When The Mandalorian walked onto Disney+, Star Wars followers knew nothing about him. When Cassian Andor confirmed up on the streamer, most knew the place he ended up, however nobody knew how he bought there. Each exhibits had a clean slate high quality that, no less than initially, made them accessible to Star Wars followers of any form. The following present, nevertheless, is kind of totally different.
That present is Ahsoka, which debuts August 23, and the largest problem it’s dealing with is that it comes with plenty of baggage. Fifteen years of it to be actual, chock stuffed with ongoing tales, well-established characters, mysteries, and extra. The one means it may possibly obtain the success of these different Disney+ exhibits is that if it’s each thrilling and rewarding to followers who know all about that, but additionally one thing anybody who has Disney+ can watch and revel in. And, in accordance with a brand new interview, that’s the plan.
“That’s been the problem of the sequence,” Ahsoka producer Carrie Beck stated to Leisure Weekly in a protracted story in regards to the present. “However [series creator] Dave [Filoni] was very considerate about crafting the narrative in a means that would invite folks in. The present tells them every little thing they should know alongside the way in which.”
Which is a pleasant thought however, nicely, there’s lots you may have to know. Ahsoka is mainly the fifth season of Star Wars Rebels, an animated present that ran totally on Disney XD from 2014-2018 and featured Ahsoka—a personality who debuted in a 2008 animated Clone Wars film and continued by means of that animated sequence, which itself ran sporadically from 2008-2020. If you haven’t watched any of that, Ahsoka positive has plenty of connections to the Star Wars you do know; she was the apprentice of Anakin Skywalker and good friend to Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda, in addition to an adversary of Darth Maul and Darth Vader, and, extra not too long ago, she grew to become an adviser to Grogu and the Mandalorian. Ahsoka has now even met her former apprentice’s son, Luke Skywalker, which is an entire different can of worms.
Will Ahsoka work when you don’t know all that? How significantly better will it work when you do? We gained’t have to attend lengthy to seek out out. The present debuts in three weeks on August 23.
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