Star Wars’ World Between Worlds is the answer to Ahsoka’s latest cliffhanger

Not much has happened so far Star Wars: Ahsoka, the latest Star Wars show on Disney Plus. Sure, Sabine and Ahsoka are reunited and Sabine has resumed her training. But until Episode 4, the pair had mostly talked about finding Ezra and Thrawn, not actually doing it. Episode 4 shook things up in some pretty unexpected ways, including bringing in one of Star Wars: Rebelsmost intricate and important bits of lore.

(Ed. remark: This post contains spoilers for Star Wars: Ahsoka episode 4.)

After some lengthy fights between Sabine and Shin, and Ahsoka and Marrok, and Ahsoka and Baylan, Ahsoka is kicked all the way off a giant cliff and seemingly killed – at least initially.

Immediately afterwards, Sabine takes the card, but finds herself face to face with Baylan and does the only sensible thing she can do: give him the card in exchange for passage to Thrawn (and Ezra). But before we can continue the search for our missing characters, the show cuts back to Ahsoka, who wakes up on a bridge of light, seemingly in an area of ​​darkness that resembles space.

As with almost everything in it Ahsokathis new space should be immediately familiar Rebels viewers as the world between worlds. For everyone else: this means the following:

What is the world between the world in Ahsoka?

The World Between Worlds (also known as the Vergence Scatter) is a kind of pocket dimension adjacent to the real world. It is a Force-connected plane of existence that connects all places and times in the world through a series of doors. These doors lead to all the moments that have ever happened or will ever happen.

The World Between Worlds is the creation of the Rebels series, where Ezra Bridger gained access to it to save Ahsoka from the past. After he rescues her, the pair discover Darth Sidious trying to access it using their combined Force powers, but they successfully repulse his attempt.

The dimension is a strange and mysterious part of the Force that few Jedi have explored, making it still somewhat mystical and unknown. One of those unknowns is how many ways there are to access it. We know that the painting of the Mortis Gods painted on the Jedi Temple in Lothal is technically a portal to the World Between Worlds, although based on what we just saw in AhsokaLooks like this isn’t the only way in.

Is Ahsoka dead?

With all that ridiculous, convoluted, and somewhat vague knowledge in mind, Ahsoka is probably not dead. Considering we’ve rescued her via the World Between Worlds before, it seems quite likely that this could happen again.

The real question this time, however, is exactly how it happened. All we can do on that for now is speculate, but it seems possible that Anakin might have something to do with that since he’s the person Ahsoka meets when she finally comes to at the end of the episode.

Why is Anakin here, and is that really Hayden Christensen?

The plot reason Anakin appears here is a mystery until at least Episode 5, and will remain so until the show reveals its answers. But the real reason Anakin is here is so that the two characters can finally meet in live-action, something fans have been clamoring for since the early days of animated film.

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As for whether or not that’s Hayden Christensen, that’s right: he gets the prestigious “and” credits at the end of the episode’s credits. But it’s not Hayden Christensen in 2023, at least not exactly. Instead, it appears to be the same weird zombie tech they used to age Mark Hamill for Luke Skywalker, or any of the other characters Star Wars has gone back in time with over the past decade.