Ahsoka Episode 8 BREAKDOWN! Spoilers! Mortis Gods! Easter Eggs, Ending Explained! 

I love the idea of Anakin finally taking the father’s place and bringing balance. He’s the chosen one after all!

Ray Stephenson's physicality and stoicism made him look like the most intimidating and powerful Jedi/former Jedi I've ever seen. Even more so than Liam Neeson. RIP, Ray. You will be missed.

most frustrating moment--lightsabers not cutting the zombie troopers in half

The fight scene between Ahsoka and Morgan was so good because we get to see the martial arts skills of the actress who plays Morgan Elsbeth.

Ahsoka actually had a good lightsaber fight this time.

They definitely needed a scene showing how Ezra got off the big ship. Surely they could have added another five minutes to the run time.

Great review, but a little side note, Anakin did bring balance to the force when he killed the emperor he restored the balance, and now it shows that he ascended to his true purpose to serve as the father (mortis god) and keep the balance of the force on a cosmic level. If you remember the father told him it is his destiny to replace him.

They didn't turn Morgan into a zombie. They turned her into a night sister

Star Wars has always has a High Fantasy aspect to it. These shows are the perfect place to showcase these aspects of Star Wars. Its amazing that we can have Andor on one end and Ahsoka on the other...two VERY different types of Star Wars but both STAR WARS.

Sabine just learned to force pull a lightsaber with sooo much effort and next thing she's pushing ezra in mid air i just think that escalated very quickly. I would've never trusted her to do that

I believe Thrawn keeps mentioning Anakin because it was established in the comics (I think? Or books) that Thrawn figured out Vader was Anakin. But Thrawn, being his usual self, knew it but didn't broadcast it. So his speaking of Anakin to Ahsoka is the same veiled way Baylan would speak of him to goad her into thinking that she is just like him and will become him. As for Ezra and the shuttle...it was kind of always a running joke in Rebels that Imperial Shuttles are always easy to steal. So, for me, I just thought it was the same running joke ... noi explanation needed because in Star Wars we always see the stolen shuttles but we never see how they got the shuttle hahaha

Grace, thank you, thank you, thank you for this video and for finally researching the Mortis gods and Abeloth! I know you are worried that there are too few of us animated SW fans, but we are so very passionate about this story and about what Dave has helped create! It's meant a lot to me personally because Anakin and Ahsoka are my favorite characters, and my head canon has always been that Anakin became the Father after he died and Ahsoka became the Daughter. Now to see it playing out this way like I always hoped it would.. it's pretty amazing 👏🏻

I'm not saying I wanted Sabine to be chewed out or anything. But what she did, and no matter how understanding everybody was about it. It at least earned a momentarily disappointed head shake from somebody. Anybody... Even the droid throwing her some shade about it like he did in the first few episodes would've been satisfying.

I'm so glad Baylan gets more story in the future. Sad it won't be Ray. Hope they pick a suitable person to carry on the character

Thrawn isn’t going to be the engine that builds the First Order. That’s already been established as Grand Admiral Rae Sloane and Brendol Hux acting on their own. Anything Thrawn does is likely going to be entirely contained within whatever series or movie Filoni makes and will likely be resolved by the time the timeline hits the sequel era.

Very interesting episode. Not what I expected but I really enjoyed the sense of mystery. The music was PHENOMENAL

95% of all Nightsisters were killed during The Clone Wars by General Grevious. There were only a few survivors.

I have a feeling Anakin will be back many more times.

I like that Ahsoka struggled to defeat Morgan. It was a great fight and I find it boring when the characters defeat their enemies without a struggle, like when they fought the stormtroopers

The solution for both Star Wars and the MCU is to make the movies able to stand on their own merit so that casual fans can watch only the movies if they choose and those who want more can delve into the “expanded universe” of the streaming shows. But the movies should be able to stand on their own. 😊

I’m glad you were brave enough to mention how bad the saber choreography is , especially with Dawson. They need a whole new team and a better saber double for Dawson who is so slow and wooden with her moves.

