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00:00 Welcome back to New Rock Stars, I'm Eric Boss, and this is a breakdown of Ahsoka Episode
00:03 4, Fallen Jedi, a title that applies to Sabine's surrender to her emotions, Ahsoka's literal
00:10 cliff dive, but really, it's us who have plunged into the world between worlds to reunite
00:14 with the fallen Jedi Anakin Skywalker.
00:17 Or so we think.
00:19 This realm in which the Force connects all of time and space was actually seen in Rebel
00:23 Season 4 Episode 13 when Ezra Bridger pulled Ahsoka Tano through time, saving her from
00:28 her Season 2 duel with Darth Vader, and I cannot believe we are now seeing it in live
00:32 action.
00:33 We're in an earth-shattering moment of Star Wars, folks, so let's take this scene by scene
00:37 for all the details you missed.
00:38 I translated runes, I analyzed sounds, I literally spent 8 hours writing this through the night
00:44 after an 8-hour shift of a normal work day, and I did it because I love this and I love
00:49 you and I'm so grateful that you support what we are doing.
00:52 And by the way, if you have not seen Rebels, I don't judge you.
00:55 It's okay.
00:56 We are doing a 4-part Rebels Recap Series for this reason, to catch you up on everything
01:00 you need to know.
01:01 Our Season 4 breakdown is now incredibly important, so please check it out.
01:05 Okay, we open this episode with the usual faces of Vader, 3PO, clone trooper helmet,
01:08 HK assassin droid, Marok, Hu Yang, a stormtrooper, Chopper, and Sabine's helmet.
01:13 Every week, Sabine's helmet has been flashing the color red.
01:16 Now we realize, perhaps signaling her giving in to save the one that she loves, they're
01:20 still stuck on the planet Cetos.
01:23 Word that I want to thank MetalDog14150 in the comments of last week's breakdown for
01:27 pointing out is rooted in the ancient Greek, where Ceto was the goddess of sea monsters,
01:33 leading to the Latin Cetus, which means whale, and also the name of a constellation.
01:37 So we're going to be doing more to chat with you folks in the comments, so keep those great
01:40 insights common.
01:41 And one of the very first lines Sabine says this episode.
01:44 Where's Ahsoka?
01:45 Outside.
01:46 And that is where we leave Ahsoka at the end of this episode, wondering where she is, and
01:50 only knowing that she is outside of our realm of existence, in the path of danger.
01:54 Now the trees of Cetos are red-leaved, reminiscent actually of the crimson outgrowth formed in
01:59 the Clone Wars Mortis arc, when the celestial deity figure, the Sun, tapped to separate
02:04 Anakin and his sister from Obi-Wan and Ahsoka.
02:06 If that sounds like gibberish to you, again, watch our Rebel Season 4 breakdown, I recap
02:09 it there.
02:10 But basically, the gods of Mortis are a trinity of deities.
02:13 The father, the daughter, and the son.
02:14 The son represents the dark side of the force, the daughter represents the light side, and
02:17 the father, the balance in between.
02:19 Anakin, Ahsoka, and Obi-Wan encounter them in this realm that's called Mortis, and a
02:23 lot of stuff goes down, but basically, the daughter transfers her life energy to Ahsoka,
02:26 and lives on in the form of a bird called Morai.
02:29 The gods of Mortis return in Rebels as the gatekeepers of the world between worlds, on
02:33 a mural that's discovered on the outside of the Jedi Temple of Lothal, and it was the
02:36 daughter's open hand that Ezra Bridger followed to Loth-Wolves, who moved in a circle, opening
02:41 a portal to this cosmic realm.
02:43 So it's kind of important to know these gods.
02:45 Now Ahsoka is really standing outside to avoid a difficult truth with Sabine.
02:48 - If we can't make the journey to find Ezra, then no one should.
02:52 - We should talk about this.
02:53 Ezra Bridger's name has always carried an important meaning, as Ezra means help, or
02:57 helper in Hebrew, and Bridger establishes this Jedi as a connected bridge.
03:02 In seasons two and three of Rebels, it seemed to the dark side of the force, but really,
03:05 in season four, proved to be a bridge from this realm to the world between worlds, and
03:09 now in this show, a bridge to Pyridia.
