The de-aging works much, much better in this episode than last week, even if it is still a bit jarring at times. We see a baby Ahsoka (played by Ariana Greenblatt), still with one green lightsaber, as well as clone troopers with practical suits (what a delightful sight) and, most importantly, Hayden Christensen pulling Anakin’s cartoon armor off to perfection. And with a quick lightsaber slash to the floor, the two fall to a flashback from the early days of Clone Wars - specifically, it looks like the Battle of Ryloth from the very first episodes of The Clone Wars. Of course, in very Anakin fashion, his training involves fighting his former Padawan and trying to kill her. Anakin promises to fulfill Ahsoka’s training, which he never did in life because she left the order before her final tests. We start with a continuation of her meeting with Anakin from last week, which definitely does not take place in the world between worlds, but rather some nebulous netherworld of the Force, with Ahsoka caught between life and death. In what is the best episode of the show so far, which includes some of the best moments in all of Disney Star Wars TV, Ahsoka goes through her own version of the Dagobah cave from Empire Strikes Back, confronting the dark side and her biggest fear - becoming her master - before coming out the other side stronger and with resolve. No wonder she has attachment issues, but we haven’t really seen that play out directly, until now. Her order ruined, all her friends dead, and her master a genocidal monster. All Ahsoka ever knew was war, all she ever saw growing up was violence, and look where that got her. ![]() There’s nothing religious or philosophical about what Anakin has to teach his Padawan, and that, of course, would mess a person up. We never really see Ahsoka in the temple unless she is punished there, and all her lessons and training are about fighting, about killing. ![]() ![]() One of the many ways in which the context added by The Clone Wars improved the prequels was how the cartoon took the time to show that the Jedi were literally using child soldiers during the war.
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