While the Inquisitors have tracked lesser Jedi across the galaxy, one in particular, Reva (Moses Ingram), appears obsessed with locating Kenobi, who is living an existence of desert drudgery while hiding in plain view. As the trailer explains, the Inquisitors’ secret weapon is the nature of the Jedi themselves, as the Inquisitors seek to lure their prey into the open by testing their innate goodness. On the plus side, the episodic format allows for a somewhat more leisurely pace in exploring the characters and laying out the story, which – after a somewhat unnecessary recap – picks up a decade after the defeat of the Jedi, finding McGregor not quite looking halfway to becoming Alec Guinness, but close enough.Īlthough there’s an extensive time gap between movies, some of this period was covered in the excellent animated series “Star Wars Rebels,” which introduced to the screen Inquisitors, lightsaber-wielding villains tasked with hunting down those Jedi who survived the purge orchestrated by the Emperor. It’s worth recalling a stand-alone movie was actually the original plan for this series, which features Ewan McGregor reprising his role from the prequel trilogy, before the box-office underperformance of “Solo” prompted Lucasfilm to go in a different direction. The answer comes in “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” a six-episode Disney+ series whose first two chapters stirringly deliver what fans should desire from a show as eagerly anticipated as any theatrical blockbuster. What was Obi-Wan Kenobi up to during those years when he was watching over Luke Skywalker after the Republic’s fall in “Revenge of the Sith?”
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