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In the fall of 2022, Lucasfilm Animation launched the animated anthology series Tales of. Each season consists of six shorts dedicated to specific characters from a galaxy far, far away.
The first season, subtitled Tales of the Jedi, told unknown stories from the lives of Count Dooku and Ahsoka Tano, Tales of the Empire was dedicated to Barriss Offee and Morgan Elsbeth, and Tales of the Underworld was the turn of Asajj Ventress and Cad Bane.
What Is Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld About?
Like the previous two parts of the anthology, Tales of the Underworld consists of six episodes, ranging in length from 12 to 18 minutes. Half of the episodes focus on Asajj Ventress, while the other half focuses on the infamous bounty hunter Cad Bane.
The Bane episodes again tell three stories from different periods of the character's life, united by a common theme – in this case, his relationship with a childhood friend named Nero.
The Asajj Ventress Episodes Are One of the Best in the Entire Show
And here is the main surprise of Tales of the Underworld. Three episodes about Asajj Ventress will continue the heroine's story after the finale of Dark Disciple.
This is not even a spoiler – in the very first frames, Mother Talzin uses the magic of the Nightsisters to resurrect Asajj, moments after Quinlan Vos and Obi-Wan buried her body.
And another surprise – all three episodes with Asajj's participation form a single cohesive story, which in turn may become the beginning of something new.
Having been given a chance to start a new life, Asajj seeks only harmony and peace. After hiding out on another planet, Ventress gets a job in an office selling tickets for intersystem ships. But the Empire's grip is slowly spreading to even the most remote star systems.
Tales Is a Better Version of Clone Wars
Tales is perceived as another reunion of the best writers of Clone Wars. Directors Saul Ruiz, Nathaniel Villanueva, Steward Lee, screenwriter Matt Michnovetz, composer Kevin Kiner and many others worked on the stories about the criminal world.
And the anthology shows once again that these people are evolving and not standing still: the animation gets better with each season, the musical accompaniment is more diverse, but the dramaturgy works best of all.
Despite the fact that the episodes of Tales are about a third shorter than those of Clone Wars, the content of one episode of the anthology is sometimes collected for several episodes of Clone Wars – thanks to an amazing density of events and the absence of unnecessary scenes.