The Galaxy's the Limit for 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' Season 2
This story contains spoilers for the season finale of Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Please, pardon me for the bluntness so soon after Obi-Wan Kenobi's (mostly) great finale, but I just need to say one thing: limited series, my ass.
When we learned that Ewan McGregor would reprise his role as Kenobi, LucasFilm and Disney made it very, very clear that the show would be a six-episode event, with a production value on the level of a Star Wars cinematic offering. Whether or not Obi-Wan Kenobi lived up to the hype is up for you to decide. But after seeing the words "limited series" over and over again in Obi-Wan Kenobi's marketing materials, Wednesday's season finale arrived as a bit of a surprise. We see Old Man Kenobi pack up his cave apartment and trek into the valleys of Tatooine. And who is there to greet him? The Force ghost of Liam Neeson's Qui-Gon Jinn, of course. When Kenobi wonders aloud why his old master waited until this very moment to say hello, Qui-Gon says, “I was always here, Obi-Wan. You just were not ready to see. Come on, we’ve got a ways to go.”
Sounds pretty Season Two-y, doesn't it? Well, if you ask LucasFilm boss Kathleen Kennedy, more episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi are certainly a possibility. “It’s certainly something we talk about," Kennedy told Entertainment Weekly. "Mainly because everybody came together and had such an incredible time. Ewan [McGregor] had an incredible time. Hayden [Christensen] had an incredible time. So certainly from that point of view, everybody involved would love to see this not end. But we have to really spend our time asking the question: Why would we do it? If we were to decide to do anything more with the Obi-Wan character, we’d have to really answer the question why?"
Before you ask, McGregor sounds like he's in for another ride, too. "Would I like to make another one?" McGregor asked EW. "Yeah, I would like to make another one." There you go. Knowing how Disney rolls nowadays with its Marvel and Star Wars projects—rolling with multiple seasons and/or spinoff of most series, and cameos galore—we'd put quite a few of our credits on Season Two of Obi-Wan Kenobi arriving sometime in the future. There's nearly a decade, still, between the events of Obi-Wan Kenobi and A New Hope, leaving plenty of time for this blossoming space buddy comedy between Kenobi and Jinn's Force ghost. Will they protect their fellow Jedis? Try to slow the efforts of the Empire? As long as no one is being reconstructed/Frankensteined/digitally resurrected, we're all for it.
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