On paper, bridging the gap between the Star Wars prequels and the original trilogy feels like an uninteresting endeavor. So it gives me great pleasure to report that the Obi-Wan Kenobi series on Disney+, which released its season finale on Wednesday, is anything but dull. Instead, the six-episode miniseries, in which Ewan McGregor reprises his role as the Jedi Master, is a carefully paced, lavishly constructed connector covering a previously unexplored period in the Star Wars universe.
The opening scene shows the atrocities following Emperor Palpatine’s Order 66, a genocidal plan to eradicate all Force-sensitive children and Jedi in the galaxy. Fast-forward ten years, and the Inquisitors, the Empire’s crack Jedi-hunting unit, are on the prowl in a local bar (not the one you are thinking of) searching for a Force-sensitive fugitive.
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