Did Star Wars Just Answer Why Obi-Wan Kenobi Looks So Old In A New Hope?

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Warning: Contains spoilers for Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 3.

Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 3 might have finally explained why Obi-Wan Kenobi looks so old in Star Wars: A New Hope. Many entries into the Star Wars franchise from the prequel trilogy and beyond have created numerous inconsistencies and borderline plot holes with Obi-Wan’s character, with his physical age being a notable one. Fortunately, Obi-Wan Kenobi might have finally provided an answer for why he ends up looking the way he does.

While Sir Alec Guinness portrayed Obi-Wan Kenobi as a wise old man, according to official sources released in the years following the original trilogy, he was only fifty-seven years old in A New Hope, which makes it confusing that he looks so much older. The confusion resurfaced when Bo-Katan Kryze appeared in The Mandalorian - because in-universe, it had been about thirty years since she first appeared in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, yet she hadn’t appeared to have aged a day, so it didn’t make sense that Obi-Wan had aged so much. One popular theory has been that Tatooine’s twin suns were bad for his health, but with Ewan McGregor looking largely the same in Obi-Wan Kenobi as he did in Revenge of the Sith — despite ten years having gone by in-universe — it’s hard to believe that they’ll suddenly be so bad that he’ll start looking like an old man within the next nine years.

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Fortunately, Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 3 might have finally explained why Obi-Wan looks so old in Star Wars: A New Hope. In Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 3, Obi-Wan has a brief fight with Darth Vader, during which Vader uses the Force on him and drags his body through a burning field. Thanks to that