“(Be warned: The Force can’t protect you from several spoilers in this story from the first two episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi on Disney+.)
“Disney+’s Obi-Wan Kenobi is hobbled by the same challenge that faces any well-known prequel – including the three “prequel” Star Wars films that inspired this streaming series.
“How do you keep up the suspense in a story, when the audience already pretty much knows how it ends?
“Consider a scene early in the show’s first two episodes, which dropped on Disney+ Friday.
“Our hero, Obi-Wan Kenobi – played by an impossibly youthful Ewan McGregor — has just been confronted by Owen Lars, the farmer who took in young Luke Skywalker as a baby at the end of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.”
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