Alec Guinness

Image: Chuck Paskovics and Paul HarrisonAs I’ve mentioned, Hasbro did pretty well sculpting figures of Star Wars’ various aliens and droids. And if you look at pictures of Bith aliens, who show up most prominently as the cantina band in A New Hope, this is a fairly accurate sculpt of the aliens as seen in the movie. So why is this figure’s face so upsetting to look at? Part of it, surely, is that the head is molded in plastic much pinker and rosier than the tanner, more alien-pigmented aliens of the film. Also, there’s no…

Image: Lucasfilm Onthe one hand you’ve got the real life realities of Darth Vader is in the other movies so he can’t kill him. But that’s obvious and not really the issue we’re discussing.Back on Mustafar, Obi-Wan was ready to kill Anakin. In fact, he thought he did kill Anakin. And now that the two are fighting again, we get the sense this fight starts the same way. Obi-Wan is ready to end him. By the end though, we see a crucial manifestation of Obi-Wan’s conscious. He’s less inclined to kill “Darth Vader” than he is…

Get ready to return to the rise of the Empire.Gif: LucasfilmAt a glance:Set 10 years after the events of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi tells the story of how Darth Vader tried to hunt down and kill Obi-Wan Kenobi, his old master.Star Wars fans, of course, know that Obi-Wan Kenobi is on Tatooine, watching over Vader’s son, Luke Skywalker, as we first saw him in 1977's Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Here’s everything you need to remember about Kenobi’s life to that point.Ewan…