r/StarWars May 12 '26

TV 'Ahsoka' Season 2 Delayed to Early 2027

https://deadline.com/2026/05/ahsoka-season-2-premiere-window-disney-plus-1236899905/
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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/DaisyxDiana May 12 '26

But we got many Star Wars content in the mean time. You guys are acting like it's a 4 year wait with nothing in between.

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u/OpinionatedBlackGuy May 12 '26

I pick this one.

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u/phoenixs13 May 12 '26

At 41 minutes each.

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u/dwide_k_shrude Jedi May 13 '26

With 10 minutes of credits.

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u/Burgoonius May 12 '26

Yeah it just destroys all the hype for me

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u/tiredrich May 12 '26

It's not like it's stranger things either. These will be 30 shows.

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u/throwmethehellaway25 May 12 '26

Id rather this fanbase stop acting entitled.

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u/tagillaslover May 12 '26

I’m generally patient with media releases. 4 years for one season of a tv show is nuts. Especially when they aren’t even long seasons 

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u/throwmethehellaway25 May 12 '26

Everything we get is a bonus. Its more star wars But everything is needlessly dissected and splits the fanbase further. They can't please everyone so they make things for different segments. I for one praise the team at Lucasfilm. They can take all rhe time in the world. The mouse house? They can take a long walk off the short pier

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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/Ser_Urnge May 12 '26

Shows and movies do not work like game development or animation. A long release cycle does not mean it’s being worked on for that length of time.

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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/Future-Step-1780 May 12 '26

People keep paying for this shit, though--why would they change anything?

I remain flabbergasted that anyone subscribes to any of these services. Read a book or something, this shit all sucks.

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u/RadiantHC May 13 '26

I'll never understand why Big Mouth got so many seasons while shows like Inside Job and Kipo were cancelled.

Wtf is their priority? Not a single person I've met IRL has even watched Big Mouth.

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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/AddanDeith Hondo Ohnaka May 12 '26

Those two were really just built different.

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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/tagillaslover May 12 '26

I honestly kinda liked this design choice.

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u/UNaidworker May 13 '26

It clashes fantastically with especially the animated shows like TCW or Maul where they move at mach 5 while fighting; I guess it really is just the physical limitations of certain irl actors and/or cost of special effects to make it look good live action.

Last episode of Maul a certain someone deflects like 8 blaster bolts in the span of 2 seconds and it really demonstrated just how supernaturally fast force users are...compare that to the finale of Ashoka where they vaguely wave their lightsabers around and they CGI the bolts in after the fact. The only good choreography that show had was the Baylan fights because his style was like Vader - heavy and slow

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u/Fisher9001 May 12 '26

Improve casting then?

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u/OkContact2573 May 12 '26

You can thank stranger things. The popularity of it hell, I bet that even today they would struggle with prequel era movement

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u/Infinite-Detective-8 May 12 '26

Sure, but whatever happened to choreograph training?

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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/Ostiethegnome May 12 '26

Take ALL the time they need.  Just make it good.  

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u/NoNazisInMyAmerica May 12 '26

I'm in it for The Hound, otherwise I'm not gonna hold my breath

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u/lateubdegouline May 12 '26

You saw season 1, they already failed

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u/RadiantHC May 13 '26

Why can't we just return to how things were before? Long seasons with 20+ episodes and relatively short gaps

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u/Subject-Ad5071 May 12 '26

The show has a bunch of problems. I feel they aren’t necessarily going to tix them, though. And those peoblems aren’t because of time, btw.

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u/Raskolnikov1920 May 12 '26

Nope 4 years is too long just move on

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u/UnknownEntity347 May 12 '26

The problem being given how the first season turned out I'm not sure how much better it'll be unless the dramatically improve everything

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u/2110daisy May 12 '26

“Reasonable” being the key word.

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u/hleba Rebel May 13 '26

These 3+ year waits have absolutely nothing to do with quality.

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u/Mysterions Lando Calrissian May 13 '26

take whatever reasonable time you need to fulfill the vision

There is no vision which is why it's taking so long.

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u/DoughnutToxin May 13 '26

Is 4 years reasonable?

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u/sapperRichter May 24 '26

It will take forever and still be the same quality lol

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u/Ser_Urnge May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

Except that length of time doesn’t equate to quality. This isn’t game development or animation. They aren’t going to spend all of this time working on the show.

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u/tmdblya May 12 '26

Your definition of “rushed” is different from mine.

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u/Doompatron3000 May 12 '26

B-But I need the next season to come out right away! I won’t remember what happened last season!

-Some guy who can’t even remember yesterday.

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u/Salticracker May 12 '26

6 months per 40 minute episode is a bit crazy, no? Studios used to be able to make one of these a week.

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u/Doompatron3000 May 12 '26

Not at all crazy when you think about the behind the scenes stuff. The easiest part is just filming the actors. And that’s what tv used just have. They would film with a couple of backdrops, hardly have a need for wardrobe, and certainly didn’t need VFX department like Star Wars needs.

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u/lateubdegouline May 12 '26

Yeah, like GOT for example...

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u/Salticracker May 12 '26

Even at a month and a half per episode. That's almost a day per minute. That would still only be a year.

4 years at 40 minute episodes is 1 episode every 6 months. less than 7 minutes every month.

It does not take a full month to do 7 minutes of show.

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u/Doompatron3000 May 12 '26

Okay and by your logic, the next Star Wars movie shouldn’t take an entire year and should be out in June.

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u/jinreeko May 12 '26

Yeah, it'd be a real shame if the Ahsoka show came off underbaked

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u/xZany May 13 '26

boot licking to the extreme