The reason why Ahsoka’s not around during the Original Trilogy (And it involves time travel) 

I'd imagine her show might explain the reason why she never appeared in the OT. Obviously she was created many years after those movies and she's gonna be on the search for Ezra/Thrawn too

I just hope we will see Ahsoka and Luke meeting for the first time in her show, their scene together in Boba Fett came out of no where and we have no idea how they met, how long did she knew he was the son of Anakin ? what did they talked about ? Did he told her what happen in the death star ?

Mon Mothma always bugged me. Back in the day, we always thought Leia was THE one in charge of the Rebellion...until Return trotted out this *other* woman, for ONE scene! This bothered me for awhile, until I finally untangled the narrative reason for MM's existence: So that Leia could go play with the boys! Think about it, IF the Death Star assault goes wrong, they need the Rebellion's leader safely away from the action to start over again. If that's Leia, then that means that she's out of the movie, at best watching from a distance. But by simply revealing a higher up leader, Leia is now free to risk her life in a ground mission like a common soldier/general, alongside Han and Luke! Now, as a kid, I probably wouldn't have thought twice if Rebel Leader Leia went on the mission anyway, but as an adult, I can really appreciate the thought that went into this movie, even in little ways like this!

It definitely is time travel, but it is heavily limited and they haven’t used it since so I’m cool with it. It seems that you can only enter the world between worlds from very specific places, like the Jedi or sith temples Ezra and ahsoka used. This severely limits its power, which is a good thing

Honestly, the point where time travel and/or alternate dimensions get introduced into a story that wasn’t built around those concepts to begin with is the point where you know things have gotten out of hand canonwise.

I really hope they don't ruin her but theres a high chance of that happening, given disney's track record. Maybe not though, because it's a character that Dave Filoni understands much more than Boba, as he helped create her.

On top of that I feel like we’re underselling how hard it would be to get off Malachor. She’s at the bottom of an ancient sith temple with no ship to get off world from what I remember as the ghost crew took their ship which she came on, the inquisitors ships are destroyed and Vader took his TIE. I think it’d be interesting just to see how she’d deal with surviving that for a few years on top of the paradox avoidance.

I think altering time is a clunky plot mechanic no matter how you try to justify it.

If Ahsoka helped Luke, Vader might have been redeemed since she had failed during Twilight of the Apprentice. Her presence interfered with Luke's destiny at the time just by making Vader more angery.

I think it is safe to assume we dont see Ahoska because she was stuck in a moment . When she is pulled out of duel into the World Between Worlds it ends that moment freeing her. With no one truly knowing what happened to her outside of Kanan & Ezra knowing she didnt exit the duel location she essentially becomes the schrodinger's cat of Star Wars. Why no one mentions her in the original trilogy can easily explained the number of people who knew her are dead, missing or Darth Vader. Really the only prominent non Jedi not including former Clone Troopers who had a significant relationship her left was Bale Organa and he died in Episode IV never making an on screen appearance. Hera Syndulla is a another character that is alive yet is never seen in the original trilogy but unlike others her whereabouts were known & she remained actively fighting the Empire the entire time. She also knew Ahoska but since she isnt shown we dont know if she ever talked about Ahoska. To those that have issues with the logic of adding new characters (that were alive) but never get mentioned in the original trilogy think about the friends you had in high-school... then of those friends remove anyone you still actively talk to regularly. Now how many of those friends have you ever talked about with current co-workers or newer relationships? It is not so hard to believe for people from someone's past not being talked about in the present.

There are 3 flashback scenes I would like to see at least one of them in Ahsoka 1. Ahsoka sensing Anakin’s return and death(Darth Vader killing the Emperor and dying in Return of the Jedi) 2. She travels to Endor and finds Vader’s melted mask. Also the first time she meets Luke 3. She meets Force Ghost Anakin

I love these kinds of videos because it comforts me to know other people understand this in this manner. I have a lot of friends I don’t talk about time travel with because we end up getting into arguments because they can’t help but looking at it in a linear way and it just frustrates me.