03:12 And Ahsoka fears, perhaps, a Pandora's box that is not meant to be opened.
03:16 Ahsoka says...
03:17 - Better that than allowing Thrawn's return as heir to the Empire.
03:21 - Ah, heir to the Empire.
03:23 Of course, a shout out to Timothy Zahn's 1991 novel that introduced Thrawn as a character
03:28 to Star Wars.
03:29 Thrawn was considered the heir to the Empire in the old Star Wars continuity before that
03:32 was retconned, and was brought back into canon during the age of the Empire in Rebels, and
03:36 now reclaims that position as the Imperial Grand Admiral that all former Rebels feared.
03:41 Now Disney+ has gotten really creative with their closed captioning for Ahsoka, because
03:45 after Ahsoka says heir to the Empire, we hear this music...
03:53 And the closed caption describes this as "thoughtful music playing."
03:57 Thoughtful as in Sabine has to kind of chill on this, but also, Thrawn is the most thoughtful
04:01 thinker in Star Wars.
04:03 Ahsoka is not looking forward to being outmaneuvered, though.
04:06 - Is everything alright?
04:08 - Be careful out here.
04:13 - Yeah, something definitely stirs, and Ahsoka looks to the left, and as she turns, her le
04:19 coup dangles in such a way to kind of look like a gust of wind is sending a shiver down
04:23 her spine.
04:24 It's like she senses something.
04:26 A presence she has not felt since...
04:29 Shin Hati and Maroque approach Morgan and Balin's skull as they look out from the C'Thas
04:34 ruins, and listen closely here.
04:37 Yes, you can definitely hear Pergol in the sky above.
04:42 Morgan and Balin watch with some trepidation, though, because remember, those hyperspace
04:45 whales did not exactly help their side in that chase last episode.
04:49 While this episode ends with the Eye of Sion blasting off on his path to Paradia, I am
04:53 guessing that Hera, Jason, Chopper, Ahsoka, and for the love of God, better be Zeb and
04:58 Rex, too.
04:59 Whatever's left of the Rebel's crew is going to follow this yellow brick road the natural
05:03 way and ride some Pergol to Paradia.
05:05 Balin tells Morgan...
05:06 - We best get underway soon.
05:08 - Is there a note of fear in your voice?
05:11 - So we later learn in this episode that Balin totally knows that Anakin Skywalker became
05:16 Darth Vader, and that Vader's former apprentice is not worth sticking around to face.
05:21 Sabine now wears her Mandalorian armor with the Rebel insignia on one pauldron and on
05:25 the other, a Pergol.
05:26 So this was the new color design that she took on in the Rebel's final episode epilogue.
05:29 She also wears these Mandalorian Vambraces, which look customized from the ones Fenn
05:33 Rau gave her in the Trials of the Darksaber episode, and she checks her blasters, each
05:37 of them a Westar 35, which are the blasters she uses in Rebels.
05:41 Hu Yang surveils the tree line, and we see the droid's eyes narrow into these squinty
05:45 eyes, like kind of a Clint Eastwood checking out the horizon.
05:49 And I love it, 'cause it honestly shouldn't make a difference for a droid's photoreceptors.
05:52 It actually would make things worse, but it just characterizes him as kind of human-like,
05:56 so I love it.
05:57 An HK droid attacks, and Hu Yang holds his own surprisingly well for an architect droid
06:01 designed to teach Jedi younglings about lightsabers.
06:03 But Hu Yang uses his upper shoulder arms to defend himself.
06:06 We actually saw him grievous-ing with these while training with Sabine in episode three.
06:11 And Hu Yang uses one of those upper arms to break the motivator to turn the power off
06:14 and alert Ahsoka and Sabine.
06:16 And a busted motivator, sound familiar?
06:18 That's how the droid R5 got Luke to take the droid with the message from Leia instead in
06:22 A New Hope.
06:23 - This R2 unit has a bad motivator, look.
06:26 - Busted motivators, gotta love 'em.
06:27 Now when they're outside in the firefight, when Sabine is shot into a defensive standstill,
06:31 Ahsoka shifts gears and pulls this insane combination.
06:34 She no-look stabs the guy through the face over her shoulder, then she force-lifts another
06:38 guy into the line of fire of a shooter, killing that guy, and then tosses his corpse aside
06:43 to let Sabine use her Vambrace to lasso the last one right into Ahsoka's saber.
