{"id":3739,"date":"2009-01-15T15:10:17","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T15:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geek.ravenkai.com\/?p=3739"},"modified":"2009-04-07T13:55:03","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T19:55:03","slug":"bond-between-anakin-and-ahsoka-strengthens-in-star-wars-clone-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/?p=3739","title":{"rendered":"Bond Between Anakin and Ahsoka Strengthens in Star Wars: The Clone Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"

from StarWars.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"Ahsoka
Ahsoka Tano (left) keeps watch over a wounded Anakin Skywalker in \u201cJedi Crash,\u201d an all-new episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars premiering at 9 p.m. ET\/PT Friday, Jan. 16, on Cartoon Network<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As Jedi Master and Padawan, the relationship between Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano is central to Star Wars: The Clone Wars<\/em> — and it faces a difficult test in \u201cJedi Crash,\u201d an all-new episode that premieres at 9 p.m. ET\/PT Friday on Cartoon Network.<\/p>\n

With Anakin suffering from life-threatening injuries, Ahsoka needs to find medical aid for him on an unfamiliar planet. The task leads her to a village populated by friendly but devoutly pacifistic creatures. As she implores them for help, Ahsoka finds she needs to practice the Jedi philosophy that prohibits personal attachments.<\/p>\n

The episode not only introduces a brand-new race of characters to the Star Wars<\/em> galaxy — the Lurmen — but also brings a new dimension to the bond between Anakin and Ahsoka. Their relationship is one that Ashley Eckstein, who voices the young Padawan, says she understands.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to be just like my big brother when I was growing up, and I really was just like Ahsoka — I was such a tomboy,\u201d Eckstein recalls. She says she remembers \u201cplaying Star Wars<\/em>\u201d with her brother in their living room. Back then, she took the role of R2-D2 to her brother\u2019s C-3PO, and Eckstein says their relationship helped her define Ahsoka\u2019s interactions with her Jedi master.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was the only girl on the baseball team and proud of it,\u201d she says. \u201cI may not have been the best hitter or the best fielder, but I was the fastest runner, and I would outrun any boy on the field. I was close in age with my brother, and we played in the same league, but my mom insisted that we not be on the same team because she wanted that sense of competitiveness, and she wanted me to be able to flourish in my own light and not be in my brother\u2019s shadow.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a challenge similar to the one Ahsoka faces, particularly since Anakin accepted her only begrudgingly. \u201cBeing a girl, and a younger sister, made me strive that much harder because I wanted to prove to my brother that I could hang with him and his friends. I really loved having an older brother, learning from him and kind of being his Padawan, in a sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Star Wars: The Clone Wars<\/em> is packed with thrills and action, Eckstein is most enthusiastic about the series\u2019 exploration of her character\u2019s emotions and humanity. She says Anakin and Ahsoka\u2019s relationship helps form the emotional core of the series.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are some really touching moments in the series between Anakin and Ahsoka, and you definitely see their relationship grow and mature,\u201d Eckstein says. \u201cIn the beginning of the series, they\u2019re still learning about each other. But as the battles go on and they go through all these trials and tribulations, their relationship just grows and blossoms. They learn a lot from each other.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from StarWars.com: As Jedi Master and Padawan, the relationship between Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano is central to Star Wars: The Clone Wars — and it faces a difficult test in \u201cJedi Crash,\u201d an all-new episode that premieres at 9 p.m. ET\/PT Friday on Cartoon Network. With Anakin suffering from life-threatening injuries, Ahsoka needs to … Continue reading “Bond Between Anakin and Ahsoka Strengthens in Star Wars: The Clone Wars”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-films","category-multimedia","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}