Hmmmm… An idea is forming.
Others have edited Rebels, both as movies and as TV-length episodes, but I wonder if there’s a worthwhile Rebels edit to be made specifically within the context of TCW, as an aftermath to this project - especially as an Ahsoka-focused recap in advance of her upcoming show.
I’m thinking specifically of focus on Ahsoka and Vader up to and including the season two finale, with a little more to make it a cohesive movie. It would transition nicely from Ahsoka and Maul’s last appearances (in the TCW finale and Ahsoka’s coda where she fights an inquisitor and joins the rebellion via Bail Organa) into her main actions during the rebellion - fighting Inquisitors, protecting force-sensitive younglings, and facing Maul and Vader. I’d also include her being pulled through the world between worlds to combat Palpatine there (but only from her perspective).
It’d be something like:
- Opening crawl to expain a little of the Rebellion, and that Ahsoka and Rex have joined the Phoenix Squadron rebel cell (which include a Jedi and padawan who survived the purge), but that they and all Jedi are hounded by Inquisitors - and Vader himself.
- Open on a scene from Fire Across the Galaxy, where Vader has tracked the Rebels, and they fight in the air, and Ahsoka senses Vader.
- Into The Future of the Force, where after the establishing scenes, we cut back to Ahsoka investigating Vader, before moving on with the Inquisitor vs babies plot. Epic moment where Ahsoka lights her white blades.
- Skip the opening of Shroud of Darkness (Jedi vs Inquisitors) and go into its second scene, where they discuss the threat of the Inquisitors (now having just fought them during the younglings story). Into the Jedi temple, for Yoda and the drive to go to Malachor.
- Brief scenes from The Mystery of Chopper Base, where the planet is discovered and the main Jedi leave.
- Into Twilight of the Apprentice, with all that fun drama and the threat of Vader, but having Ahsoka at the end rescued by future Ezra from A World Between Worlds. They explore that space (though we skip her seeing Kanan’s death) and she returns back, for the powerful ending scenes of that episode.
I feel like it’d work really nicely as an alternative to Rebels. It doesn’t expand on the rest of the Rebels crew at all, but it’d be the Ahsoka aftermath for those who want specifically that. It leaves some fun lingering threads to pull on if the viewer then chooses to pick up Rebels after, without spoiling much of that story.
We’d skip seeing Ahsoka join the crew, and her actions in the season one premiere, plus the episodes where Rex is hired. But otherwise, this’d be her full Rebels story. I wouldn’t add the show’s epilogue scene set after Endor, since that’s more about the full Rebels crew, and I’ve got a feeling it’s going to be replaced by Ahsoka’s content.
It would also follow the Kenobi series nicely, which introduces the Inquisitors, has that similar Vader/Obi-Wan conclusion, and leads nicely into the final-final coda with Maul vs Obi-Wan. The coda would also benefit from a little more introduction of Ezra in this proposed movie.
