Kenobi's Finale Fixed Original Trilogy Darth Vader Lies & Plot Holes
Warning! This post contains spoilers for the Obi-Wan Kenobi season finale.
The Obi-Wan Kenobi season finale kept Star Wars canon intact by both fixing and improving some lines from the original trilogy. When a show centered around Obi-Wan Kenobi was announced, many wondered how the series would be written to stay canonical with the wider Star Wars universe. With the Obi-Wan Kenobi season finale, the team at Lucasfilm has gone above and beyond by keeping canon intact and even improving on lines from the first Star Wars trilogy.
Much of the excitement surrounding Obi-Wan Kenobi upon its announcement came from the returning cast of Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen as Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker respectively. However, with Kenobi and Vader expected to have a rematch in Obi-Wan Kenobi, a rematch featured in the season finale, many speculated how this meeting would change the context of some original trilogy lines. As with every Star Wars project released that slots somewhere into the expansive timeline, figuring out how to make everything flow together was one of the main challenges facing head writer Joby Harold and director Deborah Chow.
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With Kenobi and Vader meeting at multiple points throughout the series, the risk of breaking canon and negatively impacting the original trilogy grew larger. It is even more impressive then, that Obi-Wan Kenobi season 1 managed to improve not just lines from A New Hope, but Return of the Jedi as well. The main ways in which these lines were improved could be found in the final meeting between Vader and Kenobi in the Obi-Wan Kenobi season finale.
There are many lines from the original trilogy that were
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