I’m not going to tell you if or how that happens. But without spoiling anything, I can tell you that this is probably the darkest episode of any Star Wars cartoon I’ve ever seen. Eschewing the familiar fanfare theme, it’s scored to a lot of low, threatening rumblings, and takes place primarily on the foreboding planet of Malachor, where Jedi are forbidden to go. Dave Filoni, in a Q&A following my screening, said one of his inspirations for the episode was Dante’s Inferno – a lot of it takes place underground and has characters trying to ascend to the surface. And yes, there are deaths. Parents should know they’re visually handled discreetly, but the overall sense of doom in the story might make them frightening to the littlest ones anyway.
We were told upfront that, “we might all be crying,” and that warning plus the title of the episode certainly plants a seed in you as to where things might go. Yet it might mean more than one thing: twilight has multiple meanings, and who is to say which character is an apprentice at what?
Other points of reference cited the episode’s creators included Raiders of the Lost Ark and Donkey Kong (you may or may not understand that one once you’ve seen it), while classic martial arts tropes like the stooped old man who can suddenly kick ass, and the blind master, were obvious. (There is also an apparent Street Fighter II reference, though neither Filoni nor producer Simon Kinberg brought it up.) And while the episode answers some questions, it also ends on a note of maddening ambiguity, assuring that it’ll be a long and impatient wait till season 3.
As for that crossguard lightsaber you saw in the trailer – Filoni says it was meant as a tribute to the people who created new and original elements for The Force Awakens, and also to reinforce the idea that Kylo Ren would have been a student of history, and known that similar creations had been used before.
Oh, and this has been revealed officially, so it has to be okay to say: Darth Maul is still around, and he talks a whole lot more than he used to.
Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/luketho...d/#1dc557d61daf
Okay, my predictions:
Spoiler:
: Given how the author of that article mentions the ambiguous ending, I'm thinking that Ahsoka will not die - at least, not in the finale. He does mention there will be deaths, so I'm gonna guess those include 2 or more of the Inquisitors (definitely including the Seventh Sister) and possibly Maul.
Either way I'm pretty scared lol but also very excited.