Star Wars: Ahsoka season 1
Season nameAhsoka
Season number1
Bgcolor
  1. 5CA1B3
ShowrunnerDave Filoni
Starring
NetworkDisney+
ReleasedAugust 22, 2023
Last airedOctober 3, 2023
Num episodes8
Episode listList of Ahsoka episodes

The first season of the American television series Ahsoka is part of the Star Wars franchise, taking place in the same timeframe as the series The Mandalorian (2019–2023) after the events of the film Return of the Jedi (1983). It follows former Jedi apprentice Ahsoka Tano and her allies as they attempt to prevent Grand Admiral Thrawn from returning and uniting the remnants of the Galactic Empire against the fledgling New Republic. The season was produced by Lucasfilm and Golem Creations, with Dave Filoni serving as showrunner.

Rosario Dawson stars as the title character, reprising her role from The Mandalorian. Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ray Stevenson, Ivanna Sakhno, Diana Lee Inosanto, David Tennant, Eman Esfandi, Evan Whitten, Genevieve O'Reilly, Hayden Christensen, Ariana Greenblatt, Lars Mikkelsen (Thrawn), and Anthony Daniels also star. A spin-off from The Mandalorian focused on Ahsoka was announced in December 2020. The series allowed Filoni to continue a story he had been planning since the animated series Star Wars Rebels (2014–2018) ended, further exploring Ahsoka following that series and Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008–2020), and bringing key characters from Rebels into live-action such as Bordizzo as Sabine Wren. Filming took place in Los Angeles from May to October 2022, using the same StageCraft virtual production technology as The Mandalorian.

The season premiered on the streaming service Disney+ on August 22, 2023, with its first two episodes. The other six episodes were released through October 3. Viewership was estimated to be high, and similar to other Star Wars series on Disney+. Reviews were generally positive, with critics commonly feeling that the season was a good franchise entry for existing Star Wars fans and praising the performances of Dawson and Stevenson, but criticizing the slow pacing and some other "stiff" performances. The season received various accolades, including a posthumous Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Award for costume designer Shawna Trpcic. A second season was confirmed in January 2024.[1]

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Cast and characters

Starring

Recurring

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Production

Background

Ahsoka Tano was created for the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008–2020) by Star Wars creator George Lucas and The Clone Wars supervising director Dave Filoni. Voiced by Ashley Eckstein, the character is the Jedi apprentice of Anakin Skywalker, the main character of the Star Wars prequel films (1999–2005). Ahsoka became a fan favorite character and Eckstein reprised her role for the follow-up animated series Star Wars Rebels (2014–2018).[23] Rebels was co-created by Filoni and focuses on a group of heroes who resist the Galactic Empire: the Jedi Kanan Jarrus, his apprentice Ezra Bridger, pilot Hera Syndulla, Mandalorian warrior Sabine Wren, Zeb Orrelios, and Hera's droid Chopper.[24][25] During Rebels, Ahsoka learns that Anakin has fallen to the dark side of the Force and become the Sith lord Darth Vader. In the final season, Kanan sacrifices his life and Ezra is taken to an unknown location with antagonist Grand Admiral Thrawn. The series ends with an epilogue in which Ahsoka joins Sabine to search for Ezra,[23] leading to speculation about a new series focusing on them. Filoni said he had ideas for that story but nothing was in development. He described bringing the two characters together as "a unification of Clone Wars and Rebels", and said he would not want someone else to tell their story.[26][27]

The franchise expanded to live-action television with the Disney+ series The Mandalorian (2019–2023).[28] Creator Jon Favreau worked with Filoni to develop the series,[29] which is set after the fall of the Empire.[30] When thinking of a way to reveal details about the Jedi to the series' characters, Filoni realized that Ahsoka would be able to provide this information.[31] After writing and directing episodes of the first season, he felt confident enough in his filmmaking abilities to be able to introduce her to live-action in the second season without "mess[ing] it up"; it was important to Filoni that fans who grew up watching the animated Ahsoka feel that a live-action version was the same character.[32] Disney CEO Bob Iger said in February 2020 that spin-offs of The Mandalorian were being considered, and there was potential to add characters to the series to then give them their own series.[33] Rosario Dawson was reported to be cast as Ahsoka for the second season a month later,[23] but this was not officially confirmed until the episode she appears in, "Chapter 13: The Jedi", was released in November.[34] Dawson studied acting with Hayden Christensen, who portrayed Anakin in the prequel films,[31] and first expressed interest in playing Ahsoka in live-action after her casting was suggested by a fan in February 2017.[23] Filoni wrote and directed the episode,[34] which depicts Ahsoka searching for Thrawn; Filoni suggested that this is before Ahsoka joins Sabine in the epilogue of Rebels.[31] The episode introduces Diana Lee Inosanto as Morgan Elsbeth, a servant of Thrawn.[35]

