Lars

One last ride for Obi-Wan Kenobi.Image: LucasfilmObi-Wan Kenobi has reached its conclusion and I feel super weird about it. It’s that feeling you get after you finish a movie, show, or book you’ve been waiting forever for and it hasn’t quite processed yet. You know that it’s over, the mysteries are solved, and yet, you can’t believe that it happened. Obi-Wan Kenobi was kind of like that—a show that I absolutely enjoyed but ultimately just have some huge questions about and will be thinking about for a long time. My main…

Image via Disney/Lucasfilm After Obi-Wan Kenobi’s opening episodes established the cold relationship between Owen Lars, the Jedi, the Skywalker history, and Kenobi, fans are curious as to why Lars kept Luke’s name as Skywalker. Lars has featured prominently in the series thus far, still fuming with the titular Jedi over the failures of the order, and Obi-Wan’s inability to truly stop Anakin before he became the worst dude in the galaxy. But the big question is about Luke — why would you keep his last name as…