But not just that, we see the future rebel really begin to grow from her interactions with Tala: hearing about choosing to take action because she can, getting tips on how to wear a blaster holster for the quickest draw and then being given the holster after Tala’s death, which we see her choosing to wear once home. We see her start as a princess who wants nothing to do with becoming a senator, but as the series goes on, we see her realise that the Empire is not all good and that her father is one of the few trying to make a difference in the senate, which leaves her willing to enter politics by the time she is returned home. Again, this wouldn’t have been possible without the quality of acting from Vivien Lyra Blair, but this was done very nicely throughout the episodes. Someone else who was allowed to go through a great arc was Leia. The growth of Obi-Wan-from refusing to help the Organas in Part I, to becoming a general again and finally a Jedi-is great to watch and perhaps should have been a greater focus of the show, while his interactions with Haja and the Path also led to him trusting rogues who are clearly full of bravado, which allows him to trust Han in A New Hope. Such is the quality of Ewan McGregor as an actor, it allows Obi-Wan to go rough a really discernable arc here, one that actually mirrors Luke’s in The Last Jedi quite nicely in that they have both seen the Jedi Order wiped out by the acts of their padawan who is like family to them, and this has led to them losing all hope, only for a special girl (Leia and Rey) to break the monotony of their life and help push them back towards being the Jedi they should be. While there were issues with the show, it certainly wasn’t the acting-though as 6 of these were re-casting characters from the Original Trilogy, expect to see Kathleen Kennedy blame them if the series does not make the number Lucasfilm expected. Meanwhile they were joined by young Vivien Lyra Blair as Leia, Grant Feely as Luke, Moses Ingram as Reva/ Third Sister, Rupert Friend as the Grand Inquisitor, Sun Kang as Fifth Brother, Indira Varma as Tala, O’Shea Jackson Jr as Roken, Simone Kessell as Breha Organa and Kumail Nanjiani as Haja all of whom put in great performances. Well it’s safe to say that they put in their best performances in the Star Wars galaxy, as did Joel Edgerton, Bonnie Piesse and Jimmy Smits. Of course the big draw ahead of the series starting was the return of Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen as Obi-Wan and Anakin respectively.
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