Ahsoka might fix the sequel trilogy the way Clone Wars fixed the prequels

polygon.com:

If watching Ahsoka feels a bit like walking in on the middle of a story instead of the beginning, that’s because it kind of is. While it’s not billed as such, the latest live-action Star Wars show is very much a sequel to the animated series Star Wars Rebels, reuniting its cast to tell the next chapter in a story that creator Dave Filoni and his collaborators have been telling, in one form or another, since The Clone Wars premiered on Cartoon Network in 2008. That said, it is also a follow-up to plot threads introduced in the second season of The Mandalorian, and, presumably, setup for one of three forthcoming Star Wars films.

Ahsoka, however, is contemporary to the story The Mandalorian is telling, and therefore set during a time for which there are very few canonical Star Wars stories: the New Republic era, the nebulous 30-year gap between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. This means it’s likely that Filoni is using Ahsoka to do for the sequel trilogy what he’s already famous for doing for the prequels: to explain what the movies wouldn’t, and make the Star Wars movie canon make some kind of sense.

This is Filoni’s strength. He is perhaps the foremost Star Wars continuity doctor, a guy known for using seven seasons of The Clone Wars to rehabilitate the prequel trilogy’s reputation by foregrounding and exploring a lot of the ideas those movies just breeze by. He’s a fan’s fan, the kind of person who has thought that we should have some explanation for why it was so easy for the Clone Troopers to turn on the Jedi during Order 66, or how the Jedi learned to become Force Ghosts. And when Disney’s 2012 acquisition of Lucasfilm led to the canonical slate being wiped clean with the exception of the movies and The