The season finale of Ahsoka is simply hours away, and even after seven episodes there’s nonetheless so much we don’t learn about the place the storylines and the characters are headed subsequent. In its preliminary season, the Disney+ collection adopted Ahsoka and her allies as they fought to stop the return of Grand Admiral Thrawn from exile in a special galaxy. Some of these heroes finally wound up in that galaxy themselves, and it’s beginning to appear like their efforts have been in useless, as Thrawn is poised to flee with the assistance of the creepy Nightsisters. And whereas Sabine did discover Ezra Bridger—the one good factor to return out of all of this—if they’ll’t cease Thrawn in time the grand admiral might develop into precisely what Ahsoka feared: inheritor to the Empire.
Of course, with only one episode left this season we’re not relying on all of our questions being answered. Some might have to attend for one more season, one other present (it wouldn’t be the primary time a storyline from one Star Wars TV present was resolved in an totally totally different one), or for Dave Filoni’s upcoming crossover film. One means or one other, this nearly definitely gained’t be the final time Ahsoka and her fellow Rebels are seen in stay motion. Here are all of the free ends we’ve been monitoring throughout the season and that we hope can be addressed earlier than the top.
1. What brought about the rift between Ahsoka and Sabine?
If you tuned into Ahsoka with out having watched the animated collection Rebels you may need assumed that no matter went down the primary time Ahsoka took on Sabine as her Padawan was coated in that collection; it wasn’t. Rebels followers have been simply as a lot at midnight as anybody else with this new info. They nonetheless are, because the present hasn’t gotten into what brought about the rift between Ahsoka and Sabine. The two of them by no means actually hashed it out. They simply put their disagreements apart whereas they centered on the larger issues in entrance of them.
Now that they’ve discovered each Thrawn and Ezra, although, these tensions would possibly come again to the forefront. If so, they’ll be compounded by Sabine’s most up-to-date betrayal. Ahsoka appeared genuinely joyful to see each Ezra and Sabine within the final episode, and he or she’s in a greater place after her ordeal within the World Between Worlds (or wherever that was). But how lengthy will that final? Ezra might be simply as curious as we’re, in order that could possibly be a pure solution to catch us up on that lacking piece of private historical past.
2. How will Ezra react when he discovers how Sabine discovered him?
Ezra nonetheless doesn’t know that Sabine bought to this galaxy by making a take care of Thrawn’s allies. She’s managed to keep away from speaking about it thus far, however the longer she stonewalls, the better the possibilities are that Thrawn will make his escape and go away them behind. Ezra sacrificed himself on the finish of Rebels by calling the purrgil to whisk each him and Thrawn away (he didn’t even know the place they’d take them). His plan labored, however at the price of a decade or extra in exile on an unknown planet in a distant galaxy. If Thrawn manages to return and decide up the place he left off, Ezra’s sacrifice can have meant nothing.
Sabine doesn’t have an excellent justification for being on this galaxy, both. She can fake it was for Ezra’s sake, however actually she simply wished to see him once more. Her very un-Jedi-like determination handy over the star map got here from a spot of emotion, quite than logic or technique. We have been as joyful as she was to see Ezra once more, however whatever the consequence, it will likely be disappointing if he and Ahsoka give Sabine a cross for her actions.
3. What do the Great Mothers need from Thrawn?
The witchy Nightsisters of Dathomir have a deep and complex mythology developed by way of earlier appearances in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels, in addition to numerous Star Wars video games and literature. Ahsoka added to the lore with the brand new info that Peridea is their authentic homeworld, although we nonetheless don’t understand how a lot they issue into Thrawn’s endgame. Thrawn is not any fan of the Jedi, however apparently he has no drawback aligning with these specific Force wielders. At least, so long as their objectives are suitable.
We know that Thrawn needs to return to his personal galaxy, however it’s not clear precisely what Morgan Elsbeth and the Great Mothers are getting out of the deal. Thrawn mentions some type of cargo switch and Morgan tells him it should take three rotations to retrieve all of it from the catacombs. Later, we see the Night Troopers transporting lengthy, floating crates onto Thrawn’s ship. Whatever is in them, the Nightsisters went to quite a lot of hassle to get them off the planet.
4. What precisely are the Night Troopers?
The Night Troopers don’t appear like any stormtroopers we’ve seen earlier than. Their armor is battered and damaged, held along with bits of crimson tape or material. They’ve clearly seen some issues underneath Thrawn’s command. Could they be, as a well-liked fan idea suggests, a zombie military raised from the lifeless by the Nightsisters? Thrawn’s remark to Morgan after studying that Ahsoka is alive appears to assist that idea: “After all, dying and resurrection are widespread deceptions performed out by each Nightsister and Jedi.” When they noticed fight in episode seven they didn’t burst right into a cloud of mud like Marrok did, in order that they’re one thing totally different. And what’s the take care of Enoch, the golden-faced captain of Thrawn’s guard? Is he just like the others, or is he particular for some purpose? It could possibly be that they’re all simply common stormtroopers in janky armor, however that’s the least doubtless—and least attention-grabbing—clarification.