I saw all of the clone wars and rebels and even I didn't realise it was about the mortis gods. Thank you Grace for helping me remember!

Just look up Abeloth and this becomes an even more fascinating situation.

Grace, there are no witches on Dathomir as Grevious killed them all during Clone Wars…

Grace, you're right! In some ways this feels like a different IP than Star Wars. But I like it! It's becoming a Space Game of Thrones/Lord of the Rings and I'm in!

Omg, Grace, I thought you had watched those episodes from Clone Wars. You really have to watch The Clone Wars. There is so much lore within those episodes that you're gonna miss. Like, the Clone Wars episode with Ahsoka and Huyang taking the young Jedi to make their own light Saber. It's a 3 episode arch where Ahsoka levels up BIG!

I’m true OG because I was 10 when Star Wars first came out, and read all the EU novels on release, but I also love the Filoni verse stuff. Still, my husband struggled with Ahsoka because he has never seen Clone Wars or Rebels. He does enjoy the Bad Batch, though his favourite is Andor. So,yes, it’s going to be tough for the OG’s who don’t have the desire or time to do the “homework”.

As someone who saw clone wars and rebels , the finally was incredible , however , I agree with grace they need to explain some of the details that way others can keep up. Im exited for the future of Star wars , I need an entire series on the Night sisters alone that has SO MUCH POTENTIAL,, and if Feloni actually dears to finally bring Abeloth this will set up the Star war franchise for a long run as her story goes fully deep , so I guess in a way it makes the Star Wars story a Long term project.

I mean... I love Clone Wars... Rebels.. Bad Batch... and enjoyed every second of this season.. and ate up the season finale.... it was amazing for me.

As a casual fan, I’m finding it confusing to understand the “rules” and mechanics of all these appearances of Anakin. First in a vision is some sort of psychic, near death experience… then the hologram recordings Ashoka trains alongside… finally his force ghost watching over as the shows’s ending. Three different appearances of Hayden with different rules that explain how each is possible is a lot.

They will have to recast Baylan for the second season. I think Shin will turn and take on the characteristics of Mara Jade. If we have to wait too long for season two people will lose interest very quickly. I agree that the saber fights are still too slow.

I haven't watched Ahsoka but clips on Twitter kinda shocked me that people are happy with it. Those lightsaber battles are insultingly bad man...

Grace! everything you liked about Thrawn in this episode is just x10 in his 6 canon books (3 books for the empire timeline and 3 books before he joined the Empire). And as to why Thrawn keeps bringing up Anakin is because he met Anakin during the clone wars and they met again once he became a Grand Admiral and went on a mission with Darth Vader inbetween S3 and S4 of Rebels. This is ALL explored in the 3 Empire Canon books.

Grace did you get the Narnia references? The title of this episode being an homage to the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe but also the World Between Worlds is also based off of The Wood Between Worlds in the first story in the Narnia series The Magician’s Nephew! Love all of this love for Tolkien and CS Lewis!

Not scratching my head. This was just the setup. Next; two series: 1) Ezra and Herra vs Thrawn. 2) Ashoka and Sabene vs whatever’s on Primeria.

Great conversation on the future of things. I really hope you are right when it comes to the future of Star Wars. I'm also hoping Luke and Liea can be involved in some way. There's a lot of conversations that force ghost Anakin needs to have.

I can’t unsee the storm trooper taking a piss in the main image lol.

Grace I really would recommend watching the cutscenes from Jedi: Fallen Order and Jedi: Survivor, you'll love them! Some of the best Star Wars storytelling and they are characters that will absolutely be showing up in live action sooner or later (there's already been easter eggs for them).

