Ahsoka’sPenultimate Episode Left Us Breathless for the Finale

Thrawn and Ezrahave been find . Our heroes have reach — or are on their elbow room to — a new galaxy far , far by . With time of year one ofAhsokanearing its conclusion , the next-to-last seventh episode started there and moved all the pieces just one or two steps ahead , setting the phase for the finale . The upshot was a extremely entertaining , satisfying installment that was more about legal action and recalibration than anything else . Plus , it had some very , very good cameo .

Before things could pick up back with Ezra and Sabine on Peridea , or Ahsoka and Huyang traveling there , another main role was forced to deal with their own frightening circumstances . It ’s Hera Syndulla — who , a few instalment back , was told to do back to Coruscant to deal out with a possible court martial for disobeying New Republic orders by going to help Sabine and Ahsoka .

Standing in front of a very official - appear commission , wearing a brand new outfit , Hera is being lashed out at by Senator Xiono . originally this season , he was the guy who was already resistant to Hera leaving , and now it seems he ’s using her ambition against her . Xiono seems adamant ( too inexorable ? ) that Hera is pushing a fictive narration about a new version of the Empire rising and believes there should be consequences . Carson Teva interjects , pointing out that the recent engagement on Mandalore is a strong meter reading to the reverse , but Xiono quickly say Moff Gideon was acting on his own without any avail .

Ahsoka had some emotions in the seventh episode.

Ahsoka had some emotions in the seventh episode.Image: Lucasfilm

Let ’s just dive into that for a moment . First , that statement steadfastly places Ahsoka ’s events after the events of time of year three of The Mandalorian , which may become important . And secondly , season three of The Mandalorianclearly depict Gideon work out with a shadow councilwho are strain to bring the Empire back under Thrawn . So while there ’s no cogent evidence of any of that for Senator Xiono to see , we the audience have sex it ’s true . He ’s make a horrifying mistake .

Xiono calls for Hera to be court - martialed and for a moment it seems like there ’s no one , not even Mon Mothma , who can fix this . Which is when there ’s a ruckus outside the door . A very familiar amber droid , with an even more conversant speech pattern , taste to enter the room and finally does so . Previous Disney Star Wars shows have shown other communications protocol droids but this one is unmistakable . It ’s C-3PO himself , bring by Anthony Daniels , and 3PO explains he ’s there on behalf of Leia Organa . Leia need to verify the committee knew that it was she who authorized Hera ’s slip and that she apologise for not knowing Senator Xiono forbid it . If he has any trouble , he can direct it to her as the leader of the defense council . Mon Mothma get hold of that as gospel and closes the matter . However , she also takes Hera by and whisper to her that she know what just happened is n’t true . decimal point - white she asks Hera if this menace is actual . Hera tells her it is . “ Prep for the worst and trust for the best , ” she read .

It ’s here that we learn episode seven of Ahsoka is called “ Dreams and Madness , ” a very interesting title when you depend back at the episode as a whole . Who or what does it refer to precisely ? We ’ll talk about at the end .

Graphic: Jim Cooke

Hera and another hero of the Rebellion.Screenshot: Lucasfilm

Still ride in her ship , inside a giant , Ahsoka is doing some lightsaber grooming . And she ’s doing it under the counselling of her former master , Anakin Skywalker . There ’s a millisecond of discombobulation because we see a moretime - precise Anakin with Ahsoka in the World Between Worlds , but when he starts talk about the warfare , thing lock in into spot . As Anakin explains that Ahsoka may have to campaign citizenry like General Grievous , Asajj Ventress , or Count Dooku on the battlefield , we realize this is a tenner - old recording from during the Clone Wars . He ’s even got the haircut and equip to correspond . Holo - kin founder Ahsoka object lesson of encouragement and confidence as she decease through lightsaber training before being interrupt by Huyang . She tell him he made over 20 such recording , this being the final one , and that she trust , all things considered , he was a serious master . That routine about the recordings seems like a form of throwaway credit line , but the episode then makes a very specific compass point to show that Ahsoka has all the recordings in a box in a loo . We ’d suppose those will come back , if not this time of year , then in the time to come .

