Obi-Wan Kenobi

We look back at the Star Wars history of Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, originated by Alec Guinness and played in 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' by Ewan McGregor.

It has already been established that some characters from the animated “Star Wars Rebels” will be playing a part in the limited Obi-Wan series. While any crossover seems unlikely, viewers will just have to wait and see if any other familiar faces appear in “Obi-Wan Kenobi.” But McGregor in the prequels is “all the things that you would not have imagined Obi-Wan could have been”: “Alec Guinness’ Obi-Wan is the finished article. Now known as the Darth Vader, the character’s shadow is felt across the series. McGregor himself noted during the Lucasfilm presentation at Star Wars Celebration on Thursday that there seemed to be no love for the prequel films at the time of their release. An unexpected detour during a mission brings them to Tatooine, where they meet the young, exceptionally Force-sensitive Anakin Skywalker.

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After Joby Harold (“Army of the Dead”) was hired to take over, the six-episode series was delayed again due to the pandemic. The Disney+ series is the culmination of years of planning at Lucasfilm to revive McGregor’s performance as Obi-Wan from the “Star Wars” prequel trilogy. early,” the tweet reads. The actor finally confirmed the news to great fanfare at the D23 Expo in August 2019, but a planned shoot in 2020 with “The Mandalorian” director Deborah Chow was delayed when the original head writer, Hossein Amini (“The Alienist”), left the production. The news was announced in a tweet from the official “Star Wars” account. “Start streaming the first two episodes TONIGHT at 9 p.m. PT on @Disneyplus.”

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Obi-Wan Kenobi finds Ewan McGregor revisiting his performance of the titular role, while Hayden Christensen returns as Anakin Skywalker. Both actors originally performed together in the roles for the early 2000s Star Wars prequels. According to Variety, the release comes after fans attending the Star Wars Celebration convention in Anaheim, Calif. “were surprised with a premiere screening of the show” earlier that evening. The first two episodes of the series were initially scheduled for release Friday, May 27, pushed back from an original release date of May 25.

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In Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi, Luke, now a Jedi, tries to convince Vader that there "is good" in him and urges him to come with him. "Something obviously happened in that 20 years and in large part that's the story we're trying to tell." "[Obi-Wan] believes he killed [Anakin] at the end of Revenge of the Sith," show producer and director Deborah Chow told io9. McGregor teased the on-screen sharing in a promo for the series, saying, "Having another swing at each other might be quite satisfying for everybody. And then there is this huge puzzle piece that has the potential to better tie the third and fourth film together. Living in self-imposed exile on Tatooine, Obi-Wan witnesses the downfall and corruption of his best friend and Jedi apprentice, Anakin Skywalker, now known as the evil Sith lord and OG Star Wars villain, Darth Vader.

La série évènement de l'univers Star Wars sort vendredi sur la plateforme Disney+, consacrée cette fois au Maître Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi.

J'aime bien les dernières séries et les derniers films, il y a moins l'ADN Star Wars. Il ne manque pas seulement Dark Vador, il manque plus que ça. J'aimerais voir Dark Raven ou Dark Plagueis, le maître de Palpatine, avec une série, un film ou une trilogie. "Je n'ai pas de crainte avant la sortie de la série sur Obi-Wan, ça va cartonner ! Kenobi est une grande figure de Star Wars. Il y a un vide entre la prélogie et la trilogie. Il suscite de l’intérêt et de la curiosité. Le fait que ce soit interprété par Ewan McGregor y fait pour beaucoup. "Je suis très impatient de découvrir la série. Obi-Wan est un personnage apprécié par les fans. Star Wars c’est intergénérationnel. Dans notre groupe, il y a deux adolescents, qui connaissent tous les personnages du l’univers étendu par cœur. Ils attendent avec impatience la série. Trouvez-moi dans tous les films au monde un méchant qui est autant adulé que Vador, ça n’existe pas. Ça va être terrible ce retour de Dark Vador dans la série Kenobi. Il a déjà pris son pouvoir mais on veut savoir quelle histoire ils vont lui donner." "J’attends impatiemment la série. On va voir comment va évoluer Luke, qui a été caché par Obi-Wan. On va découvrir de nouveaux personnages comme les Inquisiteurs (chargés par Dark Vador d’éliminer les derniers Jedi). J’espère que ce sera mieux que Boba Fett, car je n’ai pas du tout aimé certaines scènes. Mais je n’ai pas l’impression que ça tourne en rond. Alors, j’ai compté les jours avant la sortie de Kenobi. Je suis né pile-poil quand il y a eu la prélogie. J’ai grandi avec le Obi-Wan de Ewan McGregor. Je pense qu’il y aura beaucoup de surprise dans cette série. Ce qui est bien avec Star Wars depuis le rachat par Disney, c’est toute la matière, il y a des séries animées, en live action, des films etc. Pour moi, il n’y a pas trop de séries. Il y une nouvelle génération de fans. Le problème n’est pas le volume, c’est la qualité. Tant que la qualité est là, pas de problème. Sauf qu’un film Star Wars, c’est compliqué à faire. Depuis l’épisode sept de Star Wars projeté en 2015, quatre autres films sont sortis sur grand écran, et deux séries (trois saisons en tout). D’autres projets sont dans les cartons. Elle est attendue par les fans de Star Wars depuis des lustres.

Attendu au cinéma, c'est finalement en exclusivité sur Disney+ qu'Obi-Wan Kenobi fait son grand retour dans une mini-série qui débute ce vendredi.

Le maître Jedi sera alors contraint de quitter un temps Tatooine pour contrer leurs plans. Mais qu’a bien pu faire Obi-Wan Kenobi pendant ses années d’exil sur Tatooine ? Une question que tous les fans de Star Wars se posent depuis qu’ils ont vu la saga. Alors que l’avenir de la saga Star Wars au cinéma est toujours incertain, c’est finalement sous la forme d’une mini-série en six épisodes que nous allons pouvoir retrouver le Maitre Jedi à partir de ce vendredi 27 mai 2022 en exclusivité sur Disney+ avec la diffusion des deux premiers épisodes. Les quatre autres épisodes arriveront chaque vendredi durant les trois prochaines semaines.

Ce vendredi 27 mai, Disney+ lance sa très attendue série Star Wars Obi-Wan Kenobi. Deux épisodes (sur six) seront proposés d'un coup.

