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They're currently working on Ahsoka Season 2
and right now, the Thrawn movie.
Most of what's happening right now just in general, with all the different
shows that are crossing over in this part of the timeline,
like The Mandalorian, the upcoming stuff like Skeleton Crew
are all adapting that original Thrawn trilogy of books.
one of the biggest characters that a lot of you have been asking you about that
we haven't seen very obviously on screen yet is Mara Jade.
So I'll explain what's going on with the character
in Some of you actually realize this, but Dave Filoni has actually already
introduced a version of her that most people haven't spotted it yet.
we'll explain what's going on, how this is going to plot through season two,
what's going on with Luke Skywalker, the Mandalorian grogu you.
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But the RJ character up to this point is probably one of the biggest people
that most people haven't noticed in the newer live action stuff.
most longtime fans will affectionately know her as Luke Skywalker's wife.
That's right.
Luke Skywalker did have a wife and son in the Legends material.
the fact that she is a legends character in present day is one of the main reasons
why younger fans don't have any idea who she is or what happened to Luke Skywalker
after Return of the Jedi before Disney bought Star Wars.
So rewind to October 2012.
Disney buys Star Wars.
What happens is
there's years and years of story that have been created to fill the holes
between the Star Wars original trilogy, the prequel movies
to explain what happened to all the characters,
like all the way back to Knights of the Old Republic in present day.
What happened after the events of Return of the Jedi?
that was the original Thrawn trilogy, starting with Heir to the Empire.
Disney basically called all that stuff.
Legend said that it wasn't Canon anymore.
And the new material, the new books, the new TV shows going forward after 2012
created underneath Disney's brand would be the new Canon wound up happening, though
is that Dave Filoni got to the Star Wars Rebels series in 2014.
He started re canonizing all that legend stuff,
the biggest thing being the Thrawn character.
he did
change some of his backstory from the original Thrawn trilogy,
but largely started bringing back all this legend stuff
but it really wasn't until he and Jon Favreau started doing the live action
shows The Mandalorian season one, that they really started to
recognize and adapt elements from that Thrawn trilogy of books in the nineties.
Like it really started to feel like they were doing the Thrawn trilogy
And for a lot of Star Wars fans in the nineties
after the original trilogy had long since come out for a long time.
Everyone just assumed that there would never be any more Star Wars movies.
We didn't know that the prequels were going to be a thing yet,
so for all the fans.
Back then, the Thrawn trilogy was like our sequel trilogy and it's amazing
if you haven't read those original books, be sure to check them out now.
Dave Filoni. Jon Favreau.
Like I said, changing a lot of plot elements and characters from then,
but it's all coming from that trilogy.
if you read it, a lot of what you're seeing on all the shows right now
will seem very familiar.
For instance, on the Bad Batch series they did Mountaintops.
That's the big plot
element is part of the whole Luke cloning plot from the Thrawn trilogy.
But in the live action stuff, they gave a Luke cloning plot to Grogu
who that's what
all the Grogu moff Gideon force sensitive clone stuff ended up being.
so as part of all that stuff, Mara Jade has just
been one of the biggest question marks everybody's had.
Dave Filoni also just recently confirmed how much of that Thrawn storyline
that they were recognizing for the upcoming stuff.
know, you need a conflict.
And I'm, you know, just kind of looking at a lot of the things that were written
over the years in various expanding universe projects,
trying not just to look at what John and I did,
but we're looking at what was done kind of historically in the time
period is a guide, I think, for, you know, generations of Star Wars fans
before the era of, you know, episode 79
that was what we saw as we turn to the Jedi era, when you're talking about
story and characters, I think in the expanding universe.
So there is a treasure of things to to draw from,
not just within our own series, but in the bigger galaxy.
but here's the thing.
I've seen some of you in the comments actually figured this out already.
Dave Filoni has already made Shin Hati the new version of Mara
Jade in the live action.
So he's basically given all of her story arc to shin hati
So that's why they're probably not actually going to do a character
that's called Mara.
