The late actor brought great gravitas to the villainous role.
The Big Picture The most recent episode of Ahsoka, entitled "Fallen Jedi", marks a significant episode for Ray Stevenson and his character, Baylan Skoll, shedding light on the character's motivations and affording the actor the opportunity to infuse his performance with a rich complexity.
Stevenson's character has been very well received, despite the show itself having somewhat mixed reviews. Skoll was, like an uncommonly large number of Jedi, a survivor of Order 66. Following those events, he became bitter and twisted towards his fate and decided to use his Force-sensitive abilities to become a mercernary for hire.
However, within the show, Stevenson has played the character with nuance. When Natasha Liu Bordizzo's Sabine Wren relents, handing him a map to Thrawn, he prevents Shin Hati , his apprentice, from killing the unarmed Sabine, noting that he had given her his word that she would be unharmed for trading it over. The dynamics between the pair are also far more healthy and equitable than any other master-apprentice partnerships we've seen in Star Wars.
Serving a Greater Good Reflecting on Stevenson's portrayal of Baylan Skoll, the episode's director, Peter Ramsey commented to IGN: "The idea that he was evil or a bad guy was never part of the discussion. It was just like, no, he has an agenda and he has a belief system that he's very rigorous and sincere about. And it's just a different one that the other characters have. So in the way that Ray played him, he was playing a person who was at peace with his own decisions and had a real goal and a real philosophy and he wasn't gonna betray it.
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