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Star Wars: Tales
Logo for Tales of the Jedi
Also known as
  • Tales of the Jedi
  • Tales of the Empire
Genre
Created byDave Filoni
Based onStar Wars
by George Lucas
Voices of
Composers
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes6
Production
Executive producers
  • Dave Filoni
  • Athena Yvette Portillo
  • Carrie Beck
Producers
  • Alex Spotswood
  • Josh Rimes
Running time13–17 minutes
Production companies
Original release
NetworkDisney+
ReleaseOctober 26, 2022 (2022-10-26) –
present (present)
Related
Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Star Wars: Tales

supervising director
.

Filoni began writing Tales of the Jedi, also known as Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi, while working on the Star Wars series The Mandalorian. He revealed the first official details about the series in May 2022. It follows two "paths", one focused on the character Ahsoka Tano (voiced by Ashley Eckstein) and the other on the character Count Dooku (voiced by Corey Burton). Tales of the Jedi was released on Disney+ on October 26, 2022, and received critical acclaim, with praise towards its animation, writing, and musical score.

A second installment was announced in April 2023, and was revealed a year later to be titled Tales of the Empire. Also known as Star Wars: Tales of the Empire, it is also split into two arcs, with one following

Barriss Offee (voiced by Meredith Salenger
). Tales of the Empire is set to be released on May 4, 2024.

Premise

Tales of the Jedi tells short stories featuring

Barriss Offee.[5]

Episodes

No.
overall		No. in
season		TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal release date
11"Life and Death"Nathaniel VillanuevaDave FiloniOctober 26, 2022 (2022-10-26)
A year after her birth, an infant Ahsoka Tano is taken on her first hunting trip by her mother, Pav-ti, as is customary for their people. While hunting, they are stalked by a large predatory animal which kidnaps Ahsoka. Pav-ti returns to the village for help, but is surprised to see Ahsoka arrive at the vilage soon after riding the animal, having subdued it in the forest. Gantika, a village elder, realizes that Ahsoka has a strong connection to the Force.
Cast : Toks Olagundoye as Gantika, Sunil Malhotra as Nak-il, Janina Gavankar as Pav-ti, and Noshir Dalal as a villager
22"Justice"Saul RuizDave FiloniOctober 26, 2022 (2022-10-26)
Jedi Master Dooku and his Padawan, Qui-Gon Jinn, find the kidnapped son of Senator Dagonet in a dilapidated village where the locals are struggling due to the senator's corruption. Dagonet arrives with troops and attacks the villagers. Dooku, angered by the corrupt senator, threatens to kill him with the Force. Qui-Gon and the senator's son convince Dooku to spare Dagonet, and the son promises to help the villagers.
Cast : Corey Burton as Dooku and an armed villager, Micheál Richardson as Qui-Gon Jinn, Mark Rolston as Senator Dagonet, Josh Keaton as Senator Dagonet's son, and Vanessa Marshall as a village elder
33"Choices"Charles MurrayCharles Murray and Élan MurrayOctober 26, 2022 (2022-10-26)
Dooku and Jedi Master
TC Carson as Mace Windu, Terrell Tilford as Semage, and Theo Rossi
as Senator Larik
44"The Sith Lord"Saul RuizDave FiloniOctober 26, 2022 (2022-10-26)
Following the secret plan of the
Jocasta Nu, Liam Neeson as Qui-Gon Jinn, and Bryce Dallas Howard
as Yaddle
55"Practice Makes Perfect"Saul RuizDave FiloniOctober 26, 2022 (2022-10-26)
Disappointed with the simple battle simulations that his
Order 66. Ahsoka uses the skills she gained during these drills to survive the attacking clones.[b]
Cast : Ashley Eckstein as Ahsoka Tano, Matt Lanter as Anakin Skywalker, Dee Bradley Baker as Captain Rex and Jesse, and James Arnold Taylor as Obi-Wan Kenobi
66"Resolve"Saul RuizDave FiloniOctober 26, 2022 (2022-10-26)
During the funeral of
Inquisitor is sent to capture her. Ahsoka kills the Inquisitor and contacts Organa, who comes to collect her the next day. She tells him that she is ready to fight against the Empire.
Cast : Ashley Eckstein as Ahsoka Tano, Phil LaMarr as Bail Organa, Clancy Brown as an Inquisitor, David Shaughnessy as an old man, Dee Bradley Baker as security clone troopers, Bryton James as the village brother, and Dana Davis
as the village sister

