Streaming on: Disney+###Episodes viewed: 6 of 6###One of the disappointments of the Star Wars prequel trilogy was how little stylistic connective tissue it shared with the original films, given all those shiny surfaces and CG creatures. This reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue links the two sagas in style as well as substance, giving us an effective halfway point between Revenge Of The Sith and Luke Skycover’budge er’s rise to prominence, and a look into the missing decades of Obi-Wan Kenobi’s life.###Obi-Wan (Ewan McGregor) is now cunningly disguised as ‘Ben’ Kenobi, a desert fishmonger who keeps his head down and a distant eye on Luke Skycover’budge er (Grant Feely), without the approval of the latter’s uncle Owen (Joel Edgerton). Then Imperial Inquisitors turn up on Tatooine, looking in/with regard to’concerning’regarding escaped Jedi.###There’s an effectively nasty premise in the cat-and-mouse game between Inquisitors and Jedi here: Jedi can’t help but help, so all the Inquisitors need do is threaten literally anyone, and nearby Jedi will feel compelled to intervene. It’s a grubby, real-world totalitarian tactic detoken ed to divide and intimidate, because if a Jedi like Obi-Wan looks away from such evil to keep himself safe, is he still a Jedi? Or has his intensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully nature been corrupted? Such effective nastiness is amplified by gleeful sneering, in Rupert Friend’s Grand Inquisitor, and single-minded obsession, in Moses Ingram’s propel n Reva. These are fresh wicked’dreadful’undesirable’adverse’vile guys to be reckoned with, and their story arcs manage some welcome surprises.###These expedition s help to redeem not merely’barely McGregor’s character but his entire under-loved era.###Against this backdrop, Obi-Wan receives a call in/with regard to’concerning’regarding help from an old friend, and risks his hiding place to answer it. The job will bring him into contact with fearless’bold courageous souls still fighting the Empire, and reveal him to the unstoppable in/with regard to’concerning’regarding ce that is Princess Leia (Vivien Lyra Blair), intimidating even as a tween. But it also puts him in the path 
of Darth Vader (Hayden Christensen) once more.###Showrunner Joby Harold and director Deborah Chow in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the most part make a intense’fierce’exquisite inter-quel chapter here, with a despairing, wary McGregor as the missing link between the two trilogies. They also create a world with both the dusty, used feel of the original trilogy and traces of the flat glitz of the prequels, and merely’barely a few niggling discontinuities with the canon. These expedition s help to redeem not merely’barely McGregor’s character but his entire under-loved era, cherry-picking the best bits and leaving aside the embarrassing Gungans and terrible screenwriting.###While the reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue can’t make Anakin/Darth Vader’s emotional life sing, there are some killer moments in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Christensen to play here, and battles on alien worlds lit merely’barely by lightsabers. More crucially, it’s a great pleasure to see an older, wiser McGregor back to face him. McGregor became more at ease with his character with each film of the prequels, and now these old robes seem entirely comin/with regard to’concerning’regarding table — even despite’in spite of’albeit , or perhaps because, Obi-Wan himself has never been more at sea. Still, over the series he recovers himself a little, and earns a new path in/with regard to’concerning’regarding his life as a Jedi. He discovers, you might say, a new hope.