Inevitably, Obi-Wan confronts Vader and duels him to yet another wasted victory. Obi-Wan, lured out of hiding by senator Bail Organa, leaves Tatooine to rescue a young Princess Leia from bounty hunters and, later, the Empire. The miniseries tracks Obi-Wan in the early days of his exile on Tatooine as his former apprentice, Anakin, now known as Darth Vader, hunts the last several Jedi to survive Emperor Palpatine’s extermination order. This week, Disney aired the sixth and final episode of its Star Wars miniseries Obi-Wan Kenobi, starring Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen, both reprising their respective roles as Obi-Wan and Anakin Skywalker in the prequels. ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ Finale Breakdown: Hello There, Goodbye It was too regressive to mark a fresh start with a new cohort, but too fast and loose to satisfy the fans of the originals or even the prequels. The result of these tensions was a trilogy with an ambiguous generational claim. The Rise of Skywalker revives Emperor Palpatine out of nowhere. The Last Jedi turns Luke Skywalker into a sock puppet for half-baked subversive metacommentary that never really sounds like it should be coming from him of all people. The Force Awakens is a sequel to Return of the Jedi that barely bothers to reconcile itself with the major events-chiefly the Rebel victory over the Empire-of the movie it’s succeeding. But then the sequels are also weirdly careless with the canon. Disney rehired the old cast to further perpetuate the so-called Skywalker saga. The Force Awakens unveils yet another fleet of Space Nazis launching yet another Death Star. The sequels, in contrast, tried to have it both ways. He was right to pitch Star Wars to a new generation, on new terms, rather than rededicating himself to the old style. But Lucas was basically right to make The Phantom Menace a kids’ movie, as goofy as it is.
There’s the uncanny writing, the flat characterizations, the iffy performances, the soapy tone, the absent-minded retcons. Lucas made many mistakes directing the prequels.
It’s memorialized in the very first seconds of the very first trailer for The Phantom Menace: “Every generation has a legend.” There’s a peculiar wisdom in George Lucas’s direction of the Star Wars prequels.
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