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Qui n'aime pas Obi-Wan Kenobi? Héros au cœur d'or, il est facile de tomber sous le charme du Jedi incarné par Alec Guinness, puis Ewan McGregor.

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The first two episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi are live on Disney+, and they are full of surprises.

Not a lot of people have the capacity to recover from having a white hot laser blade run through their solar plexus, so it seems that the fair bet is that he is dead and not coming back, but we’ll just have to wait for future episodes to find out if that’s actually the case. Hopefully it’s something he continues to not only in more Obi-Wan Kenobi episodes, but in more of the franchise’s shows on Disney+. Obi-Wan Kenobi does start his show living on Tatooine and keeping an eye on young Luke (along with the kid’s Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru), but not only is there a surprising amount of action that is set away from the desert planet, Obi-Wan ends up leaving it after the first episode. If it ever seemed weird to you that Obi-Wan would spend all of his time looking after Luke Skywalker and not Leia Organa, Obi-Wan Kenobi has now effectively addressed that issue by making Leia a much more prominent character in the show’s first two episodes. Obi-Wan Kenobi is set 10 years after the events of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, which is to say that (from his perspective) it’s been a decade since Order 66 saw the annihilation of the Jedi and Anakin Skywalker turned to the Dark Side and had to be killed. The annual Star Wars Celebration convention kicked off this afternoon – with big reveals including a debut trailer for Andor and a sneak peek at The Mandalorian Season 3 – but you don't have to be in Anaheim, California to enjoy all of the awesomeness.

Fans at Star Wars Celebration shared their thoughts on the first two episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi.

While no spoilers have made it to the public yet, Lucasfilm and Disney surprised fans by releasing the first two episodes on Disney+ at 9PM PST instead of its usual midnight slot. "Obi-Wan Kenobi first reactions, Ewan McGregor brings the emotion as an older Kenobi. His eye acting is next level. "The first 2 episodes of Kenobi are amazing. "Obi-Wan Kenobi gets off to a great start. A brilliant artist." With this series having been in development for most of the past three years, anticipation is at an all-time high to see the former Jedi Master take the spotlight once again.

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A l’été 2019, l’acteur Ewan McGregor, le chouchou de « r/prequelmemes », a même été rappelé par Disney pour endosser de nouveau le costume du jeune Obi-Wan Kenobi, quatorze ans après l’« Episode III ». Après des années d’attente, la diffusion de la série qui lui est consacrée commence finalement vendredi 27 mai. C’est le moment que choisit un certain TheDStudge pour lancer la section Reddit « r/prequelmemes », qu’il alimente avec les images et gifs de la prélogie que lui et ses amis de lycée ont collectés pendant des semaines. Malgré tout cet amour pour la prélogie, la blague aurait pu s’essouffler. Et de fait, la popularité de « r/prequelmemes » a effectivement semblé se tasser après six mois. Il arrive cependant que les mèmes de la prélogie débordent des forums Internet et des réseaux sociaux. On trouve, sur Twitter, des adeptes français de « prequel memes » : âgés de 24 à 26 ans, ceux que l’on interroge aiment souvent la trilogie originale, mais préfèrent toujours la prélogie. Bredan vante ainsi la dimension politique de l’œuvre, ainsi que ses décors, son casting, ses musiques et ses duels au sabre laser, autrement plus dynamiques que dans les originaux. Au point de talonner la section générale consacrée à la série ( « r/starwars ») et ses 2,2 millions d’abonnés. Le phénomène est tel qu’un « prequel meme » a un temps détenu le record du lien le plus populaire de la pourtant très riche histoire de Reddit.

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It’s the sort of character and performance that would usually deserve its own spin-off, even if it didn’t exist in the world of modern Star Wars, where every single character who ever appears onscreen is all but guaranteed a full series about their origin story. In the prequel series they often overwhelmed McGregor’s performance, but here, he wears them lightly, letting some of his natural charisma seep through. The series actually starts to justify its own existence. The story goes that this series started life as a film. Post-Lucas Star Wars exists almost exclusively to bulk out thin gruel, joining various dots that didn’t need to be joined, for the delight of a quickly ageing fanbase. Kenobi left Anakin Skywalker for dead a decade ago and, realistically, it’s another decade before the events of Star Wars: A New Hope.

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Déjà espiègle et têtue, la future chef de la rébellion est capturée sur ordre de la Troisième Soeur, afin de tendre un piège à Kenobi. Cette opération sauvetage qui préfigure celle de l’Episode IV marque le point de départ de l’histoire, et va notamment permettre au Jedi d’apprendre que son ancien padawan n’est pas mort, mais répond désormais au nom de Dark Vador… Les prochains épisodes de la mini-série Obi-Wan Kenobi sont à retrouver chaque mercredi en exclusivité sur Disney+ ! Après dix-sept ans d’attente, Obi-Wan Kenobi fait son grand retour dans l’univers Star Wars. Le Chevalier Jedi incarné par Ewan McGregor, son interprète dans la prélogie, est en effet le héros d’une toute nouvelle série Disney+, dont les deux premiers épisodes sont dès à présent disponibles sur la plateforme SVOD !

Dans Obi-Wan Kenobi, le personnage-titre veille sur un jeune Luke Skywalker tout en étant hanté par les souvenirs de son ami devenu ennemi, Darth Vader.

Ewan lui donne une grande humanité, grâce entre autres à son humour », souligne celle qui a tourné deux épisodes de la première saison de The Mandalorian. » De plus, elle estime qu’« Obi-Wan est un personnage particulièrement intéressant, car il est mythique et adoré par tant de personnes, mais qu’au fond, on ne connaît que peu de choses à son sujet ». » La réalisatrice, qui a évidemment regardé les prequels de nombreuses fois, estime que la performance d’Ewan McGregor est l’un des meilleurs aspects de cette trilogie. « Le ton est différent, mais l’idée est similaire à Joker ou à Logan, puisque nous prenons un personnage d’un vaste univers et nous prenons le temps de raconter son histoire en profondeur. Entre le moment où Anakin était laissé pour mort et son premier souffle artificiel, Obi-Wan a pu assister à la tragique naissance des jumeaux de son ancien ami. Nous ne sommes pas habitués de voir ce personnage ainsi, alors c’était un bon point de départ pour la série. »

"Obi-Wan Kenobi" starring Ewan McGregor premieres its first two episodes today on Disney Plus today (May 27).

