After the events of The Mandalorian season 3 and Ahsoka, one previously canceled Star Wars Disney+ TV show should be brought back to life.
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SUMMARY
- Ahsoka and The Mandalorian season 4 will likely showcase the growing threat of Grand Admiral Thrawn, one of the biggest threats the galaxy has ever faced.
- The New Republic's forces and its flaws will play a big role in the upcoming struggle against Thrawn and the Imperial Remnant.
- Reviving the canceled show Rangers of the New Republic would provide an opportunity to explore the crumbling legacy of the New Republic and focus more on characters like Hera Syndulla and Ezra Bridger.
After the success of Ahsoka, Star Wars needs to resurrect one canceled Disney+ TV show. Ahsoka, like The Mandalorian, explores what the galaxy was like after the fall of the Empire. As the New Republic tries to establish a peaceful foothold in the galaxy, sinister forces are still lurking in the shadows as the Imperial Remnant attempts to regain control.
While The Mandalorian depicted Moff Gideon’s dastardly operations, Ahsoka brought back one of the biggest threats the galaxy has ever faced: Grand Admiral Thrawn, whose tactical prowess is bound to become a problem in a possible second season of Ahsoka, The Mandalorian season 4, and beyond.
The Star Wars live-action TV shows are all building towards Dave Filoni’s The Mandalorian movie. Ahsoka Tano and Din Djarin are both likely to play a big part in the fight against Thrawn and the Imperial Remnant.
The New Republic’s forces will need to play a large role in the upcoming struggle as well. Ahsoka and The Mandalorian season 3 introduced audiences to more of the New Republic’s highest-ranking officials and its procedures, hinting at the cracks in its system. But new seasons of The Mandalorian and Ahsoka will surely focus more on their titular characters rather than Thrawn’s growing threat. One canceled Star Wars show, however, would be the perfect vehicle with which to explore the New Republic’s already crumbling legacy.
Rangers of the New Republic Must Be Revived
Lucasfilm once revealed that it would be producing a Disney+ show called Star Wars: Rangers of the New Republic. At the time it was announced, Gina Carano, who played the character Cara Dune in the first two seasons of The Mandalorian, was expected to lead the show in her capacity as a Marshal for the New Republic.
When Carano was cut from all future Star Wars projects, the concept for Rangers of the New Republic fell apart as well, its storylines being absorbed into both The Mandalorian and Ahsoka. The Mandalorian season 3, episode 3, for instance, depicts what it was like for former Imperial officers to be rehabilitated by the New Republic, and Ahsoka includes plenty of scenes related to the New Republic government and its distrust of Ahsoka and her friends.
While these storylines hold a lot of promise and do a solid job of setting up why the New Republic would eventually fail, they feel out of place in shows that should, above all, be focused on their titular characters.
That episode of The Mandalorian season 3 took away too much time from Din Djarin, Grogu, and the reclamation of Mandalore storyline, while Hera Syndulla’s troubles with the New Republic in her capacity as General felt, at times, like a distraction from Ahsoka and her Padawan Sabine Wren’s attempts to stop the villains from traveling to Star Wars’ secondary galaxy. Producing Rangers of the New Republic now would allow Lucasfilm to continue all those storylines without interrupting the build-up to The Mandalorian movie.
Instead of Cara Dune being the lead of Rangers of the New Republic, Ahsoka has re-introduced two perfect leading characters: New Republic General Hera Syndulla, and the recently returned Jedi Ezra Bridger. In her capacity as a General, Hera would be the ideal candidate to lead a show about the New Republic Rangers – she’s more willing to seek out the truth than the New Republic’s Senators, which would allow her to reveal the issues with the New Republic’s system as she scours the galaxy for signs of Thrawn and the Imperial Remnant.
Rangers of the New Republic with Hera at the helm could feature her working with other pilots and agents of the New Republic, like Captain Carson Teva, who has been featured in both The Mandalorian and Ahsoka, as well as Star Wars Rebels’ Garazeb “Zeb” Orrelios, who’s live-action version was introduced in The Mandalorian season 3. Rangers of the New Republic could, therefore, be an important bridge between Ahsoka and The Mandalorian as Star Wars builds towards this era’s inevitable conclusion. Ezra, meanwhile, could become a series mainstay, helping Hera on certain missions while also training her son, Jacen Syndulla, in the ways of the Force.
Rangers Is A Better Way To Focus On Thrawn's Return
Ahsoka season 1 ended with Grand Admiral Thrawn’s return to Star Wars’ primary galaxy, where he has now undoubtedly set up a base on Dathomir, the homeworld of the Nightsisters. With Din Djarin’s new job as a “freelance” ranger for the New Republic, he will undoubtedly come into contact with Thrawn as well, but Thrawn’s return deserves more focus than just what The Mandalorian can offer without sacrificing the show’s core relationship. If Ahsoka is renewed for season 2, it, similarly, should focus on Ahsoka and Sabine’s time on Peridea, not Thrawn’s ongoing operations.
Rangers of the New Republic would provide the perfect opportunity to truly showcase what Thrawn is capable of and how dire the New Republic’s handling of the threat of the Imperial Remnant is without undoing character work, or making his return feel rushed and less threatening. These three shows combined would do more than enough to set up Dave Filoni’s The Mandalorian movie. Ahsoka works perfectly as a setup for Star Wars: Rangers of the New Republic, and it would be a shame to see that potential go to waste.
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