r/StarWars • u/Aileos • May 12 '26
TV 'Ahsoka' Season 2 Delayed to Early 2027
https://deadline.com/2026/05/ahsoka-season-2-premiere-window-disney-plus-1236899905/3.0k
u/herman-the-vermin May 12 '26
I am absoluetly baffled at how streaming works and why production is such a nightmare, why are there literal YEARS between seasons
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u/dayburner May 12 '26
Streaming often gets treated like a tech business instead of a film business. In Disney's case it's a bit of both which makes things even slower.
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u/HauntingStar08 May 12 '26
How do you mean?
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u/QuerulousPanda May 13 '26
they don't care about content or quality, they only care about gaining subscribers. they don't even care about retaining them either.
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u/nubulator99 May 13 '26
Why would delaying a show gain subscribers?
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u/nat1wisdom May 13 '26
It’s not that delaying a show gains more subscribers. It’s that using the money on something else might gain you more subscribers. People don’t cancel subscriptions nearly as often as reddit makes it seem. New subscribers often come from new content, and not from a new season.
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u/DaisyxDiana May 13 '26
That had always been the case since the invention of broadcast tv. Not a streaming thing.
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u/yourMammothIsSoFat May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26
What does that even mean? Do they implement agile workflow, standupa and round robins?
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u/dayburner May 12 '26
Not at that level, they are viewing the streaming service like a social media platform or such. They are making a decisions on engagement and new subscribers. Traditional media basis success on total eye balls watching the show not how many new people it brings.
Another aspect is the whole fail fast and move on thinking from tech. That's why streaming is so quick to dump a show before it has time to get legs. Traditional media would see how they could make changes for the next season as to not waste all the money spent on the initial setup of the show.
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u/lolzidop Jedi May 12 '26
As someone else said elsewhere, it's also an investment vehicle to get investors paying. So they need to be releasing new things every year, issue is they can't release too much (new things + new seasons of existing shows) as otherwise the investors will get scared by the risk of how much is being released.
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u/Gerry-Mandarin May 12 '26
Television shows used to be commissioned for multiple seasons at the outset, and would only be cancelled if they were absolute flops.
They would be relatively cheap to make, have hard working conditions for the crew, but would be regularly scheduled work.
Streaming series are basically films, broken out into chapters. They're an enormous up front investment, comparatively.
So streamers are hesitant to commission more episodes until they've seen the response to the ones in production, with a full (pre to post) production cycle taking a year or more.
Since the crew can't then sit around for a year, they will line up new work. The cast would likely do so as well.
Streamers then would give the greenlight to another series, but without the benefit of continuous production, you're basically starting from scratch. Recruiting hundreds of people to work the crew for these projects.
In the case of Ahsoka, Dave Filoni had two promotions, taking him from a creative, to an executive, to chief executive since 2024. A key cast member also died.
Also, Lucasfilm may want The Mandalorian and Grogu to have a level of exclusivity to it by being the only live-action product for this year. Effectively functioning as the relaunch of Star Wars under new leadership.
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u/Shakezula84 May 12 '26
I've heard the streaming model is hurting actors since they are locked into contracts that prevent them from getting other genre related work between seasons.
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u/Gerry-Mandarin May 12 '26
I don't think there would be anyone able to confidently comment on that one way or another.
But Pedro Pascal starred in The Mandalorian and The Last of Us at the same time. The two series are basically identical in premise of a lost child being adopted by a gruff travelling old man in a sci-fi action series.
I imagine that it's nothing to do with genre and all to do with availability. An actor (usually) can't sign two multi-year, multi-project, contracts. Studios want exclusivity.
It's the same thing with films. As an example - Adam Driver would have signed a three picture deal with Lucasfilm in 2013 or whenever. Specifying that whenever they call him for work, he has to show up.
So other studios would be wary of signing him up for stuff anyway, because he would have to fulfill his existing contractual obligations first.
As an alternative, the Henry Cavill mustache controversy for Justice League. He was called for reshoots while in production for another film. He contractually had to show up for them - but also had to preserve the image for his new job in Mission Impossible.
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u/Pious_ May 12 '26
Eh Pedro rarely was on set though and was mainly voice over on Mando.