The rest of the main cast includes Rupert Friend (The Grand Inquisitor), Moses Ingram (Seventh Sister), Sung Kang (Fifth Brother), Joel Edgerton (Owen Lars), Bonnie Piesse (Beru Lars), and Grant Feely (Luke Skywalker). Darth Vader will be a vital addition to the drama and speculation has run rampant that we'll see a confrontation with his former master, whose skills might be a bit rusty after ten years in exile. These heartless assassins report directly to the Grand Inquisitor and are headed up by Fifth Brother and Seventh Sister, who were previously introduced in "Star Wars: Rebels" Season 2.

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That scenario also creates plenty of opportunities for callbacks that, in a theatrical setting, would have fans whooping and hollering. He watches the young Luke from a respectable distance, which is still too close to suit the boy's Uncle Owen (Joel Edgerton), who well remembers how he ended up with the lad in his care. Those considerations aside, the Disney+ series presents subscribers what feels like a wonderful distraction, no Jedi mind tricks required.

Obi-Wan Kenobi's two-part premiere is a surprisingly weighty introduction to an emotional Star Wars story.

The whole two-part premiere is full of this intertwined scripting; the links between Obi-Wan, Leia, her kidnappers, and Reva all make for a show that feels nicely coherent and planned. But chase sequences and shootouts so far feel simple and workhorse compared to the best of The Mandalorian’s action direction. I really like that Kenobi’s emotional path is mirrored by his physical one, and the match cut between his and Vader’s face at the end of the two-part premiere provided the perfect chilling indicator of this. This moment is the first nudge; Obi-Wan needs to return to the ways of the Jedi. He needs to help people. She helps provide a little levity among an otherwise surprisingly serious slice of Star Wars. The same can be said about Kumail Nanjiani, who brings his usual charm to grifter Haja Estree. On Tatooine he refuses to help another Jedi escape from the inquisition because he doesn’t want to risk his semi-selfish mission of watching over Luke. That Jedi’s corpse is next seen strung up in the streets in a shot that highlights Chow’s ability to bring darkness without being inappropriately violent for this kind of show. This promises a real treat of an emotional and physical showdown later down the line, and I hope Obi-Wan Kenobi can deliver on that promise. The two-part premiere opens a series that is surprisingly complex and unexpectedly mature; a slice of Star Wars that feels heavy and layered. But while vital to the journey, the ongoing hunt for the final surviving Jedi is just the broad picture. Opening as Order 66 is initiated, this is a show about living amid the death of one age, and the start of a darker one. His new camp on Tatooine has been established not to watch over Luke because he represents hope for the future, but through an inability to let go of one of the remaining links to his fallen brother. George Lucas envisioned the Empire as a reflection of many things, but Obi-Wan Kenobi really leans into the Nazi parallels.

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Ewan McGregor is finally getting something to work with in terms of a script, an upgrade from the prequels. Leia rebels against her stuffy upbringing, and appears to be exhibiting at least mildly force-like symptoms where she can read people’s fears to a certain extent, disguised as being observant. The series was given to Mandalorian director Deborah Chow, and so far, it’s going pretty well.

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If "Star Wars" fans are going to see a new angle to things they know, it should be with a beloved familiar face. Fans will get a kick out of familiar characters (especially one in particular) who show up in “Kenobi"; more impressive are the subtle reflections of well-known scenes that add thematic depth. While it doesn’t break any huge new “Star Wars” ground, at least not yet – we’ll see what happens in the next four episodes (streaming weekly beginning Wednesday) – the series nicely bridges the gap between the prequels and the original trilogy and hints at some political intrigue within the evil Empire.

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Obi-Wan Kenobi runs the same risk here, but justifies itself by being the first Disney+ Star Wars series to feel like a main Star Wars story, rather than some offcut, with its centring of lead characters from the films. The closing shot shows a burnt and scarred Vader in a bacta tank, giving us our first glimpse of the returning Hayden Christensen, who reprises his role as Anakin. It's no secret that they will fight again in this series, which has attracted some concern that it could undercut the significance of their duel in 1977's A New Hope – again, making the universe feel smaller. A recurring problem with Disney's era of Star Wars spin-off films and TV shows has been that the more gaps they fill in the overarching timeline, the more backstory of big characters that is illuminated, the smaller and less interesting the universe becomes. Whatever the reason for it, this reappraisal is evidently a driver for the latest Disney+ Star Wars show, Obi-Wan Kenobi, a slick six-part series that seeks to explore what happened to the Jedi Master after the harrowing events of 2005's Revenge of the Sith. The show even begins with a recap of the prequels. Obi-Wan is eventually forced into action by episode one's big surprise: the kidnap of a 10-year-old Princess Leia, played with an endearing precociousness by Bird Box's Vivien Lyra Blair. Obi-Wan, who is one of the few people in the galaxy aware of her importance, is approached by her adoptive father Bail Organa (Jimmy Smits reprising his prequel role) to rescue her. This, of course, could simply be a case of millennial nostalgia, although I would say it is also founded on a valid sense of appreciation for movies that – while undeniably flawed in execution – are rich in the kind of cohesion and ideas that Disney's sequel trilogy sorely lacked.

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Which, no matter how much Lawrence of Arabia you mix in with the original Blade Runner, some Matrix and an unseen Home Alone sequel, wilts faster than an orchid under the grueling twin suns of Tatooine. A demise made all the more scorched by the fact that significant swaths of Obi-Wan have a mid-1990s syndication cheapness to them, with slightly better lighting. Debuting a few hours earlier than anticipated on Disney+, the first two episodes of the Ewan McGregor starring miniseries are almost all undiluted nostalgia with no wisdom to impart and not much of a story to tell. Yet, as George Lucas learned the lucrative way, a little bit of Joseph Campbell can be good for the myth but bad for the execution.

