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‘Ahsoka’ Season 2 Officially Marks the End of an Era for Star Wars
Ahsoka Tano has had something of a time lately. Well, since she was born actually. Let’s look at it, she was thrown into a galactic war as a kid, been framed for a terrorist attack, left the Jedi Order, watched 99% of her kin die, and watched the closest thing she had to family turn into literal Dath Vader. Not a surprise that she’s not been happy-go-lucky much lately. But now, her time is up.
Rosario Dawson (Daredevil) has now revealed that Ahsoka Season 2 will mark the end of that particular era for the character, with Ahsoka finally beginning to rediscover the joy she lost decades earlier. The change follows her reunion with Anakin during Season 1, which Dawson believes allowed her character to heal something that had remained unresolved since their relationship fell apart during the Clone Wars.
“She had a more of a strong gravitas at the beginning [as a Jedi apprentice], and she was a little bit more unflappable and I’m liking that she’s relaxing,” she said at Comic Con Scotland. “She’s kind of getting back into her joy. I think those moments with Hayden [Christensen] and Anakin were so important for her to heal something, so she could be more present.”
It’s quite a significant shift for someone whose personality has been remarkably consistent throughout her post-Clone Wars appearances. The older Ahsoka introduced in Star Wars Rebels and subsequently played in live-action by Dawson in The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett and Ahsoka has generally been restrained, solitary and carrying an enormous amount of unresolved baggage. But she’ll finally shift some of it.
Ahsoka Is Finally Getting Her Joy Back
Dawson explained that the change won’t simply mean Ahsoka smiling a little more often. She’s also becoming more willing to rely on the people around her rather than carrying everything herself, something audiences began seeing through her repaired relationship with Sabine Wren toward the end of Season 1.
“And that’s what I’m really enjoying. I think we get to explore that a lot more in the second season. I’m really glad that we get to add more joy into her life and see her relax a little bit more and work in community a little bit more than she has.”
Ahsoka’s relationship with Hayden Christensen’s (Revenge of the Sith) Anakin appears particularly important to that transformation, while Season 1 allowed the pair to reunite and let Ahsoka confront the master whom she lost to Darth Vader, as well as handle the fact she was so damn young at the time.
“I think we got to see a transition in her, not only because we got to see the flashbacks of her back in the Clone Wars, and see how young she was being thrust into war, but that we also got to see where she’s come after being Fulcrum, and it’s been heavy to see the journey of her master, her friends, her brother in Darth Vader, and then Anakin Skywalker. I think she was just in a really heavy period. And we got to see that in Mandalorian where she denies taking on Grogu as a Padawan. Then you have her taking on Sabine Wren in the first season, and a lot of things happened, but by the time she turns into Ahsoka the White, we get to see a little more lightness, a little bit more of a transition. And that’s the thing I think I’m the most excited about, is that we get to explore that a little bit more. There’s a bit of a lightness, where she can better approach where she is now and where she’s going, because she’s not so much looking back as she had been.”
Ahsoka Season 2 premieres January 20, 2027, exclusively on Disney+.
- Release Date
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August 22, 2023
- Network
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Disney+
- Directors
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Steph Green, Jennifer Getzinger, Peter Ramsey, Rick Famuyiwa
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