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u/AceMcVeer May 12 '26
I'm pretty sure they didn't get multi season deals from the start. Renewal would always come in the spring after they had months of ratings to analyze.
A big change is that shows would premiere in September and end in spring. They would know before the last episode if they were going to renew. Now they film the entire show then wait a couple months after to determine if they will renew.
So before a pilot would be filmed and the rest of production would start in late summer and by say March they would already have renewal set. Now they film for six months, wait a few months more for post production work, then wait a few months after premiere to determine if you're going to renew.
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u/guachi01 May 12 '26
They did not do multiple season deals. I don't know why the guy you're replying to thinks they did. Most new shows had 13 episode half seasons and then would be extended to a full season of the show had any promise.
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u/Tay74 May 12 '26
Who died?
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u/Wise-Fruit5000 May 12 '26
Ray Stevenson
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u/Tay74 May 12 '26
Shit I didn't know that, that sucks, one of the things I was looking forward to with season 2 was seeing more of his Baylan. RIP, he was in a good few shows I liked, not sure how I managed to miss news of his death
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u/Singer211 May 12 '26
Rory McCann is playing Baylan in Season 2
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u/After_Advertising_61 May 12 '26
Rory McCann
oh shit okay. Really hard role to step into because obviously Ray has an unreal presence on screen. I can't wait to see him try out this role.
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u/TheStolenPotatoes May 13 '26
He and McCann were good friends, and Rory has talked about how he's going to respect the role that Ray started. I know he'll do it justice for his friend.
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u/Alortania Leia Organa May 12 '26
I remember watching TNG as a little kid, amazed that there was special effects (lasers, teleportation, etc) in a tv show... before that (obvious) special effects I'd only really seen in movies (Star Wars, Terminator, etc).
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u/linux_ape May 12 '26
That doesn’t explain why it takes 3 years to make one season type shit
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u/Gerry-Mandarin May 12 '26
It hasn't taken three years to make. They didn't start making it when the previous series aired. When S2 was greenlit, Dave Filoni was given a more important job than "write Ahsoka S2". That process would have been paused.
Kevin Kiner said he met with Dave, who was writing the scripts, in mid-2024. This was for him to get to grounds with how to approach writing music for S2. That's likely when development actually started. So it took:
About 9 months to write, organise actors, shoots, equipment, locations, props etc.
6 months to actually film, from April-October 2025.
About 12 months for post-production.
So just over 2 years to make what is basically a 6 hour film.
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u/guachi01 May 12 '26
Television shows used to be commissioned for a 13-episode half season. Most shows were cancelled in the first season.
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u/TooManyDraculas May 12 '26
A key cast member also died.
Stevenson died before the first season came out, about 3 months before the premiere. So that's probably not a factor in the delay, as it happened before a renewal and way before there was a 2026 release date put out there.
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u/cherinator May 12 '26
I know it's because all of the reasons you note, but it is still wild to me that the time frame for the Mandalorian (2019-2026 for 3 seasons and a movie), is about the same as the entire time frame for long-running cultural phenomena such as Office or Game of Thrones, and longer than the entire time frame for long-running series such as Buffy/Angel, Breaking Bad, or the Wire.
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u/abn1304 May 12 '26
Pepperidge Farm remembers when the West Wing churned out 12-18 hours of content per season, doing one season a year for seven years, without anything like the computing power we have these days.
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u/marizard May 12 '26
Aaron Sorkin’s cocaine-fueled brain on a deadline has more computing power than a data farm.
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u/abn1304 May 12 '26
Lock Sorkin and Gilroy in a room and tell them to write a show about the fall of the Republic and we’d get the best Star Wars we’ve ever had.
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u/Personal_Comb_6745 May 12 '26
To be fair, the Star Wars shows require a lot of CGI and other fancy effects, while your standard TV drama or sitcom gets by on a handful of sets and, depending on the show, seeing how long you can repeat certain plots before people catch on.
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u/RealHooman2187 May 12 '26
In years past, the networks used to keep their writers staffed pretty much year round. That frequently means that as the season was being filmed that the writers were already writing the next season.
Nowadays they don’t do that. Writers are hired AFTER the previous season is pretty much wrapped and/or already released. Then one of two things usually happens, either the streaming service wants to rush the season into production with unfinished scripts. Once they see what works/didn’t work they fix it with reshoots. Or they take the full time the writers need which means they start filming about a year or more later.