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If The Mandalorian sometimes erred on the side of self-conscious spareness and The Book of Boba Fett was more a playful feast of characters, creatures, and action than a well-organized and well-paced story, the first episode of Obi-Wan seems to try for a just-right mix of the two, merging the sense of isolation with a more clear narrative direction. You were once a great Jedi.” In fact, when it comes time for Obi-Wan to reunite with familiar faces, like Luke’s Uncle Owen (Joel Edgerton) or Leia’s dad Bail Organa (Jimmy Smits), the show actually becomes clunkier and less expressive. It’s probably too much to hope that a saga-centric, legacy-character Star Wars series could ever allow real detective-style detours, but Obi-Wan tracking down a young Leia at least gets him back on a case (albeit one that’s a mystery only to him). Instead, it looks toward Alderaan, where a 10-year-old Princess Leia (Vivien Lyra Blair) is already rebelling against her adopted parents, complete with her own sidekick droid, a nonspeaking Batteries Not Included–looking contraption called Lola. She’s soon kidnapped and taken off-planet for the first time in what turns out to be an attempt to lure Obi-Wan out of hiding. Despite being one of the longer episodes of Star Wars TV to date, this feels more like a complete (if obviously serialized) episode than much of Fett. And while none of these shows have really attempted to approximate George Lucas’s maximalism, Chow has a stronger command of quasi-western minimalism than Jon Favreau. But, hello there: Obi-Wan Kenobi is a whole other world of prequel affirmation, bringing back trilogy MVP Ewan McGregor and a number of other prequel actors to star in what is, essentially, a sidelong sequel to Revenge of the Sith. McGregor’s Obi-Wan has more breathing room, and the first chapter of his new story excels when it accumulates silent details and small interactions from his lonely routine. The Grand Inquisitor obviously enjoys speechifying to the citizens of Tatooine — he’s the one who coins the line about tracking a Jedi’s “trail of compassion” — while Reva has her sights set specifically on terrorizing her way toward Obi-Wan for reasons that are as yet unclear but thoroughly irritate her bosses. (The filmmakers were probably aiming for a jumble of imagery showing both their brotherly closeness and tragic outcomes, but I like to imagine Obi-Wan still wakes up in a cold sweat over Anakin’s reckless, sick-making pilot moves. Take Nari, for example, the excitable young lightsaber-wielder played by Uncut Gems filmmaker Benny Safdie: He’s mostly there to serve as a cautionary tale as he’s ferreted out by the Grand Inquisitor (Rupert Friend) and his Jedi-hunting team, including the mysterious Reva (Moses Ingram), who takes her job very seriously. The connection is made explicit from the very first scene of Obi-Wan, which might as well be a particularly elegant deleted scene from Sith. Full-series director Deborah Chow (who helmed two episodes of The Mandalorian, among other big-name TV projects) opens with a previously unseen sequence of clone troopers attacking a Jedi and her youngling students. Yet through a combination of younger fans who grew up on these films and a general thirst for big-canvas fantasy movies with evidence of someone’s, anyone’s, personal sensibility, the trilogy has begun something of a reputational turnaround in recent years.

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Le Grand Inquisiteur domine cette institution et dirige ceux qu’ils désignent par les frères et les sœurs. Suivant la Règle des Deux – un maître et son apprenti, pas plus –, ils ne sont pas considérés comme des Sith et ne portent pas le titre de Dark. Pour autant, le chef de l’ordre est probablement encore en vie. Obi-Wan ne peut évidemment pas rester caché bien longtemps – sinon il n’y a pas de série – et doit donc se confronter à cet empire qui compte bien éliminer les derniers Jedi encore vivants. Eh bien, Reva est assez jeune et il est possible qu’elle ait assisté aux massacres de ses maîtres et camarades. Le Grand Inquisiteur ne serait pas le premier personnage à survivre après un coup vraisemblablement mortel – Dark Maul, Boba Fett – et pourrait potentiellement revenir dans les prochains épisodes. Un détail plus important encore, il apparaît dans la série animée Rebels qui se tient quatre ans après les évènements de la série Obi-Wan Kenobi. Disney ne se serait pas permis une telle erreur et si le Grand Inquisiteur venait à revenir avant la fin de la saison, ce serait un mauvais signe pour Reva. Par ailleurs, il est assez surprenant de voir Reva être désignée par son nom, car les Inquisiteurs ont tendance à utiliser leurs titres officiels – comme Troisième Sœur. Elle brise la règle établie d’une manière intéressante. L’institution ne représente pas non plus grand-chose pour elle puisque Reva transperce le Grand Inquisiteur d’elle-même avec son sabre, afin de s’attribuer le mérite de l’arrestation de Kenobi.

Obi-Wan Kenobi is now streaming on Disney Plus, and the six-episode-long series fills in the gaps between the original Star Wars trilogy and the prequels.

The dude looks rough (though better than I would after a decade of hard desert living), and one of the show’s highlights so far has been watching him wrestle with the hard-wired instinct to be a hero. This, it turns out, is all part of the Third Sister’s plot to lure Obi-Wan out of hiding by appealing to his inherent need to help people. Eventually, her propensity for running off gets her in trouble when a gang of outlaws (the leader of whom is played by Flea, the bass player for the Red Hot Chili Peppers) kidnaps her. She has no interest in the royal life, though, and spends most of her time shirking responsibilities to play with a cute droid named Lola in the woods. You don’t have to worry about midi-chlorians or Watto. All that matters is the tumultuous and tragic relationship between Obi-Wan and Anakin. After the recap, the show then shifts to the tragedy at the Jedi Temple so that you remember why Obi-Wan is hiding. And for the first two episodes, at least, it works — Obi-Wan is playing the hits, reminding me why I actually care about Star Wars to begin with.

Jedi master 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' is getting his own moment in the suns with a new six-part Disney+ series starring Ewan McGregor.

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The acting's better than the prequels (although it was a low bar), the Daiyu mission's a Blade Runner-channelling joy and Disney have nailed the Inquisitors ...

And who are the people he sent Obi-Wan to meet? As the old Jedi, not in fighting shape, had no choice but to get stuck in against much younger opposition, while taking care of a slightly annoying youngster, I was once again reminded of a cowboy movie, this time perhaps True Grit. To the episode proper, and we returned to the Jedi Temple during the events of Order 66. A quick jump 10 years in the future, and two shots of cold exposition from the barman later (Yes, people watching who haven’t seen Star Wars Rebels, those people with the strange hats are Inquisitors, and they hunt Jedi), we were reunited with Nari, one of the five escapers. Not to damn the whole thing with the faintest of praise, but this is his best Star Wars performance yet. Welcome to the first of our Obi-Wan Kenobi episode recaps.

Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) in Lucasfilm's OBI-WAN KENOBI, exclusively on Disney+. © 2022 Lucasfilm Ltd. & ™. All Rights Reserved.

