my only thought when Ahsoka had that hologram playing was "SHE NEEDS TO SHOW THIS TO LUKE NOW"
i did enjoy how a long time ago in a galaxy far far away was folded into the lore of the gffa itself in this episode, making it belong to the jedi and their history, that's a fun little meta twist. it's like, you can see what the show is trying to do here. they're being very clever with the whole concept of a galaxy far away from our galaxy far far away, it's a story about stories, about memories of the past and hopes for the future. this other galaxy is not a whimsical place of happily ever afters, though, the cute little noti excluded, much like our gffa, it is full of pain and death. baylan says it's a place of dreams and madness, and the planet is where the purrgil whales go to die, it's a graveyard. shin's naive, earnest 'sometimes stories are just stories' being met with the idea that it holds the way to break the cycle of rise and fall of darkness, like stories matter and can change things. they're not detached fantasies, they're dangerous and full of potential, lurking with menace like thrawn's power to start a war. the show is to some degree making commentary on the power of star wars itself, you know? all the pain and death mixed with whimsy and friendship. ahsoka will be changed by visiting a gffa of the gffa, so will ezra and sabine, thrawn too. they're moving in and out of this second level of being stories inside the story to other characters. it's all very meta but not in an annoying way, in an intriguing way, which is nice. i'm interested to see where filoni is going with all this.
Lars Mikkelsen as Grand Admiral Thrawn in Ahsoka: Far, Far Away (2023)
"Sabine. Thanks for coming. I can't wait to go home."
Ahsoka: Far, Far Away (2023)
Can we please stop fucking ghoulishly anti-aging everybody for FUCKS SAKE. There isn’t a soul alive who wouldn’t rather see Hayden Christensen’s smile lines than pretend we’re sticking to “canon age” or whatever the fuck
I don’t know if Baylan’s apprentice was even named aloud in these episodes but it doesn’t really matter because to me she’s always going to be “baby Sith Alice Glass in her Crystal Castles era”
SENATOR JAI KELL… RYDER AZADI… LOTHAL’S ENVIRONMENT HEALING AFTER THE EMPIRE… LOTH CATS… EZRA BRIDGER “WE GREW UP TOGETHER(😭😭)… YOU’RE LIKE A SISTER TO ME”… THE LOOK ON HERA’S FACE WHEN REALIZING EZRA COULD BE ALIVE… THE PARALLEL SHOT TO THE OPENING SHOT OF REBELS… THE SCORING???…
REBELS FANS WE WIN
Voiced Gar Saxon in Clone Wars and Rebels and was cast as Baylan Skoll in the new Ahsoka series
Temuera Morrison will be making his return to the Star Wars universe later this year in 2023’s Ahsoka, multiple sources tell One Take News. Morrison will be returning as the fan-favourite Captain Rex, although it’s unclear if he will appear in flashbacks or in present time. It’s also unclear if Morrison will be playing any other clones in the series.
On the one hand: I don’t think this would be revealed already. Look at how closely-guarded his Kenobi cameo was?
ON THE OTHER HAND: fhsgshmghnhshs that would be amazing 🥹
Something I find really amusing about the reaction to the Ahsoka trailer is the amount of people saying “Omg my favorite war criminal is back!!!” And the war criminal in question is Chopper and not Thrawn
STAR WARS REBELS (2018) | AHSOKA (2023)
I’m sure that sith Santa is cool but come on, ITS THRAWN!!
Grand Admiral Thrawn in Ahsoka (2023)
HEIR TO THE EMPIRE GUYS THEY SAID IT THEY FUCKING SAID IT
AHSOKA | Coming August 2023