Once he accepts he needs it ("this weapon is your life", remember), he is able to walk the Jedi path again. In Obi-Wan Kenobi, he forsakes his weapon as a reflection of his own lack of connection to the Force. To grow past these struggles, Obi-Wan had to lose his weapon and build a new one from scratch, just as he's had to rebuild himself. He may repeat the deep quotes and teachings he heard in his own years of training, but, behind all those platitudes, he was still trying to figure this whole teaching thing out. This goes to say he still sees himself as a learner and student, even if now he has his own apprentice. Apart from his beard and mullets, he is almost exactly the same person he was when he lost his master. While we may think this is something exclusive to the show, Obi-Wan's saber in the flashback reveals otherwise. Obi-Wan Kenobi does a good job in the first episodes of making it clear that our hero still misses his master, Qui-Gon Jinn ( Liam Neeson). He grew up almost a decade since then, became a Jedi Knight and has his own Padawan learner, but still carries his apprentice design around. The hilt has the exact same design as his Padawan lightsaber, which he lost while fighting Darth Maul ( Ray Park) in The Phantom Menace. Take Obi-Wan's saber in the flashbacks, for example. What's interesting about the lightsaber connection to the Jedi is how the weapon's design evolves with their master over time. Their robes, Anakin's Padawan braids, Obi-Wan's mullets, their friendly banter. Everything in the flashback scene is a perfect rebuild of their relationship at that time in the past. Deborah Chow sets that idea beautifully, alternating scenes set at the present with flashbacks to Vader's - or Anakin's - time as a Padawan learning the ways of the Force under Obi-Wan's tutelage in the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. The whole episode was set around the premise that, even though he is now all powerful and has all the might of the Empire at his disposal, Darth Vader still has much to learn. Two decades after its release on theaters, we got to watch scenes set in the same time as Attack of the Clones, with Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen looking like they hadn't aged a day since then. The whole show has been, actually, but Episode 5 in particular was a treat. Part V of Obi-Wan Kenobi was a dream for Star Wars prequels fans. Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for Episode 5 of Obi-Wan Kenobi.
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