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The upcoming Star Wars: Ahsoka has spent a lot of its advertising and marketing up to now displaying that our titular former Jedi (performed by Rosario Dawson) is teaming up with members of previous Star Wars Rebels characters. However there’s one necessary character from Ahsoka’s previous that hasn’t been mentioned to this point: her previous grasp Anakin Skywalker, performed once more by Hayden Christensen. Up till this level, he’s solely been vaguely referred to in Ahsoka’s earlier live-action appearances—no less than, till now.
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If it’s been some time because you’ve seen Star Wars: The Clone Wars or Rebels, recall that the ultimate season of Clone Wars in 2020 noticed Ahsoka be taught that Anakin was being groomed by Palpatine to slaughter the Jedi and switch to the Darkish Facet of the Power. However she couldn’t act on that data as a result of Order 66 actually occurred proper as she realized that Darth Maul wasn’t bluffing. Like the opposite Jedi survivors, she had to enter hiding, and the 2 didn’t reunite till Anakin had been Darth Vader for over a decade and fought one another. Vader survived that battle, and Ahsoka was thought to have died earlier than Ezra saved her by way of the World Between Worlds, which can also be anticipated to play an enormous function on this present.
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So yeah, there’s rather a lot for Ahsoka the present to work with, and the brand new promo has Anakin throughout it, from Baylan Skoll (Ray Stevenson) mentioning his legendary standing amongst the Jedi to his voiceover unfold throughout the promo. Not one of the footage is very new, however it’s good to see Anakin (and Christensen) once more, and really attending to work together with somebody so necessary to him! Like with Obi-Wan Kenobi, it seems as if he’s going to be taking part in a significant function within the present by way of flashbacks, and perhaps even previous visions of the person he was once. No matter else he may do within the present should wait till Star Wars: Ahsoka releases August 23 on Disney+.
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