Beneath Disney, the galaxy far, distant has been increasing at an unimaginable price. When The Mandalorian & Grogu film opens in lower than two years, we can have simply as many Star Wars motion pictures beneath Disney as we ever obtained from George Lucas and in a fraction of the time. On prime of that, now we have all of the Star Wars collection on Disney+ and quite a few novels and comedian books. There’s a lot occurring that there could inevitably be the occasional hiccup within the story.
Such is seemingly the case in terms of the backstory of fan-favorite character Ahsoka Tano. She was created for the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated collection, however has since been the topic of novels, live-action exhibits and extra animated collection, and a few of that has my head spinning as completely different tales seem to contradict others.
Tales Of The Jedi And The Ahsoka Novel Seem To Inform The Similar Story
Again in 2016, earlier than we ever knew we’d get extra Star Wars: The Clone Wars or a live-action Ahsoka collection, we obtained Ahsoka, a novel by E.Okay. Johnson. The ebook is about following the occasions of Season 6 of The Clone Wars, which was then the top of the collection. It follows Ahsoka as she hides out following Order 66. Finally she is compelled to make use of The Drive, which sends an Inquisitor after her whom she defeats.
That is additionally primarily the story instructed in Episode 6 of the Tales of the Jedi animated collection. Clearly a 12-minute animated episode is extra condensed than the complete novel, however there have been already some vital continuity points between the 2, and now there are extra.
The most recent version of the Star Wars Encyclopedia (by way of SFFGazette) states that the Inquisitor that Ahsoka battles in Tales of the Jedi goes by the title First Brother. The issue is that the Ahsoka novel specifies that the particular person she is combating there may be Sixth Brother. So are these two issues not telling the identical story?
It’s a minor factor to alter the title of a small character however it could have been simply as straightforward to easily use the title that had already been used. All this does is add confusion to the state of affairs. Is Tales of the Jedi retconning the occasions of the novel? Is that this a really related, however completely different state of affairs?
Is The Ahsoka Novel Now Non-Canon?
Dave Filoni, who co-created Ahsoka with George Lucas, and has been shepherding the character by means of the Star Wars universe since, reportedly labored with E.Okay. Johnson on the novel, so the story would appear to have had the official Star Wars seal of approval. This makes the choice to alter issues in Tales of the Jedi all of the stranger because it’s not like Filoni was rewriting a narrative he hadn’t been concerned in.
On the finish of the day, this doesn’t essentially matter. It’s not like this isn’t a whole Star Wars Expanded Universe of novels which were relegated to the dustbin of Star Wars historical past, so another is not any massive deal. Nonetheless, for those who need to comply with the “actual” story, choices like this make that tougher.