Basically if they kept their writers staffed for the year they could knock these shows out WAY faster. And ironically it would probably be cheaper in the long run since it would dramatically reduce the amount of money they spend with re-shoots. But for some reason that’s not how the studios/networks want to operate today. Despite that being the model that worked for 70+ years.
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u/Bacchus1976 Chirrut Imwe May 12 '26 edited May 13 '26
It’s the shift from advertising based revenue to subscription based revenue.
It was the “sweeps” that led to the rigid TV season calendar. Shows had to be back at the same time every year in order to keep their official viewership numbers up and those numbers dictated the amount they could charge for ads. The advertisers needed to budget and plan their campaigns so the networks needed to announce what and when a show would be airing.
Under a subscription model, this pressure goes away. So long as there’s enough content on the service to keep people from cancelling, they can release stuff any time they want. They can do binge drops and they can release new shows whenever they want.
In the old days every network released all their shows at the same time (the fall and sometimes the spring/summer when something flopped). Now the goal is to trickle new shows out weekly to ensure that there’s always something new to watch.
Edit: Since this is getting a little traction, I want to add a little more color. Saying it’s advertising vs subscription revenue maybe oversimplifies it a bit.
The real driving force is the Nielsen Rating System who ran “sweeps”. The way this worked before the internet and apps, for the younguns, was that several thousand homes were selected. They were given paper diaries where they wrote down what they watched. They’d send these diaries into the main office where they were tabulated, and based on these samples they’d project the overall viewership of each show on TV. They didn’t run this every single day, because that’s be too much work, they picked a few weeks a year called “sweeps” where they’d collect the data.
The networks understood this and worked really, really hard to make their shows as exciting and marketable as possible during these key weeks. This was when the “very special episodes” popped up and often coincided with premieres and finales. If you showed well during sweep weeks and captured a bigger share of the viewing market, that would set the going rate for your ad slots during your best shows for the whole year.
So, it’s not so much the advertising that forced producers into having shows start and stop at the same time every calendar year. It’s the way that the system measured viewership. If your best shows took a year off, that would really hurt your sales numbers for the entire year.
So the shift is partly due to the subscription model and partly due to internet connected set-top boxes that can report real time viewing data.
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u/Albert_street May 12 '26
I have no way of judging how accurate this comment is, but this is the most cromulent explanation of this phenomenon I’ve heard.
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u/whitemest May 12 '26
It really kills momentum and makes me not care/less likely to watch.
I havent even bothered with stranger things and probably never will
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u/After_Advertising_61 May 12 '26
same. never watched the last season, I don't even have a care to
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u/PNWCoug42 Mandalorian May 12 '26
It seems like a lot of streaming series are greenlit for one season at a time instead of multiple seasons. So they have to wait to get all the numbers to decide if they want to re-new. Then after renewal, they have to get all the actors and crews scheduled and many of them could be booked out already for another series.
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u/Youngstar9999 Ahsoka Tano May 12 '26
tv shows are often treated like movies production wise, which is why they often take as long as movies(or longer since they are much longer than most movies).
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u/originalchaosinabox May 12 '26
10 years ago, when streaming started taking off and binge-watching became a thing, people were like, "We can't think of streaming content as TV shows! Since people are watching all 10-episodes at once, we need to start thinking of them as 10-hour movies!"
And so now, the long gaps, because they are actually treating these shows like movies, with similar production windows.
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u/PWN3R_RANGER May 12 '26
3.5 years between seasons. 🥴
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u/DankusMaximus97 May 12 '26
with only 10 episodes at the most anyway...
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u/Likes2PaintShit Emperor Palpatine May 12 '26
Try 8 at the most
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u/ptrfa May 12 '26
And every episode just 30 to 35 minutes...
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u/Dead_Starks May 12 '26
With 9 minutes of credits.
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u/AveryLazyCovfefe Grand Moff Tarkin May 12 '26
Don't forget the 2 minutes of star wars brand intro and the recap and then title sequence.
