7. Tales of the Jedi

Any series that features Yaddle is good in my book. But even without Jedi Master Yaddle, Tales of the Jedi is some wonderful Star Wars storytelling. It follows Ahsoka Tano and Count Dooku, showing us previously unseen moments from their lives. With Ahsoka, we see her as a baby, a teenager fighting in the Clone Wars, and an adult living out on her own after leaving the Order. Meanwhile, we watch how a noble and trusted Jedi, Dooku, could become disillusioned with the Jedi order and fall to the Dark Side.

While Ahsoka’s episodes are great—the highlight being an episode that shows her training endlessly against the Clone Troopers, which gave her the skills to survive the Purge—the real highlight of Tales of the Jedi is Dooku.

We get to see how he fell to darkness and joined up with the Emperor, and witness the big revelation that the Emperor didn’t have to promise him power or money or anything like that. Instead, Dooku watched people suffer and die while the Jedi, in his opinion, didn’t do enough to stop it or investigate. After that, all it took was a bit of a push to convince him to turn on the Jedi and the Republic. Watching him kill Yaddle (RIP) makes it clear that he’s conflicted, but convinced that this is the right path. A sad end for a once-noble Jedi, but a hell of an anthology series. — ZZ