We Didn’t Like… That This Overshadows Two Excellent Prior Stories
Dooku’s story in Tales of the Jedi, and “Resolve,” the final chapter of Ahsoka’s narrative, are loosely inspired by the events of two Disney canon stories that previously told both the story of Dooku’s exit from the Jedi Order and Ahsoka’s life after the events of The Clone Wars, before she joined the nascent Rebellion: Dooku: Jedi Lost, an audio drama by The High Republic’s Cavan Scott, and the aptly titled Ahsoka, by E.K. Johnston.
Dooku’s Tales arc is very different to the arc we see in Jedi Lost—which is set well before Phantom Menace, and focuses much more keenly on Dooku’s growing concern about the Republic’s corruption in turn, and Jedi Lost, simply by being a longer story, gets the time to bring nuance to Dooku’s character that Tales simply can’t. Meanwhile, “Resolve” is a much closer adaptation of the Ahsoka novel, broadly taking its events in a way that feels largely unnecessary to have done so, and even moreso struggling to encapsulate an entire novel into a single short. It’s possible to grok these two Tales shorts as somehow happening concurrently with the versions of the stories, canonically speaking—Scott himself took to Twitter to share his own headcanon for how both Jedi Lost and “The Sith Lord” can co-exist—but in this supposed era of a singularly unified Star Wars canon across Books, TV, Films, Comics, and more, this largely feels like the stuff that “matters” overriding the ancillary material.
