Star Wars: Ahsoka Book Review

Ahsoka’s Legacy

For reasons more half-baked than you could possibly imagine, animation is still considered a lower art, per se, than live-action. Perhaps the most prolific of these half-baked reasons is some variation of “Animation is for kids!” How people can still cling to these notions in the wake of cartoons tailor-made for adults like The Simpsons, South Park, and Archer is beyond mortal comprehension.

Regardless, when Star Wars: The Clone Wars released in theaters, it seemed to prove the haters right. The movie couldn’t hold a lightsaber to its live-action counterparts, so the looming follow-up animated series seemed… risky, to say the least.

Season one of The Clone Wars (TCW from here on out) didn’t garner the highest of praises, but it fared far better than the film. As the series continued, however, it gained more and more traction. The music wasn’t composed by John Williams, but its unique flavor fit the galaxy far, far away just as well; the storylines posed interesting questions that play off of Star Wars’s history while expanding its scope; established characters were given new life, contextualizing their later actions more completely. And of course, there were the new characters.

Characters like Ahsoka Tano.