The “Ohmigod Ahsoka Tano’s Back” Article You Were Waiting For!
Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! We love you, our reeaders, here at EpicEscape.com, but please, please, please… If you are an Ahsoka Fan from Disney’s Star Wars: Clone Wars, or Star Wars: Rebels cartoons… Go away until you’ve had a chance to enjoy the latest episode of the Mandalorian. When you’ve had a minute to close your eyes, and absorb the sheer delight of it all, and you’re good and ready, and have jumped out of your joy induced coma, come back and join us in discussing Ahsoka Tano.
Yes, Ahsoka Tano has returned to the forefront of the Star Wars Galaxy, and despite the galaxy itself being so far far away, she is so near and so dear to our hearts. Rosario Dawson, who let’s face it, we’ve loved forever, brings her sheer and unmistakable talent to the live action world of Star Wars in an understated and brilliant turn as everyone’s beloved Paduan to Anakin Skywalker. Dawson captures not what Ahsoka was, the wide eyed kid who joined the Jedi order, but what she is now, an older, wiser, non-Jedi who carries the burden of history from her experiences in the Clone Wars, and the Rebels era of adventures.
Ahsoka is no fool. While she may be curious to see a Yoda-Like creature standing before her, she feels the full burden of what that might mean to the Galaxy in the Mandalorian. Here, we are presented with a Galaxy that has been torn apart by, dare I say it, a religious war between two warring factions, the Jedi, and the Sith. With all the damage that they have done to the Star Wars galaxy and all the lives that they have cost, Ahsoka mulls the actions to be taken with this new entry into her life. What to do with a new “child” who could be as powerful as Yoda or Emperor Palpatine?
Rosario Dawson masterfully, quietly, and beautifully brings Ahsoka’s mixed emotions to life reflecting tension, and joy at the possibilities. Her response is both complex and grave at the same time. Ahsoka can take steps, but does she chose to do so, or not… not quite so fast… thought and reflection must be brought to bear here.
We all remember Ahsoka’s difficulty with the Jedi order. If you don’t, go back and watch the Clone Wars “Ahsoka the Fugitive” Arc, in Season 5. It’s a question we Star Wars fans all ask. Would it be good to be a Jedi, or just ditch all the rules, and live a normal life? What good is it to be able to lift an X-Wing out of a swamp, if you can’t seek love, or have a family? Clearly, the burden of that choice to too heavy, when even the best of the Jedi, Anakin Skywalker, can’t seem to get it right. Ahsoka made her choice, and many of us fans have thought that she ended up being wisest of them all. A force wielder still, she no longer must adhere to the unattainable standards of the priestly order of Jedi.
Now, here, presented with a choice of teaching a being with the possibility of becoming the strongest Jedi alive, Ahsoka takes pause. Dawson’s demeanor, her muted movements, her manner of observation of Din Djarin’s Mandalorian, are all in poetic harmony with what Ahsoka would be after all that has happened with her character over the years.
We here, at EpicEscape.com. loved every second of it. Thanks so much, Rosario Dawson, for so beautifully bringing such a complex character to life. We can’t wait to see it again!
By John Cross
EpicEcape.com