06:48 This is definitely some dark side moves here.
06:50 And it shows that Ahsoka also is letting her attachments to Sabine bring out some darkness
06:54 in her.
06:55 So we wipe to home one in the New Republic fleet as Harrison Doola and her son Jason
07:00 join Chopper on the way to the Ghost.
07:02 And Jason, remember, is the son of another fallen Jedi, Kanan Jarrus.
07:06 And he actually wears the same green pauldron that Kanan wore throughout the Rebels series,
07:11 and it has Kanan's symbol.
07:12 And this symbol was seen on the head of the Lothwolf named Dume, D-U-M-E, sharing his
07:17 name with Kanan's birth name of Caleb Dume.
07:20 One unresolved mystery about Kanan from Rebels is the question of whether he might have been
07:24 brought to Lothal as a youngling by Yoda, Ki-Adi-Mundi, and Mace Windu, foretold by
07:29 the markings depicting those figures on a wall in that cave that the Lothwolves led
07:33 them to in Rebels season four, episode seven, Kindred.
07:36 If that's true, that would give Kanan a similar mystical connection to the planet of Lothal,
07:41 its Jedi temple, and the Lothwolves that Ezra had, making them a kind of kindred through
07:45 the force.
07:46 And now Jason, as the son of Dume, who also gets bad feelings akin to force sensitivity
07:51 and wants to be a Jedi, also would share in that kindred spirit, whatever it is.
07:56 Jason asks, "Mom, how come I have to do what I'm told and you don't?"
07:59 "What?
08:00 What the fuck?"
08:01 Sounds like Chopper says, "Well, because she's boss."
08:04 We see how the Ghost is joined by five X-Wings, and I love how their shadow crosses over the
08:08 top of that CR-90 Corvette at the bottom of the screen.
08:11 Such amazing attention to detail there.
08:13 In this fleet, if you look in the background, you can also see an EF-76 Nebulon B escort
08:17 frigate, which first appeared in Empire Strikes Back.
08:19 I love seeing all these ships from the original trilogy.
08:22 X-Wing Captain Carson Teeva, played by Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, returns in The Mandalorian.
08:27 On your signal, Phoenix Leader.
08:28 Ah, Phoenix Leader.
08:30 Please recalling Hera's role as commander of the Phoenix Squadron during Rebels, which
08:33 could be a sore subject because Hera in Rebel Season 4 led an attack squadron of the green-painted
08:38 X-Wings as the Phoenix Squadron leader that led to a nasty defeat by Thrawn and her crash
08:42 landing on Ulithal that resulted in Kanan dying to rescue her.
08:45 But hey, before that, I guess a lot of good memories in the Phoenix Squadron.
08:49 We meet some other pilots, including Lieutenant Bassey, who's played by Michael C. Alexander,
08:53 with a green and yellow helmet, a Rodian Lieutenant Moat, played by Don Dininger, a long-time
08:57 special effects crew and costumer on many major titles, Lieutenant Jensu, played by
09:01 Chao Naumova, who's a stunt performer, and Lieutenant Lander, played by Brendan Wayne,
09:07 who along with Latif Crowder does all the physical work for Din Djarin in The Mandalorian.
09:11 Now Brendan is actually the grandson of John Wayne, and while we're at it, Diana Lee Inosanto
09:16 is the goddaughter of Bruce Lee.
09:18 Don't call these Nepo babies, they are stunt actors, and no one in Hollywood busts their
09:22 asses for their craft more than they do.
09:24 And I love how Hera does the good mama move that every good pilot who rides Smuggler's
09:28 Run at Galaxy's Edge does, lets the co-pilot punch into hyperspace.
09:31 Now we do this George Lucas clock wipe, and it's centered perfectly on the center of
09:36 the Eye of Scion.
09:37 And if that's not a clue that this hyperspace jumper is also a kind of time machine turning
09:41 back the clock, I don't know what is.
09:42 Now unlike in episode two when Balin looked up at those clouds and saw Pergil, here we
09:47 do not see Pergil, but we still hear them.
09:49 (mysterious music)
09:54 And that might be because those mystical animals no longer want to assist these users of witchcraft.
