Star Wars: How the Obi-Wan Kenobi Teaser Answers the Series' Biggest Mystery
The upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi series isn't the first Star Wars project to shed light on Obi-Wan's time as a desert hermit, but it's certainly the most ambitious. Past stories like Marvel's Star Wars comics and the Star Wars: Kenobi novel never gave any indication Obi-Wan left Tatooine during that 19 year period. But with the release of the first teaser trailer for the series, we now have confirmation Obi-Wan will venture back out into the wider galaxy.
Why is Obi-Wan emerging from hiding now, and how does this series tie into his ongoing mission to protect a young Luke Skywalker? The answer seems to lay with one crucial scene featured in the teaser.
The trailer focuses a great deal on the Inquisitorius, positioning these elite hunters as the main villains of the series. Originally introduced in the animated series Star Wars Rebels, the Inquisitors are Dark Side adepts who answer directly to Darth Vader. They've been trained to help their master hunt down and eliminate any Jedi who survived the Clone Wars. The series features both new and old Inquisitor characters, including the Grand Inquisitor (played by Rupert Friend), Fifth Brother (played by Sung Kang) and most importantly, Moses Ingram's character, Third Sister/Reva (more on her in a bit).
Based on this footage, we can infer the Inquisitors have caught wind of a Jedi hiding out on Tatooine. We even see Reva interrogating a group of Mos Eisley residents that includes Joel Edgerton's Owen Lars. It doesn't appear that she's zeroed in on Owen as a person harboring a future Jedi Knight, but she's clearly way too close to uncovering the existence of Anakin Skywalker's son. That's where Obi-Wan comes in.
Up till now, the biggest question surrounding this series has been what
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