Obi-Wan Kenobi - Star Wars Episode 3

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"I just finished Obi-Wan Kenobi and was deeply unenthused," he said. "It feels like it cheapened the canon to date by this existing." The series is about the period of time between when he arrives on Tatooine at the end of episode three, but before a new hope.

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