10:00 Balin warns,
10:01 - For the jump we're attempting, if your calculations are off by even a little, we will be lost
10:07 to the depths of the void.
10:08 - Yeah, Balin seems to be referring to a void between galaxies, which sounds like a kind
10:12 of buffer zone that you can't even jump into hyperspace from.
10:15 Morgan tells Balin,
10:16 - Have faith.
10:17 - Now it might just be me, but it kind of sounds like there is an echo on her voice,
10:21 similar to that of Mother Talzin, the Nightsister, when she spoke in Clone Wars.
10:25 - I believe you have a question for me.
10:28 - Have faith.
10:29 - Now Balin responds to this,
10:30 - Faith?
10:31 I lost that a long time ago.
10:33 - Yeah, we're still wondering about Balin's origin as a Jedi, and what, other than the
10:37 Purge, would have caused his falling out?
10:39 Now there's more interesting closed caption descriptions when Morgan activates the sphere.
10:43 - Ominous whispering.
10:51 So the additional voices that Sam Witwer, Helen Sadler, Matthew Hood, and all the others
10:54 are contributing, I think might be these.
10:57 Voices of the Nightsisters and the Nightbrothers calling out to Morgan from the path to Pyrrhidia,
11:01 and perhaps the world between worlds, because these sound like the Nightsisters from Clone
11:05 Wars.
11:06 Balin just takes all this in.
11:07 - Witchcraft.
11:08 - It's interesting that Balin says this, because back in episode one, he told Shin
11:14 not to discount everything Morgan does as witchcraft.
11:17 - What thread is she spinning?
11:18 - No, it's not witchcraft.
11:20 - But here, using Nightsister's sorcery to illuminate the path to Pyrrhidia, to him,
11:25 is witchcraft.
11:26 And he senses that something is unnatural about this.
11:28 Now I pointed out before that this hollow dome star map points a golden path through
11:32 a ring marked with Purgil, but I just counted now that there are eight of them.
11:37 Which when aligned with that Eye of Sion in the background and its seven hyperdrives,
11:41 eight is more than seven.
11:42 And it could suggest that this pod of Purgil is a more natural and more effective way to
11:46 hyperspace travel this route.
11:48 On the Eye of Sion, Morgan's droid uploads this map information.
11:52 On the segmented disc that looks like an old school real life constellation map, the screen
11:56 on the right kind of looks like a digital sextant, a device used by astronomers to measure
12:00 distance for celestial navigation.
12:02 And the wedges of the star map screen light up yellow throughout the episode, like pieces
12:06 of a clock.
12:07 And recalling the Rebels navigation map of the Death Stars that orbited Yavin to get
12:11 within range of the Yavin 4 base in A New Hope makes a really effective visual clock
12:15 throughout this episode.
12:16 But if you count these, in total there are nine sections that they have to complete and
12:20 figure out as pieces of the path to Pyrrhidia.
12:22 The number nine could correspond to the nine realms of Norse mythology, since that is a
12:26 recurring motif on this series, with Skoll and Hati being named after the wolves of Norse
12:30 mythology.
12:31 And if you watch my video where I translate all the different runes on the path to Pyrrhidia
12:34 in the closing credits, the next stop on that path to Pyrrhidia is a planet called Odin,
12:38 O-D-Y-N, Odin being the supreme god of Norse mythology.
12:41 So Ahsoka and Sabine run into Morokh and Shin.
12:44 And like last time they fought, Sabine is the first to make the move, she rushes in.
12:47 Now to her credit, Sabine is better with her blasters than she is with her lightsaber,
12:50 so she's initially on the offensive against Shin.
12:52 She has pretty good aim, shooting the tree right where Shin's foot just was.
12:56 But Shin does a pretty strong force push that forces Sabine into close quarters so that
13:00 she has to draw Ezra's lightsaber.
13:01 Now meanwhile, we do cut back to the ruins and we briefly see some runes in that alphabet
13:06 that we started to decode in our closing credits Star Map translation, that again, you should
13:09 watch.
13:10 But this one is Veil of something.
13:12 I thought it was Veil of the Force, but it is not that, trust me.
13:15 Even though the Veil of the Force does connect to what we get to with the World Between Worlds.
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14:22 Ahsoka duels Marouk and she's far more patient.
14:24 She raises her lightsaber over her head in a vulnerable open position.
