Sabine Wren’s Jedi arc in Ahsoka is getting criticisms from Star Wars Rebels writer Henry Gilroy (who is not related to the Gilroys working on Andor). During an appearance at the Pod of the Rebellion podcast (via Inverse), he argued that it deviated from what the team had established in the animated series and retreaded Ezra’s arc, but now in live-action.

 

Gilroy admitted that Sabine training as a Jedi was something that the team had flirted with when they were coming up with the Darksaber subplot in Star Wars Rebels, but eventually decided against it, as it would have been a repetition of Ezra’s arc, and would have also undermined Sabine’s trajectory to become a Mandalorian warrior:

 

“It was absolutely not the plan… we really felt that not only did it step on Ezra’s story…it was a weak retread. We already did this.

The idea of Sabine training as a Jedi when she is already this fantastic warrior of her own type, we felt like, ‘This is overkill.’”

 

Sabine Wren (Natasha Liu Bordizzo) in Lucasfilm’s STAR WARS: AHSOKA, exclusively on Disney+. ©2023 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved.

 

He also said that it came as a surprise while watching Ahsoka, as he was not privy to the character’s arc in advance. He was also critical of Sabine’s climactic moment during the Season 1 finale:

 

“I was shocked. What I love about the story with the Darksaber is that you don’t have to be a Jedi to have Jedi ideals. I think that’s what’s really the more important thing … rather than Force pushing Ezra one hundred feet when [you’ve] never used the Force before.”

 

Gilroy’s comments also come out a few weeks after Rosario Dawson teased a slightly different Ahsoka coming out in Season 2, someone who’s “kind of getting back into her joy.” The new season, which wrapped filming a few weeks ago, is set to debut on Disney Plus next year. Dave Filoni is once again acting as the sole writer, and also director of two of the episodes.

 

Natasha Liu Bordizzo is returning as Sabine Wren for the new episodes, which will follow-up on the cliffhanger ending of the first season, which left both Ahsoka and Sabine (and also foes Shin Hati and Baylan Skoll) stranded on Peridea, while both Thrawn and Ezra made their way back to our main galaxy. Star Wars Rebels ended its four-season run in 2018.

 

 


Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as movies from Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.