- Title: Tales of the Empire – Devoted
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While the first three episodes of Tales of the Empire deal with the backstory of Morgan Elsbeth (Diana Lee Inosanto), the final three turn their attention to former Jedi Barriss Offee (Meredith Salenger) whose fall to the Dark Side was chronicled in Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Tales of the Empire picks up that thread with Barriss being approached in prison by after Order 66 and the fall of the Jedi. In “Devoted” former Jedi Lyn Rakish (Rya Kihlstedt) offers Barriss a new path bringing her into the Empire’s new training program for Force wielders which is revealed to be the formation of the Inquisitors.
The Inquisitors, introduced and explored a bit in Star Wars Rebels, are an intriguing group whose history in the shadows of the Empire seems rife to explore. While the remaining two episodes jump around to focus on big moments of Barriss’ life, rather than the further exploration of the Inquisitors, “Devoted” stands out as the best episode of the six-episode series which should tell Dave Filoni where he should be mining new stories for the Star Wars Universe.
Through Barriss’ experience we learn how the group pick candidates, offering a chance to bring back the Grand Inquisitor (Jason Isaacs) and a chance to see him play with another Jedi, and what those candidates must do to survive pitted against each other in deadly combat. By the end of the episode we get the first group of Inquisitors being introduced to each other and to Darth Vader as well.