Grace, couple of things. 1) In the latest Thrawn novels he actually worked with Anakin Skywalker before he became Vader, then he worked with him AFTER he became Vader. Thrawn figured out who Vader was and even hinted to him that he knew his secret. 2) The ship Ezra "stole" was not Thraw's ship but Baylan's ship. Most likely what happened was Thrawn had no need for it and jettisoned it with Ezra on board. Just a thought, 🙂

Dang, this suddenly got really deep! I'd be open to exploring more of this, as long as it stays canon and seems worth our time taking in this information. Like, where is this all leading? I really enjoyed seeing Jedi be front and center, using different lightsabers! If they could make this a little more accessible for the casual fans, I think this should be the next group we follow in the next Star Wars movie(s). I think it could help bring balance the fandom! 🤯😎

When they raised there hands to open the gates it reminded me of Greef Karga when he tells grogu to do the magic hand thingy in season 1 finale of the mandalorian.

THAT'S WHY THE MOUNTAIN LOOKED FAMILIAR! I was looking at it and I'm like, these figures seem familiar but I couldn't place them. I think you're exactly right. This did play like a mid-season finale. Which means we won't get Àhsoka season 2 till Summer 2025 with their release (because Avatar 3 has 2024) of a FiloniVerse movie til Winter 2025! That's what I think.

Grace, if you’re going to sit there and make all these theories about Mortis and the Night Sisters and all this Filoni work, the least you can do is actually watch the show, clone wars, on where all this actually comes from.

Liev Schreiber for Baylan. I think would be best case replacement. It sucks recasting has to be given how great Ray was. Rip.

I have a genuine question for Star Wars and MCU fans: When Infinity War came out, were MCU fans upset that they had to watch 10 years of movies to understand what was happening? What about Endgame? Did casual fans go in asking where the heck is everyone? Clone Wars/Rebels have been around for 10-15 years. There are countless episode guides, mini-arcs that don’t require watching the entire show series. 1-2 days worth of content is not a lot given the amount of binging people do over the course of years leading up to new content. Also, Lucasfilm made clear that everything they put out can be drawn from as part of the lore. They made clear there’s gonna be homework. And that was almost 10 years ago. I don’t like everything they do, but I’ll at least watch the 10 minute Sparknotes video to understand what’s important to understand so I can have a more fulfilling experience. Just my two cents, I would like to know more about what causal fans think.

I think you're right, these shows pretty much only cater to those who have watched the animated shows and require that "homework" to understand more than half of what is going on lol. Thankfully, I gave in and watched a couple of seasons of Rebels before Ahsoka because of your recommendations on the lives that I was able to enjoy the show. Rebels even made me a fan of Star Wars where I wasn't before tbh.

The show definitely needed at least two more episodes. I’m so grateful I watched Rebels right before watching Ashoka. I think it’s the best SW show to date, but mass audiences are gonna not care about any of these characters bc it’s their first time meeting them.

Thrawn in the books knew that Luke and Leia were threats. It's kinda silly to me that there is no mention of Luke. Like, the Jedi who brought down the empire and is trying to build a new Jedi order, we're not going to mention him?

I think Thrawen kept mentioning Anakin because in one of the thrawn books he worked with Anakin during the clone wars, so he remembers anakin, but I think it would be really cool if anakin played a larger role going forward in this story

The episode definitely felt like a mid-season break rather than an actual season finale, but that’s one of only a few complaints. They didn’t make Morgan a zombie, they made her like them. It was a level up, along with the Blade of Talzin, which is why Ahsoka had so much more trouble the second time around. As for where we go from here, Mortis is definitely going to be the main storyline of any potential S2. I loved Ray Stephenson’s performance and he will be sorely missed, but I feel to tell the story, they will have to recast. Whoever they choose has big shoes to fill.

I’m not sure I’m interested in a second season. But I’m sure if you ask Thrawn, that’s how he planned it all along

Ahsoka and Sabine can finally love each other after making peace with Ezra’s rescue 😂

Ahsoka is my fav Star Wars series.