Production

Development

While traveling to work on the Star Wars series The Mandalorian, Dave Filoni began writing short stories about different Jedi characters from the franchise's prequel trilogy era. Carrie Beck, senior vice president of development and production at Lucasfilm, asked if Filoni wanted to turn these into a series, which he compared to her "find[ing] the money" for a revival of his animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars on the streaming service Disney+.[6]

In December 2021, the logo for Tales of the Jedi was included on holiday gifts for Lucasfilm employees alongside logos for upcoming film and television projects at the studio. This was also the name of an unrelated

supervising director, and executive producer, with Athena Yvette Portillo and Beck also as executive producers.[9]

At Star Wars Celebration London in April 2023, Filoni announced that the series would receive a second season.[12] This was revealed to be titled Tales of the Empire or Star Wars: Tales of the Empire a year later.[5] Lucafilm described it as the second installment of the "Tales franchise".[1][5][13]

Writing

Filoni said the shorts were slower paced than episodes of The Clone Wars and called them "a series of tone poems" with less dialogue and more visual storytelling. This was inspired by the works of

Barriss Offee.[5]

Filoni's first idea for the series was to show how Ahsoka was brought to the Jedi Order by

Plo Koon, but he changed this to a story about Ahsoka's first hunting trip with her mother because there had not been many stories about "moms being moms" in Star Wars.[2][14] He felt it was important that "Ahsoka's first experience with someone telling her, 'Don't be afraid,' is her mother".[4] Beyond the first episode, which has a happy ending and features the "adorable baby Ahsoka",[4] Filoni warned that "these aren't just fun, happy stories. It gets rough at times." He particularly felt that Dooku's life was "surprisingly tragic", and attributed some of the series' darker episodes to them being written during the COVID-19 pandemic.[2] An aspect of Dooku that Filoni wanted to explore was the relationship with his padawan learner, Qui-Gon Jinn, whom Filoni described as "one of the best and, in some ways, most interesting Jedi, because of his philosophy, which is different from the Jedi Council. And where did he learn that, if not from his mentor, Count Dooku?"[4]

The final episode of Tales of the Jedi, titled "Resolve", loosely adapts the events of the 2016 novel Ahsoka by E. K. Johnston. Filoni explained that he based "Resolve" on the same outline that he had given Lucasfilm's publishing outline for the novel, which is why the two works tell the same story.[15] Ashley Eckstein, the actress who voices Ahsoka, said the novel had not come into discussion while "Resolve" was in production and she never asked Filoni where the episode fell in relation to the novel. She regarded the episode as "an extension of the novel" and the beginning of "that chapter" of Ahsoka's life.[16]

Casting

With the series' announcement in May 2022,

Inquisitor.[9]

When details for Tales of the Empire were released, several voice actors were revealed to be reprising their roles from previous Star Wars media:

Grand Inquisitor, and Matthew Wood as General Grievous.[5] The characters Darth Vader,[23]: 17  Marrok,[13] and Brown's unnamed Inquisitor from Tales of the Jedi also appear.[23]
: 18 

Animation

The series uses the same animation style as Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars: The Bad Batch.[2] Charles Murray, Nathaniel Villanueva, and Saul Ruiz directed the Tales of the Jedi shorts.[9][24]

Music

Kevin Kiner composed the music for Tales of the Jedi after previously doing so for The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels, and The Bad Batch.[9] As with the other animated Star Wars series, Kiner collaborated with his children Sean and Deana.[25] David Glen Russell also provided additional music for the series.[26] Sean and Deana Kiner are credited as co-composers with Kevin Kiner for Tales of the Empire.[27]

The Kiners started with the three Ahsoka shorts. For Ahsoka's younger years in the first two shorts, Kevin wanted to call back to his earliest material for the character in the

final season of The Clone Wars, along with some "experimental" vocal work.[28][29]

