TV
AHSOKA
SNIPS FINALLY GETS THE LIVE-ACTION SPOTLIGHT
Light years ahead: Rosario Dawson as Ahsoka.
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OUT NOW (DISNEY+) / EPISODES VIEWED 5 OF 8
SHOWRUNNER Dave Filoni
STARRING Rosario Dawson, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ray Stevenson, Ivanna Sakhno, Lars Mikkelsen, Eman Esfandi
PLOT Ahsoka Tano (Dawson) continues her quest to track down Force-wielder Ezra Bridger (Esfandi) — plus Grand Admiral Thrawn (Mikkelsen).
‘SNIPS’ HAS COME a long way. Back when she made her debut in Dave Filoni’s animated The Clone Wars movie 15 years ago, Ahsoka Tano (voiced by Ashley Eckstein) seemed little more than a perky throwaway sidekick for Anakin Skywalker — her appeal diminished by the execrable nickname her master gave her (surely ranking a close second to the slaughter of the Jedi younglings as his worst crime). But Filoni had bigger plans for his Togruta scrapper. During the following decades, Snips came into focus as The Clone Wars series’ most interesting character, a fractured prism through which we could both appreciate the doomed Jedi Order’s disturbing imperfection and most intensely feel the trauma of its destruction.