Welcome back everyone happy star wars day may the fourth be with you this is
going to be my star wars the clone wars season 7 episode 12
finale video the last episode of the clone wars
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wars videos i will talk about what's happening with ahsoka
next during the mandalorian season 2 at the end of the video
as part of this video because her timeline continues into present day
but careful for spoilers for the episode if you haven't seen it yet we'll do top
10 and easter eggs as we go along starting with number 10 the title of the
episode victory in death so this refers to a lot of different
victories and a lot of different deaths a lot of people died in the days after
the end of the war the republic's victory in the war
against the separatists they won the clone wars
but also on the bad side of that the emperor's victory against the jedi he
was able to turn anakin skywalker and strike down the jedi
remember the movie is called revenge of the sith so this sort of overlaps with
the ending of revenge of the sith i'll talk about that as we work through the
video too but when you're talking about the deaths
you have the deaths of the clones during this episode you have the death of the
jedi order in the metaphorical death of the
relationship between anakin skywalker and ahsoka
even though ahsoka did not know that darth vader was anakin skywalker till
later in the timeline she knows something terrible happened
that anakin did something she sensed that through the force
but she doesn't know everything yet it's very seldom that a tv show can stick the
landing but i feel like they did an amazing job
with this series finale i feel like this is exactly what i
wanted from this series they could just package these last four
episodes and air them as a movie by themselves or you could do the super cut
with revenge of the sith like a four hour cut of that movie adding in this
footage where it fits in the timeline you could also take the victory
reference in the title as a reference to darth maul's victory as he's able to
escape again we knew he was going to survive because
he doesn't die until way later in the timeline anyway
the music at the beginning of the episode sounded familiar it sounded a
lot like padme's funeral march when she was being buried at the end of revenge
of the sith i think that was to help place you in
the timeline like when is this taking place relative to the ending scenes of
revenge of the sith i think the timeline goes like this as
the ship is crashing it's while mustafar is happening and darth vader is almost
killed by obi-wan kenobi then the final ending scene of him
landing on the moon amidst the wreckage searching for any survivors is happening
maybe like a week or so after he becomes darth vader so not a
whole lot of time goes by between the beginning of the
episode and the time jump at the end when darth vader shows up
but number nine ahsoka and rex versus the clones the episode itself picks up
in the moments that the last episode ended as the clones are trying to bust
into the med bay ahsoka still isn't ready to kill the clones
there's a lot of her compassion that comes through in the episode even though
rex is like look they're all gonna die trying to kill you they don't care that
they used to be your friends but ahsoka stands fast she's like no i'm not gonna
kill them if i don't have to they wind up dying anyway under tragic
circumstances because of the crash but she's determined that they won't die
by her hand so they just do everything they can to stun them as they make their
way to the hangar bay rex is still a little surprised that she
let darth maul out like wait a minute what did you do to darth maul
who number eight winds up destroying the hyperdrive to just keep them from going
back to the republic space so that the emperor won't be able to recapture him
he wants to do everything he can to survive and that means staying as far
away from the emperor and darth vader as possible
he only knows that anakin has become his master's new apprentice he was able to
sense the same things that ahsoka was able to sense through the force
it's a great scene and i love their reaction later wait a minute what are
you saying the hyperdrive it's completely gone
there's a clever reference to a new hope when they say they're caught in the
moon's gravitational field is just a clever reference to the death star when
for just a hot second during a new hope they think they've been caught in the
gravitational pull of a small moon which is no moon at all but the death
star itself based on the timeline of the prequels they started constructing the
death star around attack of the clone so it's
actually been under construction for a long time
in secret when revenge of the sith is happening the number seven ahsoka's plan
to escape without killing all her former friends
and allies they have another talk before they enter the shuttle bay too
rex starts crying saying that these are all my brothers but they're gonna die
trying to kill you you have to do something about this then we find out
that her actual plan is to pretend like he's going to turn her
in just to stall them till they can find a way to make their way to that ship
he even tries to use logic against the clones but their programming in their
chips is so deep that they're like no no that's
bullcrap we're going to kill you it doesn't matter that she left the jedi
order once a jedi always a jedi then number
six is they're fighting the clones off darth maul runs past double-crossing
them to steal the ship out from under them saying that you asked for this
chaos here it is peace i'm out of here she's
able to stop the ship from leaving using the force which is a star wars
rise of skywalker scene but forced to let him go after too many
clones start attacking them again just explaining how darth maul escaped
and shows up during the solo a star wars story post-credits scene
that's not the last time we see darth maul in the timeline the last
time that we saw him was his final confrontation with an older
obi-wan kenobi on tatooine during star wars rebels
right before the events of star wars a new hope we'll see if darth maul shows
up on the live-action obi-wan kenobi series but if that takes place
on tatooine then i think the first time that we see darth maul on tatooine is
actually during rebels so it wouldn't work out so potential darth maul cameo
just depends on where the obi-wan kenobi series takes place
then as the ship continues to crash into the atmosphere so can wrecks try to keep
the clones busy the droids get destroyed r.i.p droids
you did your duty well they're able to find one ship that isn't
under maintenance it's a btl-b y-wing it's the precursor of the modern
day or the classic era y-wing ships the clones almost get them until the
ship fully enters the atmosphere and just starts ripping
itself apart under the stress the number five wizard of oz
ahsoka rex is able to get the ship out of the hangar but it takes him a minute
