Is Star Wars About to Give Obi-Wan A Last Jedi Luke Style Arc In His Own Show?

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Obi-Wan Kenobi is the nextStar Wars Disney+ series coming later this year and is set to bring back Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen for the first time sinceRevenge of the Sith. Plot details are scarce, but the series, slated to release exactly 45 years to the day since A New Hope was released and Kenobi was seen by fans for the first time, is said to focus on Obi-Wan on Tatooine as he watches over Luke.

This is arguably the darkest time ever in the galaxy in Star Wars canon, with almost no Jedi around and the Empire looming large, with Obi-Wan having lost much of his hope and Darth Vader at his most villainous. Along with canon books and comics, it seems as if the darkness of this period might suggest that Obi-Wan could be about to have a defeated, dispirited and pessimistic Jedi arc, just as Luke did inThe Last Jedi.

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Luke’s journey in The Last Jedi was an incredibly bold decision by writer-director Rian Johnson, who opted to evolve the character from his optimistic and hopeful youth into someone very different in his older years.It was a decision that didn’t sit well with some fans, something that Johnson has since stated he knew was coming, and proves a controversial topic still to this day.

Luke shut himself off from the Force, hid away from the galaxy and left the Resistance to fend for themselves against the rising First Order. He cut all contact with his friends, Han, Chewie, R2-D2, and C-3PO, and even his sister, Leia. He disavowed the ways of the Jedi, stating that it was time for them to end, a line that ended the first teaser for the film and arguably should have been the thing that made it clear to fans that Luke was set to be a very different