Jade They're just going to do Shin Hati, give her storyline to her.
for those of you who have not read the Thrawn trilogy
or any of the expanded Universe stories featuring the Margie character,
she was way more than just Luke Skywalker's wife.
She was a huge character.
she was a Jedi born during the rise of the Empire
after Revenge of the Sith, about the same age as Luke Skywalker.
who the Emperor found in made his apprentice after Darth Vader
and trained her separately from the inquisitors.
The inquisitors were like his blunt instrument
that he used to wipe out the rest of the Jedi.
Any other force sensitive people that they could find.
Mora Jade was meant to be more of a Sith assassin, but at the time she was created,
the Star Wars People behind the scenes hadn't
really figured out what they were doing with the backstory of the Sith.
That didn't happen till the mid-nineties.
She was created in the early nineties.
The actual term Sith was created during the original trilogy
because Darth Vader was described
in the original scripts as a Dark Lord of the Sith.
a lot of the expanded Golden age of the Sith self
that didn't come to like the mid nineties.
so when she was introduced instead of calling her
just the next Sith apprentice to the emperor,
she was just called the Emperor's hand in like a dark Jedi.
but basically that's what she was.
She was the Emperor's next Padawan She was meant to be almost as powerful
as Luke Skywalker.
Like, early on, she was able to match him,
but eventually he grew a little bit more powerful.
wound up happening
is that the Emperor sends her to Job as powerless to kill Luke Skywalker.
During the events of Return of the Jedi,
this sort of right corner into that story, she fails.
And then after the Emperor's killed by Darth Vader, she actually mistakenly
blamed him for the Emperor's death and tries to kill him.
for example, she also didn't know that Anthony and Skywalker was Darth Vader.
after return of the Jedi, though she goes on the run, becomes a mercenary
and then finds a bounty on Luke Skywalker.
Posted by Thrawn because this is in the middle of the Thrawn trilogy
Thrawn basically puts a hit out on Luke Skywalker because he senses
that he could be a big problem and throw his plans off the rails.
they actually had their first real meeting on the home planet of the Salem area
where she captured him.
Those are the creatures that block the force that you see in Theron's office
here in Star Wars Rebels
maybe we'll eventually see
live action versions of that, like if he has the carvings
of them in his office, that means that they exist
in the star Wars universe because everything from Star Wars
rebels is canon in the Sokka is kind of like Star Wars rebels Season five.
wound up happening between Mara Jade and Luke Skywalker though is it slowly
he won her over.
She started to relent a little bit and eventually turned good.
They started their relationship, they got married,
and she started helping him at his Jedi Academy.
their son was named Ben Skywalker after Obi-Wan Kenobi,
but they gave that name to Ben Solo during the sequel trilogy.
So like a lot of the plot elements, characters from the Thrawn
trilogy have been re canonized, but they sort of changed things
and given them to other characters and sort of spread this stuff around.
Now, Dave Filoni has done that with Marge's storyline, giving it to
she in Haiti
during that original Thrawn storyline, Thrawn created a clone of a Jedi master
to give him access to the force in enhancing the strength of his armies
on a soldier.
They've changed that to the Knights sisters in their zombie army.
They're calling those the night troopers and also the Baylan Skoll character.
this sort of split those plot elements that character
into a couple of different ideas.
Bill in school is just like the other half of that,
the Dark Jedi who is briefly serving Thrawn In on the series.
She in Haiti is the Dark Jedi apprentice serving him.
But she's also meant to take a lot of that original Mera jade arg The Dark Jedi
who starts out
as an antagonist to all the characters and eventually turns good? no.
Even if they do like five seasons of Ahsoka,
I don't think they're going to get her married
to Luke Skywalker or anything like that.
But heading into a season two, the Thrawn movie, they started to slowly
put her on that redemption arc that Mara Jade got.
that was, what their reason Fight scene.
Her last moments with Balan School were all about.