There was a line about waking some witches, so I absolutely think the boxes are filled with more sleeping/hibernating witches, apparently an army of them

When Grace drops you know its a good day 😭

The fact this show requires people to catch up on Rebels will hurt general audiences as its more homework

I really loved Ahsoka but I've already done the homework. They really needed to start the seasons with a live action ending of rebels or have Sabine have a flashback or something. Definitely more clues to the mortis gods, when they were fighting over the map to help spell things out a little more. My coworker that's also watching the series has been enjoying it but also really confused. What kept him watching was how compelling Thrawn has been. So good job Lars Mikkelsen but I'd pretty nervous if I was Dave/Disney that this show is too dense for a lot of star wars fans that have only seen the movies.

The reason Ezra and Sabine didn't work out is because Disney won't allow a woman to show any real affection for, or dependency on, a man. When Sabine first saw Ezra, she should have flung her arms around him and cried with joy and relief, but that's not an empowering look for women according to Disney. Then their relationship should have blossomed into romance (which would have made Sabine leaving Ezra to save Ahsoka so much more heartbreaking).

As a fan of both Clone Wars and Rebels, I am LOVING all of this! I hope we get a live action deep dive into the Mortis Gods as they are alluding to!

I gotta say, listening to this as a casual/OG fan, I am certain I am never watching any Star Wars that references this lore. This I don’t know wtf is going on, and I don’t care wtf is going on. I’m just waiting for Disney to release the original theatrical releases of the original trilogy…

I’m a huge fan of you videos! But I have to say, your disregard of The Clone Wars & the way you believe the lore built from that show makes up 30% of the fan base is way off. You’ve done this all season with Ahsoka. Reiterating, I love your videos. I am a huge fan. But the Clone Wars is what MAKES Filoni’s work memorable and deep rooted in lore. The Mortis Gods are WAY more than you explained here, because they have a whole arc in The Clone Wars. Ahsoka is impactful as a character, because of the Clone Wars. I’ve seen you big up Star Wars Rebels, but it’s honestly pale in comparison to what CW did for Star Wars. The lore was expanded, the backstory and understanding of so many characters became so much more clear. The very foundations of these current shows is BUILT around what the Clone Wars accomplished in its 7 season run. This isn’t a critique, it’s genuine advice. Making these videos requires research, you’re right, but your research is missing a lot of key information that is presented in the Clone Wars. It’s frustrating as a fan of Star Wars, and a fan of yours, that you disregard the show, without even watching the whole thing through. Before anything new comes out for Star Wars on Disney+, watch The Clone Wars.

Gosh Thank You Grace for putting the puzzle pieces together! I was lost for a bit but now I can get excited 😊

“No good deed goes unpunished” 😂 took me a sec to catch that

I'm actually grateful you recapped the mortis lore. I knew it by name but knew NOTHING about it. I've been watching this show and piecing bits together as I go, it really isn't tough as long as you have a basic understanding that these characters all previously knew each other. But I'm completely lost when it comes to the Mortis stuff. I'm not against it, because I love certain parts of Star Wars Legends but I do agree it might be a bit of a deep cut for a lot of people and they need to very blatantly explain it themselves if they're going to keep referencing it.

More thoughts, I've seen all of Star Wars, but my brother-in-law hasn't. He is a casual fan and he doesn't know who Ahsoka is. The homework he has to do to keep up with Star Wars is A LOT! I don’t know if he would commit to all of that.

Unless I dont remmber right Erza was asking about Sabine and Ahsoka. Why would that mean he doesn't know about Thrawn. Thts a weird criticism

The fact this doesn't feel like Star Wars to a degree, is the reason I, someone who is not a Star Wars fan, liked it. Haha

im absolutely thrilled and pumped to see what happens with the Mortis Gods. i eat up this lore like candy.

Here's another potential candidate for the Son.... *_Morgan Elspeth_* ? The Night Sisters are all about how death is far from the end. So, who's to say that she won't be revived somehow? In terms of Sabine's force powers.... I have a theory. I suspect her attunement to it will continue to be poor and season two will have it so that she will continue to struggle with it; instead only successfully channeling it in relation to Ezra; to further expand on the show's theme of the two having an especially strong and close bond.

