"Somehow Palpatine returned" remains one of the single stupidest things I've ever heard a character say in a movie, and I feel bad for Oscar Isaac. It hurts me a little bit every time Screen Crush plays the clip in one of their Easter egg videos.
It has never been fully explained. They've dropped hints and clues and innuendos across multiple Filoni-verse shows now, but I think the Nightsisters/Great Mothers thing might finally offer up an explanation. I'm wondering if it might somehow involve the throng of worshippers on Exegol surrounding Palps' altar/chair/monitor arm thing he was attached to. Like, those aren't 'people' in the traditional sense, but rather re-animated Dathomiri corpses or something.
The zombie thing....... just enjoy the Clone Wars episodes, mate.
It seemed clear that's where Ahsoka was going plot-wise, so it made sense to include the Dathomir arc on the must-watch list. And with the final shot of Baylan Skoll standing on the not-Argonath statue, it's pretty clear that the recommendation of the Mortis arc was appropriate, too. (The three giant statues at the end of Ep 8 are the Mortis gods - the Father, the Son, and the damaged one is the Daughter.... vry important stuff, esp for Ahsoka, in light of the appearance of the Morai owl at the end, the moreso that they're all appearing in a completely different galaxy)
I don't know if you've ever played the game Jedi Fallen Order, but the Ahsoka show seems to have leaned pretty hard into the lore that was introduced in the plot of that game. Like, there is a super strong overlap in the Mortis arc from Clone Wars and Fallen Order that wasn't readily apparent four years ago when the game came out. There were suggestions that things might be connected, or at least similar, but it feels like this show just drew a solid Sharpie line connecting the dots.
At any rate, Fallen Order is an excellent game on its own merits, so it's not like you'd just be on an archaeology quest if you played it.
It has never been fully explained. They've dropped hints and clues and innuendos across multiple Filoni-verse shows now, but I think the Nightsisters/Great Mothers thing might finally offer up an explanation. I'm wondering if it might somehow involve the throng of worshippers on Exegol surrounding Palps' altar/chair/monitor arm thing he was attached to. Like, those aren't 'people' in the traditional sense, but rather re-animated Dathomiri corpses or something.
The zombie thing....... just enjoy the Clone Wars episodes, mate.
It seemed clear that's where Ahsoka was going plot-wise, so it made sense to include the Dathomir arc on the must-watch list. And with the final shot of Baylan Skoll standing on the not-Argonath statue, it's pretty clear that the recommendation of the Mortis arc was appropriate, too. (The three giant statues at the end of Ep 8 are the Mortis gods - the Father, the Son, and the damaged one is the Daughter.... vry important stuff, esp for Ahsoka, in light of the appearance of the Morai owl at the end, the moreso that they're all appearing in a completely different galaxy)
I don't know if you've ever played the game Jedi Fallen Order, but the Ahsoka show seems to have leaned pretty hard into the lore that was introduced in the plot of that game. Like, there is a super strong overlap in the Mortis arc from Clone Wars and Fallen Order that wasn't readily apparent four years ago when the game came out. There were suggestions that things might be connected, or at least similar, but it feels like this show just drew a solid Sharpie line connecting the dots.
At any rate, Fallen Order is an excellent game on its own merits, so it's not like you'd just be on an archaeology quest if you played it.
