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00:00 Welcome back to New Rockstars, I'm Eric Vos and this is a breakdown of Star Wars Ahsoka Episode 2, "Toil and Trouble"
00:06 A reference to the Witches of Shakespeare's Macbeth, Act 4, Scene 1
00:09 Because in Ahsoka, witches be crazy
00:11 Fair is foul and foul is fair in the state of the New Republic
00:14 So let's break down this episode scene by scene and explain why Morgan Elsmith said "time before the word space"
00:19 Where we're going, we don't need...
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00:33 My Easter Egg breakdown of Episode 1 is already on this main New Rockstars channel in a separate video
00:38 Okay, the Lucasfilm intro to Episode 2 has changed since Episode 1
00:41 That episode, the helmets and droid heads were reflected only in red light
00:44 But here, it is back to a mix of red and blue
00:46 Red on Vader, blue on 3PO, blue on a clone trooper helmet
00:49 A Rex cameo this season, eeeh
00:51 Red on the HK Assassin droid, blue on the Inquisitor, Marok
00:54 Blue on Hu Yang, red on the Stormtrooper, blue on Chopper, and then red on Sabine's helmet
00:59 The episode opens with Ahsoka in Sabine's hospital room on Lowfall
01:02 From white, we hear bits of dialogue echoing from last episode
01:06 You really think you're gonna let us go out there?
01:08 I'm counting on you, seriously
01:11 This isn't just about finding Ezra
01:14 It's about preventing another war
01:16 I've been looking for this
01:18 That's too bad
01:20 The voices end when Ahsoka wakes Sabine up with this sound effect
01:24 Sabine
01:26 After Sabine's defeat last episode, and Hu Yang's absolute burying of her ego this episode
01:31 Sabine faces some major doubts in her abilities as a Jedi and her Force sensitivity
01:35 But her vivid dreams, and the sound with which Ahsoka pulled her out of these dreams
01:39 Makes it seem like Sabine still has some unwieldy connection to some kind of mysticism
01:44 The Sith Rule of Two favors pairings, of course
01:46 Reflected with the Master and Apprentice of Episode 1's title, but Episode 2 invokes witches
01:51 Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble, fire, burn and cauldron, bubble
01:54 And witches come in how many, Hocus Pocus fans?
01:57 Three!
01:57 So who are the three witches of Ahsoka?
02:00 Perhaps Sabine's struggle with the Force, despite these mystic qualities, could actually give her a different status
02:04 A Nightsister
02:06 So our three witches of Ahsoka could be Morgan Elsmith, Shin Hati, and Sabine Ren
02:11 Shin and Baelin are no longer Jedi, but they are something else
02:15 And these opposing natural forces could explain why Ahsoka and Sabine struggle to work together
02:20 It's not enough that Sabine is Mandalorian, she bristled with her House Wiesel lineage
02:24 Something else is calling to Sabine, and she could be revealed as part of the Nightsister ancestry
02:29 I'm just starting off with a Reach Theory this episode to alienate the half of you who watch these videos for like
02:33 Oribesh translations like I'm a YouTube Hooyang
02:35 Sabine reports
02:36 There were two galaxies, and then a pathway appeared between them
02:41 Where did the path in our galaxy begin?
02:44 Yeah, Ahsoka leans forward, clearly having theorized on this path and this second galaxy in the past
02:49 The start of planet we learn is Cetos
02:51 Where Baelin and Shin approach the Stonehenge-esque ruins with their Eta-class shuttle
02:55 Now Stonehenge in our world was constructed sometime between 3000 BC and 2000 BC
03:00 And its original function remains up for debate by historians and archaeologists
03:03 Perhaps a burial site, perhaps something associated with astronomy
03:06 But the design of these ruins in Ahsoka clearly builds on that historical mystery
03:10 As this Cetos structure is clearly part of a star map
03:13 But when you compare it to the Arcana Nightsister ruins that we saw last episode, those were far more preserved
03:17 The state of these ruins indicates something even older, something more forgotten
03:21 You may remember the Jedi ruins on the planet Tython from the Mandalorian episode "The Tragedy"
03:25 But I've always wondered if those Jedi ruins could have been built on top of something even older
03:29 Because even the music Kevin Kiner composes for these shots makes us feel like we are peering in on a lost civilization
03:45 Yeah, it's clear they're trying to evoke something from a completely foreign galaxy
03:49 We're not in Tatooine anymore, and thank God, because I've hated sand
03:52 It's coarse, rough, irritating, it gets everywhere
03:53 Anyway, Baelin says
03:55 "Tara, I believe we have located the reflex point on Cetos"
03:59 Now, if Morgan Elspeth was able to tell Ahsoka that the map sphere was on Arcana
04:03 How did she not know where the reflex point was?