Development

Lucasfilm announced several spin-off series from The Mandalorian in December 2020, including Ahsoka and The Book of Boba Fett (2021).[2][36][37] The new series were set in the same trimeframe as The Mandalorian—during the 30 years between the films Return of the Jedi (1983) and Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)—and were planned to culminate in a "climactic story event";[38][39] Filoni indicated that this would involve a conflict with the remnants of the Empire which Ahsoka helps build towards.[40] The series were being concurrently developed by Favreau and Filoni,[38] with Filoni creating, writing, and serving as lead producer and showrunner on Ahsoka.[41][42] Lucasfilm's Kathleen Kennedy, Carrie Beck, and Colin Wilson were also executive producers.[43] Peter Ramsey was hired to direct at least one episode by April 2022,[44] and Filoni was confirmed to be directing multiple episodes the next month.[45] In April 2023, the season was revealed to have eight episodes,[46] and the other directors were announced: Jennifer Getzinger, Geeta Patel, The Book of Boba Fett's Steph Green, and The Mandalorians Rick Famuyiwa.[10] Filoni said each episode would be similar in length to The Mandalorians episodes, though he tended to prefer longer episodes than Favreau which sometimes needed to be edited down to improve pacing.[47]

Writing

Following speculation and reports about the series,[4][48] Filoni confirmed that Ahsoka would continue the story he established in the epilogue of Rebels.[49] He never expected to tell this story as a spin-off from a series like The Mandalorian, and found it intimidating to actually write after thinking about it for so many years.[50] When asked if Ahsoka was effectively a fifth season of Rebels, Filoni said that was "one way of looking at it" but he also saw all of his Star Wars projects as one larger story.[51] He said viewers did not need to watch The Clone Wars and Rebels to understand Ahsoka but he felt it would help, and he hoped Ahsoka would lead to new audiences discovering the animated series on Disney+.[52][53] The first person Filoni sent each script to was Beck, who he had been working with since the start of Rebels, and he also appreciated getting Favreau's advice from a perspective outside of Filoni's understanding of the characters and animated history.[49]

The season is set after Ahsoka's appearances in the second season of The Mandalorian and in The Book of Boba Fett,[29] and takes place concurrently with the third season of The Mandalorian.[54] It begins with Ahsoka as a wandering rōnin who Filoni compared to the main character of Akira Kurosawa's film Yojimbo (1961), noting that Lucas was inspired by the works of Kurosawa when originally creating Star Wars.[55] This depiction of the character comes after Ahsoka's decision to leave the Jedi and the subsequent destruction of the Order in The Clone Wars,[56] as well as the revelation that Anakin is Darth Vader in Rebels. This season was Filoni's first opportunity to explore these issues with the character, and he wanted to show what she feels this all means about her own potential for darkness. He also wanted to explore Ahsoka's feelings about continuing this legacy with an apprentice of her own,[40] and the relationships between masters and apprentices became a key theme throughout the season.[57]: 2–3 Ahsoka is revealed to have taken Sabine on as her Padawan learner after the main events of Rebels, but they parted ways soon after when Sabine's family were killed during the purge of Mandalore and her subsequent internal struggle reminded Ahsoka too much of Anakin.[40][58] Filoni was planning this storyline by the end of Rebels, having come to feel that Sabine was more than just a Mandalorian warrior. He saw similarities between the character and Anakin, and chose to pair Sabine with Ahsoka in the epilogue of Rebels because of the complicated relationship that could potentially be developed between Ahsoka and an apprentice who reminds her of her own master. He was also interested by the idea of someone training to be a Jedi who does not have a strong connection to the Force, feeling that differentiated the story from most Star Wars projects which are often about very talented Jedi who he felt were not always relatable to the audience. Filoni disagreed with some fans who felt this was going against the franchise's established rules for the Force, noting that the Force has always been described as connecting to all living beings and adding his view that anyone can become a Jedi with the right training.[55]

Borrowing from J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings (1954–55), which was a big inspiration for his storytelling, Filoni wanted Ahsoka to go through a similar transformation as the character Gandalf who begins as the wandering, unsure "Gandalf the Grey" but is later reborn as the wise and powerful "Gandalf the White".[55] This transformation was hinted at in the epilogue of Rebels, in which Ahsoka appears wearing all white, leading to some fans calling her "Ahsoka the White".[49] The second episode of the season recreates the epilogue in live-action, but it changes Ahsoka's costume from white to gray to allow her transformation to come later in the season.[59] In the fifth episode, Ahsoka is nearly killed and goes through a near-death experience in the mysterious "World Between Worlds" that was first introduced in Rebels. There, the spirit of Anakin helps Ahsoka work through her character issues.[40] Filoni saw the World Between Worlds as a "cinematic device" that allowed him to show flashbacks to the Clone Wars for viewers who had not seen that series. However, he did not want this to become a "Star Wars history lesson" and focused on the relationship between Ahsoka and Anakin. He saw Ahsoka's time in the World Between Worlds as the turning point for her character, allowing her to accept her past, move forward, and be less stoic.[55] This is signified by a costume change to "Ahsoka the White" at the end of the episode.[59] Filoni wanted the audience to question whether the World Between Worlds was in Ahsoka's mind or if she was actually talking to the spirit of Anakin. He also wanted to keep the focus on Ahsoka's issues rather than Anakin's as he felt Lucas had already resolved the latter's character arc in the Star Wars films and did not want to change that.[40] He wanted to depict Anakin as the "heroic older brother" and famous Jedi that Ahsoka once looked up to,[55] and prioritized seeing Christensen's performance over the Darth Vader costume which is only seen in brief flashes.[55]