I think time travel is a bad idea for Star Wars, since the greater part of Star Wars is still a single story told in generational fashion about a fairly small group of characters. It undermines that story when characters get foreknowledge of the future or a chance to retcon past events. I think you're right about what Ahsoka was doing during the OT, but you're also right that Filoni should have found a different way to bring back his favored character. It still kind of sucks to think of her hiding away in a cave someplace when force sensitive kids were being hunted down and killed all over the Empire, even if the reason makes sense. The idea that she may have spent most of the OT travelling the unknown regions of the galaxy looking for Ezra is cooler, since quests are what heroes tend to do.

I like the idea of 'the world between worlds' as being related to hyperspace. An aspect of the force that allows travel through time and space similar to what advanced starships accomplish.

I love how this video is less about the characters and more about the logic of how this form of time travel would work. It’s a really fun way to discuss it!

There’s an even simpler explanation as to where Ahsoka Tano was during the events of the original trilogy: she didn’t go back to the same time she left. There’s nothing saying that when she re-entered the portal that she arrived shortly after leaving Malachor. She could arrived years after-after the events of the original trilogy (which is when we next see her in 𝘙𝘦𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘴). And yes, the World Between Worlds is time travel, and time travel and Star Wars 𝘥𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘵 mix.

I must be the only 40+ fan that loves the WBW episodes. I felt those were in the top 10 episodes of Rebels. I thought the way they tied in the power of the celestials to modern Star Wars was great. It was a dive back into the mysticism of Star Wars and I’m glad they did it. It’s a reminder of how ancient the galaxy is. Plus the Loth Wolves were a fantastic part of it.

Because rather then kill her off back in the Clone Wars like George originally intended, Dave Filoni hijacked Ahsoka, turned her into his glorified OC, and invented a number of conveniences/DEM to ensure she even survives well past the Sequels.

This is such a good point! I hadn’t ever thought of the fact that Ashoka can’t be seen by Ezra for a couple years.

Remember when Ezra communed with Yoda through vast distances via the Force? It's been a bit, so I don't recall the exact circumstances...but I do recall wondering, if this were possible, then why wouldn't Yoda talk to Ahsoka?

Not a bad theory, but may I offer this slight variation: It wasn't Ezra she was avoiding since he knew the danger of paradoxes, but the only other person present on that moment...Vader. Interesting how Asohka seems off the map until right after Vader's death? Just another point of view.

If I recall correctly, from Ezra's standpoint, it does happen linearly in the order in which the events of his life take place. I like the comparison to the Time Traveler's Wife but that movie said it was a genetic aberration, not something anyone with the right set of abilities could access. The problem with the World Between Worlds is that if makes it possible for paradoxes to happen with such devastating consequences, sooner or later somebody will either screw up or even possibly deliberately cause one.

because she was never supposed to make it out of the clone wars alive, and after rebels and the OT she is a footnote, as her being around doesn't add anything except needing to help luke fail at being a Jedi, and Filoni will not let Ahsoka die

Simple version could be she followed the will of the force and was where she was most needed at the time. She knew confronting Vader again was not her destiny and helped elsewhere in the Galaxy. Only after Vader's defeat dies she feel a disturbance in the force and seek out Luke.

The force is always been about precognition which is an information only time travel process. One way to stabilize the question is to bring in a bunch of force ghosts. Qui gon jinn is not the first. He and the others are consulting records at the temple. Have the would between worlds be a place where they hang out. Link it to the many temples, holocrons (note that a time term too), toss in a learning curve for the force ghosts. This makes them just another race with in the universe. it may even make the Jedi droid possible canon if it has a holocron and force ghost in it. Its not Dr Who time travel and to the forces ghosts everything is very linear and stable.

Or Ahsoka accidentally got sent to the future (sometime after ROTJ) and that's why we never see her.