04:06 Was Morgan just unable to decode the map?
04:08 This tells us something must be significant about Sabine and her insights
04:12 She was the one who connected the three faces
04:14 And it really could just be because of a Nightsister connection with Morgan and Shin
04:18 The power of three has finally synced
04:20 Baelin looks up at the sky through the concave arc of one of these columns
04:23 Yeah, that horn makes it sound like something is calling to him
04:33 Perhaps another whale call of the Purgo, since it is their path that he's gazing out at
04:38 Ahsoka force senses Sabine and Shin's duel from the night before
04:41 [Sounds of battle]
04:48 That's too bad
04:50 So this is called psychometry
04:51 And it's a relatively new force ability that was introduced in Clone Wars episode "Hunt for Zero"
04:56 Used by the Jedi Quinlan Vos
04:57 No relation, but I wish
04:59 And the Obi-Wan Kenobi series revealed that Quinlan Vos survived the purge
05:02 And traveled on the path of runaway Jedi
05:04 So who knows, maybe Ahsoka and Quinlan crossed paths at some point
05:07 Sabine's locat regards Ahsoka curiously
05:09 As if appreciating those cat-like points on top of Ahsoka's lacu
05:12 And that luring HK droid appears way earlier than I initially spotted it
05:16 And he's in the shot right after Ahsoka lights up the Ezra hologram
05:19 As that loath cat did to warn Sabine, it now hisses at the droid here
05:22 And Ahsoka takes it down
05:23 Sabine dismantles this HK droid head
05:25 And I just really appreciated how heavy it seems when she rotates it on the table
05:29 The weight of it tells us how much it must have hurt fighting these things hand to hand
05:35 Also little detail, Sabine's fingernail polish is chipped from her picking at them
05:39 And probably from all the gear tinkering she does
05:41 Sabine does work on an explosive droid head in a hospital
05:44 And deduces it is from Corellia
05:46 Remember Sabine is a former Imperial weapons specialist
05:49 She's not afraid of doing this kind of work
05:50 Morgan Ellsmith catches up with the rest on CETOS and Bailin asks
05:54 This place was not built by the Jedi
05:56 Whose work is it?
05:58 An ancient people from a distant galaxy
06:02 Ooh, just by looking at these ruins
06:04 Even before the star map lights up, Morgan knows what they are
06:07 Which tells us that they are not Nightsister ruins
06:10 If they were, she probably would have claimed them as the work of her ancestors
06:12 As she did with the ruins on Arcana
06:14 Morgan uses a green frame to boil the cauldron
06:18 I mean to activate the sphere
06:19 Green was the color of the sorcery used by the Nightsisters in Clone Wars
06:23 Morgan explains
06:24 This is our galaxy
06:27 And then the star map appears around them
06:30 It looks so great
06:30 And she lines up another galaxy in a ring
06:33 And this ring, notice, is lined with Pergil, the hyperspace whales
06:37 This tells us that this must be a kind of migratory path for the Pergil
06:40 It's something that they are all destined to head back to
06:42 And this is where they whisk Thrawn and Ezra in the Rebels finale
06:45 Morgan goes on in my favorite line of the episode
06:48 That is our destination
06:51 The pathway to Peridia
06:53 Some call it that
06:54 The children at the Jedi temple call it that
06:56 It comes from old stories
06:57 Fairy tales
06:59 Tales which are based on truths
07:01 So much to dig into here
07:03 The pathway to Peridia is a new thing in Star Wars lore
07:06 It sounds like it's a fairy tale that Balin knew about from his days in the Jedi temple
07:10 But Morgan is saying the legend was based on truth
07:12 And I love that she said this
