SPOILER Ahsoka - Part 3, Time to Fly

Who's directing the next episode and is Filoni writing the whole show? I'm fine with the directing and writing so far but simply curious

 

DIRECTORS
Ep.1: Dave Filoni
Ep.2: Steph Green
Ep.3: Steph Green
Ep.4: Peter Ramsey
Ep.5: Dave Filoni
Ep.6: Jennifer Getzinger
Ep.7: Geeta Patel
Ep.8: Rick Famuyiwa


Dave Filoni has sole writing credits.

 

I have no problem with David Filoni's directing and writing. I still want him to replace Katherine Kennedy in charge of Star Wars for many reasons and I don't even dislike her like most do

 

Rick Famuyiwa is doing the finale? That sounds like fun.

curious what Filoni will throw at us in episode 5

to the “filoni replace Kennedy”, I feel ljke the issue that could arise from that is reduced storytelling ability from Dave, could it not? Since he’d then have to deal with the more business side of things?

 

The Thrawn reveal is highly likely.

Whatever mid-season escalation/change-of-direction for the story, might likewise be setup here (like the 5th episode of The Mandalorian season 2 -- The Jedi -- which starts the season's entire Grogu-getting-captured debackle by Ahsoka sending him to space-stonehenge for an attempted forcechat).

So, yeah, it will likely be a big episode, with the "darkest hour" story turn occuring in ep. 6.

Yes.

Filoni's tallent is much, much better spent creating content than steering the MS Lucasfilm ship.

 

Yeah, looking at this list, I can't help but think E5 will either give us Ezra, Thrawn, or both.

Something big happening then, in the Filoniverse.

 

Very true. In that case make Dave dave Favreau and Dave Filoni consultants and producers of most things

 

Me too. Ezra seemed to have been ‘missing’ for as long as he was in WBW (a couple hours or whatever). I assumed it was the same for her. Simplest explanation, I reckon.

We know she would have been stranded on Malachor after everybody left. Could be she was there for years.

I think the issue (if you can really call it that) is that this Star Wars ‘show’ isn’t really structured like a show. The episodes don’t seem to be built from conventional teleplays with defined beginnings, middles, and ends. It’s more like a screenplay that’s been chopped up into releasable chunks.

We’re essentially watching a movie cut up and exhibited over several weeks. It’s not paced like a TV show. It’s sections from a larger film that probably would benefit from being viewed all at once. I think the release strategy is working against it a little bit.

Ironically though, that’s what the old Flash Gordon serials, George Lucas enjoyed so much, were: one movie, cut up into interstitial segments - pieces of a whole, without resolution until the finale.

What has Filoni actually produced thus far?

 

Interesting... Is there anything in particular that make you feel this way, or is it just like a hunch? Admittedly, those two aren't seen together all that often.

 

Not sure but I think it would be good if he was involved more. Is he producing the cross over event movie or just directing and writing? Wasn't he an executive producer for the clone wars and rebels show?

 

Smart move. I would have denied you.

 

Dave Filoni is an Exec. Producer on:
The Mandalorian
Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian
The Book of Boba Fett
Ahsoka
Skeleton Crew
The Clone Wars
Rebels
Force of Destiny
Resistance
The Bad Batch
Tales of the Jedi

 

I forgot he wasn't involved in Obi-Wan and that may explain some things although I find that show underrated

 

Yes, well you know you Sith...

 

Possibly.

I actually did feel this with Andor. Sometimes the credits rolled and I felt almost nothing had happened in the episode.

Other times I thought the story of the week had wrapped, and then the show goes on for another fifteen minutes.

But Ahsoka has been relatively structured so far. Ep1 wasn't too atypical for a pilot. Ep2 was Sabine's recovery and Hera/Ahsoka's mission. 3 was about going to the ring station, and Hera's struggles to get reinforcements for them.

idk, again, I get that it's not as overly clean cut as Mando's "Let's go to a new planet every week" approach in its first few seasons, but I think each episode has felt like a solid unit of storytelling, rather than a random chunk.

 

Agreed

 

I just mean in regard to conventional episodic television. Mando is a great example. In the third episode of that show, we have a fully completed narrative with a concluded storyline.

The episode begins with Din having doubts about whether his delivering Grogu to the Empire is morally right. The body of the episode is about him struggling with that and then resolving to save Grogu. The conclusion is then him escaping with Grogu in an almost mirror of the show opening. It’s one fully formed thought from start to finish.

The third episode of Ahsoka begins with Sabine’s pained training, struggling with this unfamiliar perspective of mindfulness. However, neither the body or the conclusion of the episode are reinforcement or resolution to this idea. It’s most certainly going to play into the story at some point in the future, but it wasn’t immediately relevant here. It’s an incomplete thought. It’s a chunk cut out of a bigger picture.

It isn’t a random chunk though. It’s following the natural beats of the story. But it’s a logical break, rather than a narratological one. **Maybe** that might be messing some people up with the pacing . . . maybe. Just a thought.