A Real Ahsoka Fan would be glad she survived that short cliffhanger involved fight.

her travels in spacetime could have taken her anywhere and anywhen...interesting the effect she could have had on known events - perhaps she pops forward to the events of return of the jedi and whitnesses vader toss the emporer, then pops back a few thousand years and lets it slip that this guy will kill the last of the sith (well, as far as she knows at that point), and faster than you can say 'bantha poodoo', the prophecy of the chosen one happens

I read or saw something somewhere that I hope is used to explain the situation of ahsoka being saved and the strange disconnect between the Disney series and the new trilogy. That is that Ezra saving Ahsoka created a split in the timeline and that the new trilogy is a timeline where Ahsoka died, and the mandalorian linked shows are all the timeline where Ahsoka is alive and changes the future so the new trilogy never happens. Would be a great way to retcon the terrible sequel trilogy while keeping them both cannon in a way, and they can essentially correct what was done in the sequel trilogy without just trying to erase those movies from memory.

I actually think the WBW is a cool concept and thought it was one of the better episodes of Rebels. I think Dave’s out of universe handling of it was appropriate and Ahsoka’s in universe response to it supports that it’s a place that needs to be carefully guarded against the opportunistic, such as Palpatine, and the possible negative outcomes far exceed the positive ones. As far as creating time paradoxes, I think it depends on which version of time travel you prescribe to: one in which the present or future can be altered by changing the past or, as in the MCU, changing the past doesn’t alter events that have already occurred in the future, it instead creates an entirely new timeline, a multiverse. I’m not in favor of either concept for Star Wars. As long as the WBW is handled with kid gloves both in universe and out of universe from the story-teller’s perspective, then I think it’s existence adds a cool piece of lore for us to ponder.

NOW...we understand why the Jedi SEALED the Temple that leads to the World Between WORLDS....it's Potential destructive Paradoxes could be FAR MORE destructive than a 100 Death Stars!!!

Another movie that might help is "Gandahar" aka "Lightyear". It's an animated fantasy movie, made in 1987, that has one very confusing riddle in it, but by the end of the movie this very confusing riddle makes perfect sense. I highly recommend watching it anyway.

The World Between Worlds as presented in the show (sans the interview clip) was a bad decision. It went well beyond the concept of the Force as an energy field. Yes, that has already been stretched with other developments (Father/Brother/Sister, the separate planes of the Force (the “Living Force”), etc.), but this truly broke the boundaries. For a good example of time travel with effect preceding cause, I point to Babylon 5. I won’t describe it, as it is a major plot point in the show’s story and I don’t want to spoil it for anyone.

You can change something that you aren't a part of. Creating no paradoxes for the person who was implied it the actions they could see through that place.

I’m pretty much with you on all of this. Your explanation about halfway through was pretty hilarious though. Now that I think of it, it kind of reminds me of the scene where they watch themselves in “Spaceballs”. “When will ‘then’ be ‘now’?” “Soon.”

The way I like to think about time traveling paradoxes is this: Paradoxes are impossible, in one universe. In multiple, they are possible, full solutions. Notice the place where Ezra is is called the World between Worlds, not the World between time. Imo, he is not reaching through time, but between worlds. If ashoka died in his world, it doesnt matter as there is an identical Ahsoka in another world that hasent gotten to that point yet. Paradoxes are impossible because if Ahsoka kills Ezra in the past, shes preventing a different Ezra from pulling a different Ahsoka through.

There's a certain of view in which Ahsoka's saving comes from a selfless act, by Ezra, as opposed as to when the choice comes before him, on either saving Kanan or letting him go, there is a moment of hesitation, from a feeling of self preservation (attachment or possessiveness) ~ ♾️

Very good video, I can listen to you talk about Star Wars for hours.

