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You know, it seemed like a slow news week on Rogue One until we came across this interview with Star Wars Rebels showrunner Dave Filoni, and he talked about a few things with implications for Rogue One. (Spoiler alert – if you read the full interview to which we’re linking, there are a heck of a lot of spoilers about the season 2 finale of Rebels.)
For starters, in regard to Rebels being in nearly the same time-space as Rogue One:
One of the most important things that has less to do with the timeline of the story itself, is I want the awesome things in [director] Gareth [Edwards]’s movie to be special when it comes out,” he said. “I would never want our series to get ahead of that. Whatever you see in that film, with our time periods being closer, we want to make sure there are things that make sense between the two and we’re very careful about that as we’ve been with A New Hope. Things we are doing are leading towards that.
And then there was something that wasn’t directly Rogue One related, but has implications for it if you read between the lines:
Yoda says, ‘When gone I am, the last of the Jedi will you be.’ ‘Of the Jedi’ could be a group of Jedi. You don’t know… That’s not to say I believe there are a lot of Jedi running around by Return of the Jedi. I think there are Force-wielding people, but whether they subscribe to the Jedi philosophy of how you use the Force is another question… But fans deal in absolutes, like Sith.”
He also points out a key line in the finale where Ahsoka says “I am no Jedi”—but still uses the Force and fights with two lightsabers.
“She does say ‘I am no Jedi,’ very clearly,” Filoni explained. “So if she says that and Yoda later says ‘When gone am I, the last of the Jedi will you be,’ he’s definitely not talking about her. There were so many options of lines to give in this episode, and one of them along the way of the season was that Ahsoka would mention that Yoda wouldn’t think of her as a Jedi because she’s not, necessarily, practicing that path any more. She’s still in the Light Side, for sure, but she’s not a Jedi practitioner per se.
Now, we’ve been told that there won’t be any Jedi in Rogue One, but based on the clear delineation that Filoni is drawing above, it certainly seems possible that there could be Light-Side Force users appearing in Rogue One and that it wouldn’t violate what we’ve already been told about Rogue One.
So, what do YOU think? Might we see good guy/gal Force users in Rogue One? Share your thoughts in the comments!
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