The TV version of Leia is 10 years old, and Obi-Wan is 10 years old er than he was in Episode III. Obi-Wan Kenobi’s central legacy characters are also underpowered compared to their respective peaks. (Leia and Han have also lost each other, and their son.) In The Book of Boba Fett, the fearsome bounty hunter has lost his armor and his ship. In the sequel trilogy, Luke has lost his hope and faith Leia has lost her political power and military allies and Han has lost his rank and his ship. If there’s a repeating pattern in Disney’s Star Wars screen projects-other than reluctant dads bonding with their young charges-it’s original trilogy characters coming back in less capable forms. That red blade is going to get him, but not for another nine years. Not that his surviving this sequence was ever in doubt. But Kenobi does run-and, like Luke before him (and, eventually, after him), he escapes after all. This time, the mining facility is on Mapuzo, not Bespin, and the quarry isn’t Luke Skywalker, but the man who will one day train him. This week, what’s 42 years old is new again, as history repeats itself-and the past foreshadows the future-on the third episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi, the completion of which marks the midway point of the miniseries.
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