SPECULATION Options for what's next after Kenobi S1

I enjoyed Kenobi, but if it's just going to be more plot holes and things that clearly never happened, I'm not interested. He never met Leia as a kid, he was never hopping around planets doing secret missions, and sure as blast never fought Vader; let alone twice. Dude went to Tatooine and disappeared. I'm willing to forgive the things I just mentioned because I enjoyed it and pretty much don't consider it canon, but enough is enough. Another season can only work if it's about stories on Tatooine. Small time stuff. Dealing with Bounty Hunters and other local dirtbags and avoiding the Empire.

 

Have you considered that these "plot holes" might be your projections? How are we supposed to know that Obi-Wan had never met Leia or had left Tattooine for a brief time during the NINETEEN YEAR PERIOD between "Revenge of the Sith" and "A New Hope"? How do you know that Obi-Wan had never met Leia during that same period, considering that she knew all about him - even his pseudonym, "Ben Kenobi" - in "A New Hope". I had written a fanfiction story set eight years before "A New Hope" in which Obi-Wan was somewhere other than Tatooine. I don't recall anyone questioning this or making a big fuss.

 

Because I've seen A New Hope.

This isn't relevant.

 

LOL
Great, yet ANOTHER continuity to deal with! Canon, Legends, and Kuatorises...
But seriously, I get it, some of the events of OWK are a bit hard to swallow given what we already perceive. (No more so than a young Anakin building C3PO...) I always thought Obi Wan was a hermit and certainly never left to rescue Leia and fight Vader. Apparently he did! I'd definitely say that doing a series with legacy characters in between established stories is akin to tapdancing in a minefield. There's not much room for exciting stories and they would be better off shifting focus to other characters, like Reva or The Path and have Obi Wan maybe appear as a secondary character.

 

I've seen "A NEW HOPE" more times than I can remember. And I do recall Leia being very familiar with Obi-Wan's other name of Ben Kenobi.

There was nineteen years of room.


By the way, congratulations to "OBI-WAN KENOBI" for winning the Saturn Award for Best Limited Streaming Series. And congratulations to Hayden Christensen and Moses Ingram for winning their Saturn Awards as well.

 

Fair enough, but there is also established canon that should be respected. I don't see a problem with liberties being taken if it furthers a worthwhile story and doesn't trample canon material... Example:
Obi-Wan and Vader fighting twice between Mustafar and the Death Star... Dialogue in ANH is ambiguous enough to bend it and make it fit, and it helped build out the personal stories of both characters as we will see them in the future. I'd say that's acceptable. On the other hand...
In TPM Obi-Wan CUTS MAUL IN H A L F !!! 2 separate halves of his body plummet into a space pit! Then all of a sudden he's alive. Why? Does he do anything after his resurrection that some other baddie couldn't? I can't see any benefit of his return.
Or C3PO being built by a young Anakin, yet on Tattooine, old Ben has no knowledge of these droids...
There are much more outrageous devices throughout SW than anything done in Obi Wan Kenobi.

 

I think we might want to see a series about an Inquisitor. Maybe about Reva as she moves up the ladder to go after Vader... or a whole new character.
A second season of Obi-Wan should definitely lead up to that fateful day when he found Luke unconscious after the Sandpeople attacked him. They might even recreate that scene, from a different perspective. It would be awesome to see Ewan MacGregor recreate that scene. He's got the voice right. I can easily hear him channelling Alec Guinness there in the canyon, "Hello there!" They might even recreate the final duel with Vader on the original Death Star. That would take a lot of work and perhaps a lot of CGI, and I doubt they'd go that far. I suppose it wouldn't really be necessary, anyway.

 

I'm just gonna leave this here because this is probably the most appropriate thread, but this is some good old tin foil hat speculation that ties in a few different stories and is just fun.

 

I can't help feeling there's another story between the first series and Vader and Obi-Wan's final confrontation in A New Hope.

I keep thinking about how when Kenobi defeated him, again, all Vader wanted at that moment was for Obi Wan to be forced to watch him die this time. Like he didn't on Mustafar.

We never heard any of Vader's internal monologue but I'm sure that it was the same as Kenobi's when he called out to Qui Gon, explaining that he had to face Anakin knowing it would be the end of either himself or his old pupil. Either outcome would be disastrous for Obi Wan. But the latter would be worse. (This is also the prime factor in Luke refusing to confront Kylo until he finds the solution to face his old pupil but not physically being there.) It's a no win situation for Kenobi. The opposite for Vader.

It's the "when I left you I was but the learner" line that needs more background I feel. I guess we could continue assuming he's just talking about his turn to the dark side. But I believe that interpretation is still considered by most to be somewhat weak if only necessary for continuity.

But what if Vader was obliquely referring to his ruse to allow the Falcon to escape? What if Kenobi pulls a similar trick on Vader and/or his allies in a story that takes place between the first series and A New Hope which Vader learns from? Thus we learn why he's so confident that "Escape is not his plan" and why he must face him alone. Which seems to suggest that their previous encounter might not have been one on one.

What if Kenobi engineers a scenario where all the inquisitors attempt to double cross and assasinate Vader this time? Not for revenge, like Reva. But just to usurp him.