So I think I’m going to do a little jiggling of Ahsoka episodes.
Season three will contain Ahsoka’s Lux arc:
- Heroes on Both Sides
- A Friend in Need
- Onderon (as the season finale)
This way there’s a focus on her relationship with a new character, a focused temptation and loss, and Onderon works as a finale because it’s about rebellion and Saw Gererra.
Season three will also give us the Maul Bros building power and working with the Mandalorians, for Rex it’ll give us the Umbara arc, and for Obi-Wan it’ll give us Rako Hardeen.
Season four will traumatise Ahsoka (and Obi-Wan):
- Hunted by Trandoshans
- Younglings vs Hondo
- Slaves of Kadavo
- Ahsoka’s Fall
This way, it becomes about taking her out of her comfort zone, testing her solo, making her doubt the strength or necessity of the Jedi order. We will also have Mortis (as a vision, not explicit) here, to hint at what’s to come.
Season four will open with Maul taking mandalore, and have him on its throne until just before Ahsoka’s fall, where Sidious will clean house. For Rex ideally it’ll have Order 66 in here, though I’m still working on that. For Obi-Wan it’ll be his enslavement in Kadavo and then Satine on Mandalore.
I think these chunks work nicely. Season two will feel like the most ‘anthology’ season, but it’s got episodes which tie back to previous arcs, and it continues to develop Ahsoka, so I think it’s theme is the Clone Wars spreading chaos.
I think my five seasons’ first lines of the text crawls become something like:
- It is the early days of the Clone Wars.
- The Clone Wars spread instability and chaos across the galaxy.
- The galaxy is exhausted under the ceaseless Clone Wars.
- The people of the galaxy suffer as the Clone Wars rage on.
- Mysteries abound in the final days of the Clone Wars.