Ahsoka and Sabine's hunt for Thrawn and Ezra takes them to a new galaxy in a first for the franchise. Filoni was inspired by an image of multiple galaxies seen in the film Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002), and felt this step was necessary because he thought it unlikely that Thrawn and Ezra would have remained hidden for so long if they were still in the known galaxy.[40] For Thrawn's live-action introduction, Filoni and Favreau consulted author Timothy Zahn who originally created the character for the Expanded Universe (EU) novel Heir to the Empire (1991).[60] The novel is referenced in the season when Ahsoka describes Thrawn as "the heir to the Empire".[61] The planet that is visited in the new galaxy, Peridea, is the ancient homeworld of Morgan's people, the Nightsister witches. Similar to Thrawn, that group of characters were first introduced in an EU novel, in this case Dave Wolverton's The Courtship of Princess Leia (1994), before appearing in the animated series. The three Nightsister "Great Mothers" who live on Peridea–Aktropaw, Klothow, and Lakesis–are named after the three Fates from Greek mythology: Atropos, Clotho, and Lachesis.[16][62] Other antagonists introduced in the season include Baylan Skoll, a former Jedi who is disillusioned with the Order and searching for a secret power; his apprentice Shin Hati, who he is teaching to be "something more" than a Jedi;[40] and the Jedi-hunting Inquisitor Marrok.[63] Filoni always includes wolves or references to wolves in his work because of his love for the animals,[55] and the names Skoll and Hati are references to wolves from Norse mythology–Sköll and Hati, respectively–while Marrok is named for a lesser-known Knight of the Round Table from Arthurian legend who is turned into a werewolf.[63]

The season ends with Ahsoka and Sabine trapped in the new galaxy, Thrawn and Ezra returning to the original Star Wars galaxy,[55] and Baylan discovering large statues of the Mortis gods, powerful Force-wielders introduced in The Clone Wars.[40] Filoni hoped the statues would still be a striking image for viewers who had not seen The Clone Wars. He had ideas for continuing the story, but if that did not happen he was at least happy to have Ezra return by the end of the season as that was an important milestone for him.[55] In the last scene of the season, Anakin appears as a Force ghost watching over Ahsoka and Sabine. Filoni said Anakin was always watching over Ahsoka but she was not able to see him until her transformation in the fifth episode. This scene depicts the season's master and apprentices theme by featuring three generations of Jedi—Anakin, Ahsoka, and Sabine—in one shot.[40]

Casting

Rosario Dawson was confirmed to be reprising her role as Ahsoka Tano from The Mandalorian with the series' announcement in December 2020;[2] Dawson took over from Ashley Eckstein, who voiced Ahsoka in the animated series.[23] In July 2021, Dawson acknowledged rumors that Ezra Bridger and Thrawn would be in the series.[48] By the following month, Lucasfilm was looking for an actress to co-star in the series as Sabine Wren,[64] who was voiced by Tiya Sircar in Rebels.[4] In October, Christensen was set to reprise his role as Anakin, reportedly appearing as a Force ghost due to the series being set after the character's death.[9] Natasha Liu Bordizzo was cast as Sabine a month later,[4] when Ivanna Sakhno joined the cast.[65] Mary Elizabeth Winstead was added to the cast in January 2022,[66] and Ray Stevenson joined the next month to play an antagonist other than Thrawn. Stevenson previously voiced Gar Saxon in Rebels and The Clone Wars.[67]

At Star Wars Celebration Anaheim in May 2022, Bordizzo was officially announced as Sabine. The characters Hera and Chopper were also confirmed to be returning from Rebels.[68][69] Bordizzo auditioned for the series with a scene from Top Gun (1986) and another scene that reminded her of Star Wars character Han Solo. Not knowing what the project was, she assumed it was related to Marvel Studios because casting director Sarah Halley Finn is also known for working with that company. Bordizzo was surprised to get an offer to star in the series based directly on her self-tape audition, with no callbacks or additional audition stages; Favreau later said he preferred to streamline the casting process as much as possible following his own acting experiences.[70]

In September 2022, Eman Esfandi was cast as Ezra, who was voiced by Taylor Gray in Rebels.[7] Esfandi was not a Star Wars fan, but felt confident that he was the right person to portray Ezra and said so to his agent and manager six months before being asked to audition. He researched the character online as if Ezra was a real historical figure, and chose not to watch Rebels because he did not want to be "too hokey about trying to copy a certain physicality and mannerisms" from an animated series. Esfandi auditioned for the character, codenamed "Riz", using the same Top Gun scene that Bordizzo auditioned with. He deduced that the audition was for Ezra and felt he had captured the character in his performance. Similar to Bordizzo, Esfandi was offered the role a day later based solely on his self-tape.[71] Mena Massoud also auditioned to play Ezra after being suggested for the role by fans and being rumored to be cast as the character for over a year.[7][48]

Winstead was revealed to be portraying Hera at Star Wars Celebration London in April 2023,[6] replacing Rebels voice actress Vanessa Marshall.[72] Winstead's husband, Ewan McGregor, starred as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the prequel films and the Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022).[73] She said it was a luxury to be able to refer to Rebels when developing her portrayal.[74] Also at Celebration London, the names of the antagonists that Sakhno and Stevenson play were revealed to be Shin Hati and Baylan Skoll, respectively,[6] while several actors were announced to be reprising their roles from previous Star Wars projects: Inosanto returned as Morgan Elsbeth from The Mandalorian, Genevieve O'Reilly reprised her role as Mon Mothma from the films and the series Andor (2022–present), David Tennant again voiced the droid Huyang as he did in The Clone Wars, and Lars Mikkelsen reprised his role as Thrawn from Rebels.[5] Filoni first hinted to Mikkelsen that he could reprise his role in live-action when the actor finished his voice work for Rebels, but it was not until a year-and-a-half later when Filoni contacted him about appearing in Ahsoka. Mikkelsen's role in the series was kept a secret until it was announced at Celebration London, with Mikkelsen repeatedly denying his involvement before the reveal.[10][75]

