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Saw felt like his people had been forced into fighting by the war between the Republic and the Separatists, and that debating in the senate - as Lux had done - would lead nowhere. Obi-Wan Kenobi also called Saw’s group terrorists, while Anakin argued that they represented a noble insurgency.ĭuring the Separatist occupation on Onderon, Saw was angry and critical, resisting help from newcomer Lux Bonteri as well as from the Jedi. The same argument - freedom fighters or terrorists? - was happening during Saw’s rebellion in the Clone Wars. Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy described Gerrera’s forces in Rogue Oneas “extremists,” and “on the fringe of the Rebel Alliance.” To further bind his story into the larger scope of Star Wars, Saw was mentioned in the Sequel Trilogy novel Bloodline by Claudia Gray: one of Leia’s political rivals uses “the campaigns of Saw Gerrera’s Partisans” to try to argue that some of Leia’s methods connote terrorism. Saw and Steela sported a bird-like insignia not very different from the future Rebel Alliance symbol, and a striped logo on Saw’s armor can also be seen on his costume in Rogue One. Although the Onderon arc leaned sometimes too heavily on characters’ petty rivalries and kept to the unfortunate trope of killing off one of its main female characters, it’s also one of the more politically complex arcs in The Clone Wars. Saw’s inclusion in the early rebellion isn’t outlandish, although it did come as a surprise to a lot of fans. EW’s reveal of the character’s name described Saw Gerrera as “so extreme that the other good guys aren’t sure if he really is one.” In The Clone Wars, he appeared in four episodes in the fifth season, starting with “A War on Two Fronts,” usually referred to as the Onderon arc.

So who is Saw Gerrera? At the very least, for fans who are unfamiliar with The Clone Wars or have criticized it (I certainly have), this is a well-regarded actor bringing a different kind of rebellion to Jyn Erso’s team. Forest Whitaker’s character in Rogue One is Saw Gerrera, the freedom fighter who both clashed with and helped Anakin and Ahsoka in season five of The Clone Wars - and who was originally developed by George Lucas. The Clone Warsmade the leap to live-action Star Wars in a big way.