Simple droids! The seventh episode of ‘Ahsoka’ brings back familiar Star Wars faces

The seventh and penultimate episode of the series’ first season Star Wars spin-off miniseries Ahsoka (will there be a second one?) arrived this week on the Disney+ platform, after 46 minutes of action and chase, but also diplomatic negotiations, allowing us to see one of the most appreciated faces of the original trilogy on screen again.

Bringing legendary characters has become a trend in Lucasfilms’ latest productions; We already know that he has returned for this series, at least on a spiritual level, Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen), as he was just before his complete fall to the Dark Side, when he was still the teacher of teenage Ahsoka Tano.

Well, it wasn’t a fleeting appearance, because Anakin is still around; once Ahsoka (actress Rosario Dawson) has reconciled with the memory of her master and entered her white phase (due to his new clothing color and the moment of enlightenment he had after a near-death experience), he has started training again using the training sessions he left him in holographic recordings.

We already knew that part of the team in the sixth episode Rebels would be reunited (Ahsoka, Sabine (Natasha Liu Bordizzo) and Ezra (Eman Esfandi), Even though it was on a deserted planet, in a galaxy far, far away, and under the threat of his old enemy, Grand Admiral Thrawn, who actor Lars Mikkelsen has described as a “so gentle” villain, and a group of characters rescued from the animated series The Clone Wars, in this case the witches of Dathomir.

The episode allows us to see it again one of the top themes of Star Wars, the relationship between master and apprentice. Just as Anakin abandoned Ahsoka to pursue his own ambitions, Ahsoka abandoned her Padawan Sabine because she believed she had no right to be a teacher. Now we see this happening on the other side as well, as former Jedi Knight Baylan Skoll (Ray Stevenson) also bids a somber farewell to his apprentice Shin Hati (played by Ukrainian actress Ivanna Saknno, and one of the most popular characters in the new series). ).

But Anakin Skywalker isn’t the only one returning from the first films. A few brief scenes in the original galaxy, in the halls of the Republic, bring up a familiar name: Senator Leia Organa He sends a message to save his friend, rebel leader and now General Hera Syndulla (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). No, we won’t see the beloved princess, but we will see her representative, the droid C-3PO, voiced by British actor Anthony Daniels, a member of the original cast.

The episode Dreams and madness It also serves to show the contempt which a certain section of the powerful of the Republic feels towards the rebels, towards certain species and towards the droids, whom he views as mere machines without judgment; when it becomes clear in Star Wars that this is not the case; Those who programmed them endowed them not only with great abilities of memory, strength and analysis, but also certain personality traits and a range of human emotions, such as the fear of destruction, loyalty, a sense of humor and anger.

Anthony Daniels, who is now 77 years old, appears between the credits. You deserve it, He appeared in eleven Star Wars films: the trilogy of 1977-1983, that of 199-1005, the film The Clone Warsthe trilogy 2015-2019, in RogueOne (2016) and in the animated series La clone war (2003 and 2008-2013).