To be honest, I don’t mind about time travel because it’s also kind of like good and evil. Sometimes time travel can be used for fixing while other times it can create a new branch in the timeline. However, if too many new branches are made it would be a war of parallel timelines. And since it’s only used once to explain something I can really respect that. However, it is a good concept but it’s not really about if it’s good or not. It’s about whether it connects to the story or fixes connecting the story. That’s the question that needs to answer does it connect or fixes a story? I will say it might do both.

Time travel is such a murky plot device simply because anything can be “fixed” using it. Yeah it distorts the current reality but that isnt the point when its applied, the effect is to get the desired outcome. Then you get inconsistencies such as where are ppl…, why didnt this person…, what are the rules…, why hasnt anyone prior/has anyone prior… Its a thread that can quickly unravel a story than it keepa things together. That said i think stat wars kept it well and fine by restricting it to a nexus location and connecting it to the Force Family (father, son and daughter). An interesting point of the story is that why is there such a nexus in the force, is it a tool of the Whils to affect the galaxy? Where there ever previous force wielders who used this place? In the grand scheme anything made must serve a purpose so what/who’s purpose did the World Between Worlds serve?

Kinda surprised Thor forgot to mention the New Star Wars Holiday Special, which features Time Travel as a major plot point (seeing Kylo Ren explaining everything that goes wrong with the Empire to Vader and Palpatine made my day, as did Rey actually interacting with and learning from a *helpful* Luke from RotJ!)

What if the World Between worlds and Mortis are actually the same place, just a different representation of it?

2:51 Anakin mentions her in and talks with Obi Wan about her leaving the jedi in the cancelled Utapau arc which was one of (I thinnk) 10 arcs which were cancelled by Disney taking over Star Wars and which were never brought back, so far at least.

But Ahsoka is the embodiment of the daughter. So if the Force wants the daughter alive 🤷‍♂️

I just figured she would be stuck on Malachor for a while, but that's a good point about avoiding any possible paradoxes.

I think that you are giving this way more thought than the people who are making this series!

I think she is simply staying on Malachor studying the dark side. I think she was trapped there. So she studied the temple. As Ahsoka said earlier, to beat your enemy you need to know them.

Probably the best explanation I’ve got about this topic, thank you.

Also for what it's worth, Ahsoka was shown alive at the end of "Twilight of the Apprentice" with Morai flying towards her. So even before all the "A World Between Worlds" stuff she was alive, but the reason she was alive may have changed

This reminds me of how in Destiny, you save the Titan Saint-14 by wandering the "corridors of time", which is just a white version of the world between worlds with evil Vex robots in it. Its kind of time travel, but Destiny's future is always in flux and so a perfect paradox is possible. The world between worlds could be a good thing, if it eventually leads into exploring the force more. We don't necessarily have to "lessen" the mystery, we can just make it deeper. Look beyond the light and dark side. What is the force really about? What is the deeper cosmic game being played by the "whills"? Sometimes, I think its funny people took midiclorients so badly. They might just be the first step into a larger world no one has considered.

What most people forget is the original trilogy was really based on a small window of time and events in the galaxy, and Ahsoka could have been in a different part of the galaxy during these events, just because you didn't see characters in the three movies, doesn't mean they didn't exist in another part of the galaxy . This is why I like these series, it fills out the galaxy story.

The way my head cannon explains her whereabouts during the original trilogy is that the portal she takes when leaving the world between worlds has forwarded her in time. When we see her disappear into the shadows at the end of season 2, from her perspective it could be several years later from when we see vader staggering out.

No... I really think it's because the character didn't exist when the original series was being made, and so this all done in retrospect. I think they call it a "prequel". It's a portmanteau, you see. It combines the word "previous" or the prefix "pre" and the word "sequel". It's like a story that comes out after another story but is supposed to take place before it in the chronology of the overall story/canon. That's just my 2 cents... I could be wrong.

There's a Quote from Stargate that I love to use in situations like this. "The future is predetermined by the nature of those who shape it." Basically, you do have free choice, you can make the decision to do something else. But you won't, because that's not who you are.

