Obi-Wan Kenobi Has Lowest Age Rating For Live Action Star Wars Shows
It's been revealed that Obi-Wan Kenobi will have the lowest age rating so far amongst live-action Star Wars series. The highly-anticipated series, starring Ewan McGregor back in his iconic role as Obi-Wan, is just under a month away from its May 27 premiere date. It's set to follow Obi-Wan in the midst of his exile on Tatooine as he struggles between watching over Luke Skywalker and helping to protect the galaxy around him.
The inclusion of Darth Vader (Hayden Christensen) and his "ruthless" Inquisitors has set expectations for a tense and thrilling series. The first trailer for the series even showed a villager's hanging feet as the Inquisitor Reva seemed to be interrogating fellow townspeople about Force-sensitive beings, which raises the stakes even more for a Jedi like Obi-Wan. If Reva stays hot on Obi-Wan's trail as he ventures off-world on a mission, then it's assumed that danger will follow close behind him. The duel between Obi-Wan and Vader that's been teased for some time now has also fit into these expectations of great conflict and an overall cloud of darkness.
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However, an official age rating given to Obi-Wan Kenobi actually seems to suggest a series that's tamer than its fellow live-action Star Wars series. Disney+ U.K. (via The Direct) has attached a 9+ rating to the series, whereas The Mandalorian was rated 14+ there and The Book of Boba Fett was rated 12+. While all three series are rated TV-14 in the U.S., this differentiation by the U.K. may hint at a little less intensity for Obi-Wanthan the grittiness of the Mandalorian (ex) bounty hunters and their stories. This could come down to just the language used, as The
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