Warning: Spoilers for “The Mandalorian” Season 2’s fifth episode, “The Jedi.”
“The Mandalorian” may have changed the way we think about Ahsoka Tano’s actions in the entire “Star Wars” timeline.
What’s going on?
Tano recently appeared in the fifth episode of the second season of “The Mandalorian,” working with the Mandalorian to bring down the city of Calodan on the planet Corvus.
This is the first time we’ve seen Ahsoka in “Star Wars” since the end of “Star Wars Rebels,” where we see her teaming up with Sabine Wren to search for Ezra Bridger.
Since that moment, “Star Wars” fans thought for years that Ahsoka and Sabine team up right after the Battle of Endor since there are announcements that make that appear to be true.
But Dave Filoni — showrunner of “Rebels” and recent “Mandalorian” director — may have just suggested that’s not the case in an interview with Vanity Fair.
“That’s not necessarily chronological. I think the thing that people will most not understand is they want to go in a linear fashion, but as I learned as a kid, nothing in ‘Star Wars’ really works in a linear fashion. You do (episodes) 4, 5 and 6 and then 1, 2 and 3. So in the vein of that history, when you look at the epilogue of ‘Rebels’ you don’t really know how much time has passed. So, it’s possible that the story I’m telling in ‘The Mandalorian’ actually takes place prior to that. Possible. I’m saying it’s possible.”
What we know
“The Mandalorian” takes place five years after the Battle of Endor in “Return of the Jedi.”
“Rebels” — in large part — takes place before “A New Hope.” The epilogue scene takes place after the “Battle of Endor.”
Ahsoka mentions in “The Mandalorian” that she is seeking Grand Admiral Thrawn, who we know disappeared with Ezra at the end of “Rebels.”