Something's coming.
Something dark.
I sense it.
This is a new beginning
for some
War. For others
power.
It's been a while.
Things have changed.
I started hearing whispers
about thrawn’s return
as heir to the Empire.
We have to prepare for the worst.
The jedi fell a long time ago.
There aren't many left.
Perhaps it is
time to begin again.
Welcome back everyone. Happy Star Wars Celebration.
They just dropped the brand new Ahsoka trailer, so we'll break it down.
There's a whole bunch of Easter eggs references.
We finally saw live action.
Grand Admiral Thrawn. For real.
There's a bunch of new Dark Jedi, so I'll explain what's going on with them.
There's a whole bunch of connections to The Mandalorian
because it's happening during the same time period too.
If you're brand new to the channel, I'll be doing videos for all the episodes.
It premieres in August, so be sure to subscribe to get them.
Dave Filoni wrote and directed most of these episodes,
which is why he didn't work on The Mandalorian Season three episodes
quite as much. I believe he wrote a little bit
on the season like he worked on Episode seven.
They're actually screening that later tonight.
We're probably going to get a Thrawn teaser
before the end of the season
in another Ahsoka teaser, just pushing into that series,
but just starting at the beginning of the trailer footage.
It starts with Ahsoka at this abandoned Jedi temple at these ruins
where she encounters some of the HK droids from Thrones seventh Fleet.
That was the whole idea, is that Morgan Elsbeth,
who is the character that we see in the trailer,
is going to be a big character during the Ahsoka series.
A villain to her is meant to be one of Thrones
followers who's been helping him return from the unknown regions.
She has the key droids from Thrawn seventh Fleet that has insignia on that.
That's how we knew that she was connected to Thrawn.
And then obviously Ahsoka said at the end of the episode, Where's your master?
Where's grand Admiral Thrawn?
That's who she's talking about when she says something is coming.
She even literally says the words heir to the Empire when talking about Thrawn,
confirming my theories since the beginning of the Mandalorian season one
that they're doing a version of the live action heir
to the Empire Series through the Ahsoka series, The Mandalorian.
These are the connected series.
During the Mando verse in this part of the timeline,
there'll be some different characters, like they're substituting the Grogu
cloning plot
for the Luke cloning plot in the Heir to the Empire Thrawn trilogy in the books.
But you'll see a lot of familiar things if you read the original Thrawn trilogy.
If you haven't, it's fantastic.
I would recommend checking it out.
The whole vibe from the trailer pits.
This series is more of a wandering samurai type of series.
The same vibe from Ahsoka's Mandalorian Season two episode.
The tone of the series will be a lot more like that.
Love the shot of her
using her twin lightsabers to bore down into the chamber below.
That's meant to be a callback to the scene
at the end of the Clone Wars, where she did the same thing,
escaping the other clones during Order 66 when it had just started.
You have to imagine that she's doing this while Mando is with Grogu
helping the Mandalorians retake Mandalore.
Like it's all happening around the same time.
One of the other big changes is the Lucasfilm logo is pure red, which I think
is meant to be a reference to the Dark Jedi that we see during the trailer.
The voice of Balan
talking about a new beginning is Rey Stephenson's Dark Jedi character.
I believe he's meant to be a fallen Jedi who survived Order 66
and since then has turned to the dark side.
But he wasn't part of the Inquisitor, as it does seem like a soldier fights
a former inquisitor
because the Dark Jedi is using the double bladed lightsaber here.
Looks like an inquisitor blade.
But by this point in the timeline, the inquisitor is don't exist anymore.
So any of the surviving inquisitors that were still around would have just
been rogue Inquisitor as we see live action Sabine Wren.
They actually showed us a preview of her in her full Mandalorian armor.
Remember, she's a Mandalorian from House Ren,
so that's why she might show up by the finale of The Mandalorian.
Because all the mandalorians are supposed to unite on the planet Mandalore.
But all the scenes of her,
for the most part in the trailer, take place on Low Thul.
It's meant to be a reference to the very end of Star Wars rebels.
I believe they're going to flashback and we'll see a version of this scene
happening in live action when assuming it comes to visit her.
And she's like, It's been a while.
I believe that's meant to be part of the
live action version of this scene here that we already saw on Star Wars Rebels.