Huyang is there to severalize Ahsoka the Purrgil are slowing down , as well as his skepticism that they could ’ve possibly taken them to the precise piazza they needed to be . To this , Ahsoka messes with him a morsel and our illation from a few episodes back is reveal to be true . This Ahsoka , following her near - death experience , is somehow unburdened . She ’s more fun and playful . by and by in the episode she ’ll even smile and express joy . This is much more the Ahsoka fans fell in love with through vivification .

Of naturally , the Purrgil do drop out of hyperspace precisely where they necessitate to be , and instantaneously it ’s chaos . Thrawn and his team have set up a minefield where bombs are describe to whatever is near them and explode . For a second gear , the Purrgil provide binding but they before long settle to pass on . Now Ahsoka ’s ship is exposed and even when they make it out of the minefield after an exciting aerial natural process vista , they ’re pursue by Imperial belligerent . She ’s forced to hide in the Purrgil graveyard fence in Peridea , and Huyang remarks that it ’s rum they live she was amount . Thrawn orders the champion back though and says his design is for Ahsoka to think she ’s in the clear .

Hera and another hero of the Rebellion.

Hera and another hero of the Rebellion.Screenshot: Lucasfilm

So we ’re caught up with Hera , we ’ve arrest up with Ahsoka , what about Sabine ? Well , fight the moment we ’ve been waiting for back an extra few instant , the instalment eventually cuts to her and Ezra , who are traveling along with the Noti . patently , she ’s already recount him everything that ’s happened between when he disappeared and now — the highlights being that the Empire fell and the Emperor is dead . Or , at least , “ That ’s what hoi polloi say , ” Sabine adds in a nice little New York minute . Plus , tying up the Rebels liaison , Hera ’s a universal and Zeb is grooming recruits ( finally a Zeb mention ! ) . What she has n’t distinguish Ezra yet is how she came to find him in this alternate galaxy . Sabine just says it ’s complicated and Ezra , kind of maddeningly , is okay with leaving it at that . ( Who else want to cry “ Ezra , she sold out her friends and the beetleweed to save you ! Thrawn is still out there and he ’s getting quick to leave ! ” Just me ? Okay . ) One tidbit Sabine does drop is the fact that since he was gone , Ahsoka direct her on as an apprentice . He ’s surprised , but happy about this .

Back in space , Huyang ’s scan are ineffectual to locate Sabine so Ahsoka reach out with the Force . It works , Sabine smell out her , and just in time too as Thrawn uses the Nightsisters to bump Ahsoka and force her out of hiding . She fly out , presumably heading towards where Sabine and Ezra are .

Also on the lookout for Sabine and Ezra are Baylan and Shin . They ’re observing the friends from a distance when Baylan makes a surprising proposition . He tells his apprentice she should alarm Thrawn about Ezra and Sabine and take care of them herself . She ’s taken aback that her master wo n’t be help , but he tells her that her dream leads in one centering but his path is in another . It ’s then we realize we ’re seeing this headmaster let his apprentice go but not before delivering one last bit of advice : “ restlessness for triumph will guarantee defeat . ”

Holo-Kin Skywalker.

Holo-Kin Skywalker.Screenshot: Lucasfilm

Back on his ship , Thrawn look at all the pieces coming into sport and seems positive in their chances for victory , specially with Baylan helping out . Only , he ’s not helping out , which we know , but Thrawn does n’t . At least not yet .

The brigand that Sabine so easy dispatched of last week have regrouped and joined Shin on her pursuance . They begin to attach Ezra , Sabine , and the Noti , who have no fashion to fight back . Ezra stupefy them to imprint a justificative position before noticing a figure off in the view . It ’s Shin , and Sabine explicate that she ’s like Ezra , lightsaber and everything .

Ahsoka is now finally on the planet , flee above the action mechanism , still avoiding fighters . She tells Huyang that she involve to get down to the surface , only they ca n’t land . And so he flies low and Ahsoka jumps down to the priming , in a one-half cool , half not - great - look bit of CGI . Before you had a hazard to complain though , turns out Ahsoka land not by Ezra and Sabine , but by the now varlet Baylan . He tells her he ca n’t have her interfere and the two potent Force users battle again .

