{"id":274651,"date":"2025-11-21T02:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T02:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/274651\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T02:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T02:24:09","slug":"star-wars-rebels-writer-henry-gilroy-speaks-up-against-sabines-jedi-arc-in-ahsoka-it-was-absolutely-not-the-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/274651\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Star Wars Rebels’ Writer Henry Gilroy Speaks Up Against Sabine’s Jedi Arc in ‘Ahsoka’: “It Was Absolutely Not the Plan”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sabine Wren\u2019s Jedi arc in\u00a0Ahsoka is getting criticisms from\u00a0Star Wars Rebels writer Henry Gilroy (who is\u00a0not related to the Gilroys working on\u00a0Andor). During an appearance at the Pod of the Rebellion podcast<\/a> (via Inverse<\/a>), he argued that it deviated from what the team had established in the animated series and retreaded Ezra\u2019s arc, but now in live-action.<\/p>\n

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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\u2019s arc, and would have also undermined Sabine\u2019s trajectory to become a Mandalorian warrior:<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt was absolutely not the plan\u2026 we really felt that not only did it step on Ezra\u2019s story\u2026it was a weak retread. We already did this.<\/p>\n

The idea of Sabine training as a Jedi when she is already this fantastic warrior of her own type, we felt like, \u2018This is overkill.’\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Sabine Wren (Natasha Liu Bordizzo) in Lucasfilm\u2019s STAR WARS: AHSOKA, exclusively on Disney+. \u00a92023 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n

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He also said that it came as a surprise while watching\u00a0Ahsoka, as he was not privy to the character\u2019s arc in advance. He was also critical of Sabine\u2019s climactic moment during the Season 1 finale:<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was shocked. What I love about the story with the Darksaber is that you don\u2019t have to be a Jedi to have Jedi ideals. I think that\u2019s what\u2019s really the more important thing \u2026 rather than Force pushing Ezra one hundred feet when [you\u2019ve] never used the Force before.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Gilroy\u2019s comments also come out a few weeks after Rosario Dawson teased<\/a> a slightly different Ahsoka coming out in Season 2, someone who\u2019s \u201ckind of getting back into her joy.\u201d The new season, which wrapped filming a few weeks ago<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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Miguel Fern\u00e1ndez 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,\u00a0but 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sabine Wren\u2019s Jedi arc in\u00a0Ahsoka is getting criticisms from\u00a0Star Wars Rebels writer Henry Gilroy (who is\u00a0not related to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[31793,96,2839,112646,2591,112253,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-274651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-ahsoka","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-sabine-wren","12":"tag-star-wars","13":"tag-star-wars-rebels","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}