- Could anybody has predicted a decade ago that Ewan McGregor would reprise his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in a live-action Star Wars show? In 2005, with the release of Revenge of the Sith, the Prequel Trilogy came to an end, and it seemed that the actor’s time as the Jedi Master was done. However, as the greatest student of old Ben states in The Rise of Skywalker, “No one’s ever truly gone,” particularly when it comes to Disney’s extremely nostalgic portrayal of the galaxy far, far away.
- It’s ten years after the Prequels that the Obi-Wan Kenobi miniseries takes up. Only a few fugitives remain among the extinct Jedi. In exile on Tatooine, Obi-Wan Kenobi remains a prisoner of the Empire and the Sith. When a wicked band of Jedi hunters shows up in town, our venerable hero jumps right into the fray, as we see in the first trailer.
- As you would expect, the trailer is jam-packed with surprises and easter eggs that give away a lot about the story’s potential direction. Our investigation has led us to this.
Obi-Wan Kenobi in Exile on Tatooine
The Jedi Master is going through a rough patch. In his tenth year of exile, Obi-Wan Kenobi seems to be hiding out in a cave outside the Lars family estate, keeping an eye on the young Luke Skywalker. He rides his eopie (a creature first introduced in The Phantom Menace) throughout the desert when he isn’t covertly working as Luke’s Jedi bodyguard.
As EW reported, “We find Obi-Wan at the outset of our narrative somewhat shattered and faithless, and battered, and somewhat given up.” There is a distinct echo of this emotion when the Jedi Master states, “The struggle is ended. We were defeated. “Stay concealed.”
We see Obi-Wan take a hovertrain to a desert village in a single frame. Is it the same village that the Inquisitors have tormented in previous trailer clips? It’s probable that Obi-decision Wan’s to flee Tatooine for the neon-lit alleys of Daiyu was prompted by his encounter with these Jedi hunters.
In Daiyu, Obi-Wan will be confronted by the Empire for the second time in his life. Intriguingly, we never see a Jedi use a lightsaber. On a rooftop gunfight, he’s using a blaster instead of a pistol. No, I don’t think this is an attempt to disguise his true identity.
