However, in these recent two episodes, things went even further into strange territory. To keep the story short, the Jedi Temples (connected to the Mortis Gods from ‘Clone Wars’) were discovered and being excavated by the Empire. A captured Sabine Ren and Minister Hydan, an advisor to the Emperor and Jedi scholar, managed to work out how to create a portal into the Temple. Given this knowledge, Ezra, using his Force powers, was able to open that portal and then “Star Wars” was perhaps irrevocably changed.
When Ezra entered the mysterious portal — the titular world between worlds — he was brought into a kind of interdimensional zone between time and space. He hears the voices of Jedis spanning several generations — Yoda, Obi-Wan, Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson‘s character from ‘The Phantom Menace‘) and more. Then, in perhaps the most revolutionary moment in “Star Wars” history and in the use of the Force, he essentially changes the narrative of time and resurrects a character from the dead.
Inside the space-time portal, Ezra is able to see different events of Jedi history, and one of them is the fate of Ahsoka Tano, the former apprentice of Anakin Skywalker before he turned to the dark side (much of this shown exclusively on “Star Wars Clone Wars“). While we never witnessed her fate, Ahsoka was presumed dead after a battle with Darth Vader.
But in this mysterious dimension, as Ezra was able to watch her final moments before she was struck down, he reached inside and pulled her out into this world between worlds, effectively resurrecting her or changing her fate, depending on which way you want to look at it. Ezra had reached back in time and altered it into the present. Time, in this conveyance, is essentially fluid.
Emboldened by this moment and discovery, Ezra attempts to reverse the current timeline and pull his fallen master out of death as well. But Ahsoka convinces him that Kanan died so they could live, and there could be great consequences if his fate was forever changed. As this nether region scene continues, the Emperor appears trying to capture Ezra and Ahsoka and they split up. Ezra returns to Lothal and eventually closes the gateway so the Emperor and Imperial forces can never enter. Ahsoka returns to the planet Malachor where she initially met her fate. Alive, she goes down a dark tunnel, presumably never to be seen again, at least not by this ‘Rebels’ team (though she could show up in the finale).
This is all to say, it seems like we’ve just scraped the surface of the powers of the Force and “Star Wars Rebels” really change the possibilities of the Lucasfilm franchise forever. Now, some people reading this are going to go “WTF?” and perhaps it could be a serious deal breaker for “Star Wars” fans used to a more tangible, less abstract manifestation of the Force. I’d imagine anyone who hated the aforementioned envelope-pushing moments of ‘The Last Jedi’ might loathe what “Star Wars Rebels” is up to and how it’s slowly opening up the Force like a flower that hasn’t fully bloomed or even fully explored its full potential.
After “Wolves and a Door” and “A World Between Worlds” aired on Monday, resident “Star Wars” creative executive and story group member Pablo Hidalgo began to tweet and retweet those with theories about the Force and where “Star Wars” is potentially headed.
This is a particularly good thread that Hidalgo has endorsed:
https://twitter.com/Brandon_Bird/status/968369143031500800
https://twitter.com/pablohidalgo/status/968258805103341568
These are only small hints, but given everything we’ve witnessed thus far, the powers of the Force are multitudinous, and the door is starting to widen. Now, will J.J. Abrams go down this route and explore more of it with “Star Wars: Episode IX“? It’s hard to say. Is Lucasfilm opening themselves to the possibility of new genres the way “Doctor Strange” expands the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Again, this would be just speculation, but the seeds have been planted, and now we’ll just have to see how it comes to fruition. “There’s bigger, deeper things out there,” Hidalgo says about the power of the Force in the clip below which I highly recommend you watch in full.
Check the “Star Wars Show” with Hidalgo and other “Star Wars” story group execs — which gives great context to what I’ve been talking about for the tl;dr crowd — discussing the events of these two penultimate eps, followed by a teaser for the finale episodes, “A Fool’s Hope” and “Family Reunion-and Farewell,” which will run 90 minutes combined.
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