Full Series Anakin's fall to the Dark Side

the best thing in the finale was the ashoka and anakin connection her "i know" clearly was great.
her decision to go also was a nice way to illustrate her strength and anakins own weakness in choosing the order over all - and of course his eventual decision to leave the order

 

Agreed. As far as I'm concerned, the events depicted were never shown to be as cut-and-dry as that.

 

It´s one thing to get a lame apology from the council, which betrayed you. But it´s another thing to serve with clones again, who tried to kill you, like Commander Fox did with Ahsoka.

 

Only a fool would continue to serve in an organisation that betrays him or her. Her decision to leave is an act of selfdefence. That Mortisarc comes to mind, where her older self (Which i think was the son) told her that she will not make it, if she remains Anakins student. Ahsoka just wants to live like everyone. Simple as that.

All that storywriting was damn cool. I think Filoni told Ahsoka that she would die and in the last Episode you can nearly feel that the digital 3D character Ahsoka Tano is making that decision by herself. It was like Filoni and Lucas only gave Ahsoka hints about a possible death and she decided to leave not just the order, also the Show called The Clone Wars.

Lucas and Failoni rock.

 

Speaking of Anakin's choices, I think Obi-Wan's new material serves as a better parallel than Ahsoka's.

Obi-Wan falls in love with Satine and knows he has to make a choice; commitment to the Order or commitment to Satine. He knows that he cannot place both on equal standing. Therefore, he chooses to leave Satine behind and serve the Jedi.

Anakin, however, tries to have it both ways. Instead of owning up and leaving the Order for Padme, he tries to serve both her and the Order. But in truth, Anakin is also unable to place both the Order and Padme on equal standing. This is what Sidious exploits to get him to betray the Order for his wife.

That parallel is actually one of my favourite things to come out of the Satine plot thread introduced in this show.

 

Yes, and it explains the animosity and distrust he seems quick to express towards the Jedi Council at the time of the events during ROTS. While watching Sith, you get the impression that there was definitely a rift created sometime between AOTC and ROTS. Although some might say, "well, that was rift was created in AOTC", it's still good to know that they went even further than just the loss of his mother.

 

I can't help but wonder if she knew about Anakin & Padme.

 

Pretty sure that in that particular scene, it was implicit that Ahsoka knew about, or at least suspected, Anakin and Padme's relationship, hence Anakin's look of shock following Ahsoka's words. Though it isn't stated directly, so it's somewhat open to interpretation, but to me, her words reflecting knowledge of the relationship makes the most sense.

I think by then, after so much time spent as Anakin's apprentice, Ahsoka was aware enough of her (former) master's feelings that she would not ask him about such a sensitive and forbidden subject. How would he respond to that? Just my opinion, of course.

 

IGN: So do you think by the time she says “I know” in the season finale that maybe she doesn’t know they are married, but she knows that there’s probably something they’re hiding from everyone?

Filoni: You know me, I love to shy away from giving you an absolute answer, but I will tell you that when I wrote that particular moment, I wanted some kind of common bridge between the two characters before she walked off. I thought that it served a double purpose, and one of them serves a very sneaky fan servicing, to be honest with you. But the one is that it shows that she knows and that she knows Anakin so well that she knows this about him. I don’t know that she knows they’re married, but I know that she knows that he cares very deeply about Padme, and Padme about Anakin, and probably that it’s crossed a line. But because of the way that she’s seen the Jedi treat her, especially recently, it kind of makes her think, “Well, it’s probably not as wrong as I would have thought when I was young.”

Filoni definitely intended that "I know" to be Ahsoka acknowledging Anakin wanting to leave the Order for Padme.