07:13 Because it recalls an interesting line from Ahsoka in the Crucial Rebels episode
07:16 Season 2, episode 21, Twilight of the Apprentice, part 1
07:19 There's always a bit of truth in legends
07:22 Truth in legends
07:24 In that moment, Ahsoka was affirming things like the legend of Mortis
07:26 With the father, son, and daughter
07:28 Real experiences she went through
07:29 As well as the legends of the Sith and the Jedi
07:31 But it was also a meta line from Dave Filoni
07:33 That the Star Wars expanded universe stories, aka legends, still bore truth
07:38 This line came months after The Force Awakens came out
07:40 After Disney's acquisition of Star Wars
07:41 And they recategorized so many stories as legends
07:44 But at this point forward for Dave Filoni
07:46 That was really his mission with every Star Wars title
07:48 Starting the next season of Rebels, season 3
07:50 With the character of Thrawn
07:52 Who you could say is really the best of expanded universe fiction
07:54 From Timothy Zahn's novel starting in 1991
07:57 At this point, it had been categorized as legends
07:58 But with the return of Thrawn, he made Thrawn canon once more
08:01 Now, when we ask who built this star map
08:03 Who built these ruins
08:04 There are a number of ancient civilizations in Star Wars lore we could look at
08:07 That predate the Sith and the Jedi
08:08 Like the Grisk was a warring species from the unknown regions
08:11 That threatened Thrawn civilization, the Chiss Ascendancy
08:14 But I am betting that the ancient people from a distant galaxy
08:16 That Morgan refers to are the Rakatans
08:19 So the Rakata, aka the Builders
08:21 Were an ancient amphibious humanoid species
08:23 The race believed to have invented hyperspace technology
08:26 As a Force-sensitive race, the Dark Side corrupted the Rakatans
08:29 And turned them into cruel warriors
08:31 Who enslaved every other species they came across
08:33 Forming their infinite empire
08:35 The Rakatans actually came up in the Knights of the Old Republic game
08:38 Which also involves star maps such as this
08:40 Dave Filoni and his team are clearly into Knights of the Old Republic
08:42 They keep bringing up references to Knights of the Old Republic details
08:45 Like the Krayt Dragon and its giant pearl from the Mandalorian Season 2 premiere
08:48 We also know that Lucasfilm wants us to remember the Rakatans
08:51 Because they include it in Andor
08:53 Andor of all titles!
08:54 This cryptic little easter egg
08:56 It's a Kwati signet
08:58 Blue Kyber, Skystone
08:59 The ancient world
09:01 Celebrates the uprising against the Rakatan invaders
09:04 The uprising against the Rakatan invaders
09:06 The moment the current ancient era of Star Wars civilization
09:09 Overthrew the Rakatan Empire
09:11 So with this detail in Andor
09:12 The Rakatans shifted from being an apocryphal legends backstory
09:16 To firm Star Wars canon
09:17 So my theory is that the Rakatans are the ones who built these ruins
09:20 The Nightsisters are a cult from that Rakatan era
09:23 Using dark sorcery, predating the Jedi and the Sith
09:26 And the Purgle are the species of whales
09:27 That the Rakatans derived hyperspace technology from
09:30 We might be looking at a pathway not just through space
09:32 But through time
09:33 Because Morgan says here
09:35 "Thron calls to me across time and space"
09:40 Normally astrophysicists say space before time
09:43 Space-time
09:43 According to Einstein's theory of relativity
09:45 Which I recognize does not apply to the Star Wars physics
09:48 But in our world according to the theory of relativity
09:50 Gravity affects our perception of the passage of time
09:52 And time is a dimension theoretically navigable
09:55 The way space is
