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“She is tenacious.”
“So was her master.”
“Yeah? What was he like?”
“Intense.”
The fifth episode of Ahsoka was a real treat for fans of the Star Wars prequels and the folks who love The Clone Wars cartoon series. We see Ahsoka reunited with her master, running alongside Clone Troopers, slicing separatist droids in half, and then using the Force to talk to space whales.
A quick recap: With Jacen and Chopper, Hera arrives on Seatos and sees no signs of her friends, Ahsoka and Sabine. She does find Huyang, who is seen holding Sabine’s Mandalorian helmet. Meanwhile, in the World Between Worlds, Ahsoka catches up with ANAKIN FREAKING SKYWALKER, who says he is there to finish her training. The two begin sparring, and just when Ahsoka thinks she has surpassed her master, he shatters the floor beneath her, sending her back into her teenage body and into a Clone Wars-era flashback battle. The training soon turns adversarial as Anakin’s saber turns red. Ahsoka wins the duel and spares Anakin – and then he smiles and says, “there’s hope for you yet,” as he disappears after teaching his pupil a final lesson. Ahsoka returns to the real world and is found floating in the seas of Seatos by X-Wings scanning the area.
When Ahsoka awakes, she taps into the Force to figure out what happened to Sabine after she fell into the ocean. Hera is informed by Mon Mothma that the New Republic fleet are on the way and that she and Ahsoka should return to Coruscant immediately. Defiant again though, Hera and Ahsoka (the latter of whom has by now donned a white robe) find a pod of purrgil, and one of them takes Ahsoka and Huyang to find Sabine and Ezra in another galaxy far, far away.
The flashback scenes were incredibly satisfying, and Ariana Greenblatt (who you might have recognized from Barbie or as a young Gamora in Avengers: Infinity War) was fantastic as a teenage Ahsoka.
Here’s what else was notable about the episode, other than, of course, seeing Hayden Christensen reprise his role as Anakin again: