
R2-D2 and C-3PO are the only characters to appear in all nine films of the three theatrical trilogies (in addition to their cameo in Rogue One). Star Wars has been a droid-centric saga from the start-as in, the very first scene. They’re almost always the ones we’re looking for. Say what you will about the franchise’s fluctuations in quality over the past several years, but even under Disney, Star Wars droids don’t miss. (As was Star Wars in the latter days of George Lucas’s control.) Ahsoka has been a bit uneven, too, but its droids, like those of the franchise at large, have been consistent strengths. Star Wars during the Disney era has been brilliant, embarrassing, and everything in between-sometimes within the same trilogy, series, or season. Stealing-or at least sharing-the spotlight has been par for the course in the droid department throughout the recent explosion in on-screen Star Wars content. Huyang has been a breakout character, but perhaps his fan-favorite status should have been foreseeable. Ahsoka also owes her presence at Huyang’s side to a different droid: Hera’s bratty astromech, Chopper, who helps save Ahsoka earlier in “Shadow Warrior” by pinpointing the location of her unconscious, submerged body. Ahsoka owes Huyang her life-he saves her in her first action sequence of the series-and when Ahsoka’s ship enters the purrgil’s maw at the end of this week’s episode, Huyang is at the controls.

Even in the weakest episode, “Time to Fly,” Huyang was a highlight, laying out the lineage of “ nontraditional Jedi” Ahsoka belongs to and becoming comic relief when Ahsoka uses his “standard Jedi protocol” line to talk him into shutting down, which makes him miss out on a purrgil-pod sighting. Throughout the series, the droll droid has done it all: given guidance, dispensed details, lightened the mood.
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Jacen: Do you know how to build a lightsaber? Jacen: You have a training room in your starship? Will you train me?

That is why people like you.” Huyang has the funniest exchange in the mostly serious episode, too, when he agrees to give Hera’s son, Jacen, a tour of Ahsoka’s shuttle: Later, Huyang leaves Hera speechless a second time with his heartwarming, matter-of-fact assessment of her rebellious streak: “You do things your way because you care. The scene is as moving as Ahsoka’s flashbacks, Anakin’s shape-shifting, or Baylan’s allusions to the legacy of “death and destruction” that Ahsoka has inherited. Yet the bowing of his head, the dimming of his photoreceptors, and the catch in his vocoder convey the horror of what he and the Jedi have endured.

He can’t convey his dismay with tears or frowns. Huyang has seen these separations play out countless times. And when he makes this pronouncement-which shakes General Hera Syndulla-Ahsoka and Sabine are missing. They never listen.” Huyang, who helped train younglings for more than a thousand generations, has lived-well, remained in operation-to see almost all of those young Jedi perish. “I told them to stay together,” laments Huyang, the ancient Jedi droid who’s acting as Ahsoka’s sidekick, referring to Ahsoka and her apprentice, Sabine Wren.

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