'Star Wars: The Clone Wars': Ahsoka Tano may just be Jedi Order's final hope to restore its former glory
Spoilers for 'Star Wars: The Clone Wars' Season 7 Episode 8 'Together Again'
Ahsoka Tano (Ashley Eckstein) may have left the Jedi Order, but she's their last, best hope at bringing the Order back to its former glory. A moment from this episode indicates a potentially greater future for Ahsoka Tano, though it will be a while before that comes to pass.
As 'The Clone Wars' has illustrated over its long run, by the time the Clone Wars began, the Jedi Order was a hollow mockery of what it once was, mired in corruption, bureaucracy and a desire to hold onto what power they held. It was their own oversight that allowed the empire to take over so completely, and for the Jedi Order to have been so thoroughly eradicated.
The Jedi Order had stopped being a force for good in any eyes but their own - as the last four episodes reveal, there's a lot of mistrust from most people in regards to the Jedi. It's part of the reason why Ahsoka left the Order in the first place.
However, on finding out that Ahsoka was a former Jedi, and on hearing her claim she's not one, Rafa Martez (Elizabeth Rodriguez) tells Ahsoka that she still acts like a Jedi. "At least," says Rafa, "how I want them to be."
Without a mission, without a set future, Ahsoka still lives by the best of what the Jedi can be. She was raised in their ways, taught by the best of them, and retained only the good. She is one of the few survivors of Order 66 simply because she'd left the Jedi by that point, and we know that she lives on past the first fall of the empire, given that she is confirmed to be appearing in the second season of 'The Mandalorian.'
Born 36 years before the destruction of the Death Star, she would have been in her early 70s by the time of 'The Rise of Skywalker' - meaning just old enough to get the Jedi Order restarted. Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) soundly failed to do so, and with the Jedi teachings all burned away, Ahsoka Tano may be the only person alive left to teach them. That is, assuming she is alive.
Her voice was heard in Rey's (Daisy Ridley) head along with all the other passed Jedi, but that doesn't necessarily mean Tano passed away - only that, more significantly, she embraced her role as a Jedi once more, and her connection to the Force.
Rey's training was minimal, barely days under Luke Skywalker's care and then trained by someone who never was officially a Jedi - Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher). If Ahsoka is brought back, she may be the only one able to show Rey the way to rebuild the Jedi Order - the way it was meant to be.
The next episode of 'Star Wars: The Clone Wars' airs April 17, on Disney+.