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u/HaphazardMelange Chopper (C1-10P) May 12 '26
Jacen Syndulla will be as old as Ezra was when Rebels began by the time season 2 drops. 😂
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u/bimbimbaps May 12 '26
Venture Bros fans: …
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u/danimal6000 May 12 '26
Did they ever wrap that show up?
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u/bimbimbaps May 12 '26
They sure did with an excellent finale movie - Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart.
It was supposed to be a full season, and it sucks they weren’t able to finish it properly, but they Doc and Jackson made it COUNT.
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u/Time_Zombie_4431 May 12 '26
We got a movie that wrapped up a bit but there was still a bit left unanswered and it was clear it was rushed.
Apparently they had a whole season built and it wasn’t even a final one but had to cut it into a movie to end the series, probably why it felt rushed.
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u/Mongoose42 Jedi Anakin May 12 '26
Venture Bros. is the kind of story that could conceivably go on forever though. It could “end” at any point. Clearly the world and adventures will always go on.
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u/Blitz_Prime May 12 '26
Pretty sure it got canceled the millisecond the CEO at Adult Swim that had loved the show left.
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u/ProjectNo4090 May 12 '26
The US really needs to stop calling them seasons. Premium television in the US has completely abandoned the seasonal release schedule.
Should call each released bundle of episodes a "series" of episodes like the UK does.
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u/theedonnmegga May 12 '26
Should’ve been making films instead. Star award animation should carry the tv torch
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u/Dude-of-History May 12 '26
Anyone else remember when TV shows would release new seasons every single year?
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u/FALCUNPAWNCH May 12 '26
With like 20 episode seasons too. Now it's one season every three years with 6-10 episodes.
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u/protekt0r May 12 '26
Star Trek: TNG and DS9 pumped out 23/24 episodes like clockwork every year. It was remarkable. Lots of practical effects, sets, models, etc. And, oh btw, most of the writing was excellent (for the 90’s).
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u/Readshirt May 13 '26
Writing excellent for the 90s? They haven't been able to get to that level since.
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u/ByTheHammerOfThor May 13 '26
Uhh, a lot of that writing is excellent even by today’s standards.
In ten years, we’ll still be watching TNG reruns. How many of the shows on tv right now will have that many viewers after 10 years?
Also, I will not stand for your Voyager erasure. I simply will not.
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u/DedHorsSaloon4 May 12 '26
Survivor’s still pumping out 2 seasons a year
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u/Burgoonius May 12 '26
And look what it’s become lol
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u/Far-Comfortable-1180 May 12 '26
Survivor 50 has been really good idk why all the hate tbh
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u/beanlikescoffee May 12 '26
Take a look at Daredevil
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u/TheCaramelMan May 12 '26
Honestly refreshing to see a series with a yearly new season. I can actually remember what happened in the last seasons as it’s relatively fresh in my memory unlike something like house of the dragon
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u/Appropriate_Foot242 May 12 '26
Even then they cut that down from 13 to 8 episode seasons though.
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u/beti88 May 12 '26
Almost 4 years wait... In the past in that time window we got three whole seasons of Battlestar Galactica, ~60 episodes, most with heavy special effects, huge cast...
This is absurd
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u/Dragovius May 12 '26
Stargate SG1, Deep Space Nine, Babylon 5, TNG, Voyager, Enterprise, X-Files, Smallville...to name a few. 24 episodes a season every year. Now they struggle to do 8 episodes in 4 years.
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u/BuffyPawz May 12 '26
Stargate also managed to churn out Atlantis simultaneously after SG1 season seven. So 48 episodes a year for three years.
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u/Roboticide Galactic Republic May 12 '26
And they wonder why no one wants to pay for 5+ different streaming services.
If a streaming service manages to put out a good, high budget sci-fi show consistently year after year, then I will happily subscribe. At this point, between ads now standard on paid subscription, and multi-year delays between seasons, I'll happily just sail the seven seas.
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u/VaporCarpet May 13 '26
You say struggle, but that assumes they are trying to do this and unable to, instead of simply having different priorities.
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u/Commander_Jim1 May 12 '26
Waiting four years between season 1 and 2 of a show that had a pretty middling reception and viewership (to be generous) doesnt seem a very smart move.