Maybe I cannot recall the episode correctly but could've just as possible that Ahsoka returning to "normal" time was actually just at the events of Battle of Endor. Essentially, normal POV she's been gone for 5 years. It could just an aspect. Ezra went back the time he left but Ahsoka came back 5 years since she was taken. At least it explains even more why she was not mentioned because to the rest of the world she died there.

One argument could be that he saved her by more like a time bridge. That when Ezra pulled her out of the moment on malachor he pulled her to his present. That in the flow of time she was existing within the world between worlds until she jumped back through, as in for her a few moments pass for everyone else a year or so went by, when she returns through the portal it's ezra's present day but malachor. Then it took her how ever long it took to get off the planet and back to everyone else, being unable to help Ezra till after the battle of lothal, when his trail went cold, perhaps even after endor. If she had returned to the time she left Vader would have still been on planet though weakened, but if a yearish later, then are there any space worthy vessels? She'd have to try and use her fulcrum frequency comms to try and reach someone in the Alliance, than said someone would have to confirm its her and get her a ride off planet. Her adventure could have easily taken till the end of RoTJ even potentially after jakku before she rejoined the rest. The Force only knows what path she took back. Alternatively Bail Organa was her prime contact in the alliance, she may have gotten off malachor around the time of scarif or yavin then felt the death of alderaan, heard about the hotshot pilot named skywalker that blew up the death star, and started researching more about him, perhaps always 2 steps behind, tatooine, bespin, maybe dagobah post yoda's death. All the while chasing leads on ezra too, she probably felt Anakin's redemption in the force. At some point she would probably make contact with Rex at least, who could catch her up with recent history. Then she hears rumblings of Thrawn again, and starts the Ezra hunt, since Luke really doesn't need her at that time. leading into mando 2 and BoBF. Long winded I know just some thoughts. Nice video.

First, yeah, it happened: This is Time Travel, and no clever semantic tricks can change that. Second, I would have preferred they not bring it in. Few franchises handle time travel well. Those that do are headed by one creative person, ensuring the story stays focused and paradoxes are not introduced. Whether we like or dislike SW post Battle of Endor, the story definitely has internal consistency issues. Finally, I don't know if there is a fix for this. I will reserve judgement, until I see what Mr Filoni and the story team do over the next few years. I suspect he had plans for her: One of those was that Vader should kill her, but I doubt that was the end of it.

They should’ve used it to retcon the Sequels or atleast salvage Luke Skywalker’s character.

well, i agree it was not a good idea to introduce time-travel as it and all the paradoxes and effects that came with it, seems to already takes its toll on the audience it seems^^ no offense ;) But the "Mon Mothma solution" makes perfect sense and is absolutely acceptable in such a vast galaxy/universe

The Yoda line 'There is another,' from ESB was retroactively repurposed in Return of the Jedi to be in reference to Leia. Therefore it is not impossible for it to be re-purposed again to be in reference to Ahsoka Tano

I think that Ashoka, in taking a different path from Ezra, came out of the World between Worlds at a different time... specifically 10 years later... just after the fall of the Empire. In finding that the empire had fallen, she had no need to seek out and assist the rebellion, so she turned her attention immediately to finding Ezra. This is where Rebels ends... shortly after Ashoka had seemingly 'reappeared' after being missing and presumed dead for ten years.

We already had a paradox that destroyed Star Wars, the Disney purchase.

In my opinion I still think she should have died in Clone Wars as a result of the Jedi asking her to something very dangerous for them and her death be used as an extra catalyst for Anakin to turn against them.

I hate the introduction of time travel, it’s just another example of an idea thrown in to retcon a previous decision without thought for world building repercussions. Ashoka should have died in that last duel. It was an awesome scene, the best in Rebels aside from Obi Wan vs Maul, and it was ruined because the writers, or studio, wanted to do more with her, and did the most ridiculous thing they could have done to undo it.