It was meant to happen right after the events of Return of the Jedi,
whereas The Mandalorian Series picks up about five years
after Return of the Jedi, which is why I say
Ahsoka might jump around in the timeline a little bit with a few flashbacks.
Ahsoka facing Morgan Elsbeth HK droids from the Seventh Fleet, Thrawn Seventh Fleet.
These are meant to be the same force of HK droids that you saw
during Mandalorian in season two.
It also seems like this dark Jedi Balan has plans for the Galaxy as well,
might be connected to Thrawn, or Thrawn might try to engage his services.
They might be substituting the Jaws Kibo
with character from the heir to the Empire Thrawn trilogy for this Balan character.
He might be the stand in for that Jedi
master that goes a bit twisted by the end of the Thrawn trilogy
in the original version of the Thrawn trilogy
that George could both Jedi master character
starts out being just a little bit weird in his slowly goes crazier
and crazier and crazier and you find out that he's also a clone as well.
But I don't think the Balan character is meant to be a clone.
Like I said, I think he's just meant to be a Jedi that survived Order 66
and has been twisted evil since then and turn to the dark side.
The war that he's talking about is more of a metaphor for Thrawn
returning in force with the Seventh Fleet, but also the dark side of the
force resurging.
Then we get our first official look at Mary
Elizabeth Winstead as the version of Hera from Star Wars Rebels in the Ghost.
This is all meant to be characters from Star Wars, rebels
in live action, basically like the sequel to Star Wars Rebels, but in live action.
I believe they're also doing her son Jason Sin Dula during the series as well.
He is force sensitive.
We might see some flashbacks to cannon jars
or some references to him, but he's dead in present day
and I don't believe he learned how to become a force ghost.
So I'm not expecting to see him show up as a force ghost.
If we see him, it'll be pictures of him. Probably.
We see a live action chopper for anybody
who wondered if he was going to show up on the series.
Then we see the actual Balan character
and his dark apprentice who's being played by Ivana Sanko.
I don't know what her name is on the series,
but she's just meant to be his dark Jedi Padawan.
You see her attacking a New Republic ship.
Then we go back to Lothar.
You see Ahsoka ship here from the end of Star Wars rebels,
like I said, picking up basically where rebels left off in that same scene.
This is literally meant to be the same tower that you see at the end of rebels.
It seems like this is when Ahsoka comes back
at the end of rebels to tell us to being okay.
It's time to find what's going on with Grand Admiral Thrawn.
Time to find Ezra Bridger in What happened at the end of Rebels
is that you basically end the series right before the beginning of a new hope,
and then it jumps in time to this scene here.
So when you're seeing Sabine Wren, she's been through the Galactic Civil War.
She worked with the rebels during that whole period.
That's why she's wearing the leather jacket here.
It seems like she's
had some city miles on her because she's just been through the original trilogy.
When Ahsoka says things have changed, we see the New Republic Senate,
Monmouth, Emma
with a couple of the other newer senators that are part of the New Republic,
slightly older, slightly wiser Monmouth that we see during the Andor series.
When she says she started hearing whispers, she's talking about Grand
Admiral Thrawn because she goes on to talk about Thrawn.
We actually see the back of his head with the blue skin.
The interesting thing here though, you see the ship that he's on does not look like
a typical Imperial Star destroyer ship that's part of his seventh Fleet.
So it seems like he's picked up more forces.
But these might be the Dreadnoughts from the heir to the Empire storyline,
the original Thrawn trilogy.
During that storyline, one of the things that Thrawn is after,
more power that he's after is this mysterious lost fleet of Dreadnoughts that
he thinks is going to beef up his forces enough to take down the New Republic.
That might be the ships that he's on right here with Morgan Elsbeth,
because you see her on these same ships later.
It's meant to be a massive upgrade in capital ships to his already Big
seven fleet.
Love the shout out from Ahsoka saying heir to the empire,
confirming all of our theories all these years about Theron's return
as heir to the Empire.
This is why during the Mandalorian season three episode one, they showed you
the pergolas the space whales, which are meant to be a callback to Ezra
Bridger and Grand Admiral Thrawn being lost in the unknown regions.
Showing us the pergola again was meant to represent that they had returned.
They had found a way back on these new ships.