14:28 We think it's the same pose that Anakin takes with Dooku in Attack of the Clones, but she
14:32 does this to bait Marouk into spending his Inquisitor lightsaber and Ahsoka waits for
14:36 the right moment and slashes Marouk real fast.
14:39 It's a lot like the very quick duel between Obi-Wan when he killed Maul in the Twin Suns
14:43 episode.
14:44 But then this happens.
14:52 I know, I know.
14:53 Huh?
14:54 The green captioning is exploding hiss and screams.
14:58 Screams means several voices are mixed into one.
15:01 So the green vapor means we are looking at Nightsister sorcery, like the green flame that
15:06 Morgan uses to activate the sphere, the green colored Nightsister ghosts that inhabit the
15:09 Nightsister temple that Maul resided in on Dathomir in Rebels season 3 episode 11, Visions
15:14 and Voices.
15:15 It's pretty much confirmed, folks.
15:16 Marouk was not Ezra.
15:17 He was not Starkiller.
15:18 He was not Beresofi.
15:20 He wasn't even the Shistavanian Jedi like I pitched, even though I think that might have
15:24 been the most evidence based of these wacky theories.
15:26 He was most likely a Nightbrother, a male member of the Nightsister cult, because dissipating
15:31 into green vapor is exactly what happens to Maul's brother, the Nightbrother Savage Opress,
15:35 when he was killed by Darth Sidious in Clone Wars season 5 episode 16.
15:38 If he's not a Nightbrother, he might have just been a corpse animated with Nightsister
15:42 magic.
15:43 The screaming sound when he dies reminds us of when Grievous slaughtered the Nightsister
15:46 clan in Clone Wars season 4 episode 19.
15:51 Now, with this Dathomir connection, could Marouk have been Maul?
15:57 No!
15:58 Just stop!
15:59 Why do people think this?
16:01 Maul's death in the Twin Suns episode of Rebels was such a perfect end for the character.
16:05 There is no way Dave Filoni would ruin that, his own work, by bringing Maul back this way
16:11 as like a Nightbrother spirit just to kill him off like this.
16:14 Also Ahsoka knows Maul.
16:16 She fought him before.
16:17 She would have sensed his presence.
16:18 Marouk was just Marouk.
16:20 Let's move on.
16:21 The one interesting thing about this is that he is the first Inquisitor we know of who
16:24 was not a former Jedi, which is kinda weird.
16:26 Balin tells Ahsoka, "Everyone in the Order knew Anakin Skywalker.
16:30 Few would live to see what he became.
16:32 Surely that must leave a mark.
16:33 Is that why you walked away?
16:34 Abandoned him?"
16:35 Ah, so Balin knows Anakin became Vader.
16:37 How does he know this?
16:38 Maybe he's very perceptive through Nightsister magic, or maybe it's something he learned
16:41 from Morgan Elspeth by way of Thrawn, because Thrawn deduced from various subtle moments
16:46 through subtext in books.
16:48 I also just can't help but notice the probably unintentional wordplay there.
16:51 Few would see what he became.
16:53 Surely that must leave a mark.
16:54 And you know, what Anakin came would leave us with a mark.
16:58 Now the runes behind Ahsoka in this moment translate to Orbit of Occlusion, which is
17:04 a nod to the Outer Rim Occlusion Zone referenced in the High Republic comics.
17:08 So they ignite their lightsabers.
17:11 This is fascinating to me, because Ahsoka's saber pitch is higher in tone, and I'm pretty
17:20 sure these two harmonize.
17:22 You have Balin's here, and Ahsoka's here, which is a fifth above it, here and here.
17:32 So despite their opposition, their lightsabers produce this pleasant harmony.
17:35 A fifth harmony, you might say.
17:37 You hear it especially in the shot where Ahsoka sidesteps and Balin appears in the foreground.
17:45 And after their initial clash, Balin takes the same batter up, ready stance as Qui-Gon
17:49 Jinn, who's also a complex figure in his relationship with the Jedi Order.
17:53 Now there is a moment when Ahsoka locks sabers with Balin, but Balin doubles down and shoves
17:57 her blade back just with brute strength.
17:59 And from here, he has the upper hand.
18:01 Like Ahsoka whiffs, pulling a real Sabine there.
18:04 And then Balin does this little midair twist.
