SPOILER Implications of Last Night's Episode

*Episode. Not "Episoded"

So, obviously this thread is full of spoilers. You've been warned!

Spoiler

So, as far as I can tell, it's now possible to change the events of the past via a Jedi temple. True, Ezra did destroy the one on Lothal according to Rebels Recon, but that doesn't mean similar mechanisms don't exist.

What interests me is this:

I like the gritty bleakness of the sequel trilogy, but it almost seems like they've gone out of their way to create sadness in the universe. Han and Leia having broken up, Luke living a hermit's life and eventually dying, R2 being powered down for most of TFA, a new fascist empire rising, the Solo child having fallen to the dark side, the Resistance essentially being snuffed out... most of these things I've just attributed to the fact that obviously we needed a sense of conflict in this trilogy. "Happily Ever After" isn't a really compelling arc, after all.

But what if LFL has let everything go to hell because in the end, that can be undone? What if Rey or Kylo Ren could use a similar mechanism to Ezra to right the wrongs of the past?

This would be in pretty direct conflict with the "Let the past go" theme of TLJ, but we've already seen the series retract another theme from that movie, in the end of the Jedi.

Plus, this would hardly be the first time an expanded media outlet was used to test the public waters for something in Star Wars that would eventually get a wider release. The expanded view of the Force, particularly the grey, was used in a lot of media before TLJ, especially Rebels.


Alternatively... if both Ahsoka and Ezra are alive, could they possibly travel forward to help the Resistance in EpIX? That would conveniently answer the huge question of why they're not around during the original trilogy pretty well.

Lots of wild speculation here, and I'm well aware that the most like explanation is that Rebels is canon but probably won't have much of an impact on the movies, but I'm curious to what you all think about the implications that these episodes could have on the franchise as a whole.

 

I'd love to see the two of them together.

And yeah, if someone scrolls down this far past all these spoiler tags, they kinda have no one else to blame at this point...

 

Eh, I don't know.

Maybe they're going somewhere with this. I hope so, at least.

 

I don't think they'd kill her off.
It's more of a factor of whether she'll be on the show again before the end, or if her story on Rebels is just finished, and Pablo is saving (both literally and figuratively) her for something else.