You actually see a couple of the Death Star droids, the R.A.
seven droids. We just saw those on The Mandalorian.
It seems like Morgan Elsbeth will be one of the main antagonist
to Ahsoka, in addition to Ray Stephenson's Balloon Dark Jedi character in Grand
Admiral Thrawn.
But really the main villain is Grand Admiral Thrawn.
Really cool details during this scene too.
Like obviously you see Ahsoka fighting Bale in the dark jet
eye, really cool lightsaber fight that people are going to have here.
But in the background of this Jedi temple, these symbols that you see,
the energy looks like it's force energy that you saw Grogu when he was on Titan.
But the symbols actually looked like the same symbols from the world
between worlds, which are the same symbols that make up the Ahsoka logo.
So we might actually
see a live action version of the World between Worlds during the series.
That was basically a place in the force that allowed people access to all points
in time in space.
Like you could basically travel through time.
That's how Ezra Bridger wound up saving Ahsoka during the fight
with Darth Vader in an earlier season of Star Wars Rebels.
He basically joined her through space and time.
It seems like Hera here is trying to warn the New Republic leadership
about what's coming, and this is probably related to Grand Admiral Thrawn.
We see the dark AI Padawan in a dogfight with Ahsoka ship.
We see what looks like the beginning of a really cool Darth Vader style hallway
scene with Balan's Jedi just ripping through the New Republic in this hallway.
Don't want to be stuck in a hallway
with any Sith characters or Luke Skywalker for that matter.
We finally get our first look at Ezra Bridger when Sabine Wren
is looking at a hollow of him, while Ahsoka is narrating
that there are very few Jedi left because he is basically a Jedi trainee.
I don't know if you would call him a full Jedi yet.
It's kind of like a Luke
Skywalker original trilogy situation where Yoda said, Oh, Jedi, you're a Jedi.
Well, you're not quite one yet.
You still have a couple of tests you have to confront Vader before that happens.
I have a feeling it'll be the same thing
with some of the characters on this series, too.
A soldier has that cool fight with what seems like a former inquisitor.
The only thing I would object to during the trailer
is that they call her a Jedi in the trailer.
Technically, Ahsoka is not a Jedi because she left the Jedi order.
She's just a highly trained person, a very powerful person in the force.
The same thing is true of Grogu who he let the Jedi order,
but he's still training in the force.
Then we get a super deep cut.
This is meant to be the same Jedi droid from the Jedi ship.
He had the designs of every single lightsaber that had ever been created.
And I don't know that this is meant to be a flashback,
but it seems like it's still happening on Lethal
and if you remember, it was the voice of David Tennant.
So I believe that David Tennant is coming back to do The Voice for this series.
There's a lot of stealth voiceover cameos in Star Wars.
I wonder how many people will spot this.
Most people who watch Clone Wars will recognize them.
We might see some of the Mandalorian
characters like Mando and Grogu who show up or cameo on the Ahsoka series.
Maybe Bo-Katan as well too, because Bo-Katan has so much history with Ahsoka.
I believe going forward there'll be more crossovers
between the characters from the Mandalorian series in the saga
because we just saw Zeb from Star Wars Rebels in Live Action in The Mandalorian.
He will also probably show up on the Ahsoka series as well too.
Pretty much.
Most of the Star Wars Rebels characters from The Ghost
are coming back in live action through this.
Then we get the confirmation that the Ahsoka episodes are coming in August.
It'll be towards the end of August, but it'll be eight episodes,
just like The Mandalorian looks like it's going to be total fire.
Obviously there's so much that we don't know
about the series that like this is just a taste.
They're calling it the teaser,
so I think we'll get a full trailer by the time we get to the summer.
We also saw footage from Star Wars acolyte Star Wars Skeleton Crew,
which is also meant to be a spinoff of The Mandalorian
and connected to the Ahsoka series as well.
But we won't see the Skeleton Crew series characters on The Mandalorian.
But if you spotted any other Easter eggs or references
during the trailer footage that it didn't talk about in the video,
just write them below in the comments.
Of course, I'll do more Ahsoka videos when we get more footage
and obviously my Full Mandalorian Season three Episode seven Video
or post next week after they release it,
we might get some more Ahsoka cameos, maybe Sabine Wren to everyone.
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