Ahsoka Season 2 Teases More Action and Intrigue

Dave Filoni took the signifier astatine Star Wars Celebration, ostensibly for a look backmost astatine play 1 of Ahsoka—but the main attraction was, of course, the archetypal factual news regarding season two of the Rosario Dawson-starring series. Fans person been waiting for updates since the affectional and open-ended season 1 finale backmost successful precocious 2023, and Filoni yet delivered the goods.

Inspired by retro adverts for A New Hope‘s sequel earlier thing had been filmed for Empire Strikes Back, the caller teaser for play 2, the caller trailer was made wholly of conception creation for the season, with voiceover narration teasing the coming conflict betwixt the New Republic and the Imperial Remnant.

The tease included glimpses of fleet battles betwixt New Republic and Remnant ships, with Ezra suiting up alongside New Republic pilots to instrumentality the combat to the Empire. Meanwhile, successful the different postulation wherever Ahsoka and Sabine stayed aft play one, we saw shots of the Master and Padawan exploring past ruins, and warring giant, aged droid guardians, with narration teasing a last confrontation with Baylan Skoll to culminate their journey.

Other intriguing shots included David Tennant’s droid Huyang squaring disconnected with Shin Hati (seemingly splitting his arms into multiples akin to Grievous, a saber successful each hand), and Chopper blasting distant with a monolithic repeater cannon. The trailer besides confirmed that Rebels‘ Zeb Orrelios, aft his live-action debut successful The Mandalorian, would yet beryllium reunited with his animated compatriots.

Ahsoka‘s archetypal play ran for 8 episodes and explored not lone the beingness of Dawson’s Ahsoka Tano—spinning disconnected the character’s life-action debut successful The Mandalorian—but besides chap Star Wars Rebels heroes Sabine Wren (Natasha Liu Bordizzo), Hera Syndulla (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), and Ezra Bridger (Eman Esfandi).

It besides brought Grand Admiral Thrawn (Lars Mikkelsen) to live-action for the archetypal time, and featured the instrumentality of Hayden Christensen arsenic aboriginal Darth Vader Anakin Skywalker.

The Star Wars Celebration sheet confirmed the quality that Game of Thrones prima Rory McCann volition instrumentality implicit the relation of erstwhile Jedi Baylan Skoll, stepping successful for the precocious Ray Stevenson, who portrayed the quality successful play one. Further teases included the information that Admiral Ackbar volition look successful the season, going “head to head” with Thrawn, and Hayden Christensen volition reprise his relation arsenic the chosen one, Anakin Skywalker.

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