Deleted scenes often contain the emotional scaffolding that makes the final cut hit harder. This scene reveals that Anakin explicitly positioned Ahsoka as a padawan the way Obi-Wan positioned him, planting the seed of his fall long before Revenge of the Sith. The foreshadowing works precisely because it was almost cut: the creators understood the pattern even if they chose not to surface it directly.
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