OBI-WAN KENOBI Concept Art Reveals How Hayden Christensen Will Return As Darth Vader - SPOILERS

Looks like the Rogue One art.

I am assuming they will show him out of the suit and/or mask at the very least; in private. Maybe even in nightmares that Obi has.

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Was already happy we were getting this series, but Hayden coming back was a nice reveal. Return of the Sith made me respect him in the role.

So the Rogue One quick scene? Gotcha... okay. Better than just a quick cameo in Rebels when the Vader Mask gets cracked and they show his face underneath and his voice changer is damaged. Ha!

I hope he spends a significant amount of time like that. Just walking around shirtless with no arms.

It's a bacta tank mask, not a new "mask" surely?

I'm happy for Christensen, that he got this chance to revisit the character. Also his involvement really hurt my already cautious interest in the show.

I always had an idea for when this Obi Wan show should take place, and it would be in the middle of Vaders reign. We saw how Vader was born and how he fell, but there is a huge chunk in between.

I feel like there should be a middle period of Vaders reign where he forced by Palpatine into exile and stripped of his Vader suit.

Hear me out.

When Anakin falls, he falls completely. Dripped in rage and furious passion, he almost blindly flings himself into the dark side almost like a psycho. Killing... no slaughtering children, choking out his pregnant girl, lashing out with blood lost against Obi Wan. Then after Padme dies, I can see him for years as Vader being ruthless and unflinching. But after time and the blood lust had dimmed, those glimmers of the light would creep in, and Palpatine would sense the sliver of doubt growing in him.

It was all Palpatine could do to constantly test and defile his apprentices growing unrest, but time and again it would return. Vader began questioning Palpatine, and soon it became clear. Palpatine saw his apprentices potential and loyalty, but feared he would need to surrender completely to the dark side.

Palpatine stripped Vader of his suit which had become a symbol of fear across the galaxy, stripped Vader of his weapon, and sent him of an odyssey, and not to return until he is ready.

This would be the time period Obi Wan takes place. Anakin, looking burned up and half robotic, shrouded in cloaks... hunts for Obi Wan who he believes he must kill to set himself straight. He has to use underhanded tactics to traverse the galaxy and find Obi Wan, without the aid of his legendary persona or his light saber.

All this is happening in the background as we are setting up Obi Wan current day on Tattoine. We see what appears to be a cloaked figure skulking about keeping eye over a young Luke who's tasked with buying a very expensive power converter, and we assume this cloaked figure is Obi Wan (homage to Old Ben Kenobi intro). Just then some young puny theives corner Luke and attempt to rob him with weapons, but the cloaked figure stumbles in and makes odd noises, scaring off the whimpy thieves. Luke turns to thank the cloaked figure, but mid sentence the figure uncloaks to reveal a bigger scary theif with a giant gun pointed at Luke. He grunts in an alien language "Hand it over".

Just then a door just behind the theif opens up and a giant alien bouncer throws out a drunk hobo who happens to land directly on the thief. In the commotion young Luke runs away with his power converter. The thief, furious his score just got away picks up the drunken hobo and screams an alien horrendous wet scream in his face.

The drunken man acts limp and mumbles something inaudibly. The alien growls "what did you say?"

The drunken hobo slightly clearer mumbles "I said.... is the boy... gone?"

"What?" The hulking alien barks, confused.. "Of course he is! And now you're..."

"Quite good." The hobo says as his speech clears up considerably and his posture corrects. "You may set me down now and I'll be on my way."

"Wha... you little freak, you cost me credits and..."

The hobo raises a hand and swipes it in front of the alien and states "you have no desire to keep me".

Slightly groggy and confused, the alien sets down the hobo and continues... "...and I have no desire to keep you."

The hobo stumbles as he's set down and begins to walk away as he reaches into the sleeve of his cloak.

The Alien suddenly shakes his head and looks at the hobo walking away, and shouts confused "ey! Why help the kid, and why pretending being drunk?"

The hobo successfully retrieves a bottle of something strong from his sleeve and takes a big swig.

"Who said anything about pretending?" And stumbles away I to the allies.

So in this show Obi Wan is a drunk and haunted by his past just as much as Anakin, barely able to keep watch over Luke.

Word of a drunk force user makes its way to Anakin who's working the Underworlds trying to find any lead. He gets the Intel about the force user and head after Ben but has to kill and rip off people to make his way to him.

When Anakin arrives on the sand planet, Ben immediately senses him and flees into the dessert. There they spend an episode ceasing each other and finding both are in a way pitiful versions of their former selves. Anakin now a Hollow shell of the man he was or the Sith Lord he tried to become, haunted by two destinies, unable to fulfill either. Ben destroyed by his failures, the fall of his Jedi, the ruin of all Qui Gon hoped, and unable to even faithfully watch over Luke as his final charge, as his fall from the light and dependence on substances to fight off the dark side and numb him from the force.

These two are nothing like they were when they were brothers. They battle recklessly in the dessert to a destructive stale mate nearly to death and to exhaustion, when ships arrive seeking Anakin for his murders and stealing to get to Tattoine.

They capture Ben and Anakin.

The mini series becomes about how the two have to begrudgingly work together to escape this guild of killers. Along the way they're friendship momentarily reimerge in moments. Then by the end of their journey together they have a falling out when the truth of Pademe is revealed, and Anakin makes the choice not to believe Obi Wan and to believe Palpatines lies. In that moment their friendship dies again and they battle once more to the death.

Or so it would seem, because Obi Wan manages to slip away to Anakins ultime rage out moment ever.

Anakin returns to Palpatine, renewed by his hate and ready to Don his Vader armor and eliminate all the Jedi once again. Seemingly putting to rest once and for all his flirting with the light side (until Luke of course).

Obi Wan spends a few years in hiding on distant planets from Tatooine but not too far as to not be able to keep watch on Luke (and for potentially future seasons), until years later he returned to Tattoine to over see Luke's troublesome teen years when he would become a man and the biggest threat to the Empire.

I'd love for the show to start off with a flashback to a Clone Wars era scene and then we go right into the show proper. It'd be a nice nostalgia moment before we get into what is sure to be a depressing show about an old Jedi