09:56 This has been the basis of much science fiction and fantasy
09:59 Including Frank Herbert's Dune
10:00 Christopher Nolan's Interstellar
10:01 And yes George Lucas's Star Wars
10:03 And Morgan says time first though
10:05 And I believe the reason this path to Peridia leads to one fixed point
10:09 When Thron as a living figure would presumably be able to move around
10:12 In that galaxy wherever he is
10:13 The reason why it just points to one spot
10:15 Is that this path doesn't lead to a point in space
10:18 It leads to a point in time
10:19 And this wouldn't be the first time Star Wars touched on time travel
10:21 Because in Rebels season 4 episode 13
10:23 Ezra Bridger ventures into the Lothal Jedi Temple
10:26 And follows projections of the Loth-wolves
10:28 Through a portal to a realm called
10:30 The World Between Worlds
10:31 It's a mystical dimension that connects the force to all of space and time
10:35 The imagery of these rotating lines in the star maps in Ahsoka
10:38 Totally echoes what we saw in the World Between Worlds
10:40 In this dimension Ezra hears echoes of many past Star Wars moments
10:43 And he revisits the moment that Ahsoka fought Darth Vader and Malachor
10:46 Back in the season 2 finale
10:47 Our man alters history
10:49 Just a little bit
10:49 Or you could argue had already altered history
10:51 Now Filoni developed the World Between Worlds
10:53 He says in conversations with George Lucas
10:55 And he based it on the wood between the worlds
10:56 In C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia
10:58 To be clear Dave Filoni did tell CinemaBlend in 2018
11:01 That they destroyed the temple at the end of that episode
11:02 Because they didn't want this to be like an ongoing trope in Star Wars
11:05 Here's what he said
11:06 I don't really think of it as time travel
11:08 It's not really a thing where you go through one door
11:09 And out another in a different time
11:11 The World Between Worlds is really about knowledge and gaining knowledge
11:14 As the Doom Wolf says
11:15 What's in there is knowledge and destruction
11:17 You can gain knowledge of the future or futures that may happen
11:20 And you can see things that happened in the past
11:22 You can at times choose to alter them
11:24 But it is perilous to do so
11:25 And when you alter something you don't know if that's not the way it always happened
11:28 So destruction is the other half of what's in there
11:30 When you go through these doorways
11:32 You're in peril of destruction
11:33 Because you're missing all sorts of things that would have happened
11:35 Or things that would have happened otherwise, you know
11:37 So it's a dangerous game
11:38 But it's not something we are here going in and out of different doors
11:41 It's an extension of the Jedi's ability to perceive the future and the past
11:44 As described in Empire Strikes Back
11:46 Yeah okay Filoni but if Ezra saved Ahsoka
11:48 It's still pretty much time travel
11:50 It's just hard to look at this show with its wolf motif
11:53 Skull and Hati the Norse mythological wolves who chase the sun and moon across the sky
11:57 The Knights of the Old Republic star maps
11:58 The mentions of ancient civilizations and thrones speaking to Morgan through time
12:03 And not conclude that there might be some connection to the world between worlds
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13:18 One more detail I gotta point out here
13:20 As Morgan listens to those whispers through time
13:22 It does sound like the whisper says the word Morgan
13:24 So is Thrawn part of the Nightsisters himself?
13:29 Or is there another acolyte of Thrawn's wherever he is, whenever he is
13:32 Who is calling out to Morgan?
