Ahsoka’s Return to theClone WarsBrings Together Those the Jedi Left Behind

It feel so long since we ascertain Ahsoka Tano as she walk down the steps of the Jedi Temple one last time . It was n’t the last metre , of grade . We have reckon her develop , become a maverick , face her fallen master , and becomeso much morethan a mere Jedi in the year since . But now we ’re revisiting that moment with a reminder : The Jedi left behind so many more citizenry than just Ahsoka .

After open up with its “ Bad Batch ” arc focus onClones , battle , and the tiredness oftools at state of war , this week ’s Clone Wars kick offa new storythat we ’ve beenwaiting literally yearsto see . We now get laid where she ended up . But what happened to Ahsoka in those immediate moments after the show’sfirst tragic endin time of year five ?

“ run short With a Trace ” start to paint that ikon . Picking up with an Ahsoka still seek to navigate her new normal , the episode almost immediately shows us that she ’s not quite amply adjusted to a life that is n’t on the front lines of an interstellar state of war . Struggling to cope with a structure as aimless as her rickety speederbike is prostrate to extempore engine unsuccessful person , our unseasoned ex - Padawan is literally catapult into the depth of Coruscant ’s netherworld — specifically to level 1313 , a fun callback to what could ’ve been Star Wars’video gamingandtelevisualfuture — barge in in good order into the life of the titular Trace Martez ( Brigitte Kali ) .

On her own, Ahsoka Tano rediscovers the world the war-torn Jedi have left behind.

On her own, Ahsoka Tano rediscovers the world the war-torn Jedi have left behind.Image: Lucasfilm

Ahsoka , it ferment out , has a lot in common with Trace , beyond their shared interests in mechanic and a scrappy , uncanny power to tinker through a dicey place . They ’re both youthful fair sex shinny to make ends meet in a time of astronomical uncertainty . They ’re both wrestle with a sense of purposelessness and a tragic despair that their current mint in life are holding them back from the dream of who they want to be — for Trace , a drift distance original , explore the galaxy ; for Ahsoka , only someone who can use her ability to help multitude in need . But as Trace unwittingly cue a skeptical Ahsoka — attempt to keep her distance to avoid get involved and potentially peril her condition as a former Jedi — there ’s something else they both share , and many more beyond them on point like 1313 : The Jedi forget them all behind , in one way or the other .

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Even as she go on her former connection secret , Trace ’s reminder gets to Ahsoka deep , pull her out of the unease that trying to keep her distance from others ( attempt to traverse the good person she always has been , in some mode ) has put her in . The Jedi ’s surrender in Ahsoka ’s fussy subject — choosing to cast her aside in a misguided sensation of justness and bear , in its own hubris , that she would forgive them for doing so when testify wrong — is one failing of the Order . But so is its desertion of people like Trace and her sister Rafa ( Logan ’s Elizabeth Rodriguez ) , disregard the socioeconomic plight of the people it swore to defend — and , not long beforethe prison term of the prequel motion picture , did so against the like of exploitatory privateersman and industrialists — to go campaign as frontline soldier and generals .

Trace and Ahsoka find kindred spirits in each other.Image: Lucasfilm

That desertion pushes the blank out peoples of the wandflower into dire situations . berth like Trace and Rafa have found themselves in , hunted by debtors and having to put themselves through increasingly poorly — and increasingly dangerous — jobs to scrape by . The latest of those jobs procured by Rafa for her sis ( and now Ahsoka , tag along in an effort to pay her keep for Trace helping to prepare her speed demon ) is fixing up droids for shady client in the Coruscanti underbelly so as to try and get Rafa ’s perpetual debitor off their backrest for a while .

When Ahsoka and Trace discover that said droids are in fact binary load lifters prone to wreaking havoc ( or can be programmed to do so by conscientious owner like , say , Rafa ’s Twi’lek go - between and their mysterious master ) , the risk that Rafa has get them into , albeit out of despair , becomes explicit . And while for us , it means a twisty - turny , action - packed chase sequence as Ahsoka and Trace render to kibosh their wayward droid from charge most of the local sector apart , it ’s also an chance for clarity for Ahsoka .

Unlike the Jedi Order , she plainly ca n’t reverse her back on people like Trace , as much as she has try out to , if only to keep her Force power a secret . The desire to help , to do the right affair , is too inviolable in her , and unburden by the trammel of Jedi bureaucracy — and Jedi hubris — as she is now , she can still be that mortal without being a phallus of the Order . So when the chase concludes with Trace and her now - disabled rampaging droid dangling off a precipice , in a minute of despair , Ahsoka reaches out in the force out to pull them both off of the edge .

Trace and Ahsoka find kindred spirits in each other.

Trace and Ahsoka find kindred spirits in each other.Image: Lucasfilm

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She seemingly get down out with it . Trace is blissfully unaware that her the Nazarene was a orphic muscularity playing area rather than the windlass on the hover - forklift she and Ahsoka rode into the chase in the first stead . Of those in the crowd around them , on the face of it only a child spotted Ahsoka ’s outstretched hand revealing her Jedi nature . But as there ’s more to this tarradiddle to severalize — Ahsoka still has that fixture bill to ante up , and it ’s clear Trace and Rafa are n’t out of peril yet as the episode draws to an end — we’re assured Ahsoka did the right affair . And in doing so remind herself of something lively , that we know she will contain with herself far into the future : You do n’t have to be of the Jedi Order to do the good work they ’re meant to believe in .

The peculiarities of time have give Clone Wars a chance to revisit overlook opportunities . In this case , to see how the Ahsoka we used to know would one 24-hour interval — sooner for us than it was for her — become the womanwe now knowher to be . But perhaps the peachy lesson learned here is that she always was that cleaning woman , deep down . And she never needed the Jedi to be otherwise .

An unfortunate lot in life has pushed Rafa to desperate measures…