Later in April 2023, Wes Chatham was revealed to be appearing as Thrawn's "right-hand man",[76] Captain Enoch.[17] The third episode introduces Evan Whitten as Jacen Syndulla, the son of Hera and Kanan.[8] For flashbacks to the Clone Wars in the fifth episode, Ariana Greenblatt portrays a young Ahsoka and Temuera Morrison voices Captain Rex, reprising his role as the clone troopers from the Star Wars films.[3][21] In the seventh episode, Anthony Daniels reprises his Star Wars film and television role as the droid C-3PO.[11] Additionally, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee reprises his role as Captain Carson Teva from The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett,[15] and the Mandalorian's on-set double from those series, Brendan Wayne, appears as Lieutenant Lander;[77] Clancy Brown portrays Ryder Azadi, reprising his voice role from Rebels,[18] while Vinny Thomas appears as Jai Kell, who was voiced by Dante Basco in Rebels;[19] Nelson Lee plays Senator Hamato Xiono, who was introduced in the animated series Star Wars Resistance (2018–2020) voiced by Tzi Ma;[20] and Elden Bennett appears as Star Wars film character Admiral Ackbar.[22] Sam Witwer, who has voiced numerous characters in various Star Wars projects, provided additional voices for the season,[78] while Filoni provided the voice for Chopper as he did in Rebels.[13]

Rebels character Zeb was introduced to the live-action series with a brief appearance in the third season of The Mandalorian, created through motion capture and visual effects with Rebels voice actor Steve Blum reprising his role.[79] Zeb was subsequently not included in the first season of Ahsoka. Lyvie Scott at Inverse speculated that this was due to the visual effects requirements for the character and felt his Mandalorian appearance was being used to explain his absence in Ahsoka.[80] Kanan was also not brought back from Rebels, because of the character's death, but an edited picture of voice actor Freddie Prinze Jr. was used as an on-set picture of Kanan.[81]

Design

Production designers Andrew L. Jones and Doug Chiang returned from The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett,[82] as did costume designer Shawna Trpcic who died soon after the season was released.[83] Prop master Josh Roth was responsible for the lightsabers.[84] As with the previous live-action Star Wars series, the lightsaber hilts were connected to glowing tubes to create on-set interactive lighting. Filoni felt some of the previous series had taken the lightsaber brightness too far and wanted the light levels in Ahsoka to be closer to those in the Star Wars films.[85] He designed Ahsoka's lightsaber hilts to be slimmer than the others, comparing them to shoto and katana, but this led to issues fitting the batteries for the interactive lighting inside the hilt.[32] The solution for The Mandalorian was to hide the batteries in Dawson's sleeves, but this was not practical for Ahsoka considering the amount of fighting the character does throughout the season. They were able to improve the technology so the batteries would fit inside the slimmer hilts instead.[84] The lightsaber blades for Baylan and Shin are more orange than the red that is traditionally used for Star Wars antagonists, which Filoni said was an indication that the characters are not strictly villains. Their color is based on the way Darth Vader's lightsaber would fluctuate between red and orange in some scenes of the original Star Wars films (1977–1983) due to the older technology being used.[86] Stevenson requested adjustments to Baylan's lightsaber hilt based on his understanding of the character.[84]

Filoni said all elements of the animated characters' appearances were considered to an "unbelievable" degree when translating them into live-action. Ahsoka has orange skin, white markings on her face, and blue-and-white montrals (horns) and lekku (head tails).[31][49] Filoni wanted her skin to look natural and less saturated than in the animated series, and wanted the white markings to be subtle and not look like face paint. He told Dawson not to worry about her brown eyes differing from Ahsoka's blue eyes, but Dawson chose to wear colored contact lenses which she felt made the difference between wearing cosplay versus actually portraying the character.[31] She was disappointed to see that the prosthetic montrals and lekku were much shorter than their animated series look, but accepted Filoni's explanation that this was needed to accommodate for her fighting and stunts.[49] New technology was developed for the series to create the montrals and lekku, allowing them to be bigger and move more realistically than in The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett. Dawson called it a 3D-printed skull cap with an internal skeleton to give the lekku more fluid movement.[42][87][88] It was difficult applying the prosthetics around Dawson's long hair in the previous series, so she considered shaving her head for Ahsoka but ultimately decided to just cut her hair shorter.[49] It took more than three hours to apply Dawson's make-up and prosthetics for the previous series, but the team got this down to 90 minutes for Ahsoka.[87] Hera has green skin and lekku, which took around three hours to apply to Winstead in the initial test. This was eventually reduced to an hour, which Winstead noted was a normal amount of time to get make-up applied for a series.[89] Thrawn has blue skin and red eyes,[75] and Mikkelsen spent two-to-three hours in make-up each day. Filoni said there was a long process selecting the correct shades of orange, green, and blue so the characters had a "sense of blood and skin". He praised the actors for committing to the extra time required for make-up and prosthetics to portray the characters.[90]