She was stranded on Malachor from WBWs until she met up with Sabine to find Ezra, post ROTJ

While I appreciate the effort behind your time travel explanation, it still relies on time working in a linear, logical (to us humans) fashion. Research has pointed to time not working in such a fashion, but humans have no way to really comprehend it any other way than the way we do. STNG, while not fully reflecting some of the current theories on time, does a very good job of addressing the issue of how humans "see" time in the series finale, and how limited that view is.

My only issue with the Mon Mothma defence is Mothma's appearance in R1, she's seen leading the rebels at Yavin and then disappears until RoTJ, it just needed a line from her to Bail Organa or Jyn saying that she's going on a mission then it all stacks up properly

As long as it is never used again, or at least it is never trivialized as something easy to access or something the characters can rely on to fix whatever they like. I can accept that time travel is possible in Star Wars

I always felt the natural thing to do with world between world is use it to save Cassian and Jyn, bringing them to the post Endor Time of the Galaxy. That would have brought Rebels a lot of attention, they could still do it with Ahsoka or even Andor.

I honestly don't think that the intent of World Between Worlds was supposed to be narrowed down to just "time travel"; to me, it's more like a spiritual realm, of the cosmic Force, to where you can't necessarily change anything you want, as we see, Ezra couldn't change Kanan's fate, but if he did, would it have even worked anyhow? Or was the portal displaying Kanan's death just a vision, a figment of the past, and nothing more than that? Not to mention that Ezra didn't exactly "revive Ahsoka" considering that if you watch the last few scenes of the Rebels S2 finale, you see very clearly a figure of a person walking deeper into the depths of Malachor, (that being Ahsoka) and Dave Filone even made artwork showing Morai (the Daughter) leading Ahsoka deeper below into Malachor, leading her to a portal that looks similar to the World Between Worlds. The World Between Worlds seems to be more similar with what Vader experienced in the Vader comics, (a Dark Side cave, or "Dark Side Locus" as it was called) Vader's conscious entered a portal where he saw things of the past and future, some events even played out differently to how they actually happened, he saw Padme, and was given the chance to save her, but it just wasn't meant to be, and he failed; later on, the Sith Lord, Darth Momin used the portal to resurrect his physical body and join his spirit back together with his body. So in other words, it's not something to just be used as "time travel"; we just really don't know the full extent or power of this Dark Side Locus or Force Vergence Scatter realms (those are the real names, other than the World Between Worlds or Dark Side Cave titles) but obviously Palpatine didn't care too much for the Dark Side Locus on Mustafar, so I'd assume that the World Between Worlds is the more powerful/dominant realm, over the entire galaxy.

I always thought of The World Between Worlds as entering the Force; as in entering some kind of other dimension that exists outside of our time and space. So it bugs me less, but the biggest problem with people arguing that "no paradox has been created so it's fine" kind of flies in the face of Palpatine trying to enter the World. If he is trying to enter it, then he must believe he can change the past. Or you could argue that that is Palpatine doing what the Sith always do; manipulating the force to their own will rather than following its will like the Jedi pledge to do.

11:28 To my understanding! I think she went to the World Between Worlds in her time because she wanted to know what happened in Season 3. In other Words! She binge watch the entire Star Wars Rebels Season 3 in the WBW! 😄😂 Ezra literally said to her she missed alot. So... In order to know what she missed, she must learn them. Maybe she found out about Thrawn because she study him in the WBW? 😄🤔

Non existent and Dave Fandfic Filoni forgot that.

The reason Asoka wasn't around is because she didn't even exist yet, so the writers had to write a way out of a convoluted loop hole to explain why she wasn't there.