18:06 Looks awesome.
18:07 And from here on, you see Ahsoka's tactics changing.
18:09 She goes from fighting Balin to just dodging his thrown boulders and reaching past him
18:14 for that map sphere.
18:15 Meanwhile, Sabine tries to force push on Shin, but really Sabine's outstretched hand was
18:19 just a ploy to put Shin in the crosshairs of her Van Brace missile, a Mandalorian trick
18:23 that Kanan Jarrus scolded her for during Trials of the Darksaber.
18:25 Balin really pisses off Ahsoka by saying, "Your legacy, like your master's, is one
18:31 of death and destruction."
18:33 And now Ahsoka gives into some dark side rage with Chun-Li kicks.
18:37 She grabs the sphere and the Nightsister's sorcery burns her hand.
18:41 Now later we see her hand and it does kind of look like that map might have been burned
18:45 onto her palm, like the headpiece of the Staff of Ra in Raiders of the Lost Dark.
18:48 You know Lucasfilm loves to just reference itself.
18:51 When Ahsoka sees Shin without Sabine, she assumes Sabine is dead and she force chokes
18:55 Shin slamming her against a rock.
18:57 Yeah, we're seeing Ra dark side energy from Ahsoka.
19:00 Not a good look.
19:01 It might be her starting to dip into this that really sucked her into the world between
19:05 worlds and what is waiting for her there.
19:07 Balin drives Ahsoka toward the edge and overhead you can see the runes on the ground translate
19:12 to 2100.
19:13 It's literally the number spelled out in letters.
19:16 So maybe this is a distance in like parsecs to Peridia?
19:19 I don't know.
19:20 So Sabine threatens to shoot and destroy the sphere, but Balin switches things up and appeals
19:24 to her through a non-violent path.
19:25 Yeah, it kind of seems like Balin is responding to a horn in the musical score.
19:38 Like he's sensing a connection to Sabine, appealing to her emotions.
19:42 I know you feel that Ezra Bridger is the only family you have left.
19:46 Your family died on Mandalore because your master didn't trust you.
19:50 Whoa, this is new information.
19:52 We last saw Sabine's family, including Ursa Wren, Tristan Wren, and Aldrich Wren alive
19:56 and well in the first two episodes of Rebels fourth season, but not anymore.
20:00 RIP House of Wren.
20:02 But Moff Gideon's Night of a Thousand Tears is Purge struck Mandalore with fusion bombs,
20:06 which now must have happened after the Battle of Endor between 4ABY and 9ABY sometime after
20:12 Sabine joined Ahsoka in that Rebels finale scene.
20:14 So now we know the reason for Sabine's anger toward Ahsoka is that Sabine believes she
20:18 could have saved her family from that bombing, but Ahsoka refused to let her go.
20:22 Balin offers Sabine the chance to reunite with Ezra if he joins her.
20:26 It's a similar test that Ezra undergoes with Emperor Palpatine in the Rebels final episode,
20:30 but whereas Ezra resisted that temptation, Sabine gives in.
20:33 And it's a big mistake that she feels right away because Sabine starts gasping from Shin's
20:37 force choke.
20:38 Vengeance probably for what Ahsoka did to Shin.
20:41 Violence begets violence.
20:42 But you know, Sabine is feeling that reward for joining the dark side.
20:45 Sometimes the wind gets sucked out of you.
20:46 Balin destroys the sphere, and the Eye of Scion rises from the Cetos atmosphere, and
20:51 the Phoenix Squadron engages.
20:52 "Lock S-Foils in attack position."
20:54 Yes, the same order given by the Red Leader in the Battle of Yavin in A New Hope.
20:57 "Lock S-Foils in attack position."
20:59 And just comes back again and again in Star Wars.
21:01 But Morgan doesn't engage.
21:03 She just orders to jump to hyperdrive.
21:05 And we're worried because even though the Holden Maneuver hasn't technically been invented
21:08 yet, it is kind of a Holden Maneuver.
21:10 But just because the ring is too big, it just kind of leaves this insane wake.
21:14 Holy shit!
21:20 This hyperspace wake causes at least two of the X-Wing pilots, Lieutenant Basie and Lieutenant
21:24 Moat, to collide.
21:25 It's kind of hard to tell, but it kind of looks like Lander might have gone down too.
