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Let’s crack into the new Obi-Wan Kenobi doc, shall we?Screenshot: Disney+/LucasfilmThink of all the years fans were waiting for Ewan McGregor to return as Obi-Wan Kenobi. Think of all the thousands of times the actor was asked about it. This year, it finally happened. Obi-Wan Kenobi is now on Disney+ and thanks to a new documentary, fans can see what all those years of anticipation and uncertainty looked like in practice once the cameras started rolling.The Disney+ documentaryis called Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi’s Return,…

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…

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…

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…

Darth Vader is back on the fourth episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi.Image: LucasfilmPrincess Leia has been captured. She’s aboard an impenetrable structure run by the Empire and our heroes must infiltrate it to rescue her. Wait, are we talking about Star Wars: A New Hope or the latest episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi? They’re both episode fours. Frankly, it could be either, which was one of the cooler aspects of the fourth and latest episode of Disney+’s new Star Wars show. It also borrowed heavily from the excellent video game Star…