) feature in Ahsoka.
That said, it is not like she has much of a alternative. The episode also features the bombshell moment when, connecting to Darth Vader through the force, she realizes who he truly is. And with him (and the Emperor) aware of her survival, she will be able to’t afford to face still.
9. Twilight of the Apprentice Part 2
- Star Wars Rebels Season 2 Episode 22
Twilight of the Apprentice offers up a confrontation that is been brewing ever because the end of The Clone Wars: Ahsoka Tano against her former master, Anakin Skywalker, now Darth Vader.
It’s as dramatic as you’d expect and hearing Tano utter “I’m no Jedi” still gives us chills. She geese and weaves around Vader who, while lacking in finesse, has real power behind his blows. On the time, if not for one blink-and-you’ll-miss-it scene, it gave the look of Ahsoka had died fighting Vader.
10. An Inside Man
- Star Wars Rebels Season 3 Episode 1
Ahsoka Tano and Grand Admiral Thrawn have never butted heads on-screen, prior to the live motion series. An Inside Man illustrates just how formidable a foe, and leader, he’s. Actor Oliver Reed once said, “The damaging man has an excellent silence about him,” and Thrawn, along with his subdued manner, suits this perfectly.
Intelligent and ruthless, he addresses sabotage at an Imperial factory by having the employees put their lives on the road, literally. The series’ protagonists Ezra Bridger and Kanan Jarrus do put in an appearance, tasked with gathering intelligence on a brand new Imperial weapon, however it’s still very much Thrawn’s episode.