Walt Disney Records released a soundtrack album for Tales of the Jedi digitally on October 26, 2022, alongside the premiere of the series on Disney+. All music by Kevin Kiner:[33]

Tales of the Jedi (Original Soundtrack)
No.TitleLength
1."Birth of Ahsoka"1:33
2."Ahsoka's Village"2:47
3."Sanctity of Life"2:45
4."Tiger"2:19
5."The Bond"2:33
6."Ahsoka Returns"2:59
7."A Real Test"3:28
8."Let's Go Again"2:19
9."Training Pays Off"1:36
10."Secret Mourner"2:10
11."No One Is Safe"4:13
12."The Inquisitor"3:45
13."Ahsoka Is Ready"1:13
14."Dooku Arrives"2:44
15."The Kidnappers"2:34
16."Soldiers Are Here"4:52
17."No More Suffering"2:24
18."Murder Case"2:25
19."Mystery in Raxus"2:09
20."Dooku Investigates"3:10
21."Dooku Contemplates"2:33
22."Qui-Gon and the Sith Lord"4:59
23."Flight Into Darkness"4:04
24."Dooku vs. Yaddle"3:16
25."Dooku's Fall"2:45
Total length:1:11:14

Marketing

Filoni revealed the first details about the series at a Star Wars Celebration panel in May 2022, where a teaser was shown and the full first episode screened.[2]

Release

Tales of the Jedi premiered on Disney+ on October 26, 2022, with all of its six episodes.[34] Tales of the Empire will premiere on Disney+ on May 4, 2024, again with all six episodes.[5]

Reception

Audience viewership

According to Parrot Analytics, which looks at consumer engagement in consumer research, streaming, downloads, and on social media, Tales of the Jedi was the 4th most in-demand streaming show in the United States during the week of October 29, 2022, to November 4, 2022.[35] According to Whip Media's TV Time, Tales of the Jedi was the 9th most streamed original series across all platforms in the United States during the week ending October 30, 2022.[36]

Critical response

The

weighted average, assigned the series a score of 78 out of 100, based on six critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[38]

Brian Young of /Film asserted, "These episodes are full of pathos and interesting connections to the broader Star Wars lore. The quality of work from the writers, from Lucasfilm Animation, and the music of Kevin Kiner has never been better. My hope is that these mini-episodes are popular enough to spin more Jedi into the limelight for more tales."[39] Kevin Fox Jr. of Paste gave the series a grade of 8.2 out of 10, stating, "The overall result, as overseen by Dave Filoni, is surprising and strong. Tales of the Jedi succeeds by saying exactly what it means to and then making its exit, sure to have viewers ready for more. Whether it's ultimately a one-off season or the start of something greater, it's worth Star Wars fans' time to check it out."[40]

Jamie Lovett of

ComicBook.com gave the series a grade of 4 out of 5, saying, "These six Tales of the Jedi are beautiful, moving, and deceptively layered for their brevity while packing a few surprises and jaw-dropping moments along the way. Lucasfilm Animation managed to squeeze a lot of Star Wars magic into these shorts, and viewers will only be disappointed that there aren't more of them."[41] Alex Stedman of IGN gave the series a grade of 8 out of 10, writing, "Tales of the Jedi is a strong, tightly written showcase for two important characters in Star Wars lore: Count Dooku and Ahsoka Tano. Dooku in particular gets a good amount of meat added to his character’s bones, while the other episodes feature a welcome look into Ahsoka at different points in her life. It’s moody and methodical at times, while still managing to weave in some beautifully animated action. It may not be absolutely vital Star Wars content, but there are certainly worse ways to revisit these characters before Ahsoka gets her own series."[42]

Accolades

Tales of the Jedi received a nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Broadcast Animation at the 2023 Golden Reel Awards.[43] It was also nominated for Outstanding Short-Form Program at the 2023 Producers Guild of America Awards.[44]

Notes

  1. ^ "The Sith Lord" takes place concurrently with the events of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999)
  2. ^ As depicted in the final season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars
  3. ^ "Resolve"'s cold open takes place concurrently with the events of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)

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