But things go from bad to worse as Reva puts out a bounty on his head, forcing Obi-Wan on the run as he and Leia try to find a way off of the planet before the Inquisitors close in on them. And I’m excited to see where the show goes from here. Once arriving on the cyberpunk-themed planet of Daiyu, Obi-Wan stumbles around with nary a plan to be seen – a stark contrast to his normal MO. He ultimately finds Leia, after a brutal fistfight in the back hallway of a drug den, and accidentally alerts Vect (and Reva) of his presence. McGregor and Blair play off of each other wonderfully, and it’s a delight seeing the beginnings of their friendship form here. It’s a stark contrast to the Leia we’re all familiar with – the dedicated politician and leader, the woman who’d lay down her life to save her planet and her people. But based on these first two episodes, Obi-Wan Kenobi is off to a great start. Ten years after the end of Revenge of the Sith, Obi-Wan Kenobi hides in exile on Tatooine. A shell of the man he used to be, keeping an eye on Luke Skywalker from a distance, earning a modest living in a factory. Elsewhere, Leia Organa (Vivien Lyra Blair) lives a peaceful life on Alderaan with her parents, Bail (Jimmy Smits) and Breha (Simone Kessell). And naturally, Leia has no interest in her royal duties, preferring to run around the woods lost in her own adventures. This is a man lost, unsure of who he is but knowing who he doesn’t want to be. The Grand Inquisitor (Rupert Friend) and his lackeys, Reva (Moses Ingram) and the Fifth Brother (Sung Kang), are hunting for Jedi. And their hunt has brought them straight to Obi-Wan’s doorstep. As Obi-Wan Kenobi begins, we find Obi-Wan in a similar mindset to Luke’s in The Last Jedi – a man so haunted by his past that he’s afraid to keep living. How does he go from a general in the Clone Wars in Revenge of the Sith to that mysterious old man we see in A New Hope? These first two episodes start to answer that question, presenting us with a Kenobi that’s both familiar and startlingly different.

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Disons simplement que, portés par Ewan McGregor incarnant avec justesse l’homme brisé, qui se fait lentement héros réticent avant de finalement retourner sur la voie du Jedi ; déposés dans des décors et une cinématographie superbes ; et méticuleusement arrimés au passé, les deux premiers épisodes d’Obi-Wan Kenobi, sont remarquables. C’était le plus grand défi mais en même temps, c’est très excitant de ramener ces deux personnages emblématiques et de raconter une nouvelle aventure avec eux. « La chose la plus importante que nous avons cherché à faire, a-t-elle continué, est de respecter le canon et tout ce qui a été fait avant. À partir de là, donc, le travail a été… du travail. Ainsi, quand il s’est rendu sur le plateau du Mandalorian pour une apparition surprise du maître Jedi, « je me suis mis à parler avec un genre d’accent anglais qui n’était pas ça du tout. Le seul lien qu’il a avec sa vie passée et sa seule responsabilité à présent, c’est Luke, sur lequel il veille à distance », résumait Ewan McGregor lors d’une conférence de presse virtuelle où il a évoqué avec tendresse ce personnage qui a toujours continué de l’habiter.

How do you keep up the suspense in a story, when the audience already pretty much knows how it ends?

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“I’m not the man you remember,” Obi tells Bail, who responds, “Well, you’re going to have to be.” We remember both the man he was and the man he will be, and we know that nothing that happens in Obi-Wan Kenobi can change the fact that Luke, Leia, Vader, and Obi-Wan will wind up on the Death Star nine years later. Can Kenobi “move on” and “be done with” the past, as Bail exhorts him to, as long as the living embodiment of his failure remains armored and masked? Reva’s plan pays off: When Obi-Wan knocks out an attacker, Leia notices that the hunter was carrying a holograph of her supposed protector, which suggests to her that he isn’t on her side. Leia spots Obi-Wan’s lightsaber, but she has her doubts: He refuses to levitate her, “Ben” doesn’t sound to her like a Jedi-esque name (rude), and he “seem[s] kind of old and beat up.” Tough crowd. But he does have a trick up his sleeve: the drugs the dealer gave him out of sympathy for the story of his missing daughter. The makers of The Mandalorian like to cast comedians in recurring roles; maybe the makers of Obi-Wan have a hankering for alt-rock icons. (Working with a partner on the other end of a commlink, he announces, “This is a Jedi mind trick. It’s just a tad overcomplicated to have Vader’s lapdogs show up at Obi-Wan’s Outer Rim doorstep but not make that the reason he leaves; the Inquisitors have been searching for Obi-Wan for 10 years, but Reva coincidentally lures him out of hiding (and away from Tatooine) immediately after unwittingly strolling through his neighborhood and threatening Owen while Obi-Wan watched from a few feet away. He’d like it even less in this case if he knew what was waiting for him: He walks into a trap set by Reva, who correctly predicts that putting Bail’s daughter in danger will draw his old buddy Obi-Wan out of the shadows. The Jedi refugee flees as Reva and her boss have a chat about priorities: She has her white whale, Kenobi, on the brain, but he orders her to focus on solid, if less alluring, leads. Obi-Wan is earning his daily protein intake on an assembly line leading out from what appears to be the carcass of a Krayt dragon. The Obi-Wan we meet at the start of Obi-Wan Kenobi, which arrived on Disney+ with a two-part premiere on Friday, is not the one we remember from Episodes 1 through 3, a trilogy retold in four minutes before the series’ first scene.

With a promise to reunite Kenobi with the Sith Lord Darth Vader, and introducing Vader's Inquisitorius into live action, fans are in for a thrilling story. The ...

The first two episodes are now streaming, with subsequent installments of the six-episode season premiering every Wednesday in June. - Get a refresher on the history of the character withObi-101 Obi-Wan Kenobi, the new limited series set between the events of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars: A New Hope, has arrived on Disney+! With a promise to reunite Kenobi with the Sith Lord Darth Vader, and introducing Vader’s Inquisitorius into live action, fans are in for a thrilling story.

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The Mandalorian set the example for a huge first episode reveal in Star Wars TV — something the Western monthly-publishing comics industry has embraced as simply the best way to start a serial story — and also did so by introducing a tiny version of a character from the original trilogy. It boggles the mind that Lucasfilm and Disney teased Luke’s appearance in Obi-Wan rather than Leia’s. Unless, of course, they thought the audience was more interested in Luke for … some reason … It’s not the only way that Obi-Wan, or at least the first two episodes of it, commits to showing instead of telling. In the first episode of its two episode premiere, Obi-Wan Kenobi reveals that it is something significantly different. Blair’s delivery alternates smoothly between age-appropriate naïveté and the sureness of the leader of a hard-core national student protest movement — which is, of course, what her character will essentially be in just a few years. After the premiere of Obi-Wan Kenobi, viewers might be feeling a similar mix of emotions.