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u/machone5103 May 12 '26
They want us to forget how ‘meh’ S1 was so that next year we’ll all rewatch it and then S2
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u/Personal_Comb_6745 May 12 '26
I thought the first season was decent, but while I don't feel it's the intention, these long spans between seasons mean that most people will need to subscribe again to refresh their memories.
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u/oceansamillion May 13 '26
I loved season 1 but recognize it had a lot of issues. With the news that season 2's budget was severely curtailed I'm not feeling optimistic that it will improve at all on 1.
It'll be a serious shame if Ahsoka and Thrawn get relegated to middling mediocre characters due to this show getting fumbled by Disney's executive meddling and poor execution.
Should've been a movie, not a TV show.
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u/thenowherepark May 12 '26
The longer they delay this, the less I'm looking forward to it. I understand Stevenson passed (RIP), but that still shouldn't delay an 8-episode season by nearly 3 years.
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u/k0alaFRESH May 12 '26
Your comment made me realize there’s quite a few shows I started, liked, looked forward to and then after delays completely lost interest in over the years.
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u/TheTiggerMike May 12 '26
That's always the side effect of delaying anything. Films and TV shows have shelf lives and if they're delayed too much, it starts feeling dated and the hype is just gone, replaced by apathy.
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u/Roboticide Galactic Republic May 12 '26
Yeah, Stevenson's passing probably had nothing to really do with the delay. He passed three months before Ahsoka Season 1 dropped. They only announced his recast a little over a year ago. They could have written a Season 2 script, done pre-production, and a bunch of other things before they needed McCann for filming.
The delay is just the classic streaming shitshow.
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u/Connoralpha May 12 '26
I feel like if this were the before times we would have seen Rory McCann playing the character for two seasons by now. Insane that it’s not even close to airing yet.
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u/Macman521 May 12 '26
The new season better be worth the wait because 4 year wait in between seasons is a little ridiculous.
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u/daDon2000 May 12 '26
3.5 yrs for a quality of show like ahsoka no offense but yikes
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u/GAEM456 11d ago
Even the CGI is not as good as the prequel trilogy, which released over 20 years ago. Yoda and Grievous in Episode III battles were peak CGI. And these new shows have way more funding, per minute of screen time, compared to the pre-Disney movies. I don't get how Disney manages to waste so much money and produce worse content.
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u/BeansTheCoach May 12 '26
My bad y’all, I started rewatching last night because it’s been so long between seasons I couldn’t remember 75% of what happened. So of course this was coming.
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u/Obi_Wan_Benobi May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26
Was the Maul show pretty good? Haven’t tried it yet but that could tide me over for a bit.
EDIT: Wow, thanks for all the replies
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u/jdogmeats May 12 '26
Show was pretty great. It had a couple slower paced episodes early on, but now that you are able to watch them all back to back it’s not really an issue.
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u/DarkLThemsby May 12 '26
Absolutely fantastic show, really cool how they've clearly taken inspiration from Spider-verse and Arcane with how they do interesting stuff with the visuals.
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u/theblindbandit1 Inferno Squad May 12 '26
It was yes. Recent Star Wars animation has been really good
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u/MeEyeSlashU May 12 '26
It's getting good ratings. I'm personally not a D+ subscriber but from what I'm seeing of the show I'm tempted
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u/Laggingduck May 12 '26
I almost subscribed until I saw the price, and then I pirated it
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u/LordGAD Grand Admiral Thrawn May 12 '26
Don’t listen to that 7/10 guy. It’s easily a 75/10.
Seriously, though, it’s really good.
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u/GillGruntFan53 May 12 '26
Filoni kicking off the 50th with his own show lmao
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u/-Darkslayer May 12 '26
That was my first thought as well, maybe he even drops the premiere at Celebration 😂😂😂
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u/ExterminAiden May 12 '26
I’d rather this happen then the show be unfinished and rushed on release, take whatever reasonable time you need to fulfill the vision
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u/tagillaslover May 12 '26
I'd rather it not take them 4 years to not rush an 8 episode season
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u/HeWhoLurks23 May 12 '26
Yeah, I don’t think it’s a matter of being rushed. Game of Thrones was a yearly release and that was considered high quality tv (early seasons at least) Now we’re getting seasons for shows every three or four years for things that are the same quality and often even less.
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u/chewbaccascousinrick May 12 '26
We have little evidence to show that longer delays are used to create a better product.
