Each Obi-Wan Kenobi Episode Perfectly Mirrors Every Star Wars Movie
This article contains spoilers for Obi-Wan Kenobi episodes 1-4.
Each episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi mirrors one of George Lucas' Star Wars films. The Obi-Wan Kenobi TV series is easily the most exciting since Lucasfilm launched their Disney+ shows. It serves as connective tissue between the prequels and the original trilogy, featuring the return of both Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen — with the latter getting the opportunity to play Darth Vader in all his dark glory.
Obi-Wan Kenobi is set during the Dark Times of the Empire's reign, and yet it has avoided the mistakes of The Book of Boba Fett by wasting no time taking its hero off Tatooine. Every episode has been mostly set on a different world: Tatooine, Daiyu, Mapuzo, and the water moon Nur in the Mustafar system. This approach has created a real sense of narrative momentum, helping broaden the galaxy rather than reducing it to a handful of planets that have been seen countless times before.
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There is, however, another major reason for the Obi-Wan Kenobi TV show's success — one that hasn't been noticed by many viewers, but is becoming increasingly clear as it continues. The story will be remarkably familiar to many viewers, simply because it adopts classic beats from the main Star Wars movies. In fact, each episode is a homage to one of George Lucas' films.
Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 1 mirrors Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace, drawing particular inspiration from the section set on the desert planet Tatooine. The parallels are quite overt, with the Chosen One's son growing up in seclusion on Tatooine, and Obi-Wan watching from a distance as the young Luke dons very familiar goggles and dreams of
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