Star Wars lastly accomplished a retcon of the two-year-old Inquisitor, however all however erased considered one of Ahsoka Tano's greatest tales from the canon. Disney canceled Star Wars: The Clone Wars in 2013, however many plot threads have been explored in different media over time - most notably the continuing tales of Ahsoka Tano and Darth Maul. Then, in a surprising twist, The Clone Wars was revived years later, and different essential elements of Ahsoka's story have been animated in Tales of the Jedi. The issue? They don't actually match, particularly with EK Johnston's novel Ahsoka.
The largest issues arose with Ahsoka Tano's confrontation with an Inquisitor a while after Order 66, which performed out in an identical approach - however with some essential variations. In Ahsokashe fought towards the Inquisitor referred to as the Sixth Brother; in Tales of the Jedishe confronted a really totally different Inquisitor, not too long ago named the Eleventh Brother. Star Wars: Insider #229 incorporates an article in regards to the Inquisitors that confirms the identification of the Eleventh Brother, whereas additionally avoiding describing the dying of the Sixth Brother. Truthfully, it looks like the Ahsoka the scenes have been utterly deleted from the canon.
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EK Johnston's novel simply doesn't match anymore
In truth, this shouldn't be a lot of a shock. Johnston's novel merely doesn't match effectively anymore; describes a really totally different model of the Siege of Mandalore, for instance. In Ahsokathis confrontation with an Inquisitor comes after Ahsoka Tano developed an in depth friendship with two Darkish sisters who lived on the agricultural moon of Raada. Certainly one of them was amongst Disney's first LGBTQI characters, as revealed in a single scene the place she admitted her attraction to Ahsoka. Each sisters are completely absent Tales of the Jedi.
The issues don't cease there both. E.Okay. Johnston Ahsoka reveals how Anakin Skywalker's former Padawan reached Bail Organa, turning into a Fulcrum agent of the nascent Insurgent Alliance. Once more, Tales of the Jedi reveals these occasions very in another way. Lucasfilm's Dave Filoni admitted Tales of the Jedi was based mostly on the identical define he gave Johnston for the novel, however the 2 interpretations merely don't work facet by facet. It appears that evidently Johnston's e-book ought to now be thought of non-canonical.
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These issues have been sadly inevitable
When Disney rebooted the canon in 2013, erasing the outdated Star Wars Expanded Universe, it was with the promise that every thing would now have equal canonicity. The outdated EU usually had contradictions that led to the creation of a versatile, “layered” strategy to the canon, the place tales have been erased if George Lucas determined to inform a distinct story. We have been informed this may by no means occur once more and now we had a single stage of canonicity, no contradictions.
That may by no means occur, after all, as a result of Star Wars continues to develop at an unimaginable charge. THE Clone Wars revival and Tales of the Jedi it made contradictions inevitable, however nobody anticipated them to be as important as this one. It's a disgrace; Johnston's novel Ahsoka it was large Star Wars novel, and it actually doesn't should be erased from the canon like this. Nonetheless, canonicity doesn't equal high quality – as those that love the outdated EU (now referred to as Legends) know all too effectively.
Supply: Star Wars Insider