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Spoilers AHSOKA series [Spoiler Discussion]

I figured the McGregor rumor had been going around for awhile, but that just shows how closely I pay attention to rumors and sites that propagate them (I only saw this one because io9's Morning Spoilers highlighted it).

I had heard that Portman has said she wanted to return, so hopefully that gives some validity to this rumor.

Maybe a what if scene where Anakin didn't turn to the dark side
That would be curious to see. I love a good What If? :D
 
If they intend to do a Mortis arc-based story for Ahsoka, they will need to get the audience that did not watch The Clone Wars up to speed on it. Somethings can be waved over, but the whole arc was kind of lore overwhelming. A flashback might be in order, but that would be animated....unless.... There were only three major characters involved in that story that were not the Mortis 'gods': Ahsoka, Anakin, and Obi-wan. If you want to make a live-action flashback or a "last time, on The Clone Wars" thing, you have the needed actors in Greenblatt, Christensen, and McGregor. Of course the Mortis Arc originally also gave cameos for Shmii Skywalker and Qui-Gon Ginn, but that is not strictly needed to tell us what is happening.

As for Padme. She was a good friend and mentor for Ahsoka on how things are outside the Jedi Order. At least in terms of politics, friendships, and that not everything is black and white in the galaxy. How would Padme come into the story is another question entirely. A cameo within Mortis like those of Shmii or Qui-Gon is possible, though what lesson or path would the light or dark side try to sway Ahsoka via Padme is unclear. If Anakin can manifest in Mortis like he did in the World Between Worlds, could he bring Padme to manifest? Or would the Dark Side temp Anakin via Padme? If they all enter Mortis, what does Sabine see? These people mean nothing to her. She never met Padme or Obi-wan, and only met Anakin as Darth Vader. Many questions and many things to get across to the audience if they go to Mortis.
 
I have to admit, I would kind of like to see them do a recap with the animated footage from The Clone Wars, just to see how the people who hate anything animated and purposefully refuse to watch the cartoons react.
Take this "news" with a huge helping of salt but according to Slash Film, an insider reports that Dave Filoli is trying to get Natalie Portman to appear in the second season. The same article mentions that there are rumors that both Hayden Christensen (not a surprise) and Ewan McGregor would also appear (first I've heard that rumor).

If this is part of a World Between Worlds scenario, then I'm cautiously curious about this potential news. I know that concept isn't popular among some fans but I always loved it.
I would love to see that happen, but can people who aren't Force users access The World Between Worlds? Or would Padme just be part of a vision/flashback like we got in the episode with Anakin's ghost?
I figured the McGregor rumor had been going around for awhile, but that just shows how closely I pay attention to rumors and sites that propagate them (I only saw this one because io9's Morning Spoilers highlighted it).

I had heard that Portman has said she wanted to return, so hopefully that gives some validity to this rumor.
Hayden Christensen got to kind of redeem his acting as Anakin in Ahsoka and Obi-Wan, so it would be nice to see Natalie Portman get the same opportunity for acting as Padme.
That would be curious to see. I love a good What If? :D

Me too, or a what if? Episode with a 2 hours runtime
I'd be up for that too.
 
Bit of a wild swing, but what if (big *if*, obviously) they bring back Portman but not to play Padme again? What instead of more flashbacks, force visions, holograms or whatever, they have her playing Sabé?

Granted, if they wanted Sabé then Keira Knightley would be an easy enough get . . . but it would give Portman something new and interesting to do acting-wise than just have a little de-aged reunion with Hayden & McGregor.
 
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Yeah, that thought crossed my mind too, especially since they did that big storyline with her in the comics. I wonder if they'd repeat the fake out they did and make people think she's Padme at first?
 
"You get a Force ghost! And you get a Force ghost! And YOU get a Force ghost!"
yessssoprah-oprah.gif
 
There were leaks/rumors there was going to be a scene in Season 1 with a what if scenario of Ahsoka was on Mustafar with Obi-Wan in the WBW episode. The same people got everything else right about the series, so it could have been something cut from the series early on. The lesson for the scene was she can’t change destiny. Which does fit with the actual episode we got.