Over all I really enjoyed this show. Loved seeing live action Asoka. Loved seeing Anikin played by the original actor. For myself I wish the story focused more on Asoka as she almost felt like a supporting character in her own show. Also yes there were an episode or two that was a bit slow, they could have been cut down to leave more room for story at the end.

This series overall was amazing. For those who love the lore and have watched Clone Wars and Rebels; amongst the other shows. You are getting your moneys worth. For the casual fan, you might not get every reference; and that is okay. You can take the time to read the wikis, or check out the shows. Sure there are 14 seasons over Clone Wars, Rebels, Bad Batch and Jedi Tales. But wow. So impressed.

They need to bring back the clone wars prologues. I've watched clone wars many times and still the mortis references went over my head 😅

Y'know, I appreciate the "not knowing" of it all. These teases and dangling questions are what keep me engaged and wanting to come back for answers down the road. I find that that makes for great storytelling while also appealing to those in the audience who are deeper in the weeds of Star Wars. I think show writers would be doing a disservice to the audience by spelling it all out with over-bloated exposition and the experience would fall flat, closer to Book of Boba Fett or the most recent season of Mando. So while it may not be wrapped up with instructions like a Happy Meal, I feel like we're being challenged to buckle up for a seven course meal. Really loved this season and I hope they keep it up! Also, I'd be surprised if the boxes aren't full of dead Jedi.

I enjoyed the season finale but yeah, the show is a bit sloppy. I dig Datamir, the Dathamir wiches, I loved all that sh!t when I was watching Clone Wars. Yeah, Sabine sux. 14:57 - Thank You Grace! I didn't know the importance of this statue either. Thank you for reminding of Mortis and the Mortis Gods. I have seen Star Wars: Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels but it's been years.

Starkiller should be the representation of the Son or the Dark Side. It also makes scense since Anakin (the balance) taught Ahsoka as a jedi (who represents the light) and Starkiller when he was a sith as Vader

Grace for the love of god just watch Clone Wars already😂. Just use an episode guide, it’s an easy watch

It's interesting how when normally the reaction to unknowns is "wow what is tht. Can't wait to find out" but when some people already know what the unknown their reaction is "I can't believe they ddnt explain it!" I ddnt know what tht stuff was but I know we'll get into it later

I agree, Grace. I’m a casual Star Wars fan, and this was too much. It felt like LOTR, not Star Wars. I don’t know if I can keep with it. But thanks for catching me up to speed!

Grace didn't even watch clone wars 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Why is Ahsoka smiling so much in the final scene given her FAILURE and Sabine DOOMING an entire galaxy to Thrawns wrath. This show makes no sense from one scene to the next. It's like Ahsoka isn't a real person that exists in this universe... shes just dialogue on a page. Nobody seems worried AT ALL!

as someone whose not a huge rebels or Clone Wars fan - I was pretty confused by the ending, but did enjoy me some zombie storm-troopers though

@gracerandolph Were you thinking of that 2000s SNL Charlie Brown Christmas parody?

Didn’t watch the show (and don’t intend to), but hey I check in on your reviews sometimes anyway. I think the “put your hand out and fix it” thing was most recently a meme from Stranger Things about Eleven. Maybe that’s what you were thinking of? But, yeah Jurassic World also spawned similar memes.

Thanks so much for another amazing recap with great connections I never made!

Grace, I agree: I’m liking the direction of the show, but my brother watched the first episode and gave up saying it didn’t feel like Star Wars to him. I’m curious where Disney goes with this (Season 2, movie, or both), but I just don’t see a wide appeal for where they’re headed.

Its a popular theory that Maul is to replace the Son. Sam Witwer voiced both the Son and Maul and even had Maul say the same about the chains not being easy to break in your mind, just like the Son said on Mortis.