to fire it up so it's blowing around in the atmosphere along with ahsoka who's
blowing around loose in the atmosphere trying to grab
the ship all i could think about with her blowing around in this tornado of
parts was dorothy in the wizard of oz caught in the tornado it's also a visual
callback to the siege of mandalore scene where she jumps out of the ship and then
starts jumping from ship to ship on her way
down to the ground and if you remember they actually did a
scene that's just like this during the black widow movie it was in all the
trailers with natasha being chased through the air by taskmaster through
the falling wreckage of a building or a ship of some kind that's being broken
apart the number four ahsoka makes it into the
cockpit they land on the ground in the wreckage and bury all the clones
then fakes her death by leaving one of her lightsabers behind
one of the ones that anakin had just given her a couple days ago
it's only been a couple days since anakin last saw her not that much time
has passed and even though she leaves with the one
lightsaber by the time we get to star wars rebels
she gets the second one back so eventually she does have both of her
lightsabers back but then number three we get our big
anakin skywalker darth vader cameo scene so there's a short time jump it's
implied that this is taking place maybe a couple days after
the end of revenge of the sith probably less than a week not that much time
anakin skywalker who has since become darth vader comes in a sentinel-class
landing craft from the original trilogy to search the wreckage for signs of
ahsoka the emperor probably ordered him to investigate this wreckage but the
real reason he's here is to search for ahsoka
because darth vader's primary mission in the years after
revenge of the sith was to hunt down the rest of the jedi that survived order 66
surprisingly maybe unsurprisingly there were a lot of jedi that survived the
purge yoda among them obi-wan kenobi obviously
you have anakin skywalker's children luke and leia
there are a lot of force-sensitive people out there so the emperor tells
darth vader go find them and kill them all he's
accompanied by classic era storm troopers who are made up of the
surviving clones and new regular human conscripts
there were still some clones that were part of the imperial army at first but
they slowly died off you see an imperial probe droid
buzzing around in the background it's meant to be a big empire strikes back
hoth reference but in terms of timeline this is really soon
right after the ending of revenge of the sith the number two
darth vader finds ahsoka's lightsaber the music does all the work of conveying
his emotions he has no dialogue you just hear his darth vader breathing sounds
out of his mask you have to remember that in the early
days after becoming darth vader and donning the sith armor
he still had a lot of anakin skywalker left in him he hadn't buried all of
those emotions yet it was still pretty fresh how much he
cared about ahsoka and he'd only seen her just a couple weeks before and given
her these lightsabers so you can argue in the comments about
what he would have done had he found ahsoka on this
moon he definitely would have fought her but he might have fought her to a
standstill and then allowed her to escape
even later in the timeline after he's been darth vader for a long time
after he learns of the existence of luke skywalker his children in leia
he tells luke skywalker that he basically cannot defy the emperor i must
do as he asks meaning that he is conflicted
he always is conflicted all through his history as darth vader
these years before the original trilogy even during the original trilogy
he is very conflicted about what he's doing his emotions are
all over the place so you can just feel the sadness in the air when he ignites
her lightsaber then looks up in the sky like he's wondering whether or not this
is fake and she survived maybe he's hoping that she survived
they did have a confrontation later that i'll talk about in a second too during
star wars rebels but he deactivates the lightsaber and
you see him walking away in the reflection of the clone trooper helmet
painted orange to look like ahsoka's face the music
was fantastic while this was all happening so number one
what happens next and what's going on with ahsoka and the mandalorian season
two so if you want to get into the details
for what happens with darth vader and ahsoka
right after this moment there is an ahsoka book that they wrote about her
early years after the events of the prequels
all of anakin skywalker's early years as darth vader are covered during the newer
darth vader comic book as he's going around the galaxy on the orders of the
emperor it's also important to remember that
when this is all happening right here at the end of the episode ahsoka still
doesn't know that anakin had taken the darth vader identity
that doesn't happen until way later in the timeline and they didn't have their
next direct confrontation until the events of star wars rebels
twilight of the apprentice
Ahsoka
Anakin
I won't leave you.
Not this time
Then you will die.
Even though a lot of people weren't huge
fans of star wars rebels series in general
that particular event is one of the best moments from star wars rebels and one of
the best ahsoka darth vader moments ever the last we saw
ahsoka was right after the end of return of the
jedi she's around her late 30s early 40s she's got some more city miles on her
and she and sabine wren were going off into the unknown regions to look for
ezra bridger so that's the last we saw her before she shows up in the
mandalorian season two and the mandalorian series takes place
about five years after return of the jedi so a couple more years have gone by
and she's supposed to be in her early 40s when she shows up
played live action by rosario dawson we don't really know what she's going to
look like live action yet they haven't posted any official pictures
but a lot of this fan art is probably really close to what she's going to look
like everyone post all your favorite moments
from the clone wars either from this episode
or from the series in general i'm not expecting them to do any more clone wars
episodes but i do think that they will do another new animated series soon
dave filoni is one of the executive producers on the mandalorian as well so
he does a lot of mandalorian stuff which is why ahsoka is probably showing up on
that they did just start premiering a special
mandalorian series in addition to the season one
episodes those are all brand new they just started airing today i believe
they'll be releasing new episodes on fridays so i'll do my episode one video
for that that should post tomorrow as long as you have alerts enabled for
my channel you should see that when i post it
but everyone click here for the mandalorian season 2 teaser trailer
video and click here for my brand new rick and
morty season 4 episode 6 video thank you so much for watching may the
4th be with you everyone stay safe i'll see you guys tonight!