I could have sworn more evidence came out for this, like someone claiming they stood in for Ewan as Obi-Wan’s dead body in the background. But now I can’t find anything. I might be misremembering
 
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The lesson for the scene was she can’t change destiny.
This is why it's better for most franchises to just avoid time travel. If you have time travel you absolutely can change things. You can change anything. Falling back on a "muh destiny" handwave just looks like weaksauce ass-covering.
 
There is no time travel in Star Wars and there never has been. There's been travel from one place, the real world, to another place, the World Between Worlds. Nobody who has gone into the World Between Worlds has ever traveled to any other time other than the time they came from. I defy you to tell me of even one character that has ever traveled from one time to another in Star Wars.
 
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Ahsoka was pulled into The World Between Worlds (twice now) from her period of time. Spend a relatively small amount of time in TWBW, and then return to her time period with that same amount of time having passed. She still went forward in a linear fashion. What TWBW does it is take her out of the dimension and place her outside of it for a time before she returns. Mortis does similar but time inside Mortis can go for however long and then you return to the point in time you left originally.

Ezra also entered and exited out of the same portal. He managed to pull Ashoka into The World Between Worlds. That is the closest oddity resembling time travel. He was going to attempt it with Kanan, but it seems that portal was actually a trap setup by the Emperor, as after Ezra rejected it, the portal to Kanan became the one the Emperor was using to try to break into TWBWs.
Later the Emperor tempted Erza with his parents. The question is...what happens if Ezra goes through? Does he land in the past with his parents? Does he pull his parents to the present. Or does it only open a gate for the Emperor to access TWBW and Ezra just dies?

Then one asks, well if there is no time travel, what was the Emperor going to do with it? The World Between Worlds would give him access to more future knowledge than his powers currently can. He can plan out for more eventualities. He can safe himself via pulling people into TWBW, then shoving them back once the danger has passed. Or double it by knowing of the danger, not avoiding it, but putting a failsafe in place after he returns from TWBW. (Example: Sheev observes a future. Darth Vader throws Palpatine down a shaft. Sheev pulls himself out of the shaft into TWBW. His future self tells him what happened. Sheev makes notes and continues to watch events with himself as the Death Star II explodes. Sheev writes down to order a ship to a set of exact coordinates at a specific time. Ship arrives in the debris field in the chaos following the destruction. It lines up with the portal and Palpatine returns. Sheev goes back out to confirm the orders in the past.) This is the kind of nonsense the Emperor might have been able to do with TWBW.
 
Incidentally; anyone that gets tired of typing out "The World Between Worlds" every time, just call it Voidspace, or The Void. Pretty sure that's how Filloni and others have referred to it at various times.
Ahsoka was pulled into The World Between Worlds (twice now) from her period of time.
Small point of contention; it's a little dubious as to whether she was ever physically there the second time. We saw Ezra get there twice before. The first time when he got his kyber crystal, and the second when actually seeing and speaking with Yoda, who was himself clearly sat on a log on Dagobah at the time and thus also not physically there.

I tend to think of it as operating under similar rules as the Spirit World from 'Avatar: The Last Airbender'/'Legend of Korra'. That is that you can get there though astral projection (hardly easy, but possible if one knows how), or you can get there physically though a portal (much more rare and difficult to do.)
There's other rules like what you can and can't do based on which method is used, which may have analogies for Void Space. The main one seems to be access to other portals only works if you're there physically. They only appeared that one time we saw Ezra go in and get Ahsoka.
Spend a relatively small amount of time in TWBW, and then return to her time period with that same amount of time having passed. She still went forward in a linear fashion. What TWBW does it is take her out of the dimension and place her outside of it for a time before she returns. Mortis does similar but time inside Mortis can go for however long and then you return to the point in time you left originally.
It's been suggested by some at Lucasfilm that time on Dagobah and similar places strong in the force also operates somewhat differently. I'd also go one step further and suggest that Luke's (and Yoda's in TCW) vision in the cave saw him at least skirting the edge of The Void. Given there's hints of an ancient structure in that cave, I wouldn't be shocked if there was a portal in there too.
 
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It's been suggested by some at Lucasfilm that time on Dagobah and similar places strong in the force also operates somewhat differently.
Dagobah is not Mortis. Time operates the same on Dagobah as it does on any other planet. Relativity has rotted people's brains.
 
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