5. What is Baylan Skoll’s plan?
Baylan Skoll, performed with fantastic gravitas by the late Ray Stevenson, has had his personal hidden agenda since we first met him. What that may be stays a giant thriller. Though we’ve solely had a number of scarce hints of his plans thus far, we do know a few of his backstory. He was raised within the Jedi Temple and escaped Order 66. He’s not a Jedi, however nonetheless has some respect for the order and upholds a number of the previous traditions. He hasn’t absolutely gone to the darkish aspect, but he was working with an Inquisitor originally of the collection. At one level he advised his apprentice, Shin Hati, that energy was his finish aim. Then, in episode six he expresses his want to interrupt the limitless cycle of battle between the Jedi and the Empire. “What I search is the start,” he says. “So I could lastly carry this cycle to an finish.” Perhaps the finale will clear up precisely what he means by that. And additionally why he despatched Shin away so abruptly with out finishing her coaching, not as a Jedi however as “one thing extra.” Did he change course as soon as he bought to this world of “desires and insanity” or was this his plan all alongside?
6. What is the mysterious energy that Baylan sensed on Peridea?
Baylan’s phrases later in episode six prompted one other line of inquiry that deserve a piece of its personal. He talks in regards to the planet Peridea itself, as soon as the Great Witch Kingdom of the Dathmiri, and what may be occurring underneath the floor there. “Perhaps they flee an influence better than their very own,” he says of the Great Mothers, when Shin factors out how keen they’re to get the hell out of there. “Something calls to me. Can’t you hear it? Something stirs right here. Can’t you see it?” Is this energy related to the Force? Could or not it’s a creature? If it’s actual, it might have an effect on not simply Baylan’s destiny, however the fates of our heroes as nicely.
7. How will our heroes make it again to their dwelling galaxy?
Now that Thrawn’s area mine blockade has chased the purrgil away, there’s just one means again dwelling from Peridea. (It’s doubtless that the area whales wouldn’t have been an possibility anyway, in any other case Ezra would have hitched a experience again with them years in the past.) Any consequence that offers Thrawn an opportunity to begin rebuilding the Empire can’t be thought-about a win. The finest case state of affairs could be Ahsoka, Sabine, and Ezra (plus, let’s not neglect Huyang) by some means utilizing the Eye of Sion to return with out Thrawn and firm on board, leaving the enemy stranded. That looks like a particularly tall order and quite a lot of issues would wish to fall into place for one thing like that to occur. It’s extra doubtless we’ll get a combined consequence, with some characters making the journey and others being left behind.
8. Will anybody be left behind?
If anybody is caught on Peridea, we actually hope it’s not Ezra. He’s been gone lengthy sufficient and he deserves to go dwelling. The remainder of the characters are all honest sport, although. There’s loads extra of the planet left to discover in season two. If it comes all the way down to somebody sacrificing themselves so Ezra can get dwelling, each Ahsoka and Sabine would simply make that alternative. Will certainly one of them be taking Ezra’s place within the crab caravan? Baylan doesn’t seem to be he even needs to depart, so he’ll in all probability be sticking round. And although Shin is now a free agent, the possibilities that she’ll be welcomed again into the fold by Thrawn’s crew aren’t good. Whoever is left to proceed the story right here, we expect it’s very doubtless we haven’t seen the final of Peridea.
9. Is Hera’s story resolved, or will she be again?
As a lot as Rebels followers have loved seeing Hera in stay motion (and Mary Elizabeth Winstead has achieved a nice job taking part in her), she didn’t have a lot affect on the story, aside from giving Ahsoka and Huyang cowl to hop inside a purrgil earlier than they took off into hyperspace. Mostly she handled the annoying forms of the New Republic and its cussed insistence that Thrawn and the “Imperial remnants” should not a menace (we shared Hera’s frustration). A fan service look by a sure OG protocol droid apart, the opening scene of the penultimate episode by which Hera confronted a senate tribunal was redundant and took away from the storylines we really cared about. It looks like her story is finished for now, however possibly there can be one thing extra to set in movement future tales. We wouldn’t object to a reunion with Ezra. Maybe he’ll even supply to tackle Jacen as his Padawan. Here’s hoping General Syndulla and her son can be extra of an element within the subsequent season.
10. How will the ending hook up with future Star Wars tasks?
We can’t assist however surprise how Ahsoka and its first season will tie into the remainder of the Star Wars TV galaxy. We now know that it takes place simply after the top of The Mandalorian season 3. The subsequent collection on the slate is Skeleton Crew, a title that has been the topic of quite a lot of hypothesis currently in relation to these Night Trooper theories and the crates Thrawn is transporting (might the title be extra literal than we thought?). After that we ought to be getting The Acolyte, which is ready through the High Republic period, so any tie-ins must be oblique. The probably connection would be the aforementioned live-action characteristic movie to be directed by Dave Filoni, a crossover occasion that may carry collectively most of the reveals we’ve seen thus far. We know that Filoni has been step by step incorporating facets of the Star Wars Legends universe and making it formally canon (the character of Thrawn being one such instance) so what different facets of these tales will he usher in subsequent? We’re wanting ahead to discovering out.
