BEWARE SPOILERS: During Celebration, the Obi-Wan Kenobi series had its premiere with its first two episodes shown. Just like the previous Disney+ series, we at Fantha Tracks will be offering our own episode guide for your weekly 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. Prepare yourself for a long list, as there is a lot to unpack in this first episode!
Part I
Official summary: When agents of the Empire pose a new threat, Obi-Wan Kenobi emerges after years of hiding.
Trivia
The series opens with a group of Younglings training under Jedi Master Minas Velti who received her full name in the end credit which show that she was played by Ming Qiu. Qiu was seen before within the Star Wars world, as the stunt double for Ming-Na Wen’s Fennec Shand.
All the younglings are nameless, despite being all credited, but one can assume that either Reva or Nari will later be revealed to have been among this group.
The hallway where Master Velti gets overwhelmed shows the same kind of statues as seen in the hallway where Obi-Wan and Yoda find the dead younglings in Episode 3. The pillars, and the hallway being a bit smaller, make this a different hallway then this one, or the one seen Episode 2.
The Mos Eisley street seen in the series was a big set built in a landfill in Pacoima, Los Angeles.
The Inquisitors arrive in a transport ship that was first named by LEGO as the Scythe. While this ship is new, it seems to have been inspired, or meant to be by the same manufacturer as, the shuttle that Krennic used in Rogue One. This was a Delta-class T-3c shuttle.
The Inquisitors arriving are: The Grand Inquisitor, played by Rupert Friend who took over the role it seems from Jason Isaacs who was the voice in ‘Rebels’. The Fifth Brother is also originally from Rebels, where he was voiced by Philip Anthony-Rodriguez. He is now played and voiced by Sung Kang, who is also known for the role of Han in the ‘Fast And Furious’ film series. The Third Sister, also known as Reva, is new for the series and played by Moses Ingram.
Many of the locals on Tatooine where given names (a welcome change that we applaud!), and it even included one familiar droid: R3-T2, the astromech with a white/blue body and a red dome. He can be seen as the Inquisitors arrive, but also appears in A New Hope. Also seen on the streets, when the Inquisitors have just landed, is a creature on four legs. This could be a Jerba, but then a younger one. as it appears a bit too thin for the Jerba as we have seen before.
In the saloon, people can be seen drinking from the same clear white cups seen in Chalmun’s Cantina in A New Hope. Among these people is a Melitto, a species that includes Sarco Plank.
Obi-Wan’s new place of work and the creature they are salting are not named in the episode. In Hasbro’s The Black Series line there is a 6 inch figure of him named as “Ben Kenobi (Tibidon Station)”. He wears the blue outfit seen during his job here. It can be assumed that this is the name of his workplace, with probably the creature being a tibidon. The worker complaining about his pay is called Padu Cherd and was played by Chad Parker, a stuntman. The foreman of him, and Obi-Wan, is mentioned in the end credits as Groff Ditcher, played by Heath McGough.
Obi-Wan picks up his eopie before returning to his cave. Now it is not sure if this is meant to be the same one as seen in Episode 3, but it very well could be. It could very well be then also that this eopie is named Rooh, as per the novel ‘Kenobi’ by John Jackson Miller. This also due to Obi-Wan having problems trying to contact Qui-Gon Jinn, which appeared in various sources, but quite prominently in this novel as well.
Obi-Wan buys from Teeka a T-16 skyhopper toy, the very same one that Luke does have in A New Hope. Talking about Luke, when he is seen playing he mimics his father’s movements during the Boonta Eve podrace.
While we saw Alderaan before at the end of Episode 3, the establishing shot in this episode much closer matches the classic Ralph McQuarrie concept art of the city Aldera with the grand lake visible.
The girl pretending to be Leia is named Agira in the end credits. Agira is an Imroosian, a species first introduced in Solo. She was played by Molly Miller, a stuntwoman with a lot of credits to her name. She was also the stunt double for young Leia for this episode.
While we have Bail Organa once again played by Jimmy Smits, his wife Breha is now played by Simone Kessell, rather than by Rebecca Jackson Mendoza who played Breha in Revenge of the Sith.
Breha’s extended family include: Duke Kayo Organa (played by Gabe Fonseca), Duchess Celly Organa (Breha’s sister – Roberta Sparta) and cousin Niano Organa (Ian Inigo). Now the biggest change of Legends versus Canon regarding the Organa family is that originally Bail was Organa by blood with Breha being an Antilles. Now this is the other way round, with Breha the Organa and Bail married into the family. This is why Celly is now Breha’s sister, rather than one of Bail’s three sisters, as she appeared to be in the comic ‘The Princess Leia Diaries’ (published in ‘Star Wars: Tales’ #11). The name Kayo is new, but Celly’s husband was indirectly mentioned twice in Legends (‘Children of the Jedi’ and ‘The Force Unleashed Campaign Guide’). Cousin Niano is completely new.
Various interesting short mentions on Alderaan include: Sweetmallow (a type of confectionery first seen in The Rise Of Skywalker), Tri Wing (fully known as Tri-Wing S-91x Pegasus Starfighter, a marketing collaboration between Porsche and Lucasfilm for Episode IX), an Aquillian Ranger (originally a concept of allies/members of the Rebel Alliance from the Second Draft of Star Wars), Merson Pirates (from the original Marvel Star Wars run #24, also used in HoloNet News), glor-ag (from WEG’s ‘Wanted by Cracken’), jakobeast (another RPG creation, but this time by Wizards of the Coast in the ‘Power of the Jedi Sourcebook’)
Back on Tatooine the Fifth Brother uses the same kind of holopuck as seen in The Mandalorian.
Easy to overlook, but R2-D2 can also be seen on Alderaan during the dinner party. He also stands in the background when Bail tells Breha that Leia snuck out again into the woods.
Leia is kidnapped by Vect Nokru (played by Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea) and two others. While it is not confirmed, the green alien lady appears to be a Falleen, making their first live-action appearance. This mercenary was played by Amy Sturdivant. Aviel Ayoung plays the other unnamed mercenary. Sites claim he is a human, but you can spot some distinct horns on his head, making him instead a new unidentified alien species.
When Obi-Wan gets the call of Bail and Breha you see in the chest he opens: a datapad matching the one seen in Padmé’s apartment in Episode III, one of his original belt pouches and the imagecaster that Qui-Gon Jinn used in The Phantom Menace. The imagecaster makes the same bleeping noise as the incoming Order 66 message for Commander Cody on Utapau. The message intentionally references the famous “Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope” line, without fully copying it.
Reva says that Bail and Obi-Wan fought together during the war, which was also mentioned in A New Hope. However, this is still barely seen. In The Clone Wars 2×16 ‘Cat and Mouse’ we see them sharing scenes, but the rest of the series had Bail more teaming up with Jar Jar, Padmé or Anakin, then Obi-Wan.
Join us tomorrow for the episode guide of Part 2!
- Editors of Dreamtivity (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 48 Pages - 09/27/2022 (Publication Date) - Dreamtivity (Publisher)