The new 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' series features a couple of hilariously unconvincing chase scenes.

How hard is it to deliver a solid chase scene in an adrenaline-packed space opera? This is the first time we’ve seen spent any significant time with young Leia, and she’s as whip-smart and sassy as her adult self. The first episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi shines a light on young Princess Leia, played by Lyra Blair, giving fans a glimpse of her life on Alderaan, which is doomed to be incinerated by the Death Star in the original trilogy.

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“In light of recent tragic events, we recognize there are certain scenes in this fictional series that some viewers may find upsetting and a content warning has been added to the show page,” a Disney spokesperson told Deadline today. The much-anticipated series dropped its first two episodes late Thursday, almost three days after 19 children and two teachers were killed in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The inclusion of the warning comes one day after rolling out Obi-Wan at the Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim.

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These battery-operated salt and pepper mill grinders are a must for any Star Wars fan's kitchen. Enso has a gorgeous Star Wars collection featuring highly detailed silicone rings. Lucky for us fans, there's no shortage of Star Wars gear out there, especially with Star Wars Celebration 2022 happening this weekend. It features advanced LEDs and sound effects, and is said to be “the most realistic Force FX Lightsaber yet.” If you're a figure collector, Sideshow Collectibles is even offering 20% off some of their Star Wars best-sellers right now. It's been 17 years since we've last seen Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi and we couldn't be more excited to see what the new Disney+ show has in store for us.

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This odd companion appears to be this year's Grogu, and will be turned into a variety of collectibles that will be released this holiday season. This figure releases this summer for $39.99. The trailers for Obi-Wan Kenobi implied Old Ben would be keeping an eye on Luke Skywalker, but the show is more about his sister at this point.

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Star Wars fans may still fall in love with a show that returns to a beloved fictional universe to tell an exciting new chapter. (Another bit of stunt casting, using the Red Hot Chili Peppers' bassist Flea as a thuggish kidnapper, didn't work quite so well.) Even though he looks like he'd gleefully squash any being on Tatooine dumb enough to get in his way, The Grand Inquisitor constantly heckles Sevander for being too impulsive and harsh. And don't get me started on how the Jedi Knights' robes, spirituality and lightsabers all feel like they were originally lifted from Asian culture without including many Asian characters. But when Sevander threatens Owen's life and the lives of his family, promising to kill them all if the community doesn't reveal where Kenobi is, we know that's not going to happen. Some of the mistakes are small.

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Explore this universe (and, to be fair, the second episode does a little of that setting shifting and yet still comes back to a few "High Noon" stand-offs in the street.) On the one hand, the ensemble is up for the challenge of telling a new story instead of just a familiar one. Everything changes for Obi-Wan when Leia Organa ( Vivien Lyra Blair) is kidnapped from her home planet of Alderaan by a group of bounty hunters (that includes Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers!) Leia’s guardians—Breha ( Simone Kessell) and Bail Organa ( Jimmy Smits)—reach out to Obi-Wan and ask him to track down the missing child. “Obi-Wan Kenobi” opens ten years after the events of “Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith.” Kenobi ( Ewan McGregor) is basically in hiding on Tatooine, keeping an eye on young Luke from a distance, while Jedis are hunted around the galaxy under Order 66. Please love it again!” The Disney+ Marvel and Star Wars shows have been criticized as fan service before but the two-part premiere of “Obi-Wan Kenobi” struggles more than any other property to date to develop its own personality outside of the two famous trilogies it seeks to connect (and even a hit Disney+ Star Wars show in its protector/child dynamic). However, this is a case wherein reviewing a show like director Deborah Chow and showrunner Joby Harold’s blockbuster series after only two episodes is almost impossible. One hopes that the first two episodes have gotten the callbacks out of the way and that the program will develop its own personality now, but there’s little evidence here that this will actually happen.

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Celle-ci se situe après l’épisode VI dans la chronologie de "Star Wars". "Le Livre de Boba Fett", également en prise de vues réelles, est sortie en 2021. "Obi-Wan Kenobi" n’est que la dernière œuvre en date de "Star Wars" pour la télévision. En 2003, une première et courte série d’animation, "Clone Wars", vient enrichir la saga. Mais les séries ne se bornent pas à l'animation. Le plus gros succès de ces dernières années à la télévision reste "The Mandalorian", première série avec des acteurs de chair et d'os, apparue sur les écrans fin 2019. En 1980 arrive sur les écrans l’épisode pilier de la saga : "L’Empire contre-attaque". Et en 1983, George Lucas clôt un premier arc de l’histoire de "Star Wars" avec "Le Retour du Jedi". Le public est conquis. "Ils se suffisent à eux-mêmes. Ils restent le socle que tout le monde peut voir sans souci", assure Absolute. Il faudra ensuite attendre 2016 et la patte Disney pour découvrir un nouveau long métrage dérivé : "Rogue One", qui raconte les événements qui précèdent deux de l'épisode IV, reçoit un accueil favorable. L’épisode VIII, "Les Derniers Jedi", sort en 2017. Une nouvelle trilogie voit le jour et donne lieu à une nouvelle numérotation des long métrages. Les trois nouveaux films deviennent les "épisodes" I, II et III et constituent une préquelle aux trois films déjà sortis. L’épisode II, "L’attaque des clones", sort en 2002. Les Sith, à la tête de l’Empire, exploitent eux le "côté obscur" de la Force pour assouvir leur soif de pouvoir. L’épisode I, "La Menace fantôme", sort fin 1999. Pour les plus passionnés, la galaxie Star Wars n'a plus de secret.

Flea is officially part of the Star Wars universe. The Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist has a role in the new Obi-Wan Kenobi miniseries, which just premiered ...

In addition to his journey to a galaxy far, far away, Flea is preparing to rock our galaxy when Red Hot Chili Peppers launch their world tour in June. The group will be supporting their new album, Unlimited Love, which was released in April. The role is especially fitting for Flea since the 1999 Red Hot Chili Peppers song “Californication” includes the lyric “Alderaan’s not far away,” a reference to Leia’s home planet. The Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist has a role in the new Obi-Wan Kenobi miniseries, which just premiered Friday morning on Disney+. He plays a bounty hunter who’s hired to kidnap child Princess Leia in an attempt to lure Kenobi out of hiding after he survived the infamous Order 66, which called for the execution of all Jedi.