In Rebels, Sabine is known for frequently changing her hair color and style. She begins Ahsoka with long hair that Filoni wanted to start purple and transition to orange. She then cuts her hair to be short and purple. Hair designer Maria Sandoval wanted these colors to be more muted than in the animated series, but said they were still bold enough that it would be a "chemical impossibility" for Bordizzo's hair to hold the color for the duration of filming. She instead decided to use hair dye for an initial long wig and then fabric dye for a shorter wig after the character cuts her hair. Sandoval's team spent two months testing different dyes to get the colors right. An in-between wig was created for the scene where Sabine cuts her hair, while duplicates of the shorter wig were created for Bordizza's stunt double and for scenes where Sabine is wearing her helmet. The short wig is not as short as Sabine's hair in Rebels, with Sandoval prioritizing comfort and femininity for Bordizzo. Inosanto's first scene in the series uses the same wig as The Mandalorian, but Sandoval updated the character's hair for subsequent scenes in Ahsoka. The new look combines the existing silvery gray color, which was inspired by previous depictions of the Nightsisters, with a new style that Sandoval described as a cross between the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Lady Tremaine from Cinderella (1950). Thrawn's black hair is a wig because Mikkelsen did not have the right hairline for the character. Sandoval added some gray hairs to reflect the difficult environment Thrawn has been in since the end of Rebels, but kept his hair looking "composed" because the character would not let himself appear "shaggy". Sandoval closely studied Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005) to replicate Christensen's mullet hairstyle from that film. For the Clone Wars flashbacks she wanted to show what Christensen's hair would realistically look like if it grew from its appearance in Attack of the Clones to the Revenge of the Sith look, rather than directly adapt the "straighter and sort of chunkier" style seen in The Clone Wars.[91]

Legacy Effects returned from The Mandalorian to create puppets and animatronics for the season, including Sabine's loth-cat which is a cat-like creature native to the planet Lothal.[92] Huyang and Chopper were also created as animatronics.[93][94] The season prominently features the purrgil (also known as "space whales") from Rebels after they made a brief appearance in the third season of The Mandalorian.[95] New creatures introduced on Peridea include howlers—reptilian wolf-horse hybrids—and the bug-like Noti people who have shells that can be mistaken for rocks. Creatures called howlers, with a more reptilian design, previously appeared in the Star Wars: Jedi Knight EU video games (1995–2003).[96] Unlike previous live-action Star Wars series, this season begins with an opening crawl similar to the ones that are reserved for the main Star Wars films. The crawl for Ahsoka is differentiated from the films by red text and simpler formatting.[97] The end credits sequence is inspired by the star map and its planetarium-like projections. The sequence follows a gold line as it moves between different planets and star systems from throughout the franchise, including Lothal and Mandalore. It ends with multiple gold lines converging on Peridea. Stylized loth-wolves and purrgil are shown around Lothal and Seatos, respectively.[98][99]

Filming

The season was produced with visual effects studio Industrial Light & Magic's StageCraft virtual production technology, which was developed for The Mandalorian. This involves filming on a "volume" set surrounded by a circular LED video wall that digital backgrounds can be displayed on in real-time.[100] With his experience using virtual production on The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, Filoni felt he had a good handle on when the technology was right to be used and when traditional blue screen stages or outdoor locations needed to be used instead. Filoni's approach to filmmaking, based on his background in animation production, was to previsualize each episode ahead of time so he could see and work on a version of them before filming began.[101] Filoni, the other directors, and cinematographers Eric Steelberg and Quyen Tran spent eight months creating and editing previsualizations of each episode using virtual reality cameras and headsets.[85][101][102] The first table reads with the cast were recorded and added to the previsualizations, which Dawson described as "mini episodes".[103]

The directors and cinematographers discussed the approaches to The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, and Obi-Wan Kenobi so Ahsoka could feel like it takes place in the same universe as those series but also stand apart. Steelberg's main influences were the original Star Wars film trilogy, but he also discussed the works of Kurosawa with Filoni.[85] The flashbacks to the Clone Wars in the fifth episode were filmed with smoke effects and red lights to create a more abstract feeling, which Filoni was inspired for by the Kurosawa film Kagemusha (1980).[55] There were elements of Rebels that they wanted to replicate, including the shot-for-shot recreation of that series' epilogue for the end of the second episode.[85] A lot of testing was done to ensure the different colored make-up and hair would show correctly on camera, especially when different colored characters are together.[85]

