BEWARE SPOILERS: During Celebration, the Obi-Wan Kenobi series had its premiere with its first two episodes shown. Just like with the previous Disney Plus series, we at Fantha Tracks will be offering our own episode guide for your entertainment! Here we will post every reference, Easter egg, everything named and unnamed per episode and some fun trivia in-between that we have spotted.
Part 2
Official summary: On a dangerous crime-ridden world, Obi-Wan becomes a target.
Trivia
While the transport that Obi-Wan uses to arrive at Daiyu is new and unknown, a GR-75 medium transport can also be seen docked at the spaceport and later more clearly at the cargo port.
Weird new aliens: Two worm-like ones at the Spaceport, a big one that Leia bumps into while wanting to go to the spaceport, a white furry alien with four long legs that Leia ducks in-between and a reptilian bounty hunter that is pursuing them. This latter could be a Trogodile, first seen in ‘Clone Wars – Chapter 6’.
A red alien can be seen leaving the spice den, subtitles identify it as a Tostonian.
Not new, but not often seen is an alien with many eyes, seen here as the vendor where Obi-Wan buys a little green cape (and some unneeded gloves). This is a Boosodian from Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker.
Lot’s of Aurebesh can be seen in the episode. When Obi-Wan has just arrived various Starliners with numbers and the level they can be found at can be seen above his head.
At the first establishing shot after Obi-Wan spoke with the attendant, you can see: MARKET, GUNGAN SNACKS and BANK. GUNGAN SNACKS and MARKET repeat in the shot. Another one that can be seen in multiple shots is the sign for NOODLE.
SOMILK and THE SHOP appear when Obi-Wan makes his way to the spice den. The last shop with Aurebesh sign is SWARTZ BBQ, named after producer John Swartz (The Force Awakens, Solo and Rogue One). There is also an ARCADE when they are hiding in the alley. MACHINE is seen twice at the cargo port signage.
The clone trooper (indeed played by Temuera Morrison) wears the armor of the 501st, Anakin’s troopers. This, and the ones seen during the Order 66 flashback from the previous episode, is also the first time that the clone troopers are wearing actual, not digital, armor.
The female spice dealer is known as Tetha Grig, and was played by Ewan’s daughter Esther-Rose. It is ironic that she sells an illegal substance to her father, whose big break came from playing a junkie in ‘Trainspotting’.
Felucian is a new drug, but named after the planet Felucia, as seen in Episode III. The same for Kessel Pure, a new drug but named after the existing planet. Glitterstim however is a classic and was first seen in 1994 in the first volume of ‘The Jedi Academy Trilogy’: ‘Jedi Search’.
Obi-Wan is pointed to a supposed Jedi who helps people by a kid named Jayco (played by Jecobi Swain). This Jedi turns out to be a con man named Haja Estree. He was played by well-known actor Kumail Nanjiani. His last name Estree brings Elstree to mind, the studios in the UK where many of the Star Wars movies were filmed.
Haja Estree is also not the only con man pretending to be a Jedi. The biggest in Legends was Ghitsa Dogder. She first appeared in the short story ‘Hutt and Seek’, as published in the ‘Tales from the New Republic’ short-story anthology. The use of devices to mimic the Force is also currently being explored in the Doctor Aphra comics.
The woman and her son that Estree is seen helping is a very interesting reference. The end credits mention that the son is called Corran (played by Indie Desroches), and he is implied to have the Force with Estree making sure they are brought to Corellia. This all brings to mind Corran Horn, the most famous of the Corellian Jedi from Legends. Not convinced? Before the episode aired the mother was listed on IMDB as Nyche, who is Corran Horn’s actual mother in Legends. We admit, it is weird that if this was the case, that this did not end up in the end credits.
To bridge the gap between himself and Alec Guinness’s portrayal of Obi-Wan, Ewan McGregor keeps adopting mannerisms of Guinness. Here he is seen stroking his beard and twirling the moustache while thinking. Something he also did at the end of Revenge of the Sith.
The mask Obi-Wan wears in the spice den looks a lot like the one that Deak Starkiller wears in his duel against Darth Vader in the classic Ralph McQuarrie concept art.
We are introduced to a new Inquisitor: The Fourth Sister, a female alien with yellow skin and played by Rya Kihlstedt. Lina Graf once used her helmet to impersonate her in the ‘Star Wars Adventures: Return to Vader’s Castle’ comics.
The Aurebesh of Obi-Wan’s wanted poster reads: WANTED – OBI-WAN KENOBI – OFFENSES: HIGH TREASON – BOUNTY: UPON CAPTURE. As well as TRANSMITTING.
Among the bounty hunters looking for Obi-Wan and Leia is a LOM-series protocol droid. Executive Producer Deborah Chow confirmed in an interview that this is NOT 4-LOM, and named the character 1-JAC instead.
In A New Hope Leia reacts excited when Luke tells her that he is there with Ben Kenobi. This was always a bit weird considering that earlier in the hologram message she talks about him with the name Obi-Wan. Having Obi-Wan introduce himself as Ben in this episode to her, explains that Leia knew both names and seemingly thinks of him more as Ben, rather than Obi-Wan.
A rock wart and a worrt can be seen in the creature stall that Leia passes by.
Reva taunts Obi-Wan with Anakin being alive. While it remains a question how she knows of Anakin and Darth Vader being the same person, Revenge of the Sith shows us that Obi-Wan does know about the Lord Vader name that Anakin now uses thanks to the security recording he watches. How can it be that in 10 years time Obi-Wan does not have heard that Anakin was alive after Mustafar? Bad Wi-Fi in the cave on Tatooine and the general no interest of the Tatooine populace regarding what is going on in the rest of the galaxy? Darth Vader not being a prominent figure in the Empire and more a behind the curtains enforcer? Both or something like it, probably.
This scene also mimics the one where Luke is hiding from Darth Vader in Return of the Jedi.
In case everyone is wondering what we think of what happened to the Grand Inquisitor: the big Aurebesh signs on the roof Reva is on as she tries to spot her quarry says ER. We will leave it at that.
Join us tomorrow for the episode guide of Part III!
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