Flea, the bassist from Red Hot Chili Peppers, made an appearance in the first two episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Each side can get a taste of the other, and the people within may even find something new that they had no idea they liked. For example, after seeing Flea in Obi-Wan Kenobi, a viewer may be prompted to look up Red Hot Chili Peppers and then find out that they actually really enjoy that kind of music. That being said, it is no surprise that there are a significant number of celebrities that enjoy the galaxy far, far away as well. The artist that performed the procedure was none other than Thundercat, a bassist, singer-songwriter, and former member of the band Suicidal Tendencies. In Obi-Wan Kenobi's premiere episode, Vivien Lyra Blair's Princess Leia is playing in the forest of Alderaan when she comes across a man leaning against a tree. Giacchino is a well-known composer, including recent work on The Batman and Spider-Man: No Way Home.

Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea showed up as a bounty hunter in Obi-Wan Kenobi's first two episodes, in which Ewan McGregor's Jedi Master saves Leia ...

Following the abduction, Obi-Wan Kenobi ( Ewan McGregor) is asked by Leia's adopted father, Bail Organa (Jimmy Smits), to go after the kidnappers—but this is exactly what Reva wanted. Nonetheless, Reva's plan works and Obi-Wan pursues the little girl, who is feisty and strong like her predecessor Carrie Fisher's adult version of Leia. So, Obi-Wan falls into the trap and is beaten by Flea, who sneers, "I didn't know Jedi could bleed." She knew that Bail would ask an old friend for help and that Obi-Wan would be unable to say no to saving the little girl.

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(Well, from a certain point of view.) With Reva distracted by stabbing the Grand Inquisitor, Leia and Kenobi just barely escape thanks to a tip from Haja. Despite Kenobi’s disdain, there’s an unspoken irony here: At this point, Haja has done just as much to help as the real Jedi in this situation. Alas, the impressive menagerie of merchants and weirdos on Daiyu does not seem to include a single toydarian. A premise that looked, in the previous episode and the beginning of this one, a bit like Taken in space quickly turns into John Wick territory. Again, Obi-Wan Kenobi shows more mastery of its serialization than The Book of Boba Fett: The show leaves another planet and leaves its lead character with a major revelation about the friend-turned-enemy he once thought dead. Let’s not worry about the future, though; Obi-Wan has enough of that, with echoes of his past threatening to become deafening. This turns out to be Haja Estree ( Kumail Nanjiani), who uses a cocktail of buzzwords, misdirection, and magnets to create the impression that he is, well, exactly who some might hope Obi-Wan would be: an exiled Jedi with the power to help the downtrodden and oppressed. Obi-Wan Kenobi wants to relieve him of that burden and make him sound a little more, well, normal. (Today, we call them actors.) Yet the language of Lucas provided Obi-Wan with some odd grace notes, whether bringing humanity to the banter and bickering with teenaged Anakin, smug Jedi elan to his derring-do (“Hello there”; “Senator Palpatine, Sith lords are our specialty”), or flashes of self-doubt (“Oh no, not good,” he mutters just before a scuffle with Jango Fett sends him hurtling off a roof). Yes, there’s plenty of unwieldy exposition in the prequels, but McGregor has a way of clipping and refining it. The space between them is filled with Obi-Wan lampshading her precociousness by asking, “How old are you?” even though Leia’s age should be pretty well burned into his memory, considering he was present for her birth. (And he does, albeit for an exorbitant price and perhaps less physical safety than a real Jedi could offer.) Great concept, medium execution: Nanjiani is both amusing and a reminder that these new Star Wars shows are written by pro screenwriters, less prone to flights of bizarre, perhaps accidental poetry. For all of his imaginative gifts as a filmmaker, Lucas frequently seemed decidedly uncomfortable with both the music of human communication and the cursed flesh prisons he was (sometimes) forced to use to speak it. In its second episode, Obi-Wan Kenobi makes clear that this will not be Boba Fett redux, with Kenobi puttering around the sand, brokering alliances with various gangsters.

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He starred alongside Fear singer Lee Ving in Penelope Spheeris’ 1987 film, Dudes, and he famously had a small part in the second and third installment of the Back to the Future franchise. Another final fun fact: Flea isn’t the first elite bassist to feature in a recent Star Wars spin-off series: Earlier this year, Thundercat scored a small role in an episode of The Book of Boba Fett, playing a modifier who helps save Boba Fett’s bounty-hunting partner, Fennec Shand. While no official clips of Flea’s performance have been uploaded to YouTube yet, one enterprising fan has shared a snippet of the scene where Vect first confronts Leia — and set it to the Chili Peppers classic “Californication.”

The new series following Ewan McGregor's beloved take on the character is the best prospect the franchise has had in some time.

He’s pragmatic and direct, and Guinness’s distinctive, slightly nasal tenor gives him an air of amused detachment in any but the most dire of circumstances. Star Wars’ track record for prequels, or inter-quels, or whatever the hell Obi-Wan Kenobi is, is spotty, but the show has one major advantage on its side: Obi-Wan himself. Anyone with passing familiarity with Star Wars knows this; and while a story doesn’t need life or death stakes to be entertaining, there’s something curious about a sci-fi fantasy adventure series where the potential for consequences is largely existential.

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Frédérique de Rivasson espère que la sortie d’Obi-Wan Kenobi mettra en lumière cette discipline. La force de Star Wars, c’est que ce n’est pas seulement de la science-fiction. Pour les fans, c’est un retour aux sources avec ces héros de la prélogie sortie entre 1999 et 2005.

Les scénaristes de la série Obi-Wan Kenobi cherchent à séduire les fans en donnant de nouveaux éléments contextuels à l'univers Star Wars.

La scène se déroule au bout de trois minutes de visionnage. Obi-Wan, isolé sur sa planète désertique depuis une décennie, fait brutalement face à son passé. Ses anciens soldats d’élite, qui se sont retournés contre lui, sont aujourd’hui abandonnés par l’empire et mènent une vie au ban de la société. Le clone, marqué par le temps, demande la main tendue quelques « crédits » – monnaie locale dans Star Wars – que Obi-Wan lui donne, par compassion et avec le regret que l’histoire se soit terminée ainsi. Le héros tombe donc sur un vétéran qui potentiellement a combattu à ses côtés. Le sans-abri porte encore son armure usée, décorée de motifs bleus, signifiant que c’est un ancien membre de la 501e légion. Cette unité d’élite s’est illustrée lors de nombreux combats lors de la guerre des clones sous les ordres de Obi-Wan Kenobi et Anakin Skywalker.

