Ahsoka Tano will star in the live-action Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and the best place for her story to continue would be Ahsoka’s TV series.
Barriss Offee was significantly changed from her Legends-era counterpart. In Legends, Offee was roughly the same age as Anakin Skywalker and had a particular talent for using the Force to heal others, becoming a Jedi healer during the Clone Wars. By the end of the war, Offee had become a Jedi Knight and taken on a padawan learner of her own, Zonder. Offee died during the Battle of Felucia when Order 66 brainwashed the Clone Trooper crew of an AT-TE walker to open fire on her.
Barriss Offee was extensively rewritten in the canon timeline through The Clone Wars, which established her as being the same age as Ahsoka Tano and no longer having a specialty in Force healing. Offee and Tano became friends during the Second Battle of Geonosis, Offee eventually became disillusioned with the Jedi Order and their participation in the Clone Wars, leading her to become a terrorist and frame Ahsoka for bombing the Jedi Temple. Although Offee was arrested and Ahsoka was proven innocent, fans have been anticipating the return of Barriss Offee, giving Ahsoka the perfect opportunity to bring back Tano’s old rival and explore the complexities of Offee’s actions once more.
Although Barriss Offee was correct about the corruption within the Jedi Order and the Republic, her methods of protesting them resulted in the deaths of Jedi, Clone Troopers, and civilians, and Offee remorselessly framed her friend for the crime. Offee’s final appearance in The Clone Wars revealed that in her disillusionment she fell under the influence of the dark side of the Force, which fueled her horrific actions. Barriss Offee served as a foil to Ahsoka Tano, with the former being a stringent rule-follower up until she turned to villainy, while the latter was notoriously rebellious but ultimately remained steadfast in her ideals.
Barriss Offee was originally going to die in The Clone Wars, but Dave Filoni decided that he had more stories planned for the character, making her fate ambiguous. When Star Wars Rebels was revealed to be a female Mirialan, fans hoped she’d be Offee, but the Seventh Sister turned out to be an original character. Similar hopes were crushed in Jedi: Fallen Order, which featured more Inquisitors, none of which were Offee.
With Ahsoka starring in a live-action TV series, story threads from The Clone Wars and Rebels will be continued, with Tano presumably continuing the search for Ezra Bridger. An older Barriss Offee, who may feel vindicated by the Republic’s turn to the Galactic Empire and the Jedi Order’s near-destruction, could be an excellent nemesis for Ahsoka. Given the complexity of Barriss Offee, however, she could fill the role of antagonist and ally, alternating between friend and foe in Star Wars: Ahsoka.
