Sorry to bother you again I just wanted to ask you if you could explain a little the mortis arc.. What really happened? What were the consequences?
Awww don’t be sorry.You are not bothering me! :) I’m assuming you watched the episode so I’m skippingthe details, okay? Let me know if you didn’t watch it and we can do something difference.
First of all, I don’t golooking for what Filoni intended with TCW episodes so this is based on my ownfeelings on the matter and not on the author’s intentions.
I always saw theMortis Arc as a metaphysical exercise. It was more about the meaning than aboutthe facts. I see it as a way to explore sw concepts without too muchexposition. Kind of like a “simulation”,with characters removed from their reality so they (characters, authors and theaudience) could explore something without it influencing the main narrative.
From the moment they “step”into Mortis, every movement the characters make has a deeper meaning. Anakinbeing separated from Obi-wan and Ahsoka, Obi-wan’s heartbreak over Anakin’schoice to join the Son, Ahsoka dying and then coming back, the son and thefather dying together, the daughter dying first, the planet renewing itself,etc. All these events are not as important as their meaning. Think of them asembodiment of Star Wars a whole. They are physical representations of theForce, the Jedi, the sith, the character’s journeys and the galaxy itself.
That’s why I don’t thinkwhat happened there mattered to the characters. It didn’t alter them in any meaningfulway because they brushed it off as this “weird, dreamlike experience”. I thinkit matter more to the audience, as it gave us many clues about some sw conceptslike how the Force operates. I like to think Filoni wanted an episode todiscuss the destiny of the characters and the Force so he created this abstractplace where he could safely play with these concepts.
This is the arc’sfinal conversation:
Yes sir, standing by. We were worried.You were off the scopes there for a moment.A moment?We’ve been gone more than a moment, RexSir, I don’t understand.
What REALLY happenedis up to you. I believe Mortis happened but the whole experience wasn’tgrounded in our concept of reality. It didn’t happen in the same “physicalreality” everyone else (Rex, the main ship and the rest of the galaxy) wasexperiencing but it was probably the result of the Force/Force wilders meddlingwith reality.
What you thinkhappened, is up to you! I believe the meaning of the Mortis was left ambiguouson purpose. Ever person can have their own journey and the key, imo, is to nottake the events too literally. Instead of focusing on what really happened (in-universe)I’d rather think about what happened for us, as in what we learned from it: welearned more about the nature of the Force and the characters. We learnedforce-ghosts need to channel the force to appear and it’s into something theycan do all the time (each explained why the force-ghost can’t just appear allthe time). We learned Anakin really isthe chosen one and what it means to bring balance.
There were noconsequences (that we know of…yet). We learned more about the Force but the charactersjust moved on with their lives. It was hinted Mortis will be somehow part ofRebels and it might be connected to Ahsoka’s fate but at the moment it’s all speculation.Nothing has been confirmed yet but probably soon we will see the in-universe consequencesof the Mortis arc :)