THAT WAS A GOOD LIGHTSABER FIGHT!

My biggest takeaway of this series is that Thrawn definitely should have been made the antagonist of the prequel series. Otherwise there was little else that interested me in this series. Once again too much time was wasted with standing around and nothing happening. I doubt I will revisit this series anytime soon.

This is what I have been waiting for!! Absolutely love it and could not imagine it any other way.

A friend of mine, who is just a casual Star Wars fan, asked me last night what Baylan is up to there? I said he might be looking for the passage of a World between worlds. Then he went to find the information on his own and learned that Beylan might want to get greater power. So, I think casual fans may also become more and more involved in the story of the future Star Wars universe.

Mortis arc and everything following is sooo good

Ahsoka's owl is a representation of the daughter, her name is Morai. Anakin IS A MORTIS GOD at this point. Thats my theory. I think they'll return to the main galaxy through the World Between Worlds. Anakin will probably help them. Hope Baylan is with them, allied to them. If they get the OG characters for the wars against Thrawn, they need to recast everybody.

Grace u r way off on some of your comments about us original trilogy fans 😂 who do u think pushed to get the clone wars finished ! The OGS are the reason u got any of these just saying

Hope they don't make Sabine the Mortis son. Grace maybe Ezra got off the ship like you explained, and they didn't show his escape, which they should have, I agree with you. Morgan was more of a challenge for Ahsoka, cause night sisters up graded her dark power level.😉👍

The problem with this show is that it's not really made for the average star wars viewer. It's made for fans of the animated shows. If only star wars had made one big epic multi season show that would be about this whole timeline, one storyline about Mando and grogu, another about ahsoka, another about boba fett etc... all building to Thrawn being a big bad. With some vision and preparation it really could have been something special. Working as something that's both for the fans of the animated series but also an introduction to this world for the people who only know the movies. They could've adapted major moments from the animated shows in flashbacks or just written the show in a way that reintroduced everything for new viewers so they understand all of this stuff without ever having to see anything else. Too much content is what's ruining both stars wars and marvel, more and more people aren't in the loop and so more and more people are dropping them.

15:22 same, I managed to watch the 4 seasons of Rebels, but Clone Wars has 7 seasons and they're more infantile 16:58 I _saw_ Rebels and still didn't make the connection lol from what I've seen of Ashoka in Rebels, I've felt like Dawson isn't hitting the mark, maybe it's the unjustified smugness...Thrawn seems here like the ultimate Monday morning quarterback... in the original trilogy, Lucas was known for his directing often being "faster, more intense" and I think this show could use more of that

Deadline did say there are season 2 talks happening

Last thing I want to see are gods in Star Wars.

I would love to see the culmination with the Father, the Son and the Daughter. I would also love Abeloth to get deeper into Star Wars lore. But in the fandom aspect. Even though I love Star Wars and the shows and everything, it is getting fractured even more. The first division started with the ones that considered the prequels not canon, and it went on with comics and books and videogames, and most recently with Clone Wars, Rebels and Disney getting the IP. Star Wars is getting layered for many people, there are people who just stay with the OG Trilogy and it’s fine, and we escalate to the layer where not many have consumed all of the media. Movies, Battlefront and Kal’s videogames, the Heir to the Empire series, comic books and books, animated shows and all the movies. And even though it’s great to know it all, I have to admit it’s a very limited club because you have a LOT of homework to do to get there. And even more with a live action show that is pretty much the 5th season of an animated series that sadly didn’t get that much attention from all the fanbase. I don’t know what I would do to change the division situation, but one thing I wouldn’t do, is cause more inner fights between the fandom so everyone Can overall enjoy what is coming out. Because in my life I’ve seen people that LOVED Ahsoka because they saw at the very least CW and Rebels, but also people who hated it because they didn’t know what was happening. Everyone needs to unite the fandom to enjoy the content we’re getting

You underestimate how much people are interested in learning the backdrop of a story