StarWars.com take a look back at 2022, a year that not only brought us three live action series but also Celebration Anaheim, Light & Magic, The High Republic entering its second phase, new comics and novels, Tales of the Jedi and much more. Here, Kristin Baver looks back to the summer and the reuniting of Obi-Wan and Anakin in Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Obi-Wan Kenobi reunited Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen.
Fans of the Star Wars prequels rejoiced as Ewan McGregor returned to reprise his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi and said the phrase we were all waiting to hear: “Hello there.” Set at the midpoint between the rise of the Empire with Order 66 in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith and the duel on the Death Star in Star Wars: A New Hope, the Disney+ limited series gave us a glimpse at a time in Ben Kenobi’s life previously unexplored in live action. Here was a man cut off from the Force and his old ways, hidden away in a cave keeping watch on young Luke Skywalker. The only thing that could spur him to leave his post? Little Leia Organa in trouble! The series was filled with memorable moments between Ben Kenobi and the last princess of Alderaan, the introduction of Moses Ingram as the fearsome Third Sister, Reva, and the dreaded Fortress Inquisitorius, and gave us not one but two new lightsaber battles between Obi-Wan and his former pupil, Darth Vader. In just six episodes, the limited series expanded what we thought we knew about Kenobi’s relationship with not only Luke and Leia but also their father, the man once known as Anakin Skywalker.
