SPECULATION Ahsoka and Lord of the Rings

I will probably draw fire for this statement, but as someone who has been a fanatic since I was a kid in the early 80s, I feel licensed to say it.

I am much more grateful for and enjoying what Dave Filoni is bringing in to Star Wars over what GL brought to the table. He is the Creator. Fair enough. Filoni is bringing solid stories and established a solid Canon with solid and deep influences such as LOTR. It gives depth and a much deeper and fantastic lore to the franchise. It's also something that is much more relatable and recognizable since Gandalf, Hobbits and Middle Earth had such a resurgence in recent years. I also think it's notable how he is working some of the Legends elements into Canon.

In regards to the LOTR parallels, I think it just adds another layer to how we as fans interpret, understand and speculate these stories, and that is a great thing. I think the beauty of a franchise and a Canon with the enormous scope of Star Wars is that you can relate it to pretty much anything and there are no bad or incorrect references. The Visual salad we are getting especially in the Ahsoka series, with cues from LOTR, Game of Thrones, classic Samurai, Westerns, not to mention just using inspiration from all 3 SW trilogies, animation and books... It's like every time they run these ingredients through the machine, they become more and more blended into something uniquely and simply defined as STAR WARS.

 

I agree. As a huge fantasy fan, I never considered Star Wars to be a sci-fi and when I heard some people arguments that Star Wars is not a good sci-fi, because sci-fi is clever and rooted more in realism, while tossing in Star Trek sometimes as doing it better, I always replied that Star Wars is a fantasy with sci-fi world and elements.
It can also be a western sometimes, you name it, but the whole idea of force, destiny, higher purpose, good vs evil that has roots in the mystical energy, force ghosts etc. that's it.

I was pleasantly surprised with Filoni going heavy fantasy with Ahsoka and there were some of these things already in Clone Wars, like the obvious Mortis Gods, that Morai owl constanly going around Ahsoka in later stories, or those underground dwellers in the episode with R2 and C3PO trying to solve the tremors.
Even tho I have criticized the writing of the show hard as it wrapped now, lot of the themes and visuals in Ahsoka made me happy.
With the witch tower looking a lot like Minas Tirith, that oldschool wayfinder device, the iconography and everything.
Not to mention the Mount Doom at the end of Ahsoka.

I suspect that Sauron like entity is coming to GFFA.

 

Or Minas Morgul.