Ezra and Sabine, together again.

Ezra and Sabine, together again.Screenshot: Lucasfilm

Their fight is then intercut with Sabine and Ezra defend themselves from the bandits . Sabine offers Ezra her ( formerly his ) lightsaber but Ezra says no . He just needs the Force , he says , and the battle start . They ’re doing okay until Shin shows up and radically shift the balance , Force - shoving and knocking out Ezra .

The show dilute back and forth between the two struggle , really reverse up the saturation , and eventually , Baylan tells Ahsoka what we ’ve arrogate to be true . She ca n’t get the better of him . He ’s too powerful . But Ahsoka says she does n’t need to , distracts him , and leaves . Just in clock time too , because with Shin now there , as well as a clustering of Thrawn ’s Night Troopers , it ’s reckon fearsome for Ezra and Sabine . That is until Ahsoka prove up . Her bearing turns the tabular array and post the troopers go , saving her friends .

Thrawn is watch all of this encounter out on some virtual chessboard back on his ship and detect something . Baylan is no longer help his crusade . He does not seem pleased . And yet , he decides to recall all his troops and call his snarl with Ahsoka a success . Morgan does n’t understand how that ’s potential since they were vote out , so Thrawn explains : he was capable to deflect the powerful Jedi long enough to finish the important shipment transport , make his departure from this wandflower that much sooner . Thrawn says he now has the vantage of the most important arm at this consequence — time .

A final moment for Baylan and Shin.

A final moment for Baylan and Shin.Screenshot: Lucasfilm

As Thrawn ’s soldier pull back , Shin is face to face with Ahsoka . Ahsoka declare oneself her a truce and suppose she can help her . But Shin does n’t take the bait and leaves . With that , all seems well for our heroes . Sabine and Ahsoka get to reunite — and finally , Ezra and Ahsoka also get to reunite . She not only smile through it , she laughs , show some actual pleasure for the first sentence in the entire show . It ’s a joy shared by Ezra too who thinks he ’s finally going home . Though , we ’re not so sure .

“ Dreams and Madness ” finally witness the reunification of master and apprentice Ahsoka and Sabine , as well as the further return of Ezra Bridger . It also bear witness Thrawn as a master military strategist , thinking several steps ahead of his opponents in orderliness to get what he wants . The Shin and Baylan floor shifted in an unexpected way and appearances by C-3PO , Clone Wars Anakin , and a hint at a not - so - dead Palpatine link up all three Star Wars trilogies . peach about an episode with a lot pack in .

But , with one instalment left , how far is this story go to go ? evidently , Thrawn wo n’t be kill in one more installment , but will this season of Ahsoka see a chapter close or merely another one open ? Can our heroes escape this extragalactic nebula far , far away , and get back to their own ? Most importantly , how will Ahsoka deal with Sabine ’s betrayal and what will Ezra retrieve of it all ? There ’s a mass to twine up with only one more episode , and that ’s with the full cognition and expectation that there are almost sure more seasons and movies to derive . We just have to hope that season one of Ahsoka , after so like an expert place all the while in place during this episode , incite them to a satisfying slur for us to allow thing for a few class .

Thrawn watches the battle from afar.

Thrawn watches the battle from afar.Screenshot: Lucasfilm

Then , finally , there ’s the title of respect . “ Dreams and Madness . ” No one really had any dreams in the episode , nor was there any actual madness . So you have to think bigger characterisation and once you do that , it could go any number of mode . It works in esteem to Shin and Baylan ; she has aspirational dream and he ’s sore for power . It put to work for Thrawn , in that he has dreams of leaving and hydrophobia in his method acting . It works for the Sabine / Ezra / Ahsoka human relationship too in that their reunion is sure as shooting a dream come dead on target , but Sabine ’s old activity may turn it into madness . Or possibly it ’s none , or all , of those thing . Who is to say ?

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