Principal photography began on May 9, 2022,[104] at Manhattan Beach Studios in Los Angeles, California.[100] Filming took place under the working title Stormcrow,[105] which is a reference to Gandalf the Grey from The Lord of the Rings.[106] Production took place on the different directors' episodes simultaneously, with two full crews working at the same time on some days.[103] Tennant's pre-recorded dialogue was played on set for the other actors to perform against.[42] Dawson's favorite day of filming was when Ahsoka voice actress Ashley Eckstein visited the set.[75] Ming Qiu, a stunt performer on The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, was the stunt coordinator for the season.[107] Dawson, Bordizzo, and Esfandi spent months training for their lightsaber fights.[57]: 7[75][71] Each fight was planned to further the story and character development.[75] Filoni wanted Baylan's fighting style to be like a medieval knight, wielding his lightsaber like a claymore. Ramsey felt this suited Stevenson's physicality and differentiated him from the Jedi characters.[108] Inosanto, the daughter and goddaughter of famous martial artists and actors Dan Inosanto and Bruce Lee, respectively, was hired for The Mandalorian because of her martial arts background, specifically to fight Dawson's Ahsoka. She said there was a "long, involved fight scene" between the two characters in Ahsoka.[109] Filming for some scenes on Peridea took place on outside stages,[40] while the planet's landscapes were created using footage from the Coigach and Assynt areas of Scotland.[110] The last shot of the series for Esfandi was filmed on the second-last day of production. Esfandi, who grew a beard to portray Ezra in exile, waited until the end of the shoot and receiving confirmation that he was not needed for reshoots before shaving his beard to portray a younger Ezra. He was filmed against a green screen to be added as an old hologram that Sabine watches.[71][85] Filming lasted six months and wrapped in October 2022.[103][111]

Music

At Star Wars Celebration London, Kevin Kiner was revealed to be composing the score for Ahsoka after doing so for The Clone Wars, Rebels, The Bad Batch (2021–2024), and Tales of the Jedi (2022).[112] As with the animated series, Kiner collaborated with his children Sean and Deana on the score,[113] and said it would have been impossible to create the five hours of music required for the season on his own.[114] David Glen Russell also provided additional music.[115] After composing more music for the franchise than any other composer, working on over 200 television episodes across more than 16 years,[113] Kevin said it was still a challenge to balance honoring Star Wars film composer John Williams with not directly copying him.[116] They used some of Williams's themes from the films for specific moments,[116] including the Force theme; the themes for Anakin and Darth Vader;[117] and both the main Star Wars fanfare and Princess Leia's theme for the C-3PO scene.[116] They also studied the composers who inspired Williams, including Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Igor Stravinsky.[118]

The first theme Kevin wrote for Star Wars was Ahsoka's theme, which he had used for all of the character's appearances since the start of The Clone Wars. For Tales of the Jedi, which Filoni wanted to be an homage to the works of Studio Ghibli and other Japanese cinema, Sean and Deana created a new variation of Ahsoka's theme inspired by the music of samurai films. They said this was Ahsoka's rōnin motif, which combines a pulsing cello with Kevin's original Ahsoka melody.[113][119] Kevin felt this variation of the theme fit well with Dawson's more mature portrayal of Ahsoka,[117] and they expanded on the idea as well as the Japanese influences for Ahsoka.[116][118] They also brought back their themes from Rebels, including for Sabine, Hera, Ezra, and Thrawn.[113][114] Filoni encouraged them not to use the themes as often as they initially wanted to because he felt the music was getting in the way of some scenes. For example, when Thrawn arrives in the sixth episode, the Kiners originally intended to use a full rendition of his theme played on an organ.[113] Filoni felt this was the wrong approach due to the character being in a different state compared to his role in Rebels. He also wanted to have a scarier introduction for viewers who did not see Rebels. Trying to match the visuals of Thrawn's dilapidated Star Destroyer and army, the composers slowed down the music, distorted the organ sounds, and made the score more "atmospheric".[113][117] For the flashbacks to the Clone Wars in the fifth episode, the Kiners included references to their synthesizer music from the final season of The Clone Wars, including the track "Burying the Dead".[113][117] Sean used the Chinese guzheng string instrument to represent the metaphysical elements of the World Between Worlds.[120]

New themes for the season represent Baylan, Shin, Morgan and the Nightsister witches, and the New Republic.[119] Baylan's theme prominently features the piano, which is rare for Star Wars music and was inspired by Rachmaninoff. The melody is a variation on the medieval chant "Dies irae", but played by an orchestra with a "heavy metal sensibility".[113] The Kiners were particularly happy with the musical interactions between the themes for Baylan and Shin.[113] The New Republic theme is more similar to Williams's style of music,[116] and primarily has a positive sound, but the composers also included some subtle darkness to foreshadow the fall of the New Republic later in the franchise's timeline.[114] They originally planned to have different music over the end credits of each episode, but found this to be impractical. Instead, the end credits track combines different themes for the season into one,[117] starting with the rōnin variation of Ahsoka's theme.[113] Inspired by the imagery of the end credits sequence, the composers wrote a new "celestial" motif that is included in the track. Feeling this was too good to just have in the credits, it became a recurring motif in the score. It is used for scenes with the purrgil,[113] and for the star map that points to the new galaxy.[114] Each episode's opening title card is accompanied by a different flute performance by Deana,[113][117] who learned to play various flutes for the season. An alto flute is used for scenes with the howler.[113]

The orchestra was recorded on the Newman Scoring Stage at Fox Studios in Los Angeles. This was a change from the animated series, which were recorded overseas, and allowed the composers to interact with the musicians as episodes were being recorded. They incorporated feedback from the musicians for early episodes when composing the score for later episodes.[114][113] The in-universe song "Igyah Kah" that Sabine listens to in the first episode was co-written by Kevin and Deana Kiner, Noah Gorelick, and The Mandalorian composer Ludwig Göransson.[121] The composers initially tried to make the song sound alien, before realizing that it just needed to be a "banger" with a punk rock style.[113] Filoni encouraged them to "really go for it" with the song,[119] and Göransson suggested that Sabine's theme be incorporated into it.[120] The lyrics of the song are influenced by the Tagalog language, which is spoken by Kevin Kiner's wife who is from the Philippines.[114] The vocals were provided by Sarah Tudzin from the band Illuminati Hotties,[121] who Deana is friends with and had played on tour alongside.[114]

