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A New Hope

Mirrored Mentors
Palpatine's mentorship of Anakin Skywalker in Revenge of the Sith closely mirrors Obi-Wan Kenobi's mentorship of Luke Skywalker in A New Hope.
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Timothy Lawrence
Chewbacca
In A New Hope, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker meet Chewbacca, the Wookiee copilot of the Millennium Falcon, in the Mos Eisley Cantina.
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Timothy Lawrence
Let Go!
At the climaxes of both Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, Obi-Wan Kenobi urges a Skywalker to "let go."
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Timothy Lawrence
Andor Season 1 Mirrors the Original Trilogy
The four arcs of the first season of Andor mirror sections of the original trilogy.
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Timothy Lawrence
Becoming More Powerful
In Revenge of the Sith, after Anakin Skywalker turns to the dark side, he faces his former master Obi-Wan Kenobi on the lava planet Mustafar.
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Timothy Lawrence
Between a Believer and a Skeptic
In "Aldhani" (Andor 1.4), after leaving his home world of Ferrix, Cassian Andor joins a Rebel group and finds himself caught between the true believer…
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Timothy Lawrence
Obi-Wan's Enemies
In each film of the Prequel Trilogy, Obi-Wan Kenobi crosses lightsabers with a pawn of Palpatine: Darth Maul, Count Dooku, and General Grievous.
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Robert Brown
Rats and Moles
In both A New Hope and Obi-Wan Kenobi, a fugitive Ben Kenobi and one of the Skywalker twins are almost captured by Imperial Stormtroopers because of an…
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Robert Brown
Don't Be Destroyed
At the climax of The Empire Strikes Back, Darth Vader defeats Luke Skywalker in a duel and tries to compel him to join the dark side.
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Timothy Lawrence
Obi-Wan Kenobi Between the Trilogies
The six episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi are patterned after the original six episodes of the Skywalker Saga.
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Robert Brown
Death Star vs. Starkiller
In The Force Awakens, the Resistance is dismayed to find that the First Order has constructed an enormous superweapon called Starkiller Base.
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Timothy Lawrence
Help Me, Obi-Wan Kenobi
In each act of The Empire Strikes Back, Luke Skywalker is on a different planet, and on each planet, he talks with or calls out to the ghost of his…
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Robert Brown
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