Rotten Tomatoes score: 85%
It’s time to discuss the animated properties in the “Star Wars” universe. If you skipped out on “The Clone Wars” or “Rebels,” you most likely don’t even know who Ahsoka is.
A quick crash course: Between the events of “Attack of the Clones” and “Revenge of the Sith,” the Clone Wars ravage the galaxy, and Anakin is promoted from padawan (or apprentice) to Jedi master. In turn, he takes a padawan himself: Ahsoka. Don’t worry about why she’s never mentioned in the movies; it’s (somewhat) convincingly retconned in “Clone Wars.”
She’s one of the most beloved characters in the animated “Star Wars” canon, and her live-action debut was highly anticipated.
So, when it was announced that Rosario Dawson would play Ahsoka first in “The Mandalorian,” and then in her own series, people were hyped.
And, for the most part, the series lived up to expectations. The one issue is that this show barely makes any sense if you don’t have, at the very least, basic knowledge of the characters from “Rebels,” including Sabine, Hera, Ezra, and Thrawn.
Season two is set to be released in early 2027.
“No lightsabers can match the fierce glow of Rosario Dawson as the ex-Jedi with the funky headgear who leads her sisterhood — glory to Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Natasha Liu Bordizzo — against the Empire’s fading patriarchy. Now that’s worth celebrating,” wrote Peter Travers of ABC News.