Walt Disney Records released two soundtrack albums featuring the season's score: the first volume, covering music from the first four episodes including the song "Igyah Kah", was released digitally on September 15, 2023,[121] while a second volume, covering music from the final four episodes, was released digitally on October 6.[122] All music by Kevin Kiner except where noted:[121][122]

Marketing

Filoni and Favreau promoted the series at Star Wars Celebration Anaheim on May 26, 2022, during a panel for Lucasfilm. Dawson appeared in full costume via video message from the series' set,[123] before she appeared in person on May 28 at a panel for The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett. That panel included Filoni, Favreau, Bordizzo, and Chopper, and showed footage from the first three weeks of filming.[68][69] Filoni, Favreau, Dawson, and Bordizzo debuted the first trailer for the series at Star Wars Celebration London on April 7, 2023,[124] with additional footage and the confirmation of Mikkelsen's casting as Thrawn coming the following day.[125] A featurette titled Master & Apprentice: A Special Look at Ahsoka, focusing on mentor-student relationships in Star Wars as well as the real-life relationship between George Lucas and Dave Filoni, was released in August.[126][127]

Release

Streaming and theatrical

The first two episodes of the season premiered on Disney+ on August 22, 2023, at 9 p.m. Eastern Time. The other six episodes were released weekly on Tuesdays at that same time,[128][46] until October 3.[129] The season was originally scheduled to premiere on August 23 and be released on Wednesdays at 3 a.m. Eastern Time,[130][131] but its release schedule was changed a week before it premiered.[128] The first episode is dedicated to Stevenson who died in May 2023.[132] Fan screenings for the fifth episode were held on September 12, the day it was released on Disney+, in ten theaters around the U.S. as well as at an event in the UK hosted by Empire.[133][134]

Home media

The season was released on Ultra HD Blu-ray on December 3, 2024, with SteelBook packaging featuring art by Attila Szarka. The release includes concept art cards and several bonus featurettes: Ahsoka: Legacy, which explores the making of the series; Path of the Apprentice, focusing on Anakin and Ahsoka; Ghosts of the Past which is about Ahsoka's allies; and Darkness Rising which is about the villains.[135]

Reception

Viewership

According to Whip Media, who track viewership data for the 25 million worldwide users of their TV Time app, Ahsoka was the most anticipated new series of August 2023.[136] Disney and Lucasfilm announced that the first episode had 14 million views in the five days following its release, making it the most watched title on Disney+ during the week of its launch. Disney defined views as total stream time divided by runtime, which The Hollywood Reporter equated to 784 million minutes of viewing.[137][138] Analytics company Samba TV, which gathers viewership data from certain Smart TVs and content providers, reported that the first episode was viewed by 1.2 million households over its first five days. That is on par with their estimates for the premiere of Andor's first season, but 50 percent lower than Obi-Wan Kenobi and 29 percent lower than the third season of The Mandalorian.[137]

Whip Media calculated that Ahsoka was the second-highest original streaming series for U.S. viewership during its first two weeks of release, behind Hulu's Only Murders in the Building. It topped the chart for the rest of the season.[139] JustWatch, a guide to streaming content with access to data from more than 20 million users around the world, estimated that Ahsoka was the second-most watched streaming series in the U.S. for the week ending September 3, behind Netflix's One Piece. It remained in the site's top five for the rest of the season's release, finishing in third behind Amazon Prime Video's Gen V and Only Murders in the Building.[140] Nielsen Media Research, which records streaming viewership on U.S. television screens, estimated that the first two episodes of Ahsoka were watched for 829 million minutes during its first five days. This put it in second on the list of original series for the week, behind Netflix's Who Is Erin Carter?. It was above the premieres for Andor (624 million minutes) and the third season of The Mandalorian (823 million minutes) but below Obi-Wan Kenobi (1.03 billion minutes). The series dropped down the list for the following weeks, but remained in the top 10 for each episode. It returned to second place for the week of the finale, behind Netflix's Love Is Blind, with 575 million minutes viewed.[141]

Critical response

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported that 85% of 269 critics gave the season a positive review, with an average rating of 7.40 out of 10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Elevated by Rosario Dawson's strong performance in the title role and a solid story that balances new and old elements of the Star Wars saga, Ahsoka is a must-watch for fans of the franchise."[142] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the season a score of 68 out of 100 based on 25 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[143] Critics commonly felt the season was a good entry in the franchise for existing Star Wars fans. The performances of Dawson and Stevenson received praise, but other performances were criticized as being "stiff" and the season's slow pacing also received criticism.[144][145][146]

