Jedi: Fallen Order Is More Important To Star Wars Now Than At Launch
With the Obi-Wan KenobiTV miniseries nearing its release at the end of May, Jedi: Fallen Order feels more relevant now than it did upon its release. When the EA title came out in November 2019 a month before Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker hit theaters, its story felt out of focus because it took place in a different time than the film. But now that a live-action show about a Skywalker Saga character is following a Jedi around the same time as Cal Kestis's journey in Jedi: Fallen Order, his story can come to life and help inform Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Obi-Wan and Cal should likely have many similarities in their stories. As two Jedi who survived Order 66, they can share their experiences as exiles of a formerly great organization with very few people. Of course, Obi-Wan's relationship with Star Wars film and game villains Darth Maul and Darth Vader make him quite the unique subject in a post-Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith world, but the same institutions hunting him are the same ones hunting Cal.
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The Obi-Wan Kenobi trailer confirms this to be the case, as the Fortress Inquisitorius introduced in Jedi: Fallen Order makes an appearance in the show. Fans of the game will have easily spotted the pyramid-like structure as the stronghold for the Empire's Inquisitorius who are trained to hunt down surviving Jedi like Obi-Wan and Cal, butStar Wars fans who have only watched the movies would not. Thus, even though Obi-Wan is a master, he and the audience his show could possibly learn a lot about his story from Cal's story and knighting in Jedi: Fallen Order.
One of the ways in which Jedi: Fallen Order can inform Obi-Wan Kenobi is the Inquisitorius. Seen
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