Welcome back to the Star Wars show!
In this week’s episode we talk about the Obi-Wan Kenobi series which aired in 2022.
This storyline takes place just a year after the Solo film, and has absolutely nothing to do with Han Solo.
Instead, we focus on the character of Obi-Wan and his life after Revenge of the Sith. The show takes place over six episodes, which in reality seem to be cut up parts of a full length movie. I feel like if they got rid of a few scenes this could easily be a 2.5 hour movie instead because the episodes are not cut up by stories, but rather one large cut up story.
The Plot
We find Obi-Wan living in Tatooine in a meat packing factory. Keeping his head down and avoiding any kind of trouble.
He really does hide from conflict because when Inquisitors (click here for some history) come to visit hunting Jedi, he leaves behind the Jedi who is hiding from them.
Why is he hiding instead of fighting? He’s got Luke to protect!
Obi-Wan took Luke to Tatooine to be raised by his aunt and uncle and he secretly watches over him to keep him safe.
Luke’s Uncle Owen doesn’t want Kenobi near him, thinking he’s going to draw in danger, while Kenobi thinks he’s keeping him from danger.
Meanwhile…
Luke’s twin sister, Leia, is living in royalty thanks to her adopted family the Organa’s. She’s getting ready for a ceremony and decides to hide away during the boring parts. It looks like she has a bit of a rebellious personality.
She plays in the forest where some bounty hunters are waiting and they kidnap her and take her off the planet.
Bail Organa reaches out to Kenobi asking for his help in finding her, and he heads to a planet called Daiyu, full of neon lights and underground crime.
He finds Leia eventually, and reasonably she doesn’t trust him at first because would you trust a random person saying that they know your family and will take you home?
The two find a way off planet after meeting a smuggling gang, but find out that Leia was kidnapped so an inquisitor, the Third Sister, could get Obi-Wan out of hiding and take him down.
They escaped on a ship and arrived at a farming planet, where they needed to find a group called the Hidden Path. It is an underground organization that is full of Jedi and Jedi supporters who are hiding from the empire.
Darth Vader finds out that Kenobi is hiding among them and goes to the planet himself to find him. Kenobi has some ptsd after fighting with Vader in Revenge of the Sith, but after a brief encounter he escapes but Leia is captured again by the inquisitors.
Leia is taken to Fortress Inquisitorious and Kenobi has to sneak in to get her out.
Just as a reminder: Cal Kestis snuck into the fortress just 5 years earlier, and both of these jedi snuck in by swimming underneath and going in through a tunnel. You’d think after the first time they’d beef up the security.
Kenobi was able to find her before being tortured, and snuck her out using the “classic” method of hiding her in a trench coat. Seems to work.
They eventually escape with the Third Sister being blamed for it, and Vader strips her of any power with the inquisitors.
Vader goes after Kenobi while the Third Sister goes back to Tatooine to find out why Kenobi was hiding there.
Vader and Kenobi have a final duel against each other where Kenobi learns to remove his grief over losing his friend Anakin.
The Third Sister, meanwhile, has located Luke Skywalker, and his aunt and uncle have both fortified their farm to protect him.
The Third Sister gives up on the pursuit because she sees a helpless Luke who reminds her of herself when Anakin went to kill all the Jedi.
Obi Wan returns to Tatooine after the duel with Vader, and he and Luke’s adopted family reconciles with each other. The end.
Thoughts and opinions on the show
This could’ve easily been a movie instead of a six episode series.
Kenobi didn’t really do much in the show besides reacting to events he’s in, it feels like he’s just being pulled along a story instead of making his own actions. For a show with your own name in the title, I think you should be the one making most of the decisions.
Obi-Wan Kenobi was more of a secondary character in parts of this.
I did enjoy the parts with Kenobi and Vader. He clearly had ptsd from order 66, but I do think they could’ve done more on it.
Maybe we’ll see more of Kenobi later on, but that’s the end of his show for now.
Stay tuned for next time when we go over our next video game!
Kristopher K. Online 