TalesOfTheJedi Review: StarWars at Its Moody Best
Star Wars returns to CG animation with Tales of the Jedi, a series of six shorts released simultaneously on Disney+. Despite the short-form format, everything that Dave Filoni and Lucasfilm Animation perfected through Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels remains intact and on display. Compared to those series, Tales of the Jedi is a somber experience, lacking the rousing score, epic wartime battles, and clandestine sabotage missions.
The first episode,"Life and Death," shows Ahsoka's birth and the ceremonial first hunting trip with her mother, which reveals her Force sensitivity. It's the quietest of all the episodes, featuring not a single lightsaber, opting instead to reconnect the concept of the Force with the inspiration from Eastern philosophies and religions like Taoism that informed its depiction in the original Star Wars trilogy.
Tales of the Jedi closes with two episodes focused on Ahsoka, condensing a similar three-act arc story into two episodes via allusions to events from Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Ashley Eckstein and Corey Burton lead the series as Ahsoka and Dooku and provide more of the same excellent performances they gave in past animated series. They also offer subtle variations to match the eras of each episode, be it Eckstein lowering her register slightly when portraying the older, wearied Ahsoka or Burton giving Dooku more of the intensity of youth in his earlier days. The supporting actors give mostly stellar performances, including Bryce Dallas Howard as Yaddle.
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