Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi: 6 Things We Liked (and 4 We Didn’t)

Dooku’s story in Tales of the Jedi, and “Resolve,” the ultimate chapter of Ahsoka’s narrative, are loosely impressed by the occasions of two Disney canon tales that beforehand instructed each the story of Dooku’s exit from the Jedi Order and Ahsoka’s life after the occasions of The Clone Wars, earlier than she joined the nascent Rebellion: Dooku: Jedi Lost, an audio drama by The High Republic’s Cavan Scott, and the aptly titled Ahsoka, by E.Ok. Johnston.

Dooku’s Tales arc may be very completely different to the arc we see in Jedi Lost—which is about effectively earlier than Phantom Menace, and focuses far more keenly on Dooku’s rising concern in regards to the Republic’s corruption in flip, and Jedi Lost, just by being an extended story, will get the time to carry nuance to Dooku’s character that Tales merely can’t. Meanwhile, “Resolve” is a a lot nearer adaptation of the Ahsoka novel, broadly taking its occasions in a method that feels largely pointless to have performed so, and even moreso struggling to encapsulate a complete novel right into a single quick. It’s doable to grok these two Tales shorts as someway taking place concurrently with the variations of the tales, canonically talking—Scott himself took to Twitter to share his personal headcanon for a way each Jedi Lost and “The Sith Lord” can co-exist—however on this supposed period of a singularly unified Star Wars canon throughout Books, TV, Films, Comics, and extra, this largely feels just like the stuff that “matters” overriding the ancillary materials.