Was Obi-Wan Kenobi Worth Rewriting Star Wars Canon For?

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WARNING: Spoilers for Obi-Wan Kenobi season 1.

Obi-Wan Kenobi reunited Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen in a story about Obi-Wan and Darth Vader, but it did so at the cost of rewriting the Star Wars canon. Seventeen years after Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, the Star Wars prequel trilogy is now perceived in a much better light than it did in the early 2000s, with the Anakin Skywalker story being a lot of people's introduction to Star Wars. Still, there were always inconsistencies, both in terms of tone and story, between the prequels and the original trilogy – something that Obi-Wan Kenobi was always going to either help to fix or make worse.

While an Obi-Wan Kenobi season 2 has not been ruled out, the show was initially conceived as a limited series. That goes to prove how tricky tackling Obi-Wan's story between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope could be, even though that was a time period in the Jedi master's life that live-action Star Wars had yet to explore. Given how Star Wars Rebels had already shown how Obi-Wan's history with Darth Maul ended, an Obi-Wan show would have to find other antagonists and storylines that could justify Obi-Wan leaving Tatooine. The choice was to place Obi-Wan on a mission to rescue Leia and have Darth Vader and the Inquisitors as the villains.

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However, by dealing with such key Star Wars characters as Leia, Luke, and Darth Vader, Obi-Wan Kenobi placed itself in a very difficult spot regarding the Star Wars canon. There are several interactions and lines involving Obi-Wan, Darth Vader, and the Skywalker twins in the original trilogy – which creates a lot of restrictions for a prequel story. Still, Obi-Wan