Feats from Ahsoka's Untold Tales

People keep asking after these so I'll just post them in a thread. Below are a series of scenes that would have featured in cancelled TCW story arcs from Season 6/7, as well as some key extracts from the panel.

You can watch the full Celebration panel here.

"When The Clone Wars series ended production there were three Ahsoka arcs still left to tell."

--Pablo Hidalgo

"This was a moment where Ahsoka was actually protecting the Holocron Vault by impaling her lightsaber into this doorway to melt it shut, and Sidious was actually on the other side of this big door sending Force lightning up her lightsaber blade and out the other side to attack her."

--Dave Filoni

"There would have been a full on confrontation [between Ahsoka & Maul], which is why when the face each other in Rebels Maul absolutely knows who Ahsoka is.

[...]

We consider it to have happened so that's how we inform the writing in Rebels because that's the history that these characters carry in their heads."

--Pablo Hidalgo

"Every single episode of Clone Wars has a bunch of drawings that goes with it. And there are shots that you see on that day I would say about 95% of the time are shots that actually end up in the episodes."

--Dave Filoni

"We shared with her [E.K. Johnston] all the stuff we are sharing with you now, even more so. So that when you read this book and you're wondering, wow there's a reference to a fight with Maul, there's a reference to the Siege of Mandalore, we thought it was important for you to understand that she's just not inventing this from whole cloth. The author really worked with Dave and us to find out where Ahsoka is in this point in her life."

--Pablo Hidalgo

Finally there are few vague hints that Ahsoka may have survived her fight with Vader, but they are very vague.

Sidious going deep into the Temple? lol

And how on earth does his Lightning not kill Ahsoka?

It had something to do with the Sith shrine buried beneath the Temple, and because she's bad@ss. 🙂

Spoiler:
Or the door was Force-imbued or something, like the Jedi temple on Lothal.

Originally posted by Beniboybling
It had something to do with the Sith shrine buried beneath the Temple, and because she's bad@ss. 🙂

Spoiler:
Or the door was Force-imbued or something, like the Jedi temple on Lothal.

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Dry those tears.

For all we know, Palpatine incapacitated Tano with lightning seconds after the panel shown happened. Using this as a feat is as lolworthy as Beni's career.

Lol, I think the most important takeaway is she didn't die, that and she evidently withstood in long enough to melt the lock.

Canon already took Maul's testicles. Might as well go for Sidious next.

Originally posted by Beniboybling
Lol, I think the most important takeaway is she didn't die, that and she evidently withstood in long enough to melt the lock.

The feat isn't even quantifiable, there's several sources that talk about a Lightsaber's ability to absorb Force Lightning, she evidently was not feeling the full effects 🙂

TBH, Sidious shooting lightning up a lightsaber blade is a pretty cool feat and a fairly useful power. Everything we've seen has the saber absorb or repell it. It's also more evidence that Sheev held back against Windu as he wasn't pouring his lightning through Windu's saber.

Originally posted by ares834
TBH, Sidious shooting lightning up a lightsaber blade is a pretty cool feat and a fairly useful power. Everything we've seen has the saber absorb or repell it. It's also more evidence that Sheev held back against Windu as he wasn't pouring his lightning through Windu's saber.

No, they don't. Like even if you're talking about Vitishit, it's not even remotely the same situation.

Originally posted by ares834
TBH, Sidious shooting lightning up a lightsaber blade is a pretty cool feat and a fairly useful power. Everything we've seen has the saber absorb or repell it. It's also more evidence that Sheev held back against Windu as he wasn't pouring his lightning through Windu's saber.

Not that I disagree with the idea that Sidious was holding back, but Windu was creating a superconducting loop using Vaapad.

And Sel, they do that using some form of tutaminis. Nothing suggests it's an intrinsic property of the blade, which would make little sense.

Originally posted by S_W_LeGenD
Sith Lords have overwhelmed Lightsaber-oriented defenses of an opponent with Force Lightning before. This is no big deal.

Uh, yes it is. Other users of lightning can overwhelm a character’s lightsaber defenses but what Palpatine here doesn’t merely overwhelm it but renders it virtually useless.

Originally posted by FreshestSlice
Except he was, which why the blade was supposed to be "bending back towards [Mace's] face."

Which isn’t actually in the film.

Originally posted by Beniboybling
Not that I disagree with the idea that Sidious was holding back, but Windu was creating a superconducting loop using Vaapad.

Perhaps. But I was talking within the confines of canon material not the EU.

Lighting's clearly going into the saber in the film and it takes great effort to continue holding it there, as opposed to Kenobi casually absorbing Dooku's lightning. It's as in the movie as it can be.

Well my understanding was that his lightning was too powerful for Ahsoka to contain hence why its spreading over her body, but I suppose the idea that he was able to bypass her lightsaber altogether is another possibility. mmm

EDIT: Yeah reading over what Filoni said I think you're right Ares:

"...and Sidious was actually on the other side of this big door sending Force lightning up her lightsaber blade and out the other side to attack her."

Didn't really pay attention to that tbh.

Originally posted by FreshestSlice
Lighting's clearly going into the saber in the film and it takes great effort to continue holding it there, as opposed to Kenobi casually absorbing Dooku's lightning. It's as in the movie as it can be.

I don't subscribe to that notion at all. Sidious’s lightning is simply far more intense that Dooku’s. Yoda is easily able to absorb and reflect Dooku’s lightning as well, something he struggles far more to do with Sidious’s.

Nor do I see lightning “going into the saber”; all I see is it dancing across the blade as it is reflected back. If this was meant to be the intention all along, then it’s something that was badly presented as evidenced by the fact that, at least to my knowledge, no one has ever brought up the notion that Sidious can pour lightning down a saber blade before.

Originally posted by Beniboybling
Lol, I think the most important takeaway is she didn't die, that and she evidently withstood in long enough to melt the lock.

I mean, it's not like she took on the lightning directly. She's still getting hurt from the other side as Palpatine's lightning moves down her lightsaber.

And even then, I assume the spectacle only lasted a few seconds at best.

Originally posted by DarthAnt66
Maybe because there was a massive vault in the way that was apparently great enough to prevent Palpatine from ripping it apart with telekinesis? mmm

I mean, it's not like she took on the lightning directly. She's still getting hurt from the other side as Palpatine's lightning moves down her lightsaber.

And even then, I assume the spectacle only lasted a few seconds at best.

On the other hand yeah, its pretty stupid to dismiss a feat in which Ahsoka endured the Force lightning of a vastly powerful Sith Lord as worthless because "there was a wall and it was probably only a few seconds hurr durr", especially when it occurs almost two decades before her prime. 😂