Ahsoka

Over the last few years, Star Wars fans have been having complicated feelings about the franchise. On one side, fans have been enjoying the movies, shows, cartoons, and theme park attractions that people spend a year's salary on. Erin Maxwell said in her review, “Disney’s greed quickly saw an oversaturated market and so we got some lackluster entries, cruddy hotels, and Porg plushies, causing the desire for more galactic adventures to diminish.”

The Franchise needed a save that makes sense and brings fans back to the franchise, but will be it this past year’s “Ahsoka” series?

Ahsoka is a Togruta (sentient humanoid with cone-like horns and white facial pigments), which fans were first introduced to in their teenage years training under Anakin Skywalker in the animated series “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” back in 2008. She returned to animated design in “Star Wars Rebels” in 2014 before she finally came to live-action in “The Mandalorian” and “The Book of Boba Fett.” Now in her series, Ahsoka (Rosario Dawson) follows the former Jedi after the fall of the Galactic Empire as she tracks down old enemies and lost friends with the help of her former Padawan, Sabine Wren (Natasha Liu Bordizzo).

Written and co-directed by Star Wars defender Dave Filoni, “Ahsoka” sees him doing what he does best: connecting the dots between films and the extended universe. However, this time around, there is a separate focus on female empowerment and leadership thanks to the female-led cast. Maxwell noted, “But the world of Ahsoka isn’t an easy romp. The show will be quite complicated for most newbies, especially those who only have the movies under their belt and a Grogu t-shirt. Those who skipped out on Rebels and Clone Wars might be a bit lost in space when it comes to these characters, politics, and past narratives.”

To understand the show, “Ahsoka” requires viewers to do a lot of homework, and there’s much to catch up on. Maxwell said, “Hardcore fans will appreciate the poignant relationships that have been carefully cultivated since they were in toon form, but others will find the show slow-moving and bogged down in politics. Still, the essence of good vs. bad is at the forefront of any great hero saga and it deserves to be explored.”

Maxwell continued, “Breathing new life into a galaxy far, far away is difficult, especially when the fan base seems to want familiarity –AHsoka is basically a live-action version of Rebels: Season 5.” Still, like the previous show, “Andor,” “Ahsoka has enough going for it to move the franchise in a new direction, making it different from Indiana Jones, recent Marvel movies, and a few previous Star Wars installments that failed to do so.

This is a very good show. Dawson and Bordizzo are amazing in the lead. Ray Stevenson and Ivanna Sakhno are believable and great as the villains. There are some great action scenes and the story, even though you don’t want it to move in a certain direction, you know it goes there. Check it out on Disney+ and you will love it, I promise.

Tomorrow we will be ending “Disney Month 2023” with another installment in the MCU.