13:33 As Morgan leaves Balin tells Shin that once they find Thrawn
13:36 For some it will be war, for others a new beginning
13:38 But for them
13:39 Power
13:40 Such as you've never dreamed
13:43 Balin's objective is beyond the rebel versus empire conflict of the present generation
13:48 Beyond the Sith or the Jedi whose teachings that they practice now
13:51 Really an ancient interpretation of the force that has been lost to the ages
13:54 Okay, on to Corellia
13:55 Which has an atmospheric gate similar to the planet of Scarif in Rogue One
13:58 The surface of Corellia is covered in water
14:00 With industrial interlocking docks and pathways
14:02 We actually saw Corellia from the street level in the opening sequence of Solo A Star Wars Story
14:06 That's where Han Solo got his start
14:07 I like how in the pods below you can actually see vast imperial star destroyers
14:11 In various states of deconstruction
14:13 The back parts of their triangular shapes still visible
14:15 Ahsoka parks the T6 beside the Phantom 2
14:18 This is the detachable shuttle that connects to the Ghost, the primary ship in Rebels
14:21 Regional supervisor Min Weaver is played by Peter Jacobson
14:24 Long time character actor best known as Dr. Chris Taub on House in D
14:27 The Ghost Cruise astromech droid Chopper sits in the droid port of the Phantom 2
14:31 As was the case in Rebels he is voiced here by Dave Filoni himself
14:34 As before whenever Chopper talks it's clearly Filoni uttering something that's been distorted
14:40 And here it kind of sounds like "Watch your step Ahsoka"
14:43 This is the first time we've seen Chopper in live action
14:45 Other than when they rolled around on stage at Star Wars Celebration in 2022
14:48 Unlike other astromechs we've seen his head dome can kind of wobble
14:51 Compared to R2-D2s that can only rotate laterally
14:54 This gives Chopper a bit more zaniness and sass
14:57 Our man's always talking shit
14:58 So Weaver explains to Ahsoka and Hera that most of Morgan Elspeth's pro-imperial staff
15:02 Still work at this facility
15:03 You will still find ex-imperials at every level of the New Republic government
15:07 He goes on to say
15:08 The average worker doesn't care about the nuances of galactic politics
15:12 They have loyalty so long as they're paid
15:14 And you?
15:15 I'm a businessman general
15:16 My loyalty is to my investors
15:19 Son of a bitch
15:20 Like in season 3 of The Mandalorian
15:22 This is part of Lucasfilm's long game of showing the vulnerabilities of the New Republic
15:25 That are just gonna make it easier for threats like the First Order to rise
15:28 This whole debate over the New Republic's defense priorities
15:31 Is better explored in Chuck Wendig's Aftermath novels
15:33 As well as Claudia Grey's Bloodline
15:35 Which goes into Leia Organa's fallout with the New Republic
15:37 In the formation of the Resistance
15:38 Hu Yang meanwhile continues to practice some Jedi protocol
15:41 As he plays matchmaker to try to get Sabine to return to Ahsoka
15:43 But I like how he does not flatter her
15:45 I have known many Padawans over the centuries
15:48 And I can safely say your aptitude for the Force would fall short of them all
15:53 I love this line because it shows that Sabine isn't just like a randomly apt user of the Force
15:58 She sucks
15:59 But again she still has some mysticism with these dreams
16:02 And they may be rooted in something older than Jedi orthodoxy
16:04 Meanwhile Weaver explains that they produced nine hyperspace engines
16:08 From the old Star Destroyers for some new ship
16:10 That Hera calls bullshit on
16:11 Because the New Republic isn't working on anything that big
16:13 We learn later that this is for Morgan Elspeth's Eye of Sion
16:16 And nine hyperdrive cores is totally excessive
16:19 You should only need one
16:20 But for something this big you need nine
16:22 And in our numerological focus on the number three
16:26 Magic number
16:27 Nine is three sets of three
16:29 Weaver says General Syndulla isn't authorized to see what projects these drives might be used for
16:33 And he reports the only droids they have at this facility include CCLs
16:36 IW-37s, HV-7s, and other load lifters
16:39 Which are all loading droids that we've seen in Star Wars before
16:41 But the protocol droid totally rats out her boss
16:44 That she saw an HK droid and it recently prevented her from inspecting inventory five days prior
16:48 And these red suited neo-nazis say
16:50 Yeah I guess now's a good time to make a move
16:52 For the Empire!
