Ahsoka: Part Five: Shadow Warrior (2023)
Season 1, Episode 5
9/10
Strong episode that sets up for an exciting conclusion
14 September 2023
Dave Filoni is crafting another masterpiece in live action. This episode pulled together many plot lines and builds great excitement for the final three episodes of season one.

The World Between World stage was perhaps the strongest device used in the last season of the animated series Star Wars: Rebels. By tying it directly into this episode the live action series wove a complex plot that added dimension to the characters and to the narrative.

Half dream and half fourth dimension experience, the scenes between Ahsoka and Anakin Skywalker form the basis of this episode. Completion of training is the justification, but in most respects, it is a self-discovery on the part of Ahsoka, as she learns to reconcile her past and that of her master's.

Ahsoka Tano, a person not quite ready to accept the full mantle of being a Jedi Knight, may have finally accepted all of that obligation, plus improved her concept of tactical decision making.

Hayden Christensen plays a remarkable performance, effortlessly mingling a rare combination of good and evil coincidentally. It was a hard character to perform, but it provided the high point of this episode.

With a renewed foundation, the principle character now embarks upon the final journey to seek out the long lost Ezra Bridger, and perhaps avert an immediate renewal of the war. How she determined her method is left for the viewer to discover, even as that method itself also blends Rebels into this series, rendering the two almost co-productions.

It should be a very entertaining final three episode ride.
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