Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi dropped on Disney Plus on Wednesday, giving us six CGI animated shorts within the fashion of The Clone Wars. Half of the tales are dedicated to legendary Jedi Ahsoka Tano (years earlier than her alliance with The Mandalorian), whereas the others deal with future Sith Lord Dooku throughout his time as a Jedi.
They’re written by Clone Wars govt producer Dave Filoni, who’s presently engaged on the live-action Ahsoka sequence that is scheduled to hit Disney Plus subsequent yr. Ashley Eckstein and Corey Burton reprise their respective Clone Wars roles as Ahsoka and Dooku.
These are all set within the prequel period, a long time earlier than the occasions of unique Star Wars film A New Hope (and present live-action present Andor). Let’s use the Force to dive into every episode’s SPOILERS.
Life and Death
On her homeworld Shili, previous to the occasions of The Phantom Menace, an toddler Ahsoka (Ashley Eckstein) is taken by a sabertooth creature and appears doomed. When she instinctively tames it with the Force and rides it again house, the village elder acknowledges her energy and declares her a Jedi.
The Force is powerful with this one.
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We know from The Clone Wars that she’s introduced into the Jedi Order by Master Plo Koon, and turns into Padawan to Anakin Skywalker.
Justice
Jedi Master Dooku (Corey Burton) comes near killing a corrupt Republic senator after witnessing the struggling of his individuals. His Padawan Qui-Gon Jinn (Micheál Richardson, son of live-action Qui-Gon actor Liam Neeson), manages to avoid wasting the senator by releasing his kidnapped son, whose love for his father helps Dooku snap out of it.
This takes place years earlier than The Phantom Menace, and highlights Dooku’s disillusionment with the Republic (a narrative that is additionally instructed within the audio drama Dooku: Jedi Lost). We additionally get to see Dooku’s blue lightsaber, which has an superior curved hilt much like the one he’ll wield as a Sith.
Choices
Sent to retrieve a useless Jedi’s physique together with fellow Master Mace Windu (T.C. Carson), Dooku takes the mission within the path that leads to a corrupt senator’s demise. He identifies with the insurgent group chargeable for the incident, echoing its mistrust for the Republic and its management over the Jedi.
Masters Dooku and Mace Windu staff as much as face a risk, however really feel fairly otherwise in its aftermath.
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Mace is given the fallen Jedi’s place on the Council, which annoys Dooku. He presumably sees it as Mace enjoying politics to rise inside the Order and the Republic system, within the years earlier than The Phantom Menace.
The Sith Lord
This one is ready throughout occasions of The Phantom Menace, after Qui-Gon encounters Darth Maul on Tatooine however earlier than the return to Naboo. Dooku deletes the planet Kamino from the Jedi archives, hiding the conspiracy to create the clone military (it will not be found for one more decade, in Attack of the Clones).
He additionally has his final encounter with Qui-Gon earlier than his former Padawan is slain by Maul.
In the wake of Qui-Gon’s demise, Jedi Council member Yaddle (Bryce Dallas Howard, who directed episodes of The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett) follows Dooku to a secret assembly with Darth Sidious (Ian McDiarmid). Faced with a selection between Jedi and Sith when she’s found, Dooku sides with Sidious, kills Yaddle and turns into the Sith Lord’s apprentice — Darth Tyranus.
This reveals the destiny of Yaddle, who’s of the identical species as Yoda and Grogu. She beforehand solely made a quick look in The Phantom Menace and had vanished by Attack of the Clones. It’s unclear if the Jedi ever found her destiny.
This episode additionally means that Sidious took benefit of Dooku’s grief over Qui-Gon’s demise to seduce him fully to the darkish aspect. He’ll in the end discard Dooku in favor of Anakin in Revenge of the Sith.
Practice Makes Perfect
After the occasions of The Clone Wars film, Anakin (Matt Lanter) brings Ahsoka to a clandestine coaching session by which she tries to deflect clone troopers’ blaster hearth for so long as doable earlier than being surprised.
Ahsoka works on her survival expertise.
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She continues that coaching all through the battle, and it in the end permits her to survive Order 66, by which Sidious makes clone troopers throughout the galaxy to slay their Jedi allies.
This episode was the primary one Filoni wrote for the sequence. It additionally encompasses a cameo from a younger Caleb Dume, a Padawan who’ll make it via the destruction of the Jedi Order. He’ll tackle the title Kanan Jarrus and turn out to be the Jedi hero of Rebels.
Resolve
After the rise of the Galactic Empire (seen in Revenge of the Sith and The Clone Wars finale) Ahsoka quietly attends Padmé’s funeral on Naboo, and future Rebel Alliance chief Bail Organa (Phil LaMarr) provides her a communicator.
Living in hiding on an agricultural world, Ahsoka finds employment in farming till she blows her cowl by utilizing the Force to avoid wasting a coworker and attracts an Imperial Inquisitor (Clancy Brown) to them.
She slays the Inquisitor along with his personal red-bladed lightsaber and contacts Bail to rejoin the combat. It’s unclear how this matches with the 2016 Ahsoka novel, which tells an analogous story, however any contradictions could possibly be defined as an alternate telling.