16:53 Literally all of these operators pull blasters on them
16:57 In this fourth one Ahsoka uses the Force to pull the blaster out of her hand
17:00 With the hand that is still holding the lightsaber hilt
17:02 She does this in the fight with Murak later
17:04 It's just an interesting move that we saw Kalorin Beck do on the Mandalorian
17:07 When he rescued Grogu
17:08 Ahsoka is stopped outside by the Inquisitor Murok with an HK droid
17:12 The Inquisitor unfurls the cape like a samurai duel
17:14 And we still don't know who Murok is
17:16 But the physical performance was done by Paul Darnell
17:18 A stunt performer on Jurassic World, Matrix Resurrections, and Tenet
17:21 Ahsoka stabs the HK droid and continues to drive toward the Inquisitor
17:25 Using the droid as a shield for a beat
17:27 Until both lightsaber wielders chop into pieces
17:29 At this point the Inquisitor fires up the second half of the lightsaber
17:32 And starts looking like a true Inquisitor
17:34 And we're just assuming this is an Inquisitor
17:35 Because they're carrying the same kind of lightsaber the Inquisitor does
17:37 And yes, Murok does look like the Eighth Brother with that helmet
17:40 But the Eighth Brother died at the end of season two
17:42 So who knows
17:43 This whole section is just great Rebels action
17:45 Hera evades blaster fire as Chopper snaps at her
17:48 - What the hell?
17:48 - You can't just shoot it down, it would crash into the port city
17:51 - What the hell?
17:52 - Just ready a tracking device
17:53 And don't miss this time
17:55 Good lord
17:56 It sounds like when Hera says shooting it down will crash into the port city below
17:59 Chopper's response is "And that's bad?"
18:02 Those of us who call Chopper a war criminal remember Rebels season two episode nine
18:06 Stealth Strike when Chopper sabotaged a gravity well in the Imperial Interdictor
18:10 Destroying it and two other ships accounting for thousands and thousands of deaths
18:14 Don't tell me it was wartime
18:16 Don't compare it to Luke destroying the Death Star
18:17 This is totally different
18:18 There were other ways Chopper could have handled this
18:20 And you just cannot ignore all the times he was a little stinker
18:23 I get it, calling Chopper a war criminal
18:24 You would have to call many of these characters war criminals
18:26 But none of them are as mean and as stinky as Chopper is
18:29 Though in fairness to Chopper here
18:30 It seems like everyone on that Corellian base were Imperial sympathizers
18:34 So, you know, I guess I can't really blame them
18:36 Chopper snaps at Hera
18:37 No, I did not go through your stuff
18:40 And as Chopper puts his hands on his hips
18:44 It sounds like he chirps "Did you go through my stuff?"
18:47 And then "Yes, you did"
18:48 Marook rotates the lightsaber blade and chucks it at Ahsoka
18:51 Bailin's Eta-class shuttle fires on Ahsoka and Marook boards it
18:55 And I think my favorite Ahsoka move of this episode
18:57 She no look dodges the lightsaber as it boomerangs past her shoulder
19:01 The tracker that Chopper uses looks somewhat like the puck that Obi-Wan Kenobi uses to track
19:06 Jango Fett and attack the clones
19:07 But Hera rolls the Phantom 2 over the CT transport
19:10 Giving Chopper a window to toss this tracker on the hull
19:12 And it is freaking badass
19:13 Kind of reminds me of when Rey rotates the Millennium Falcon in The Force Awakens
19:17 With a dead drop to align Finn in the gunner seat
19:19 Look, I know some of you want to pretend the sequel trilogy didn't happen
19:28 But come on, this was sick
19:29 Chopper does a fist bump and then flexes his droid arms
19:32 He's a war criminal
19:33 Back on Lothal, Sabine gives her low cat a well-earned scratchy-scratch
19:36 For saving her and Ahsoka's life
19:38 And Sabine digs out her old Mandalorian armor that she wore throughout Rebels
19:41 One pauldron with a Rebel crest
19:42 One pauldron decorated with a purrgle
19:44 Some chest pieces
19:45 And then two wristband braces that were given to her by the Mandalorian protector
19:49 Ben Rau in season 3, Trials of the Darksaber
19:51 Now this painting of the armor is actually what we saw Sabine wearing
19:54 Right at the end of the Rebels series
19:55 The paint job of the armor was different throughout most of the show
19:58 We see Sabine kneeling in front of her helmet and using a knife to cut her hair
20:01 Kanan Jarrus does the same thing in Rebels season 4 episode 10, Jedi Knight
20:05 Shaving his beard and cutting his knot with the knife
20:07 Does this mean Sabine could be headed to death?
20:09 Maybe, maybe not
20:09 Because Sabine would always keep her hair short before
20:12 Because her head, her scalp would get hot underneath that Mandalorian helmet
20:14 And now she's back in the armor
20:16 Hera and Ahsoka watch Weaver arrested by the New Republic officers
20:19 With ships marked with "Police" and "Orvesh"
20:21 And Ahsoka says
20:22 It's not loyalty
20:23 It's greed
20:25 We see Sabine back in her armor on the Lothal Tower at sundown
20:28 The lighting matching the final epilogue scene of Rebels perfectly
20:31 She touches the mural she painted of the Ghost Crew
20:34 Just as she did in that scene
20:35 And Natasha Lugo Bordizzo is shot from Ezra's perspective
20:38 At this downward angle
20:40 Making her head look just a bit larger than it would normally
20:42 And she's never looked more like her animated self
20:45 Also like in the final scene of Rebels
20:46 Ahsoka appears behind her
20:48 Ready to whisk her away on a mission to find and rescue Ezra
20:50 But there's one key difference
20:52 In that scene Ahsoka returned with staff and white robes
20:55 Now Ahsoka's robes are a darker gray
20:57 Dave Filoni has long been interested in the character of Gandalf
21:00 Like when talking about Kanan as an incomplete mentor
21:02 Filoni said
21:03 A lot of my modeling comes from a lot of my exposure to reading Tolkien
21:06 Gandalf is not a complete mentor
21:08 He's way more down the path than anyone else
21:09 But he's not complete
21:11 That's why he's very symbolically gray
21:13 He has to figure it out along the way
21:15 And then attain a new level
21:17 After people thought Ahsoka had died
21:18 When her voice appeared in The Rise of Skywalker
21:20 Filoni tweeted an image likening her with Gandalf
21:22 In the Rebels finale
21:23 Ahsoka was in white
21:25 The sun behind her
21:26 Meant to evoke Gandalf's return as Gandalf the White
21:29 But now Ahsoka in gray suggests a reverse of that transformation
21:32 She's less of the enlightened perfect mentor
21:35 And now she's more of an uncertain gray Jedi
21:37 But that uncertainty is where she needs to be for the road ahead
21:40 Ahsoka allows the being to take them out to hyperspace
21:42 Calling her Padawan
21:44 And I don't think we're looking at a Jedi master and apprentice
21:46 But something in between
21:47 So this episode ends with the Eye of Sion
21:49 In orbit over Cetos and the D'Nab system
21:52 Its ninth hyperdrive core plugs into this vast ring
21:55 Assuming the two big engines on either side contain two cores each
21:58 That would add up to nine
21:59 But at the top of this is the golden ship that we saw Morgan leading Cetos in earlier
22:03 M'roque, Balin, and Shin appear through a different medium of hologram
22:07 One based more on green dust
22:09 This is different than the blue flickering holograms we normally see
22:11 And it's a lot clearer, better resolution
22:14 I'm assuming this is a kind of Nightsister magic based on the green color tone
22:17 But it shows us that this ancient magic is far superior to the current technology
22:21 Balin meditates for a moment and he says Ahsoka's presence in the Force is elusive
22:24 But her determination is vivid
22:26 He goes on to say
22:27 - To kill her would be a shame
22:30 There are so few Jedi left
22:33 - Sentimental
22:34 - Truth
22:34 A curious exchange
22:37 Of these three, Shin, M'roque, and Balin
22:38 Balin is the only one of these three to have not yet gone saber to saber with Ahsoka
22:42 We know from trailer footage he will, but he is reluctant to do so
22:45 As a former Jedi, he doesn't like the idea of purging any other Jedi
22:49 Bear in mind that somewhere out there though is Luke Skywalker
22:52 And truly with the last Jedi, the Jedi Order will come to an end
22:55 And Hu Yen will cry
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23:04 Huge thanks to Noah Chen for his help with this breakdown
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23:10 Bye
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