He planned to stay behind on the parity a planet in that other galaxy to pursue
that secret power quote unquote, that hopefully we'll learn about in the finale
and wanted her to return to the main galaxy with Thrawn.
Then Ahsoka offered her hand to her as a way of showing
that she wanted to help her, offer her a way out if she wanted to leave Thrawn.
But it's way too early for that to happen,
so they're just teasing the beginning of that.
if things wind up working out with the first Thrawn movie,
I think they plan on doing
the full trilogy of Thrawn movies in a couple of seasons of the saga
between those they've already started to circle season two, but we'll see
when it comes to multiple Thrawn movies Based on experience.
The way Jon Favreau Dave Filoni pays things out over the different series.
merrily there is that she wouldn't turn good until either the second movie
if they do wind up doing a trilogy
and we're saying
they're adapting the Thrawn trilogy movies,
it would be like their version of Dark Force Rising,
which in a serious case
would be a reference to the Knights sister Zombie Army.
in at least right now.
The way things are going, the only way Ahsoka Season two comes out
before the Thrawn movie
is that they start filming it next year right
after they finish the Mandalorian Season four.
otherwise season two wouldn't come out until after the first Thrawn movie.
So the pacing of all this stuff, like when stuff actually happens,
could change a little bit depending on how quickly they move.
now. As for Luke Skywalker, like the other side of this margin
equation, Ahsoka told him that they probably see each other again.
to make a Lord of the Rings reference.
If this were like the Fellowship of the Ring,
so to speak, the Fellowship of the hyperspace ring,
imagine like the first half of that movie where the fellowship
actually comes together.
That's basically
been all of this focus season one, just like the first half of that movie.
all the episodes pretty much dedicated to just getting her
to that other galaxy and finding out what happened with Thrawn this whole time.
What happened with Ezra
Bridger season two in the Thrawn movie would be like everything that happens
after Thrawn comes back to the main galaxy when stuff really starts to get going.
that's when you start to hear about the other major characters like Luke
Skywalker.
Grogu the Mandalorian, the other Mandalorians getting involved.
right now, everything that's happening on Ahsoka is taking place directly
after the Mandalorian Season three, which took place after the book of Boba
Fett, meaning that Luke Skywalker has just continued right now
while this is happening,
setting up his new Jedi Academy, looking for people to train
most of his energy is dedicated to that, which is why he hasn't gotten involved
in the larger things going on in the galaxy.
also the way they portrayed The New Republic.
Right now, they kind of suck.
So it sounds like Luke Skywalker would try to ignore all of that
just to avoid the headache of dealing with all those crazy New Republic senators.
in Since the end of the Mandalorian Season three, Mando has just been training
Grogu who how to become a bounty hunter and become a Mandalorian.
They might have heard more whispers about what the Shadow Council is doing
since the end of season three, But he largely didn't get too involved
with the Shadow Council in the Thrawn stuff
at the end of the Mandalorian Season three.
that was more of a teaser for Ahsoka than it was for The Mandalorian.
Characters.
Like most of the Mandalorian characters
didn't hear Moff Gideon talking about Thrawn.
He was only talking about his force
sensitive clones and taking over the galaxy himself.
So it's very likely that the Mandalorians,
including Mando and Grogu, who don't even know about Thrawn yet.
I think they're saving that for the Mandalorian Season four,
because by that time Thrawn will have come back to the main galaxy.
You start to see the shadow Council converging, bringing their army to bear
until the end of that series when the Thrawn movie starts to pick up.
there'll be a lot of cliffhangers for this and the Ahsoka finale.
Don't expect them to answer all these questions.
my. Actual finale video will post in a couple of days after they release it,
but after that I'll start doing more
Season 2 videos, More Mandalorian Season 4 videos explaining what's going on.
Next.
click here for that Ahsoka Episode 8 finale video and the link.
As soon as I post that and click here for my trailers for all the other upcoming
Star Wars series like Star Wars Acolyte, The Skeleton Crew Trailer.
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Everyone stay safe and I'll see you guys in the next one!