21:29 And it kind of seems like Carcantiva is okay.
21:31 The other one's either Gentsu or Lander.
21:33 We will see.
21:34 But Jason says, "Mom, I've got a bad feeling."
21:40 Hey, welcome to Star Wars, kid.
21:41 Of course, it's a nod to the recurring "I've got a bad feeling" about this.
21:44 I've got this line in pretty much all Star Wars titles.
21:46 But in this instance, Jason's Force sensitivity is telling him that a Pandora's box was just
21:51 opened.
21:52 And here comes the good stuff.
21:53 We transition from an overhead shot of the Cetus ruins and the waves, cross-dissolving
21:59 into ripples of stardust.
22:01 We don't even realize initially that we've gone somewhere new.
22:04 That's how smooth the transition is.
22:05 And that's how smooth it was for Ahsoka, because she finds herself on a glowing path in space
22:10 with lines streaking across the sky.
22:12 This can be only one thing, my friends.
22:14 It is the world between worlds.
22:16 From Rebels Season 4, Episode 13, it's a cosmic realm in which the Force connects all
22:21 points in time and space.
22:22 Now in animation, the pathways are glowing in white, but here they are blue and they
22:27 ripple like water, which connects them aesthetically to Cetus and the Pergil and the blue, watery
22:31 tunnel look of hyperspace.
22:33 Now when Ezra Bridger goes into this realm in Rebels, he hears echoes of lines from Star
22:38 Wars past, present, and future, including the sequel trilogy.
22:41 It's crazy.
22:42 He sees Ahsoka through a portal in time back to her Season 2 duel with Darth Vader.
22:46 He pulls her away from Vader's killing blow.
22:48 In a way, he closes the loop, as this justifies how Ahsoka was able to survive that.
22:53 Now Ezra mistakenly wants to try to use this to prevent Kanan's death, but he learns that
22:57 he cannot change the past.
22:58 Palpatine sees them through a portal and he tries to snare Ezra with blue fire.
23:02 Ahsoka goes back to Malachor.
23:04 Ezra uses the mural of the sun to destroy the temple.
23:07 Now Dave Filoni has said that he doesn't see the world between worlds as time travel.
23:10 He didn't want to leave it open ended, but rather he kind of sees it as a one-time way
23:13 for Jedi to see through time.
23:15 But you know, Ezra did kind of affect things, so my man, that's the kind of time travel.
23:20 And now it seems like Dave Filoni has reopened the box.
23:23 So will Ahsoka go back in time and change things?
23:25 I don't know about that.
23:27 This could just be how Ahsoka looks into the past or looks into the future, if it is indeed
23:32 true that Thrawn and Ezra are in a different time, because Morgan Elspeth did say that
23:36 Thrawn was calling to her through time.
23:38 Ahsoka in this episode told Balin that she didn't want to talk about her past and he
23:42 said he wanted to secure the future.
23:44 So a battle between the future and the past.
23:45 And for Ahsoka, this is all about the past.
23:47 And again, this is not Ahsoka's first time in the world between worlds.
23:50 When she first entered this realm, her bird Morai was already there waiting for her.
23:54 It was the daughter specifically who opened the portal for Ezra and the daughter lives
23:59 through Ahsoka.
24:00 Now the world between worlds isn't supposed to be accessed through death or near death
24:04 in Ahsoka's case, but Ahsoka's connection to the daughter, plus the witchcraft that
24:08 was being used on that pedestal and the overall mystic nature of the Cetos ruins and what
24:13 Ahsoka goes through this episode, her flirting with dark side power may have caused Ahsoka
24:17 to dive into her subconscious.
24:19 Now Dave Filoni has likened her with Gandalf in this could be like when Gandalf the Great
24:23 dies falling off a ledge, fighting the Balrog, and then he returns later enlightened as Gandalf
24:28 the White.
24:29 The episode titled Time to Fly could have been Ahsoka's fly you fools.
24:33 So who would be Ahsoka's fire demon?
24:36 Well from the Mortis arc in Clone Wars, the god, the sun lived on through...
24:41 Hello Snips.
24:42 Master?
24:43 I didn't expect to see you so soon.
24:54 Anakin.
24:55 Sky guy!
24:56 Wait, what's wrong with your face?