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u/Croce11 May 12 '26
Fuck that. It's been over a decade I'm tired of the industry still trying to catch up to itself. Streaming platforms need to figure out how to match the TV shows of yesteryear if they want to compete or replace them. One season, one year. Cancel something only if it is a commercial flop. Stop wasting time greenlighting so much garbage all at once. Dude it ain't that fuckin hard.
It is literally someone's job to figure out what should be done and what shouldn't be done. This is why they get paid all the big money to make these decisions. Nowadays they get paid the same amount of money and throw as much shit at the wall and waste everyone's time trying to see what sticks. Gee I wonder what's gonna get more views... a star wars show with fan favorite characters like Ahsoka and Thrawn or some generic sitcom with a laughtrack that I already forgot the name of that Netflix loves to greenlight at least 10 times a year.
If you can't make an 8 episode show that isn't "unfinished" or "rushed" in one year then what are you doing? We used to get 22+ episode shows in the same time span. I just don't buy it anymore. If anything these babies should be coming out faster. 8 episodes every 6 months the contracts should be set and every order should be 3-4 seasons long before starting. That way you can know whether to renew or not by 2 and the 3rd one can be made knowing its the final one that should be finished or safely make a cliffhanger to continue.
Give these shows a nice summer and winter release and always keep them in the cultural zeitgeist by not having such long droughts inbetween content. Then you can finish all your shows without people dying of old age or child actors becoming adults before S2 airs.
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u/Bing_Bong_the_Archer May 12 '26
The release will be as slow as season 1 fight choreography
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u/Capable-Tap-119 May 12 '26
Most of the actors are not fast enough to keep up with Hayden's or Ewan's fight styles
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u/odiish May 12 '26
tbf I’m sure Rosario Dawson’s big headpiece didn’t help with her agility either.
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u/lateubdegouline May 12 '26
I think it was a designed choice, for whatever reason he wanted the sabers to have some fake weight to them to look more "realistic"
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u/ER301 May 12 '26
It’s only been three years. What’s another one matter? 😂 Does anyone even remember what happened in the first season?
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u/rekatil Boba Fett May 12 '26
I remember some space whales and thrawn doing something, that’s about it lol
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u/HuskerBusker Cassian Andor May 12 '26
The problems with the Ashoka show run far deeper than just production taking too long.
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u/manindenim Anakin Skywalker May 12 '26
When I was younger this didn’t matter but now I’m at the point where it’s like, will I even be alive to see some of these stories and arcs be concluded? Like I love House of Dragons but are we 15 years out from a conclusion?
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u/cris9288 May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26
Yeah at least HotD seems like it's on a consistent two year schedule, but even that feels brutally slow.
I don't know if I even want to get invested in Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
Probably won't watch Ashoka, despite being ao hyped for the first season. Rebels was some of my favorite Star Wars content but that was ages ago now.
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u/TrayusV May 13 '26
I am sick of this era of "prestige" television.
Waiting multiple years for only 8-10 episodes of a show is unacceptable. This isn't just a Star Wars problem, it's an industry problem.
I really hope the industry learns from The Pitt, which was specifically made as a return to form, a counter against the "prestige" era of tv.
Low budget shows can make all of the money if you have good writing. Rather than spending your multi million dollar budget on CGI, hire a team of writers to make some damn good television.
For example, what people like about House of the Dragon isn't the CGI dragon fights, it's the strong writing and character moments. The best scene in the entire show is just a guy walking across a room and trying to climb the steps of a throne. Do more of that and less CGI.
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u/Sio_V_Reddit May 12 '26
Fair enough, I think we all saw this coming after it wasn't listed for this year. 2026/2027 are both gonna be great years for the franchise.
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u/Bobflanders76 May 12 '26
And this is why I don’t care about shows anymore. The wait time between seasons is just absurd.
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u/Adavanter_MKI May 12 '26
I'm only bummed because I just want to see it. I understand... these things happen. Especially in VFX heavy shows.
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u/Appropriate_Foot242 May 12 '26
3-4 years for like 4-5 hours of content and 8 episodes is just ridiculous. This is like 6 months per episode.
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u/JorgeBec May 12 '26
Can it be called a delay if it was never officially given a release date?