In the words of Temporal investigations "Temporal mechanics it gives me a headache" -Startrek

The world between worlds is a get out of jail free card that writers can use whenever their favorite character gets in a jam

So I have three thoughts on why Ahsoka didn't immediately go and help the Rebels after her duel on Malachor. First is rather simple. She realised that interfering too soon would create disastrous paradoxes and simply waited. On the other hand, this would only mean she could have returned at any point after Ezra saved her, but she doesn't return until after the Empire's defeat at Endor. Second is also simple: she couldn't. Malachor was a rarely visited grave of a world, probably forgotten by the galaxy at large. We know that some ancient Jedi and Sith tech was still around but badly maintained (like the lightsaber Ezra picked up). It may have just taken Ahsoka a few years to scavenge and repair enough parts for a ship good enough to leave, not to mention she probably had to travel in realspace without a hyperdrive. Alternatively she made/had a distress beacon that didn't get an answer until a few years later. Third is a bit weirder. The scene we see her reemerge after her duel with Vader actually takes place years after the duel, as when she "returns" to through the portal/window, it throws her several years into the future. She leaves planet, rendevous with the rebels and realises time has passed, Empire got defeated at Endor etc etc. According to a card game on mobile she supposedly went back into the time dimension immediately after leaving it to go on a journey. Not sure how canon it is though. I'd also like to point out that Vader probably very briefly felt Ezra's presence when Ahsoka disappeared, went and reported the whole thing to Palpatine which is how Palpatine learned of, or at least got confirmation of, the time dimension thing. Had Ezra not saved Ahsoka, he probably would never have found the place to begin with, creating a paradox.

Asokah hides until the fall of the empire because then ezra wouldn't be in stormtrooper armour as a disguise

I think it would be dope if Ahsoka used it again but didn’t tell anyone. She’s wise enough not to tamper with too much but it would be something that only she knows how to access (aside from Ezra)

...Ahsoka also gets the staff from the armorer at some point after it has been modified to no longer be able to pierce mandalorian armor by using some of it to create Grogu's beskar chain male...

I think it’s a good twist to the story. Not exactly time travel per say but a war between world I don’t think we need to go further in an explanation. Let the mystery stand

After watching the two episode endings, I think there is room for the theory that Ahsoka may have returned to Malachor at the same time Ezra retuned instead of returning to the past. I'm basing this on the fact that the Owl is in two different positions. If so, then there is no chance for paradox because she is now stuck in the future. As for the other window I think it is a trick from the Emperor. If he pulls Kanan out, he is really pulling the Emperor in.

They could use the World between Worlds as a way of retconning the sequels, and even use Ahsoka's survival as the key point, in which case I would favour it, as anything that gets ride of the garbage sequel trilogy is good with me

Rebels fills much of the gaps for Ashoka , as for when she met Luke I would put it before Luke went to Jabba to save Han. Luke & Leia would give off a very familiar feeling in the force that Ashoka would sense, she may not know they are siblings, they didn’t know at that time either, but would know they are force sensitive. She could help Luke in making his lightsaber ( finding the kyber crystal needed for it to work ) she would also help him in his training . She is no Jedi so no issues there but she would be able to tell Luke many of the adventures she shared with Anakin . Arming Luke with knowledge of how great his father was and why Luke would choose to save his father Anakin not simply try to defeat Darth Vader. My question for the writers is where was Ashoka during Endor ?

I'm cool with time travel as a mechanic only if it has clearly defined rules within its own universe, whatever those rules might be. Philosophically, there's not much difference between the prophecy within Star Wars and time travel. Information from one time goes to another and can affect an outcome. Luke leaves Degobah upon having a vision of his friends in danger. This information from the future causes him to act in a particular way. If the physical time travel sticks to these principles, it could work in a limited fashion.

You should do a what if series of "what if Luke enlisted in the empire like he originally wanted to"

Okay ... this is the most plausible (within the current canon setup which includes the WBW gimmick) way to get her off the canvas and then have her pop up at a convenient point later ... But what about the 13-year gap from the end of the Ahsoka novel up to her appearance in Rebels (end of) season 1? This of course, makes it possible for her to appear in any projects - such as Kenobi series - that appear to be set during that interval.

