Ahsoka’s Jedi apprentice isn’t like any we’ve seen before
The Jedi are a pretty cut-and-dried group in the Star Wars universe. While everyone else is happy to find ways to bend the rules, the Jedi follow the letter of the law — often to the galaxy’s general detriment, which is exactly why Ahsoka Tano called it quits on the Order. And while she may be older and wiser now than she was then, her new TV series shows that she’s still willing to shake things up. Very quietly and unexpectedly, the first episodes of Star Wars: Ahsoka are making the whole concept of a Jedi’s apprentice more interesting.
[Ed. note: This story contains spoilers for Ahsoka episodes 1 and 2.]
We learn quite a bit about several familiar characters in the first two episodes of Ahsoka, but the most interesting revelation is that Ahsoka took Sabine Wren in as an apprentice after the events of Star Wars Rebels. Since then, the two have had a very minor falling out — which led to the temporary end of Sabine’s training — but by the end of episode 2, they’re back together as master and apprentice.
A young and talented Star Wars character becoming a Jedi isn’t anything to write home about, but a couple of different things about Sabine make her training unique. First of all, she’s much older than traditional trainees, especially those Ahsoka would have been used to seeing. Second, and far more importantly, she doesn’t seem to have any connection to the Force.
A Jedi, in training or otherwise, who can’t use the Force is almost unthinkable in the old hierarchy of the Jedi Order. It’s also something that neither the original trilogy nor the sequel trilogy of films showed us. If Sabine is really training to be a Jedi — and why would Ahsoka be training her to be anything else? — then she would be an entirely new type
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