Obi-Wan Kenobi executive producer and director Deborah Chow talks about what sets the upcoming miniseries apart from other Star Wars shows.

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There's much speculation regarding which characters will appear in Obi-Wan Kenobi given its close narrative relationship to the Skywalker Saga.

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What also sets the series apart is its direct relationship to canon, for The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett have only been tangentially related to core Star Wars canon

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McGregor has also compared Obi-Wan Kinobi to one long movie, echoing Chow when he talks about the contained nature of the narrative and how that benefits the story.

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McGregor's performance is often cited as one of the strongest aspects of the uneven prequel trilogy, giving the audience the closest thing to a protagonist those films have.

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