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Like different huge Disney reveals earlier than it, Star Wars: Ahsoka has been the massive 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 an enormous occasion collection than it already was.
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As revealed earlier within the week, Disney’s holding screenings throughout numerous 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 group. Checking Gofobo, such theaters are associates of AMC and stationed in huge cities like Chicago, Seattle, and Dallas. For worldwide audiences, screenings can be held within the UK (London), Thailand (Bangkok), and Brazil (Sao Paolo). For individuals who plan on going, it’s positively 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 possibly a bit extra).
Billed as a “midseason fan celebration,” subsequent week’s episode will see Ahsoka cross paths together with her ex-master Anakin Skywalker, performed by as soon as once more in stay motion by Hayden Christensen. Notably, this’ll be each the very first time the 2 characters truly share the display screen collectively in exterior of the cartoons, and their first time assembly up once more in years. Anakin and Ahsoka didn’t have a lot time to speak 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 turn out to be 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.
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Episode 5 of Star Wars: Ahsoka will premiere this Tuesday, September 12 on Disney+.
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