

Here's what we know about the future of the franchise, and whether or not Obi-Wan Kenobi will get another pants-crapping season. Should the series continue for a second season (and survive yet another torrent of racist toxicity from maybe the most wretched hive of scum and villainy in all of fandom), we’re hoping for more Obi-Wan-Vader novelty and a lot less empire-base-infiltration redundancy. Thankfully, modern TV can adapt to the critical consensus: Obi-Wan battling Anakin in an Episode 5 flashback, pretty awesome Obi-Wan rescuing Leia in Episode 4, pretty lame. The fumes of nostalgia only keep us high for so long. I just about crapped my pants.”įor the rest of us, the series has been-admit it-a frustrating combination of crap-your-pants nostalgic delight and near-complete story/character/fight scene inanity. “I got a jolt of fear that made me six years old again,” he said.

In an interview with British GQ, the actor explained the childlike joy of filming with Vader ( Hayden Christensen).
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Which means filming the series was the first time McGregor got to see the full Vader costume. The series marks the first time McGregor’s Obi-Wan meets a post-Mustafar Darth Vader-a matchup-up that inevitably ends with Kenobi reduced to a robe. No one is having more fun with Obi-Wan Kenobi than its star Ewan McGregor.
