Obi-Wan Kenobi

 Time to work away some more on that backlog, and this time it is the 6 episode long series around Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Taking place after Revenge of the Sith, it follows Obi-Wan as he exiled himself to Tattooine to oversee the safety of Anakin's son, Luke Skywalker.

 

It has been ten years since Order 66 and the near extinction of the Jedi, as Obi-Wan, now going by the name of Ben, is living on Tattooine to watch over and protect one of the children of his former padawan.  Obi-Wan has lost his connection with the The Force,  and Owen, Luke's uncle, doesn't like him, thinking his presence is a danger for the boy.  Inquisitors, led by the Grand Inquisitor, arrive to hunt down a Jedi named Nari, but one of them, the Third Sister, is obsessed with finding Kenobi instead.

She even goes so far to have bounty hunters kidnap Leia from Alderaan, in an effort to lure out the ageing Jedi master.  Nari looks for help with Kenobi, but he refuses and tells the man to go hide instead.  But he is flushed out and hanged from a bridge in the city, and when Bail Organa visits Obi-Wan, he reluctantly agrees to go out and look for Leia.  He tracks her kidnappers to the planet Daiyu, but with the help of a con-man he manages to rescue her.

However, as the Grand Inquisitor learns of this, he puts the city in lockdown, but they escape with the help of the con-man Haja as the Grand Inquisitor is stabbed by the Third Sister, who doesn't want her leader to get all the glory for her hard work, but causing as such their quarry to get away, but not before she reveals to Obi-Wan that Anakin is still alive and is actually Darth Vader.

Vader instructs her to find Kenobi, promising her the rank of Grand Inquisitor is she succeeds in doing so.  About to be captured at the relay point, they are helped by a woman named Tala, who is a member of an underground movement to smuggle dissidents out of Imperial reach.  Vader arrives and orders the execution of innocents, drawing out Kenobi as such to confront him.  He is saved by Tala, but the Third Sister captures Leia and brings her to the Inquisitorial fortress.

Kenobi and Tala set out after her, and inside he finds a trophy vault of dead Jedi, including one of the younglings from the Revenge of the Sith.  They escape and Vader takes out his anger on the Third Sister, only sparing her as she revealed she had a tracker put on their ship.  They follow them and lay siege to the base of the underground movement, as Kenobi learn the Third Sisters name, Reva, who was a youngling in the Jedi temple during the massacre, and she wants his favor to come close to him and kill him for revenge.  Tala is killed in helping with the retreat, as Reva tries to take down Vader when he is not paying attention, but is quickly defeated by him.  Left for the dead, the original Grand Inquisitor arrives, reaffirming his status and telling how she was tricked.  

But she survives and learns of Luke's presence of Tattooine, setting course there.  Kenobi confronts Vader in an epic duel, and during the battle his true powers and connection with the Force reawaken, as he realizes Anakin is truly gone and taken over by the Vader personae.  He defeats Vader, but leaves him alive (why Obi-Wan, you could have ended a lot of misery... twice), as he sets course after Reva as he learns Luke is in danger.  Reva had managed to overpower Owen and Beru and take Luke, but can't bring herself to kill him.  She brings him back, throwing off the yokes of the Empire as she leaves.

Obi-Wan settles things with Owen and gets to meet Luke for the first time "really", before heading into the Sand Dunes to retake his watch, and reconnecting with the Force spirit of his master Qui-Gon...

So this was a fun adventure series, with an excellent Ewan McGregor giving a closure to his character, and some nice plot hole fillings.  Definitly one of the better Star Wars series released, and just good fun to watch for some space opera action.