With Star Wars the Clone Wars Season 7 Episode 10 THE PHANTOM APPRENTICE releasing on Disney+
tomorrow, once again we’re going to speculate on the final ever arc of the Clone Wars, the
Siege of Mandalore.
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release my huge explainer + recap video tomorrow, when Clone Wars Season 7 Episode 10 drops!
Right off the bat, we again got confirmation from Lucasfilm that tomorrow’s episode will
have a longer runtime than the usual 20 minutes.
It will again have a runtime of 26 minutes, matching last week’s episode.
I honestly can’t tell you enough how excited I am to be getting extended length Clone Wars
Episodes!
The longer episode run time also lends credence to the fact that Lucasfilm will most likely
eventually cut these episodes together into a film format and release it as a standalone
title on Disney+
The official description for this episode of the Clone Wars, as taken from Disney+,
goes as follows: “Ahsoka and Republic forces confront Maul on Mandalore”.
So for this episode, they’ve given us a very vague description of the events that
will take place, potentially because there are a lot of huge moments that they want to
keep secret.
I’m going to get into one theory that will connect the Siege of Mandalore to the Mandalorian
TV series very shortly.
The only thing that the description really confirms is that Ahsoka and Maul’s meeting
at the end of the previous episode will result in the duel that we’ve been seeing throughout
the teasers and trailers.
I honestly cannot wait to see this duel, it will likely be one of the greatest duels ever
created by Dave Filloni.
I don’t think the duel will be anything like his Duel with Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon
Jinn from the Phantom Menace, but rather something similar to his duel with Kenobi in Rebels.
As for further tie-ins with Revenge of the Sith, I don’t think we’ll get much of
anything that we’ve already seen take place in the film, but I do think we’ll see the
Mace Windu hologram communication from the trailers.
With Anakin and Obi-Wan already on their way to rescuing the chancellor, I don’t think
it's possible to delay that scene into episode 11, as we know that is the same line from
Revenge of the Sith.
Unlike last week, we did actually get a teaser trailer clip for tomorrow’s episode.
I have to say, the clip did give me chills as it panned over the fallen soldiers of both
the Republic and the Mandalorian Super commandos.
The clip is most likely placed after Ahsoka and Maul’s initial duel, confirming that
there will be no winner at that point.
It’s likely that after confronting Ahsoka from the shadows, he slips back into the darkness,
leaving his Mandalorian super commandos to finish Ahsoka off.
They will obviously fail at this task, setting up Maul’s return later in the episode.
The next part of the clip shows Ahsoka comforting one of her troopers that has been wounded
by a direct blaster shot to the chest.
The clip reveals that this trooper’s name is Sterling, and that many of his brothers
have fallen victim to Maul’s forces, laying dead beside him.
Following that however, we get an extremely interesting piece of dialogue from trooper
Sterling.
He tells Ahsoka that Maul ripped through his men with ease, desperately trying to seek
her out.
Stunningly, he also reveals that Maul has kidnapped ARC Trooper Jesse and looked deep
into his mind, because he was older than the other Clones.
Wow, what an eery line!
This could easily be referring to Maul using the same force power that Kylo Ren Ren used
on Rey in the Force Awakens, where he looked deep into her mind to discover information
about the location of Luke Skywalker.
Maul could potentially be hoping to extract information about Order 66 from Arc Trooper
Jesse after somehow discovering the chip inside of his head, or even attempt to activate it
manually using the force, in hopes of killing Ahsoka.
This line from Sterling also confirms that Maul has taken Jesse alive, potentially meaning
that we will either see his demise on screen or maybe he even survives the ordeal, to eventually
take his inhibitor chip out.
All I can say is that this is going to be an incredible scene, regardless of what happens.
Next up I’m going to make an absolutely huge prediction and say that we will finally
get to witness the Night of a Thousand tears that Moff Gideon Mentions to Din Djarin, in
the Mandalorian.
Based on Moff Gideon’s description of the Night of a Thousand Tears, we know that is
was an event that took place during the Siege of Mandalore, in which gunships outfitted
with E-Web Heavy repeating blasters attacked fields occupied by the Mandalorian recruits,
decimating many of them.
This line was almost certainly placed in the Mandalorian series intentionally, because
they already knew that it was going to be shown during Clone Wars Season 7.
If we do end up seeing the Night of a Thousand Tears in the next episode, I’m going to
go ahead and say that Moff Gideon will be present at the battle, as a republic officer.
For Moff Gideon to have achieved the rank of Moff at his age, it is very likely that
he already served Palpatine in the Republic, prior to the formation of the Empire.
Unless the Night of a Thousand Tears takes place concurrently with Order 66, the only
possible episode that it will appear in is this one, as we know that Order 66 won’t
happen until episode 11.
The images released for this week's episode begin with Maul and Ahsoka facing off in the
tunnels, presumably right after where we left off in the last episode.
This duel most likely results in a stalemate, as the next image released by Disney shows
Ahsoka, Bo Katan and Rex regrouping with their forces at the command centre that we saw last
episode.
At this point, they are very likely once again preparing their forces to confront Maul, should
he reappear.
The next image shows Bo Katan and Ahsoka staring at what is most likely Maul, who they are
about to confront together.
The reason that this is most likely just prior to the confrontation with Maul is because
of its location in the Mandalorian royal palace, where we already know that the duel takes
place.
Because we’ve already seen that a significant part of the Duel is a 1 on 1 with Ahsoka and
Maul, it’s likely that Maul will incapacitate Bo Katan so that she can no longer fight,
or that she is called away, possibly to aid in ongoing Night of a Thousand tears.
Following that, we see the two images that have appeared in the trailer, with one showing
Maul igniting his newly constructed lightsaber, in the exact same way that he does in the
Phantom Menace against Kenobi and Qui Gon.
If you want to know exactly how Maul obtained this new double bladed lightsaber, make sure
you check out the pinned comment down below for a link to my video covering that!
The images also show Ahsoka looking very confident, holding her new blue blades, as the fight
is about to begin.
Ahsoka is probably a bit overconfident in her abilities, having trained under the most
confident man in the Jedi order, so maybe she thinks that this will be an easy fight.
Next up, the final two images show Ahsoka losing her previous confidence and looking
distressed.
At this point, Maul likely has the upper hand in the duel and is probably on the verge of
defeating Ahsoka.
After that, we see an image that shows Maul with an outstretched hand, looking to assist
Ahsoka who is on the ground.
I’d say it’s likely that at this point, they both realise that something is about
to happen with the Clones and Maul offers to team up with Ahsoka so that they can both
survive the execution of Order 66.
Overall, we’re definitely going to see the duel between Maul and Ahsoka, as well as potentially
seeing the Night of a Thousand Tears, as described by Moff Gideon.
I really hope we see an appearance from Moff Gideon as a Republic officer, because that
would be an amazing way to tie Rebels, Clone Wars and the Mandalorian together.
As I said last week, this is going to be the greatest arc in Clone Wars history no question,
so let me what you’re most excited for down below!
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