Obi-Wan Kenobi starts off with a strong series premiere with Ewan McGregor fully dialed in as the exiled Jedi dealing with the trauma of the Clone Wars.

McGregor was so universally beloved for his take on Obi-Wan that it was just a win seeing him back in the role. This was a powerful scene and further bridges the Sith Obi-Wan with the New Hope Obi-Wan, who twists facts to pit Luke against his father. McGregor largely got to be the dashing hero in the prequel trilogy and this series is calling on him to show the world-weary, broken hero trying to get his mojo back. Their leader is acting on orders from Reva, who shrewdly deduces kidnapping the daughter of Obi-Wan’s friend will lure him out of hiding. It shows how merciless this opening salvo against the Jedi was and the trauma it left behind. We see another perspective from the Order 66 attack on the Jedi Temple. It’s a blisteringly intense scene.

How do you keep up the suspense in a story, when the audience already pretty much knows how it ends?

Star Wars fans may still fall in love with a show that returns to a beloved fictional universe to tell an exciting new chapter. (Another bit of stunt casting, using the Red Hot Chili Peppers' bassist Flea as a thuggish kidnapper, didn't work quite so well.) Even though he looks like he'd gleefully squash any being on Tatooine dumb enough to get in his way, The Grand Inquisitor constantly heckles Sevander for being too impulsive and harsh. And don't get me started on how the Jedi Knights' robes, spirituality and lightsabers all feel like they were originally lifted from Asian culture without including many Asian characters. But when Sevander threatens Owen's life and the lives of his family, promising to kill them all if the community doesn't reveal where Kenobi is, we know that's not going to happen. Some of the mistakes are small.

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As of the end of episode 2, Obi-Wan is driven by a new purpose: To once again face Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen), either to appeal to any lingering good in him or battle him now, as Darth Vader. In episode 1 we see Obi-Wan almost fail to give in to that compulsion, telling the Organas that he must stay on Tatooine instead of going after Leia’s kidnappers. A de-aged Hamill (action performed by Max Lloyd-Jones) was a pleasant surprise in “The Mandalorian” Season 2, but overwrought when he became the ostensible purpose of “The Book of Boba Fett.” There’s an unshakeable but not overpowering awareness that this character is emotionally manipulating viewers, but she’s cheeky and charming and pairs nicely with McGregor’s Obi-Wan at this specific moment in his life — and look at that little braided bun, come on. After one scene in which Obi-Wan (Ewan McGregor) spies on him from afar, child Luke is seen no more. About 23 minutes into the premiere of “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” an old Star Wars friend shows up.

It's been a bumper weekend already with Star Wars Celebration and Obi-Wan, but things just kicked up a notch thanks to the animatronic LOLA droid.

Finally, a less expensive and more stylized animatronic LOLA droid is set to debut slightly earlier at the end of 2022. The coolest (and cutest, let's be honest) LOLA droid is the Animatronic Edition. This is a to-scale replica of the character that has an impressive range of movement, fully-functioning lights, sounds, and multiple 'poses' where you can swap out the legs for a transparent stand that simulates flying mode. Some of these are cheaper - and very adorable - pocket-sized toys, while others are large electronic figures that do a pretty great job at capturing how the 'bot emotes.

Plus sombre, la dernière série de la franchise la plus célèbre du monde, diffusée par Disney+, renoue avec la lenteur et le zen de la saga primitive.

Obi-Wan a l'air d'ailleurs quelque peu contrarié de se voir sorti de sa tranquille pré-retraite de vieux célibataire. Un peu comme nous, il demande sans doute à voir si cela en vaut vraiment la peine. De ce point de vue, la continuité avec l'épisode III (La Revanche des Sith) et sa tonalité dépressive post-11 Septembre est assez bien assurée. On se plaît à laisser vagabonder notre imagination dans les limbes de souvenirs diffus, et à remercier les créateurs de nous épargner un déluge d'effets spéciaux superflus. Au final, que reste-t-il de cet épisode inaugural d'une mini-série qui en comptera six ? Si l'on passe sur l'enlèvement quelque peu grotesque de Leia, qui constituera manifestement le ressort dramatique de la série, Obi-Wan Kenobi a quelques séduisants atouts dans sa manche. Sa plateforme Disney+, en pleine croissance, entend bien profiter de la grosse baisse de régime de Netflix et a grand besoin de contenus originaux tirés de sa franchise la plus rentable avec Marvel et ses super-héros en collants. Mais c'est bien sa version rajeunie, en la personne d' Ewan McGregor, qui reprend ici du service, après avoir assumé la formation (ratée) d'Anakin Skywalker dans les épisodes I à III, réalisés entre 1999 et 2005.

SEC Network announcers Tom Hart and Kyle Peterson discussed Star Wars character Obi-Wan Kenobi during LSU & Kentucky's SEC Baseball Tournament game.

“Is it a movie? We’re guessing your reaction to this conversation goes one of two ways. It’s fair to say we’ve reached the point in our society where it’s okay to say you’ve never seen a Star Wars movie or TV show. “I’ve heard of some of the characters,” said Peterson. “What, uh…just give me the hook here,” asked Burke. “What’s the angle here?” But it’s still kinda impressive when someone has somehow avoided Star Wars ephemera to the point where they couldn’t even tell you what an Obi-Wan Kenobi is.

Discover all the ways Disney+'s new Star Wars series Obi-Wan Kenobi connects to the bigger franchise.

With that in mind, we watched the first two episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi, starring Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen, with eagle eyes. "In designing a lot of these projects, we always try plant a little seed of something just for us. You don't need the force to discover all the subtle ways Obi-Wan Kenobi paid tribute to the Star Wars franchise.

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A Disney rep also told Entertainment Weekly that the company is “also working to add an advisory in front of the series as quickly as possible.” This, coming as the nation is still in collective shock from the massacre in Uvalde, Texas, caused a bit of an understandable stir for a family-friendly television event. But as Obi-Wan Kenobi, the newest series from that galaxy far, far away made its debut this week on Disney+ and at Anaheim’s Star Wars Celebration pep rally, the timing wasn’t so hot for the first episode’s initial scene.