Dave Filoni has confirmed you won’t need to have watched all 75 episodes of Star Wars Rebels to enjoy the upcoming Disney+ Ahsoka series, but suggests watching the final season will help understand the motivation of some of the show’s characters.
“I would start, probably like the episode ‘Jedi Knight,’ where the sad thing happens to Kanan,” Filoni shared with Collider of Rebels episodes fans could check out. “Even if you didn’t understand what that was, it would propel you forward. If you just watched Season 4, you’d be set. You can start with that and you get that these Rebels are fighting this tyrannical Empire and that would get you everything and everybody you need. You don’t need to do the entire gamut of Rebels, but you should. Once you watch that, you’ll be like ‘Well, I’m gonna watch it all.'”
He added, “I’ve been very aware when writing these things that you don’t need to have seen any of it; not that I don’t want you to, I want you to, but you don’t have to.”
Watch all four seasons of Star Wars Rebels on Disney+ now, and mark your calendars for for the start of the live-action Ahsoka series coming to the streaming platform in August.
