Like different huge Disney reveals earlier than it, Star Wars: Ahsoka has been the large level of TV dialogue for the final a number of weeks. And now that it’s hit the midway mark of its story, Disney’s taking an additional step to make the present really feel extra of a giant occasion collection than it already was.
As revealed earlier within the week, Disney’s holding screenings throughout varied theaters within the US for followers to look at the upcoming episode at its common Tuesday evening time with different members of their native Star Wars neighborhood. Checking Gofobo, such theaters are associates of AMC and stationed in huge cities like Chicago, Seattle, and Dallas. For worldwide audiences, screenings will likely be held within the UK (London), Thailand (Bangkok), and Brazil (Sao Paolo). For many who plan on going, it’s undoubtedly suggested you get there early—screenings like this are first come, first serve, so it’d be finest to point out up at the least an hour earlier (or perhaps somewhat extra).
Billed as a “midseason fan celebration,” subsequent week’s episode will see Ahsoka cross paths along with her ex-master Anakin Skywalker, performed by as soon as once more in reside motion by Hayden Christensen. Notably, this’ll be each the very first time the 2 characters really share the display collectively in outdoors of the cartoons, and their first time assembly up once more in years. Anakin and Ahsoka didn’t have a lot time to talk within the seventh season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and canonically, the 2 didn’t hyperlink up once more till season two of Star Wars Rebels, the place Ahsoka realized and accepted that Anakin had develop into Darth Vader. With how a lot Ahsoka has been banking on audiences’ longtime nostalgia for each Clone Wars and Rebels, the reunion couldn’t be extra completely timed.
Episode 5 of Star Wars: Ahsoka will premiere this Tuesday, September 12 on Disney+.
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