Star Wars World Between Worlds comes to live-action in Ahsoka episode 4

Not a lot has occurred to this point in Star Wars: Ahsoka, the newest Star Wars present on Disney Plus. Sure, Sabine and Ahsoka are reunited, and Sabine has resumed her coaching. But up till episode 4, the pair had principally been speaking about discovering Ezra and Thrawn, and never truly doing it. Episode 4 shook issues up in some fairly surprising methods, together with bringing in certainly one of Star Wars: Rebels’ most intricate and essential items of lore.

[Ed. note: This post contains spoilers for Star Wars: Ahsoka episode 4.]

After some extended fights between Sabine and Shin, and Ahsoka and Marrok, and Ahsoka and Baylan, Ahsoka will get herself kicked all the best way off a large cliff and seemingly killed — at the least at first.

Immediately after that, Sabine grabs the map however finds herself face-to-face with Baylan and does the one smart factor she will: provides him the map in trade for passage to Thrawn (and Ezra). But earlier than we are able to proceed with the hunt to discover our lacking characters, the present cuts again to Ahsoka, who wakes up on a bridge of sunshine seemingly in an space of darkness that appears like area.

As with virtually the whole lot in Ahsoka, this new area ought to be immediately acquainted to Rebels watchers because the World Between Worlds. For everybody else, right here’s what which means:

What is the World Between World in Ahsoka?

The World Between Worlds (often known as the Vergence Scatter) is form of like a pocket dimension that exists adjoining to the actual world. It’s a Force-connected airplane of existence that connects all locations and occasions in the world by way of a sequence of doorways. These doorways lead to the entire moments which have ever occurred or will ever occur.

The World Between Worlds is the creation of the Rebels sequence, the place Ezra Bridger accessed it in order to save Ahsoka from the previous. After he saved her, the pair discover that Darth Sidious is trying to entry it utilizing their mixed Force powers, however they efficiently repel his try.

The dimension is an odd and mysterious a part of the Force that solely few Jedi have researched, leaving it nonetheless considerably mystical and unknown. One of these unknowns is simply what number of methods there are to entry it. We know that the portray of the Mortis gods, painted on the Jedi Temple at Lothal is technically a portal to the World Between Worlds, although primarily based on what we simply noticed in Ahsoka, it appears that evidently isn’t the one means inside.

Is Ahsoka useless?

With all that ridiculous, sophisticated, and considerably obscure lore in thoughts: Ahsoka might be not useless. Considering we’ve already seen her get saved by way of the World Between Worlds earlier than, it appears fairly probably that would occur once more.

The actual query this time, nevertheless, is how precisely it occurred. All we are able to do on that’s speculate for now, nevertheless it appears attainable that Anakin might have had one thing to do with that, contemplating he’s the person who Ahsoka meets when she lastly comes to on the finish of the episode.

Why is Anakin right here, and is that basically Hayden Christensen?

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The plot cause that Anakin exhibits up here’s a thriller till at the least episode 5, and shall be till the present reveals its solutions. But the real-world cause that Anakin is right here is in order that the 2 characters can lastly meet in live-action, one thing followers have been clamoring for for the reason that earliest days of the animated Clone Wars sequence.

As for whether or not or not that’s truly Hayden Christensen, it’s — he’s given the celebrated “and” credit score on the finish of the episode’s credit. But it’s not 2023 Hayden Christensen, at the least not precisely. Instead, it seems to be the identical unusual zombie expertise they’ve been utilizing to de-age Mark Hamill for Luke Skywalker, or any of the opposite characters that Star Wars has gone again in time for over the past decade.