Obi-Wan Kenobi closes with the Jedi reunions fans have been waiting for
Obi-Wan Kenobi has had its eponymous Jedi master run into a number of returning characters from the wider Star Wars universe, from Leia and Bail Organa to Darth Vader himself. But this week, the show reintroduced a character Star Wars fans haven’t seen in live action in a long time… a long time.
[Ed. note: This piece contains spoilers for Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 6.]
Since the first episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi, the show has teased a reunion between Jedi masters and their former pupils. Obi-Wan and Anakin, of course, but also Obi-Wan and his own master, the Jedi Qui-Gon Jinn. Periodically through the series Obi-Wan has reached out to his master with the Force, but received no answer.
As to why he’d expect an answer from a character who died nearly two decades previous, that’s covered in the final moments of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, in which Yoda informed Obi-Wan that Qui-Gon found a path to “immortality” through the Force — that is, he discovered the technique that allows Obi-Wan and Yoda to communicate with the living as Force ghosts in the original Star Wars trilogy.
The scene implies that Yoda taught him a training practice that would eventually allow Obi-Wan to commune with his former master for further training. In Obi-Wan Kenobi, it seems that practice has not yet been made perfect.
Until the very end of the show’s finale.
“I was always here, Obi-Wan. You just were not ready to see it,” Qui-Gon tells Obi-Wan on the sands of Tatooine. He’s not specific about what has changed in Obi-Wan, but given that the younger Jedi just came off of a confrontation with Darth Vader in which he finally had it drilled into his head that he was not solely responsible for Anakin’s turn to the dark side — well that seems like
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