Kenobi's Order 66 Flashback Proves Disney's Biggest Star Wars Problem
This article contains spoilers for Obi-Wan Kenobi episodes 1 and 2.
In the same week that Disney admits that Star Wars needs to leave the Skywalker Saga behind, Obi-Wan Kenobi plays an old trick of the franchise: an Order 66 flashback. As much as it is important for Star Wars to move forward in terms of the timeline, a return to the Galactic Empire era in order to explore more of Ewan McGregor's Obi-Wan Kenobi portrayal was inevitable. By serving as a bridge between Obi-Wan's story in the Star Wars prequels and in the original trilogy, Obi-Wan Kenobi had the chance to echo two different eras of Star Wars, but it did it by proving Lucasfilm cannot let go of the past.
The prequel trilogy recap shown at the beginning of Obi-Wan Kenobi was already the first hint of how the show was going to explore the sense of familiarity and nostalgia, both elements very present in recent Star Wars content. While Obi-Wan Kenobi is a new, original story within the Skywalker Saga, a lot of the universe around the show had already been built by the original films, the prequels, and the animated series. The Grand Inquisitor, The Fifth Brother, and the concept of Inquisitors in general – all of which came fromStar Wars Rebels – are an example.
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However, nothing exemplifies Disney's biggest Star Wars problem than Obi-Wan Kenobi's Order 66 scene. As much as Obi-Wan's story is deeply connected to the fall of the Jedi order, opening the Obi-Wan Kenobi series with yet another flashback to Order 66 was not an inspired idea. In fact, almost every Star Wars show by Disney has revisited Order 66 in some way. Star Wars: The Clone Wars followed Ahsoka, Rex, and Maul during the
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