Accolades

Christensen and Inosanto were named honorable mentions for TVLine's "Performer of the Week", for their respective performances in "Part Five: Shadow Warrior" and "Part Eight: The Jedi, the Witch, and the Warlord".[147][148] Ahsoka was awarded the Seal of Female Empowerment in Entertainment by the Critics Choice Association after receiving a perfect score when compared to their criteria. This included having a prominent female character arc, giving female characters at least equal screen time to male characters, having female leaders in the production, passing the Bechdel test, and having "artistic and storytelling value and exceptionality".[149][150]

|- ! scope="row" rowspan="31" style="text-align:center;" | 2024 | American Cinema Editors | Best Edited Drama Series | Dana E. Glauberman (for "Part Four: Fallen Jedi") | | [151] |- | Annie Awards | Outstanding Achievement for Character Animation in a Live Action Production | Rick O'Connor, Mike Beaulieu, Stewart Alves, Kevin Reuter, and Wai Kit Wan | | [152] |- | rowspan="4" | Astra TV Awards | Best Streaming Drama Series | Ahsoka | | rowspan="4" | [153] |- | Best Actress in a Streaming Drama Series | Rosario Dawson | |- | Best Supporting Actress in a Streaming Drama Series | Mary Elizabeth Winstead | |- | Best Directing in a Streaming Drama Series | Dave Filoni (for "Part Five: Shadow Warrior") | |- | Black Reel TV Awards | Outstanding Lead Performance in a Drama Series | Rosario Dawson | | [154] |- | Costume Designers Guild Awards | Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Television | Shawna Trpcic (for "Part Eight: The Jedi, the Witch, and the Warlord") | | [155] |- | rowspan="5" | Critics' Choice Super Awards | Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Series | Ahsoka | | rowspan="5" | [156] |- | Best Superhero Series | Ahsoka | |- | Best Actress in a Science Fiction/Fantasy Series | Rosario Dawson | |- | Best Actress in a Superhero Series | Rosario Dawson | |- | Best Villain in a Series | Lars Mikkelsen | |- | Golden Reel Awards | Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Broadcast Long Form Effects and Foley | Bonnie Wild, Matthew Wood, David Acord, Kimberly Patrick, Tim Farrell, Joel Raabe, Shelley Roden, Ronni Brown, and Heikki Kossi (for "Part Four: Fallen Jedi") | | [157] |- | rowspan="2" | Hollywood Professional Association Awards | rowspan="2" | Outstanding Editing – Episode or Non-Theatrical Feature (Over 30 Minutes) | Dana E. Glauberman (for "Part Four: Fallen Jedi") | | rowspan="2" | [158] |- | James D. Wilcox (for "Part Six: Far, Far Away") | [a] |- | ICG Publicists Awards | Maxwell Weinberg Award for Television Publicity Campaign | Ahsoka | | style="text-align:center;" | [159] |- | International Film Music Critics Association Awards | Best Original Score for Television | Ahsoka (music by Kevin Kiner) | | [160] |- | Kids' Choice Awards | Favorite Female TV Star (Family) | Rosario Dawson | | [161] |- | rowspan="2" | Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards | Best Period and /or Character Makeup | Alexei Dmitriew, Cristina Waltz, Alex Perrone, and Cale Thomas | | rowspan="2" | [162] |- | Best Special Makeup Effects | Alexei Dmitriew, Cristina Waltz, Ana Gabriela Quinonez, and Ian Goodwin | |- | rowspan="2" | People's Choice Awards | Sci-Fi/Fantasy Show of the Year | Ahsoka | | rowspan="2" | [163] |- | Female TV Star of the Year | Rosario Dawson | |- | rowspan="5" | Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards | Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes | Shawna Trpcic, Elissa Alcala, and Devon Patterson (for "Part Eight: The Jedi, the Witch, and the Warlord") | | rowspan="5" | [164][165] |- | Outstanding Period or Fantasy/Sci-Fi Hairstyling | Maria Sandoval, Ashleigh Childers, Sallie Ciganovich, Marc Mapile, and Alyn Topper (for "Part One: Master and Apprentice") | |- | Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup | Alexei Dmitriew, Cristina Waltz, Ana Gabriela Quinonez Urrego, J. Alan Scott, Ian Goodwin, Cale Thomas, Alex Perrone, and Scott Stoddard (for "Part Eight: The Jedi, the Witch, and the Warlord") | |- | Outstanding Sound Editing for a Comedy or Drama Series (Half-Hour) and Animation | Matthew Wood, Bonnie Wild, David Acord, James Spencer, Vanessa Lapato, Stephanie McNally, Trey Turner, Kimberly Patrick, Tim Farrell, Joel Raabe, Chris Tergesen, Ronni Brown, Heikki Kossi, and Shelley Roden (for "Part Four: Fallen Jedi") | |- | Outstanding Special Visual Effects | Richard Bluff, Jakris Smittant, Paul Kavanagh, TC Harrison, Scott Fisher, Enrico Damm, Justin van der Lek, Rick O'Connor, and J. Alan Scott | |- | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series | Ahsoka | | [166] |- | Society of Composers & Lyricists Awards | Outstanding Original Title Sequence for a Television Production | Kevin Kiner | | [167] |- | Visual Effects Society Awards | Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode | Richard Bluff, Jakris Smittant, Paul Kavanagh, Enrico Damm, and Scott Fisher (for "Part Seven: Dreams and Madness") | | [168] |- ! scope="row" rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | 2025 | rowspan="2" | Saturn Awards | Best Science Fiction Television Series | Ahsoka | | rowspan="2" | [169][170] |- | Best Actress in a Television Series | Rosario Dawson | |}

Notes

  1. ^ Tied with Katie Weiland for the House of the Dragon episode "The Red Dragon and the Gold".

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