ObiWan

Learner and master have at it. Screenshot: Disney+/LucasfilmNo matter what happened on Disney+’s Obi-Wan Kenobi, there was no way it was going to match Mustafar. Back in 2005, audiences saw Obi-Wan (Ewan McGregor) and Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) fight to the near-death on the lava planet in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. George Lucas’ visuals in the scene were stunning on their own, but John Williams’ music, titled “Battle of the Heroes,” really broughtthe scene together. The music beautifully…

Image: LucasfilmIf we take a step back from Obi-Wan Kenobi, the series feels like a narrative waypoint. We know Kenobi’s past, we know how he ends up, so whereis the movement in this series? How does Obi-Wan Kenobi push the arc of the galaxy far, far away towards its predetermined end? Truthfully speaking, I don’t think there is much movement, and I think that’s entirely on purpose. The point of Obi-Wan Kenobi isn’t to mark out great battles or universe-shattering encounters between the forces of good and evil, but…

With famous faces from both the Rebellion and the Dark Side, Obi-Wan Kenobi has proven to be a smash hit with Star Wars fans. The Obi-Wan show joins The Mandalorian, the seventh series of Clone Wars, and the Rogue One prequel Andor among the Star Wars content that’s exclusive to Disney+. All episodes in the first season have now aired, but what about the future of the show? Here’s what we know so far. Will there be a second season of Obi-Wan Kenobi? Whilst Obi-Wan Kenobi had the biggest debut of any series…

Obi-Wan looks upon a familiar face.Screenshot: LucasfilmStar Wars, on many levels, exists in series of parallels and couplets—a cycle of the rise and defeat of darkness, the fall and rebirth of light, an echo of a story told over and over across generations of families and civilizations. “It’s like poetry, they rhyme,” George Lucas says in the Phantom Menace documentary The Beginning,a statement that may be a meme now but remains one of the truest things ever said about the galaxy far, far away.But what happens when Star…

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…

via Lucasfilm Today saw the release of the Obi-Wan Kenobi season finale and with it, our nerd dreams fulfilled. From the promised “rematch of the century” to a few fandom-shattering cameo appearances, the last episode had everything we were expecting to see and then some. But Ben Kenobi saying “hello there” wasn’t the only nod to the legendary prequel memes that have been around for more than a decade. In their final fight, there’s a moment when Darth Vader realizes that he can’t risk giving Obi-Wan a high…

Given its placement in the Star Wars timeline, sitting snugly between the end of the prequel trilogy and the beginning of A New Hope, there are certain things that Obi-Wan Kenobi simply can’t do. At its core, the Disney Plus series is a slowly simmering battle between its titular lead and his former protege, Darth Vader. But, no matter how epic the lightsaber battles might be, we know neither of them can really die. The same goes for cute little Princess Leia every time she makes a daring escape with Obi-Wan’s help.…

Star Wars fans were left stunned by a shock cameo in the season finale of Obi-Wan Kenobi.The sixth and final episode of the Disney Plus series was released on Wednesday (22 June), and saw Ewan McGregor’s Jedi’s cat-and-mouse tussle with Darth Vader (Hayden Christensen) come to a head.Spoilers follow for the Obi-Wan Kenobi finale...At one point in the episode, Obi-Wan is visited by his old master, Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson), taking the form of a force ghost.Neeson has not reprised the role of Qui-Gon since originating it…

Obi-Wan Kenobi was always an idea looking for a story. After all, the third live-action Star Wars series — all six episodes are now available on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar — had to operate within a confined space. It couldn't do anything drastic or toy with the canon, because its starting and end points were squeezed between already-established Star Wars story. Obi-Wan Kenobi is set 10 years after the climactic duel between the titular Jedi Master (Ewan McGregor) and his side-switching Padawan Anakin Skywalker (Hayden…

Obi-Wan sits at the heart of two very different battles for Jabiim.Image: Kev Walker/Dark Horse Comics, LucasfilmContemporary Star Wars is far from unafraid of taking concepts that worked from the Expanded Universe and loosely slotting them into its own narratives. Last week’s penultimate episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi was no exception—but in returning to the planet Jabiim for a fateful clash between the Empire and the would-be rebels of the Path, the series drew fascinating parallels to its source.The planet Jabiim we see in…