24:58 Hayden Christensen is back!
25:00 I love it!
25:01 So Snips was of course Anakin's nickname for Ahsoka in the early seasons of Clone Wars
25:05 when they often butt heads.
25:06 And I love how Anakin appears over her left shoulder just as he did in Rebel Season 2
25:11 Episode 18, Shroud of Darkness, when Ahsoka sensed visions of Anakin and Vader in the
25:15 Lothal Jedi Temple, her guilt working through, her choice to abandon him in the Jedi Order.
25:19 Ahsoka, why did you leave?
25:22 Where were you when I needed you?
25:24 Do you know what I've become?
25:33 Now Hayden Christensen has been de-aged for this, but I think he was meant to look a little
25:37 ghostly and just off.
25:39 Because A, the animated version of Anakin was really the Anakin that Ahsoka knew, and
25:43 B, I don't think this is Anakin.
25:46 Like at first glance we think this is Anakin right before Revenge of the Sith when Ahsoka
25:50 said goodbye to him in Clone Wars Season 7, the last time they saw each other before he
25:54 turned into Vader during the events of Revenge of the Sith, essentially the essence of Anakin
25:58 that died when Vader took over.
26:00 Sure, sure, sure, I get it, I get it.
26:01 It's the Force Ghost that George Lucas weirdly put in that 2005 DVD special edition of Return
26:06 of the Jedi and everyone was really mad.
26:07 But look closely at his lightsaber.
26:09 It's hard to tell, but at first glance this looks darker than Anakin's lightsaber, almost
26:13 more like Vader's lightsaber, which is similar in structure, but it has more black pieces
26:18 throughout the hilt.
26:19 It is possible that the chrome of Anakin's hilt is just reflecting his dark robes and
26:23 reflecting the dark surroundings, but what's throwing me is the silver clip at the center
26:27 of it.
26:28 I don't know if that part would be so brightly silver while the rest of the hilt is that
26:31 dark and the chrome of it not even catching any of the blue light that Anakin's skin
26:35 is catching.
26:36 And to be clear, the silver clip is not how the saber attaches to his belt.
26:39 The hilt hangs from the pommel like most lightsabers do.
26:41 Now Anakin does bear the scar that he got from Asajj Ventress during Clone Wars that
26:46 he had in Revenge of the Sith, but there's just enough here to think that he is sus.
26:50 Also he has this ghostly blue pallor that recalls the blue fire used by the Emperor
26:55 to see into this realm.
26:57 It's the same Sith sorcery that he used to try to corrupt Yoda's mind through a connection
27:01 with Dooku when Yoda was on Morriban in Clone Wars Season 6.
27:05 Now the world between worlds and Rebels is not known to have ghosts in it.
27:08 In Mortis, Obi-Wan talks to Qui-Gon, but in Rebels, world between worlds, it's just
27:12 supposed to be voices.
27:13 So I think since Morai, the representation of the daughter, was already there for Ahsoka
27:17 and this realm is totally linked with the Mortis gods, it is possible that this Anakin
27:22 is not Anakin, but is a form of the sun, a representation of the dark side, as that Mortis
27:27 arc and Anakin's connection to the sun was really a moment that foreshadowed Anakin's
27:31 destiny as a fallen Jedi.
27:34 Now this lightsaber may just end up being Anakin's lightsaber, but if there is something
27:37 suspicious about it, who knows, it could be a disguised form of the Dagger of Mortis.
27:42 And if Sam Witwer does have a live action role on this series, I don't know, having
27:47 him play the sun would be perfect casting as it would justify why we've been hearing
27:52 his voice in the mix.
27:53 Now I think episode 5 is going to allow Ahsoka and Anakin to reconnect, give us that visual
27:58 again, at least at first, but it may give way to a duel if this ghost Anakin is revealed
28:03 to actually be the sun.
28:04 Because the final seconds of the episode hint that we are in for a dark side take on Anakin.
28:09 Listen closely.
28:22 That is 100% the notes of the Imperial March, Darth Vader's theme.
28:26 Ooh, what an episode.
28:28 Comment down below with your theories on what this Ahsoka series plans to do with the world
28:31 between worlds and with fake Anakin or Fannikin or how about Anna skin?
28:36 Anna skin?
28:37 Maybe?
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