YMMV / Star Wars: Tales of the Empire

• Awesome Moments: The moment Barriss renounces the Inquisitorius.
  Lyn: The Jedi are a threat to be eradicated wherever they are found.
  Barriss: Then you have one Jedi left to deal with.
• Character Rerailment:
  • After infamously being subjected to Adaptational Villainy in The Clone Wars, Barriss Offee is shown returning to her Legends-era characterization as a wandering healer who tries to help others in the wake of the Empire's regime.
  • General Grievous was portrayed as an unstoppable force of nature in the 2003 Clone Wars series, only to turn into a Dirty Coward in Revenge of the Sith and most Star Wars: The Clone Wars episodes. In his brief appearance in Tales of the Empire, Grievous is once again a terrifying villain, absolutely dominating the Nightsisters and utterly breaking Morgan Elsbeth. Justified, as the episode is from the point of view of the outclassed Nightsisters.
• Continuity Lockout: Just as with Tales of the Jedi, this show is not meant to be a stand alone show and will require a bit of prior viewing to full understand. In particular, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, possibly Star Wars Rebels, The Mandalorian, and Ahsoka are all required viewing to understand both Morgan and Barriss's story arcs.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • The "Ray of Hope" Ending of "The Path of Hate." The dying New Republic ambassador encourages Wing to keep resisting Morgan, even if his part in the fight is small. He will eventually play a small but crucial part in the liberation of Corvus.
  • Barriss attempts to kindly question a child after Lyn tries to intimidate the whole village. She even takes off her helmet when she realizes it scares the child. The child runs to her for protection after Lyn kills the village.
  • Barriss being a Martial Pacifist Warrior Therapist to Lyn and convincing her to renounce the Empire without taking any aggressive action against her.
• I Knew It!:
  • It's been a long standing fan-theory that after her exposure as a traitor to the Jedi Order, Barriss Offee would somehow be involved in the Inquisitorius. The first trailer for the series confirmed that she would play a significant role in its founding.
  • Grievous receiving an updated model for a brief shot of the Clone Wars Season 7 opener raised a lot of eyebrows since nobody bought that they’d go through the trouble of making a new model for such a brief moment, and suspected that something else was planned that would use the model. Four years later, and the trailer shows the model finally being put to use in a seemingly major role.
• Salvaged Story:
  • Barriss's characterization in The Clone Wars - an eventual fallen Jedi who bombed the Jedi Temple and later framed Ahsoka for the deed - was met with a degree of criticism from fans and her actress in Attack of the Clones due to both a perceived lack of buildup and how it differed from her Legends incarnation; a healer who remained loyal to the Jedi Order until her death during Order 66. Her plotline in Tales Of The Empire shifts her back towards both her Legends self and her initial characterization in The Clone Wars to a degree; while she does get recruited into the Inquisitor training program as a result of her crimes, she never embraces the role in the manner her fellow Inquisitors do, and ultimately renounces the Empire and returns to the light by the end of the show, with her final episode having her risk her life to convince the Fourth Sister to do the same, and indicating that she became a wandering healer.
  • More than a few people felt that the Fourth Sister's inclusion in Obi-Wan Kenobi felt somewhat superfluous, as she barely participated in action and in general had a very minor role in the show compared to her fellow Inquisitors. This series gives far more focus to develop her character, showing how she came to embody the Inquisitorius's beliefs, and is even given an arc where she comes to renounce her fall to the Dark Side, and spends her last moments trying to get a dying Barriss Offee to safety.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • Darth Vader's appearance opens up the possibility of him taking out an old grudge against the woman who cost him his beloved apprentice, but instead he's limited to a very brief cameo with no lines and no interaction with Barriss.
  • Luminara Unduli, Bariss's former Jedi master, was canonically captured and imprisoned by the Inquisitorius, meaning that Bariss could have interacted with her somehow, maybe even helping spark her apprentice's Heel–Face Turn. But she doesn't show up.
  • In the final episode, Bariss mentions how an old friend of hers can help the family with the force sensitive child to safety. It's heavily implied said friend was Ahsoka, but we never learn how they reconnected.
• Unexpected Character: Amongst the Inquisitors, few would have expected the Fourth Sister would have such a large role in the show, after her brief appearances in Obi-Wan Kenobi.