Star Wars The Clone Wars Season 7 Episode 5 has finally dropped on Disney+!
After exploring the story of the Bad Batch Clone Squad 99 in the last Arc, this episode
begins the Ashoka Alone Arc, taking us through Ahsoka’s life after fleeing the Jedi order.
This is the first original story being told for Season 7 of the Clone Wars, breathing
new life into the series.
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The episode begins with a recap of Ahsoka’s expulsion from the Jedi Order and trial by
the Grand Army of the Republic courts.
It was heartbreaking to see this again, but it provided a perfect setup for the rest of
the episode.
We see Ahsoka fleeing on a speeder before it malfunctions, leaving her dangling a huge
distance above the ground.
The speeder then malfunctions further, sending Ahsoka plugning rapidly towards the ground.
After impacting the ground in the lower levels of coruscant, she is found by a local of the
area.
The local introduces herself as Trace, a resident of the Coruscant lower levels at level 1313.
Trace reveals that she is a mechanic and offers to help Ahsoka get her bike fixed and further
reveals that she is the owner of a nebula class freighter.
The two load the bike onto the ship and begin their repairs with Ashoka letting the reason
that she is on the run slip.
Although Trace doesn’t realise the full extent of Ahsoka’s exile, she does realise
that there is a deeper reason for Ahsoka’s distress.
Ashoka eventually reveals that she was formerly living on the upper levels of Coruscant, prompting
Trace to voice her concerns about the political bickering and fighting that goes on on the
upper levels.
She gives us an insight into how the residents of the Republic truly feel about the war and
the blame that many of them have placed on the Jedi.
She further states that the Jedi have lost their way, and have forgotten their core purpose,
which is protecting those who cannot protect themselves.
This belief is furthered by Trace’s statement that the Jedi are ones that started the war
and have no intentions of ending it.
The conversation is abruptly interrupted by a man who is owed money by the sister of Trace.
A fight breaks out between the man and Trace, before Ahsoka is forced to intervene to remove
Trace from the situation.
After this, we meet Trace’s sister, Rafa - who is shown to be an unreliable underworld
figure, participating in questionable “jobs” to make her living.
A man then enters the store where the group are located, hoping to have alterations made
to his droid.
Rafa and her sister plan to scam the man out of his droid and his money.
Following this, Ahsoka and Trace begin working on the man’s droid in the back of their
shop, before it violently malfunctions, attacking Ahsoka.
Ahsoka realises that she has experience with this type of droid and its faulty restraining
bolts.
The droid breaks free of its restraining bolt, managing to escape the shop and move one the
streets of Coruscant’s lower levels.
It wreaks havoc on the people around it as it ploughs through people, vehicles and barriers.
The droid continues its rampage, climbing the walls of a nearby building until Trace
manages to disable it manually.
As Trace presses the button to disable the droid, it begins a free fall towards the ground,
but Ahsoka is able to catch the fall of the droid before it hits the ground.
After saving the life of Trace, the pair sit down for a drink at a local bar.
As they are drinking, Rafa joins them, informing the two that she handed the droids back to
the man who sent them in, as they were too much trouble to keep around.
She also used the credits obtained from the job to pay off her debts to the man who fought
her sister earlier in the episode.
Ahsoka implies that she is going to leave the group for now, stating that she doesn’t
want to get involved in their affairs.
That’s where the episode ends!
Overall a very solid first episode to the Ahsoka alone arc, and I’m sure it will continue
to get better as it progresses.
Dave Filloni has pretty much confirmed that Ahsoka will end up changing her decision to
join the group, as that will be the plot for the rest of
the arc.
I can’t wait to see how this arc ties into Revenge of the Sith, if at all and where it
goes from here.
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