Parts 4-6 of the Kenobi serieS

I’ve been thinking about how Star Wars is very much about parents, and how this story is made for the fatherless—for those of us who are, in some way or another, ‘orphans’.

We start with Anakin, fatherless in every respect, taken away from his mother at an early age and losing her way too soon. We’ve got Luke and Leia, who both lose their real parents and are adopted into families that love them, but don’t really understand them (and as young adults, they lose even those surrogate parents). We’ve got Rey, waiting for parents that will never return, and Finn, taken from his parents when he was just a tiny kid. We’re told the story of Jyn Erso, who watches one of her parents die and one of them be taken. We follow Ezra, a true orphan looking for family.

But in this story we’re also given parents—our universal Dad, Obi-Wan, a surrogate father to both Anakin and to Luke (and now Leia ). We’re given the redemption of Vader becausehe’safather. We see Luke and Leia becoming surrogate parents to Rey, and Kanan becoming a father figure to Ezra. I feel like this whole story is about giving parents to the parent-less—and, in the same way, giving care to those who no one cares for, and giving hope to people who feel hopeless.

I know this is sentimental af, and sometimes I just feel that way, but as someone without a Dad and with a wonderful Mom who is very sick, I find a lot of comfort in all of the parents (and hope) Star Wars has given me

unstableskywalker:

WHAT IF WE GET A CLONE WARS FLASHBACK SCENE IN THE NEXT KENOBI EPISODE?!?

Me, takes deep breath:

New behind-the-scenes footage of Ewan McGregor training for Obi-Wan Kenobi! Seeing him just flatten people was more attractive than I care to admit and I can’t wait to see it in the coming episodes! Also, this needs to be turned into a new meme format—ASAP.