Ahsoka’s first flashback takes us back to the 2008 Clone Wars movie

Ahsoka’s fifth episode, “ Shadow Warrior ,” puts its titular protagonist back into her own past, as she navigated her history at the front line of the Clone War .

The episode divides its flashbacks into three distinct battles from the Clone Wars animated series.

In doing so, we are pressed back into 3 crucial moments from the war—conflicts from her past that still resonate as fundamental in exploring who she is as a character.

Mandalore is a fundamental moment in Ahsoka ’s arc, not just showing us the person she became after choosing to leave the Jedi Order .

It also shows how the Clone Wars ultimately tried to consume her sense of self, and how in weakness she can still find herself back in those moments.