The real reason is she didn't wanna be associated with fake jedi like rey whom she know would never amount to anything... jus saved yall 10 min

The World Between Worlds is a concept of which we know frighteningly little.

Ok, did anyone else notice in the still shot of Ezra watching Vader and Ashoka that it appears that Vader is looking at Ezra??

Ahsoka goes through a portal that puts on the sith world at time after Episode 6.... we always assume she came back to same time as Ezra. She went through a different portal. Maybe the cosmic force directed her to that portal to keep her from changing Luke's destiny to save Vader.

It’s been a while since I’ve seen the show but didn’t Ashoka go back through the door in Ezra’s current time?

Makes sense. I'm cool with it. MCU did a similar thing with Captain Marvel. Where was she during all the other events of the MCU? She was busy. And that's fine. It's actually perfect.

I think it's possible in theory. Time travel is also a theme in another great series, Outlander.

I don't remember them ever showing Ahsoka leaving the World Between Worlds, nor do we know when it was she went and got Sabine. Who says she left and went back to her "own" timeline? Maybe the Force opened a different door for her...one after the Original Trilogy. She went and got Sabine and off they went into the Unknown Regions.

Simple answer when Ahsoka was returned to her proper past she was stuck on Malachor with out any ship to get off planet and was stuck there till at some point she was rescued

"Obi-Wan first met Ahsoka during the Battle of Christophis. At first, Obi-Wan thought Ahsoka was going to be his apprentice, until Ahsoka revealed that she was assigned to be Anakin's apprentice. Later, Obi-Wan told Anakin off for being so harsh with her and told him to cut her some slack." "Strangely enough, Ahsoka is originally meant to be Obi-Wan's second Padawan, not Anakin's first. Obi-Wan puts in a request for a new apprentice from the planet Christophsis shortly before the beginning of the 2008 animated film, "Star Wars: The Clone Wars." When Ahsoka arrives, Obi-Wan introduces himself as her new master before Ahsoka corrects him and announces that she's actually been assigned to Anakin." "One of the most interesting aspects of Obi-Wan and Ahsoka's relationship is the fact that he's basically her Jedi "Grandfather." Jedi are trained one-on-one, passing their teachings from master to student over the course of generations. Because of this, for as much as the Skywalker saga focuses on the titular family, it is perhaps more accurate to describe it as following a specific generational line of Jedi that Ahsoka is proud to belong to." "When Obi-Wan and Anakin fight Count Dooku in "Attack of the Clones," they are, in a sense, fighting family. Jedi aren't meant to form attachments or know their biological relatives, and as a result, the relationships between master and apprentice are often the closest thing they have to parental bonds. Whenever Ahsoka is instructed in the ways of the Force, she is hearing the echoes of all the Jedi who came before her, whether she's hearing them directly from Obi-Wan or through Anakin." "Though this might seem like an unorthodox way to put it, Obi-Wan basically helps Anakin raise Ahsoka. Over the course of the war, the three of them work together on many different missions." "Ahsoka mourns Obi-Wan following the bloody rampage of Order 66, which is made all the more tragic by the fact that Obi-Wan isn't actually dead. Unbeknownst to either character, they both survive the Great Jedi Purge and go on to oppose the Empire in their own ways. Only Bail Organa and Yoda know that Obi-Wan goes into hiding on the planet Tatooine to protect his former pupil's son, Luke. But even though Ahsoka eventually joins forces with Bail Organa and works closely with him in forming the Rebellion, he never reveals Obi-Wan's fate. The existence of Anakin's children is simply too important to risk telling anybody, even Ahsoka." www.looper.com/626954/ahsoka-tanos-relationship-with-obi-wan-kenobi-explained/?

Episode 2 was the battle of geonosis which was before Ashoka became anakins padawan and episode 3 she was on mandalor fighting maul

RU-vid just rickrolled me, instead of playing an ad, and I have no idea how or why it happened.

"go cause some chaos, it's what you're good at!" ..... ..... "oh god oh no oh shit oh fuck"