Many Jedi well known to fans of the saga Star Wars appear on screen in the animated series Tales of the Jediavailable in full on the Disney+ streaming platform from Wednesday, October 26, 2022.
This latest production from Disney studios tells in six episodes of about fifteen minutes the slices of life of two masters of the lightsaber with opposite destinies: Ahsoka Tano, in the camp of good, and Count Dooku, who slowly joins the side Dark of the Force. The two Jedi are followed alternately over the course of the series and the events told take place during the prelogy films (films I, II and III of Star Wars).
The first narrative arc around Ahsoka Tano is the one that brings the most surprises and poetry to the Star Wars universe. In the highly successful first episode, viewers can follow Ahsoka Tano’s birth and her first steps as a child on the lush planet Shili where fierce beasts roam around her village. Dave Filoni, the creator of this mini-series and previously of The Clone Warsput in this episode titled “Life and Death” all the ingredients he wanted to Tales of the Jedi : a story with few dialogues, a powerful nature that frightens men despite their blasters and a journey of characters through the Force.
The last episode, in which Ahsoka Tano, who has become a Jedi master, gathers the same raw materials. But in the meantime, the fighter of the Togruta people, has become an expert in handling the lightsaber. And she hides to escape the Empire’s repression against the Jedi.
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The last episode of Tales of the Jedi indeed takes place between films III and IV of the Star Wars saga. After serving as Anakin Skywalker’s apprentice, Ahsoka Tano hides out on a distant planet to escape the Empire’s campaign to kill the Jedi. In this distant world, where she lifts hay bales with the help of droids, Ahsoka Tano looks like a dreamy Miyazaki character. Dave Filoni also says he was inspired by the work of the master of Japanese animation for his series.
In stark contrast, the Count Dooku-centric episodes are darker and set in better-known locations in the Star Wars universe, primarily on the planet Coruscant. Through the trajectory of Count Dooku, the spectator discovers a less Manichean reflection than it seems on the questions surrounding the meaning of the Jedi order. In the service of a corrupt Senate, the knights of the order, who accompany Dooku during his mission, face the hostility of inhabitants of planets ruined by the political actions of the Galactic Republic.
Over the course of the episodes, Dooku moves away from the Jedi order towards the dark side, which he thinks is more likely to bring freedom to the galaxy: a speech heard many times in the previous films of Star Wars, but that just resonates in this animated mini-series that brings viewers closer to two Jedi from across the galaxy. All with new successful planets as a backdrop, a prerequisite that any new production of the intergalactic saga should fulfill.
Series Tales of the Jedi will be available in full on the Disney+ streaming platform from Wednesday, October 26.