Star Wars Is About To Ruin Its Best Show

While Star Wars has had some high-profile failures ranging from the Sequel Trilogy to The Acolyte, there has been one really bright spot: Ahsoka, the show that brought Grand Admiral Thrawn and several of our favorite Rebels characters to live-action. Fans have been wanting to know when we’ll get to see more, but a recent Forbes report offered the sobering truth that we likely won’t see Ahsoka Season 2 until August 2026. That would mean a whopping three-year delay between seasons, which will kill the momentum of Star Wars’ biggest show right when the franchise really desperately needs a win.

Forbes didn’t exactly have the clairvoyance of the Force when making this pronouncement; instead, they just extrapolated from the fact that Ahsoka recently wrapped filming on its second season. Season 1 finished filming in October 2022 and aired in August 2023. Now, Season 2 finished filming at the end of October 2025, so if history repeats itself, we likely won’t be able to stream it on Disney+ until August 2026 at the earliest.

Disney Is Making the Same Mistake Netflix Did

The publication rightfully sounded the alarm about having a three-year gap between seasons, pointing out that fans had their knives out when Netflix waited nearly this long to deliver Wednesday, Season 2. It was awkward watching how much older these youthful characters (who are all meant to be high schoolers) had become, and making fans wait this long seems even stranger when you consider that Netflix wants to leverage the success of Wednesday into an Uncle Fester spinoff show. But an even longer wait for Ahsoka Season 2 could be the kiss of death for Star Wars, a franchise desperately in need of a successful TV show.

Since the disastrous The Rise of Skywalker, there have been no new Star Wars movies, and even though we’ve got two on deck (The Mandalorian & Grogu and Starfighter), there are countless canceled Star Wars films fans were hyped about, including Patty Jenkins’ Rogue Squadron movie. Recently, fans were outraged to discover that Adam Driver and Steven Soderberger had a completed, Lucasfilm-approved script (The Hunt for Ben Solo) that Disney flatly rejected. Collectively, these cinematic failures and canceled film projects have placed added pressure on Star Wars television shows to keep fans happy.

Why Fans Loved Ahsoka So Much

Unfortunately, the Star Wars shows have been a mixed bag: The Mandalorian was a breakout hit that got worse over time, while seemingly surefire shows like The Book of Boba Fett were mostly panned. The Acolyte tried to do something completely new by setting the show in the far past, but fans complained that it didn’t really feel like Star Wars. Meanwhile, Obi-Wan Kenobi played it safe, delivering a generally crowd-pleasing show that was nonetheless completely superfluous to franchise canon.

Ahoksa functioned as the best of both worlds by celebrating fan-favorite Star Wars characters like Ahsoka, Thrawn, and Ezra while also introducing cool new characters (like a manic Sith-y dream girl and her disgruntled ex-Jedi mentor) and situations (like an Imperial tactical genius returning to sew chaos into the New Republic’s carefully-crafted order). It was a genuinely fun show anchored by some excellent performances, and it’s the series I was most excited to see return for Season 2. For me, and for countless other fans, however, that excitement has largely faded due to the incredibly long wait between seasons.

The Damage to Star Wars Is Already Done

If Forbes is correct, then we can expect to have four new Star Wars shows and a major motion picture between Ahsoka Season 1 and Season 2. At this point, the franchise can’t win: if everyone loves those shows and film, then Ahsoka will become far less buzzworthy (after all, it was yesterday’s news years ago). If the shows and movies end up bombing, though, it will further hurt the franchise’s brand, making it harder for the average fan to justify tuning into Disney+ for another round of phoned-in slop.

There’s always hope that Disney will release Ahsoka’s second season sooner, but the damage has already been done. If they released it today, having more than two years between seasons would be more than enough to ruin even the best TV shows. Destroying any real excitement for Ahsoka, arguably the franchise’s best series, is arguably the best way to kill Star Wars altogether. While democracy might have died in this galaxy far, far away with thunderous applause, this franchise is about to die a different way: with the thunderous noise of fans hitting the Home button, looking for something better to watch.