Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi got here to Disney Plus on Wednesday, giving us six CGI animated shorts within the type of The Clone Wars. Half of the tales are dedicated to legendary Jedi Ahsoka Tano (lengthy earlier than her alliance with The Mandalorian), whereas the others deal with future Sith Lord Dooku throughout his time as a Jedi.
They’re written by Clone Wars govt producer Dave Filoni, who’s at present engaged on the live-action Ahsoka collection that is scheduled to hit Disney Plus subsequent yr.
These are all set within the prequel period, a long time earlier than the occasions of authentic Star Wars film A New Hope (and present live-action present Andor). Let’s use the Power to dive into every episode’s SPOILERS.
Life and Dying
On her homeworld Shili, previous to the occasions of The Phantom Menace, an toddler Ahsoka (Ashley Eckstein) is taken by sabertooth and appears doomed. When she instinctively tames it with the Power and rides it again residence, the village elder recognises her energy and declares her a Jedi.
The Power is powerful with this one.
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We all know from The Clone Wars that she’s introduced into the Jedi Order by Grasp Plo Koon, and turns into Padawan to Anakin Skywalker.
Justice
Jedi Grasp Dooku (Corey Burton) comes near killing a corrupt Republic senator after witnessing the struggling of his individuals. His Padawan Qui-Gon Jinn (Micheál Richardson, son of live-action Qui-Gon actor Liam Neeson) manages to avoid wasting the senator by releasing his kidnapped son, whose love for his father helps Dooku snap out of it.
This takes place years earlier than The Phantom Menace, and highlights Dooku’s disillusionment with the Republic (a narrative that is additionally instructed in audio drama Dooku: Jedi Misplaced). We additionally get to see Dooku’s blue lightsaber, which has an superior curved hilt much like the one he’ll wield as a Sith.
Decisions
Despatched to retrieve a lifeless Jedi’s physique together with fellow Grasp Mace Windu (T.C. Carson), Dooku takes the mission within the path that leads to a corrupt senator’s loss of life. He identifies with the insurgent group’s liable for the incident, echoing its mistrust for the Republic and its management over the Jedi.
Masters Dooku and Mace Windu staff as much as face a risk, however really feel fairly otherwise in its aftermath.
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Mace is given the fallen Jedi’s place on the Council, which annoys Dooku. He presumably sees it as Mace taking part in politics to rise inside the Order and the Republic system, within the years earlier than The Phantom Menace.
The Sith Lord
This one is about throughout occasions of The Phantom Menace, after Qui-Gon encounters Darth Maul on Tatooine however earlier than the return to Naboo. Dooku deletes the planet Kamino from the Jedi archives, hiding the conspiracy to create the clone military (it will not be found for one more decade, in Assault of the Clones).
He additionally has his final encounter with Qui-Gon earlier than his former Padawan is slain by Maul.
Within the wake of Qui-Gon’s loss of life, Jedi Council member Yaddle (Bryce Dallas Howard, who directed episodes of The Mandalorian and The Guide of Boba Fett) follows Dooku to a secret assembly with Darth Sidious (Ian McDiarmid). Confronted with a selection between Jedi and Sith when she’s found, Dooku sides with Sidious, kills Yaddle and turns into the Sith Lord’s apprentice — Darth Tyranus.
This reveals the destiny of Yaddle, who’s of the identical species as Yoda and Grogu. She beforehand solely made a short look in The Phantom Menace and had vanished by Assault of the Clones. It is unclear if the Jedi ever found her destiny.
This episode additionally means that Sidious took benefit of Dooku’s grief over Qui-Gon’s loss of life to seduce him fully to the darkish facet. He’ll finally discard Dooku in favor of Anakin in Revenge of the Sith.
Apply Makes Good
After the occasions of The Clone Wars film, Anakin (Matt Lanter) brings Ahsoka to a clandestine coaching session during which she tries to deflect clone troopers’ blaster fireplace for so long as doable earlier than being shocked.
Ahsoka works on her survival abilities.
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She continues that coaching all through the struggle and it finally permits her to survive Order 66, during which Sidious makes clone troopers throughout the galaxy to slay their Jedi allies.
This episode was the primary one Filoni wrote for the collection. It additionally includes a cameo from a younger Caleb Dume, a Padawan who’ll additionally make it by the destruction of the Jedi Order. He’ll tackle the identify Kanan Jarrus and grow to be the Jedi hero of Rebels.
Resolve
After the rise of the Galactic Empire (seen in Revenge of the Sith and The Clone Wars finale) Ahsoka quietly attends Padmé’s funeral on Naboo, and future Insurgent Alliance chief Bail Organa (Phil LaMarr) provides her a communicator.
Dwelling in hiding on an agricultural world, Ahsoka finds employment in farming till she blows her cowl through the use of the Power to avoid wasting a coworker and attracts an Imperial Inquisitor (Clancy Brown) to them.
She slays the Inquisitor together with his personal red-bladed lightsaber and contacts Bail to rejoin the battle. It is unclear how this suits with the 2016 Ahsoka novel, which tells an analogous story, however any contradictions may very well be defined as an alternate telling.