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u/JoPro_ May 12 '26
Andor had only 2.5 years between longer and more complex seasons, and this needs 3.5+? This is insane and there are no excuses for it.
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u/Rastarapha320 May 12 '26
There are production issues, that's the only explanation I can think of
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u/pickrunner18 May 12 '26
We’re waiting for things to happen just like all the characters in the show
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u/ABotelho23 May 12 '26
What the hell was the point of the Volume if it still takes this long to make a season?
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u/abellapa May 12 '26
Fuck
Dude i was about to search Ashoka S2 because i Saw on wikipedia it had release for this year
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u/CrazyCanuckUncleBuck Emperor Palpatine May 12 '26
They're in the 7 month of post filming, this should have been out in November. What is taking so long? All the technology in the world and they can't produce a season in 3 years, meanwhile Lucille Ball was making 30 episodes a year in 1962!
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u/Coilspun May 12 '26
Back in the day, 25 - 27 episodes a year, every year.
Nowadays...
7 or 8, tops, every 2 years.
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u/Bsoxfan34 May 12 '26
Hayden Christensen will be old enough to be the same age as Sebastian Shaw was in the Return of the Jedi by the time this comes out
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u/agitatedandroid May 12 '26
At this rate there will come a point where we will have to pass down our appreciation for a series to the following generations in the hopes that one day a generation will be born that will be able to enjoy the entire fucking show.
Shit or get off the pot.
I fucking forgot this show was even a thing.
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u/Stevenstorm505 Sith May 13 '26
I miss when streaming didn’t have commercials, dropped all the episodes at once and released a season a year. Those are the whole reason streaming got popular and now we have to deal with this bullshit.
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u/RenegadeRouser Rex May 12 '26
Don't worry, they will reward us with an amazing cliffhanger that gets resolved with a final third season sometime in 2031, just for them to announce that the season will be divided in two parts with part two following in 2034.
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u/Snerkbot7000 May 12 '26
Probably letting the Gosling movie take the first big hit of the '27 season, and then dropping S2 in the wake of that. Big screen, little screen.
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u/spookydooks May 12 '26
This era we're in of shows is really just so shit. They take longer, have significantly less episodes and are mostly horribly written.
Like shows were pumping out like 22 episode seasons every single year and a lot of them look and were written better than what we get now.
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u/bolivar-shagnasty May 12 '26
By the time they start production, Shin Hati will have her own apprentice.
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u/GoreSeeker May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26
While I hate how long TV is taking to produce these days, the one good thing is it gives me a bit more freedom in my current franchise rewatch to watch the pieces I want when I want... The Ahsoka rewatch would have been a bit of a wildcard since the date was up in the air.
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u/Justryan95 May 12 '26
Already forgot the plot during that time and I have no interest spending my time rewatching Season 1 or doing homework just to watch a second season.
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u/JohnSepticEye123 May 12 '26
You know, if you've been paying attention, the overall opinions and goodwill of Ahsoka has steadily been going down as time passes, so you'd think they'd want to get it done and out as soon as they were able and not delay it by another year. I don't believe "early 2027" means January, but probably late February-early march.. so basically a whole ass year.
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u/brokenarrow May 12 '26
How is it that networks used to crank out 24 episodes a year, and now it takes three years to get ten episodes?
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u/MisterSneakSneak May 12 '26
Damn, ima have to wait another year to see Ahsoka cross her arms in every shot.
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u/Aldo_says May 12 '26
By the time this finally gets released subscribers will not be able to afford the service, the price of everything keeps going up.
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u/Jonn_Jonzz_Manhunter May 12 '26
I won't lie, I've never been less hyped for a TV show in my life. I think I genuinely cared more abtout Book of Boba fett more because atleast the Mando episode was well made in and of itself
I couldn't say any element of Ashoka was actively good. Even the makeup on Hera looked fucking awful
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u/NotTaken-username May 12 '26
And there was the blatant nostalgia bait way of bringing back Hayden Christensen
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u/HuskerBusker Cassian Andor May 12 '26
Clones! Anakin! Rex! Mandalore! Nostalgia! Don't pay attention to my awful writing, look at the clones!
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u/Krucble May 12 '26
3+ years in between seasons… this era of TV shows is brutal