Ahsoka episode 5 recap (2023) – bear in mind The Clone Wars?

You knew, as soon as Hayden Christensen appeared within the earlier episode, that this one could be one thing. A wave of cinema screenings compounded the thought we have been about to get one of many larger swings of Ahsoka. The Clone Wars in live-action and a few acceptance of the previous – a traditional Star Wars motif – make ‘Shadow Warrior’ an emotive viewing expertise, although some facets don’t maintain collectively.

Within the World Between Worlds, Anakin and Ahsoka transfer to complete her coaching by way of revisiting the beginning of their relationship in Star Wars: The Clone Wars. He places her again into the thick of battle within the Star Wars sequence, surrounded by laser hearth within the fog of struggle. Literal fog, by the way in which – the entire scene is shrouded in a mud storm.

Nonetheless, a younger Ahsoka follows Anakin intently, hanging on his each phrase. They focus on what he’s trying to indicate her, pushing by way of different notable occasions from Ahsoka’s time as a Jedi apprentice.

The clipshow ends on the siege of Mandalore, considered one of Ahsoka’s most vivid reminiscences from this era. Anakin commends how she dealt with every part, even when she carries resentment over all of it. They don’t reconcile, however they do acknowledge a shared bond constructed on extraordinarily troublesome and tumultuous circumstances.

Revisiting the Clone Wars appears apparent looking back, contemplating Dave Filoni is in cost. Given the chance, why wouldn’t he put some alternative scenes from among the finest animated sequence in live-action? The journey down reminiscence lane evokes some highly effective feelings about what was and what might’ve been.

Anakin wasn’t all the time Darth Vader, and particularly when he had Ahsoka, there was a twinge that possibly, simply possibly one thing else may occur. However this story solely goes a method, and Ahsoka chooses to reject Anakin as she did the Jedi order, figuring out that one other path have to be cast if she is to reclaim the longer term.

They’ve a lightsaber duel that Ahsoka wins, confronting and slaying her fractured reminiscences in order that she might return to the land of the dwelling. These sequences are nicely deployed to garner a hearty response. The heartache is actual seeing Anakin meet his padawan once more, similar to it was when Obi-Wan Kenobi apologized to Vader in his Disney Plus present.

However there’s cynicism too. Filoni’s trotting out the hits as a result of he is aware of they’ll get applause. The Clone Wars will all the time be one thing that makes many followers cheer. To what finish are we inspecting the previous, although? Christensen continues his redemption tour – deserved and overdue – but, the place’s Ahsoka really going?

I assumed we have been heading in the direction of Thrawn, and within the latter half of the episode, that turns into the first focus once more. Hera Syndulla and her son retrieve Ahsoka’s physique and revive her. The starmap damaged because of Baylan, Ahsoka decides to make use of the area whales to leap by way of hyperspace, within the hopes that’ll land them in the identical space as Sabine.

Ahsoka appears hellbent on doing every part besides the factor that was established within the opening episode. Now we’ll have even much less time with the dude Filoni’s arrange as one of many scariest and finest Star Wars villains.

I don’t care about Thrawn as a lot as he does, and I’d have been pleased with Ahsoka and Anakin being the entire present. However at the very least we’re seeing loads of the area whales.

If this has you within the mod to dig again into the methods of the Power, take a look at our guides on the Star Wars motion pictures so as and the Ahsoka solid.