So I’m still working my way through what you’ve put out so far and typing up my thoughts, but I did have a few thoughts I wanted to share.
Regarding your “Tales from the Clone Wars” microseries episode, I would suggest giving it an episode number that places it somewhere in/after your production season 3, since it includes Barriss and Luminara, which a) helps re-establish Barriss before we see her again at the end of your season 4, and b) has Luminara congratulating her on finishing her training as a padawan, which helps explain the lack of Luminara’s presence in the Ahsoka’s Fall arc.
Additionally, there are five episodes of the Forces of Destiny webseries that feature Clone Wars characters, mostly Anakin/Ahsoka/Padme. Specifically they show Ahsoka training to use her shoto and and her being given her longer Padawan beads. I was considering editing them into a “Tales of the Padawan/Jedi” anthology episode that I could contribute to this project and could be a suggested episode right before “The Politics of War”
So, back to thoughts about this! (I’m having a very productive day!)
You’re quite right about my Tales, in that it formally concludes Barriss’ padawan training, meaning it really should fit somewhere between the end of my season 2 (Geonosis) and the end of my season 5 (Ahsoka’s Fall). And earlier in that timeframe feels better.
And equally, those five episodes of Forces of Destiny (5x3 mins) are great fun, and add a few nice moments which are additive to a canon run of TCW. As you suggest, they fit between seasons 2 and 3.
So here’s an idea: How about combining both my existing Tales From the Clone Wars and the Forces of Destiny shorts, into episode zero of season three, a cartoon bonus episode? I’ve always intended that the Geonosis arc’s nice trauma with the worms was a maturing point for Ahsoka and led into the costume change, so it’d be cool to have the episode immediately following it showing both Ahsoka and Barriss progressing formally in their training.
In terms of the ordering, I’m not quite sure what’d work, because you’d ideally avoid having the same character back-to-back with themselves and there’s quite a lot of Ahsoka/Padmé/Yoda in these. But perhaps something like:
- FOD11 (Teach You, I Will) - Ahsoka trains with Yoda and Anakin with her second lightsaber (which appears in other FOD episodes)
- TFTCW1 - Kit Fisto defends Mon Calamari
- FOD6 (Impostor Inside) - Ahsoka guards Padmé at her home and defends her from a shapeshifter
- TFTCW2 - Mace Windu defends Dantooine
- FOD12 (Starfighter Stunt) - Ahsoka takes Padmé flying and Padmé ends up saving them both from a droid
- TFTCW3 - Barriss and Luminara are trapped, before being rescued on Ilum by Padmé and Yoda (who arrive later so at least it’s not completely back-to-back)
- FOD4 (Padawan Path) - Ahsoka fights a robot and receives her braid from Yoda and Anakin
The last one’s a bit tricky though:
- FOD18 (Unexpected Company) - Ahsoka tags along on an Anakin/Padmé transport mission, and pretty explicitly works out that they have a secret romance.
I’m a bit torn on this one because Forces of Destiny is such a fringe bit of SW media that most people are unlikely to have seen, and it feels a bit extreme to me that she knew for all of that time. Hm…
Interested on thoughts for this!