Kenobi Finale Barely Avoided A Huge Luke Skywalker Plot Hole

This article contains spoilers for Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 6.

The Kenobi finale narrowly avoided a huge Luke Skywalker plot hole. Star Wars has never been entirely consistent in of its canon and continuity. Indeed, that's the very reason Obi-Wan Kenobi coined the phrase "from a certain point of view" - it was George Lucas' fix for a change in direction, with a new backstory for Darth Vader written in from The Empire Strikes Back onwards.

The Obi-Wan Kenobi Disney+ TV series always had the potential to damage continuity even more. Set during young Luke Skywalker.

Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 6 saw Luke Skywalker forced to flee from Reva after she successfully fought her way past Owen and Beru. Fortunately, he never actually saw her in action - which meant, notably, he never saw Reva trigger her lightsaber. Had he done so, it would have been a major continuity problem, because Luke clearly had no idea what a lightsaber was in the first Star Wars film. A famous production still went so far as to show Luke staring down the wrong end of the lightsaber while playing with the trigger, with a bemused Obi-Wan looking on. That shot didn't actually appear in the film - it's just a set photo - but it's seen as symbolic of Luke's lack of knowledge of the Jedi.

This is the problem with Star Wars canon; writers and directors have to be careful not to change too much. There doesn't seem to be too much concern about contradicting tie-ins - the opening scenes of Star Wars: The Bad Batch season 1 directly contracted a comic, for example - but any continuity errors involving George Lucas' own movies would be noticed straight away. In the end, though, Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 6 did a masterful job. It came close to breaking canon without actually doing so, with episode 6 leaving Luke unconscious for key moments of dialogue to make sure the character didn't know a little too much.

The brief conversation between Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan - complete with the iconic "Hello there" - doesn't break canon either. There's nothing in the first Star Wars film to suggest Luke had never talked to Obi-Wan before; he simply hadn't spent any real time with him, mostly knowing him from rumors of a crazy hermit living out in Tatooine's desert. The writers of Obi-Wan Kenobi really did do a great job of handling the story, telling a tale that feels as though it matters while being careful not to change things.

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