‘Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi’ Easter Eggs & Details
Tales of the Jedi brought new stories of old characters, answered questions we didn’t know we had and left many Easter Eggs for us to find.
Last week Tales of the Jedi brought us new stories of Jedi we already knew pretty darn well. But the six-part mini-series managed to have a few surprises and secrets in store for us.
In order to reveal some of the Easter Eggs we found in ‘Tales of the Jedi’, we’ll have to spoil parts of the series. If you haven’t watched it yet, proceed at your own risk.
Caleb Dume / Kanan Jarrus
Episode five focuses on Ahsoka getting an entirely new training regiment from her master, Anakin Skywalker. But we’ll come back to that and its ramifications in a bit. Right now we’re focusing on who was in attendance for her test at the beginning of the episode. It’s an if-you-know-you-know moment for fans of Rebels with quick eyes, but watching Ahsoka show off her lightsaber skills is Jedi Master Depa Billaba and her own young padawan, Caleb Dume. Caleb will later survive Order 66, though Master Depa will not before he changes his name and joins the Rebellion as Kanan Jarrus.
Yaddle
Remember Yaddle? She showed up in The Phantom Menace so we could all say, “Oh hey, another Yoda” and then disappeared mysteriously by the time Attack of the Clones happened. At the time many either didn’t notice or chalked this up to sloppy writing – let’s be honest, it was a fair assumption. But in-universe there were a million places she could have been from on a mission to working off-screen to dead. Tales of the Jedi gave us the answer to the question many of us forgot to ask when Yaddle caught Dooku working with Darth Sidious red-handed and lost the resulting duel.
Interestingly, Yaddle doesn’t have the same speech pattern as Yoda, leaving us to wonder why Yoda speaks so differently than everybody else. Also, she’s voiced by Bryce Dallas Howard, who’s better known for Jurassic World and, more importantly, directing some of the best episodes in The Mandalorian and Book of Boba Fett.
The Deleted Kamino Data
Way back in Attack of the Clones, Obi-Wan Kenobi discovered that the data for Kamino had been deleted. This remained a mystery for the rest of the prequel series, though there were only so many characters who could have or would have deleted the data, this was presented as a clue than a plot thread to tug on. Tales of the Jedi answers another question we didn’t think to ask in showing Count Dooku deleting the Kaminio archive data using Master Sifo-Dyas’s clearance code.
Little Soka
We get a glimpse of Ahsoka Tano‘s infant days, the village she comes from, and her parents. We know that Ahsoka is recruited into the Jedi Order at two years old, so her time with her parents is short, but this is clearly a very loving and sweet family. Her father, Nak-Il calls her “little ‘Soka” which is a very cute nickname. But it is also a callback to Plo Koon, who acts as a surrogate father to Ahsoka and also uses this same nickname for her.
And Ashla
The final episode takes place after the fall of the Republic and features an Ahsoka on the run from the Empire and hiding from inquisitors. She is also going by the name “Ashla.” Ashla was actually the original name Star Wars character during the development of The Clone Wars, but her name was later changed to Ahsoka by George Lucas. Ahsoka also went by Ashla in the 2016 E.K. Johnston novel, Ahsoka, which also had her working on a farm and dealing with being tracked down by an inquisitor. Unfortunately, a few key aspects of this episode negate events from the book and vice versa. So which is canon? This isn’t the first time Star Wars has forgotten its own canon and disregarded things that happened in the comics or novels, but it’s always a little jarring.
The name Ashla is also used in Rebels by Bendu, the personified aspect of the Force that didn’t represent the light side or the dark side.
Ahsoka’s Lightsaber Moves
In the aforementioned episode where Anakin took Ahsoka for some special saber training, the audience is meant to figure out early on that this training-against-clones is going to come in handy down the road for Ahsoka once Order 66 happens. But what fans may not notice is how much of her training she remembers. In the final season of The Clone Wars, we see Ahsoka using the exact same moves to defend herself from the clones who used to be her friends.
Similarly, when she fights the Inquisitor in the final episode, she quickly grabs and shuts off their lightsaber with the force. This is a move that we have seen Ahsoka use before against another inquisitor, the Seventh Sister in Rebels.
What Easter Eggs and details did you notice in Tales of the Jedi? What did you think of the mini-series? Did you have any questions answered in any of the episodes? Let us know in the comments!
May The Force Be With You, Adventurers!
