FeaturesIf Obi-Wan Kenobi season 2 happens, Star Wars has the opportunity to finally address a weird plot hole in Return of the Jedi.When the not-so-old Ben Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) met young Luke Skywalker (Grant Feely) in the final episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi in 2022, the Disney+ series ended with a kind of mic drop. Obi-Wan uttered a self-referential “Hello there,” met-up with the spirit of Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson), and that was that. The gap between the Obi-Wan of the prequels and the desert rat of A New Hope was closed.But not really. While there’s a lot to love about Obi-Wan season 1, nearly everything about it was a kind of canonical side quest, and it was only at the end of a galaxy-spanning adventure involving young Princess Leia (Vivien Lyra Blair) that Old Ben returned to his rightful place and timeline-appropriate activities of hanging out in the desert and keeping an eye on Luke. Even if we set the Rebels Obi-Wan-centric episode “Twin Suns” to the side, there are a lot more...
