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A lot of stuff that's considered canon in star wars is actually kind of ascended fanon. Like, if you really dig into it, it's remarkable how much of the lightsaber-juggling, movie-retreading atmosphere of pop culture/the expanded universe Lucas incorporated into the prequel trilogy, likely without realising.

Example: Strictly according to the original trilogy, does Master Yoda possess a lightsaber? I would say no. It is significant that in a film, where every shot is deliberately planned, we never see a lightsaber in relation to Yoda, and the one time he acknowledges Luke's it is dismissively; "Your weapons, you will not need them." By implication, Yoda is a Buddha to Obi-Wan's warrior monk. Yoda is a teacher and a mystic, but he is not a warrior.

Force lightning is another of these things. You go back to the original trilogy, and there's a sense that the Force and what you can do with it is very personalised. Nobody but Palpatine throws lightning, not even his apprentice, and in turn nobody but Vader chokes people to death. Luke does learn the mind trick introduced by Obi-Wan, but that's part and parcel with Luke's growth into a compassionate warrior-philosopher who tries to solve conflicts nonviolently. Force Choke is not 'a dark side force power', it is Vader's power, a manifestation of his crushing authority and smothering presence.

Likewise, Force Lightning is not 'a dark side power', and it is not generic lightning. It is the Emperor's power, characteristic of his cruelty, his sadistic delight in corrupting and hurting other people. We can see this in how it is used. Force Lightning does not split steel or blast people off their feet or blow things up, like a real bolt of lightning - it transfixes Luke in agony, sends him reeling to the floor with torturous pain until he screams for his father's help.

Recurring Theme: The Skywalkers Need a Babysitter

My favorite bit of this issue might be that Chewie physically picks Luke up and holds him back like he is a toddler having a tantrum about having to leave Chuck E. Cheese. I feel like Yoda should have sent of one of his many Wookiee friends to be Anakin’s bodyguard/babysitter for Obi-Wan. Could have saved us all some pain. I’m just picturing Anakin twisting his arms and legs trying to get free so he can go see Palpatine at the opera, and a giant Wookiee just holding him in place and stroking his hair until he finally goes down for a nap.

I just...like, what if other than the whole Fell To the Dark Side thing, everything else about Obi-Wan and Anakin is exactly the same, personality-wise? I mean OK, it's funny if Obi-Wan's just like Vader in that he becomes maniacally obsessed with finding and killing Anakin. But it's far funnier to me if even Sith Obi-Wan doesn't quite have Anakin's possessive hangups to begin with, so those qualities don't get amplified when he's a Sith like Vader's did. But Anakin still has those traits, so he's like, actually very offended that Darth Kenobi hasn't dedicated his whole life to tracking Anakin down and killing him.

Bail calls Padme for a routine Top Secret Holocall, and Anakin's just butting in constantly like "So...has Darth Kenobi been mentioning me? Bringing me up for no reason all the time? Looking for me? Hiring bounty hunters to track me down? Did he mention any flashbacks or Force visions or nightmares about me?" Bail replies that "uh, no, he seems far more focused on helping the Emperor find and destroy Rebel cells? And he wants to destroy any remaining Jedi but he hasn't, like, specifically called you out or anything. Why?" and Anakin is just. Incensed. He totally spirals. If HE had gone Darksider you bet your ASS he'd be obsessed with finding Obi-Wan! What the fuck?? Is Anakin NOT the most important person in Obi-Wan's life, even now??? Was he never important to him at all??????????

In this series, we’ll review some pictures of Obi-Wan and Anakin, and then determine How Married they are. All right, let’s get to it: 

Source: Attack of the Clones. Marriedness Level: 12/10 for Extreme Fondness and Good-Natured Teasing 

Source: The Clone Wars.  Marriedness Level: 20/10 for Caretaking, Concern and Excessive Hand-Holding 

Source: Revenge of the Sith.  Marriedness Level: 1/10 for Attempted Murder But Yet Sexual Tension Somehow 

Source: Attack of the Clones.  Marriedness Level: 50/10 for Being So Busy Staring Into Each Other’s Eyes That They Literally Forgot About Their Actual Mission For a Minute and Padme Was Nearly Murdered By a Space Centipede as a Result 

Source: Revenge of the Sith.  Marriedness Level: 400/10 for Revisiting an Old Argument and Being Absolutely About To Make Out Right There In General Grievous’ Damn Elevator

Source: Revenge of the Sith.  Marriedness Level: 1200/10 for Looking Like They Are Literally Saying Their Wedding Vows. 

Please note that the scene above coincides approximately with this bit in the novelization of this film: 

…you may kiss the groom! 

Sobbing, we were given everything we wanted isn’t it great?

But really we were pretty much given everything and even after a couple stolen hours of sleep I’m still just reeling. Because it was so Godamn good guys,like everything about it was as close to perfect as we could get. Literally everything I wanted from this show,the Hero’s journey arc for Obi-Wan,force visions/flashbacks of Anakin,Vaderwan fight scenes,an open faced Hayden as Vader scene, I not only got,but I got masterfully done. Everything was handled with such deference and love and it’s so evident that for Deborah and Ewan and Hayden,this was at its core a passion project that all mattered dearly to them. And that soul and dedication and care truly shines through in the weighted moments they give the characters and the narrative arcs that really mean something.

Others have mentioned on here how good the show is simply for leaning in on the themes that Star Wars is built on. Good and light and goodness will always prevail against hate and evil. Kindness is the foundation of the Jedi,letting go is tantamount to growth and happiness. The Kenobi series,reduced down to its bare bones,actually understands what Star Wars is about. And it’s narratives boiled down even further is to Obi-Wan and Anakin and forgiveness and holding on.

Obi-Wan’s arc is relearning himself,relearning to be a Jedi and to have faith in people and to forgive himself. Anakin’s is to cement himself in his own agony and inability to let go,to become the Darth Vader Obi-Wan faces Nine years later. You truly cannot have one without the other,where Kenobi goes Skywalker follows,and however you look at these men you cannot untangle them,or truly examine their characters without the other.

But on a less thematic perfectness vein,the choreography was also stunning. The evolution of Obi-Wan through his movements and his fighting. Can you believe episode one opened with a bent and weathered Obi who looked closer to Alec Guinness than the Ewan we know? He is haggard and worn and weak,and through the narrative he puts on his robes and takes up his saber and slowly learns to have faith and to use the force again. And by the finale he is the great Jedi Master General Obi-Wan Kenobi,falling into his iconic opening of Soresu and leveling an entire battlefield of rocks with the force. The lightsaber scenes were spectacular,and as much a story in themselves as the dialogue and emotional arc.

And I think the ending was perfect. Obi-Wan gets closure as much as he’s capable of,he is ready to move on. And after the wretched devastation that is the Anakin/Obi final fight,we end on a note of happiness and hope. Obi-Wan gets to meet Luke and Lobby that Hello There line,we see him actual to god laugh when he didn’t even smile for ten years. He finally communes with Qui-Gon,is finally looking to the future rather than the past.

The thing about Star Wars is that it's all about cycles. Geoge Lucas highlighted it when he said "it's like poetry, it rhymes". It exists on a micro and macro scale and it often gets Star Wars accused of lazy fan service (and yes, there is some of that to be sure) but when Star Wars gets it right it really gets it right.

You see it so clearly with Anakin and Obi-Wan.

They're represented by the Open Circle, a loop with two ends constantly reaching for each other. Two halves of a single warrior, as the ROTS novelization made famous.

That moment in the fight, when they used their connected hands to push and pull, it wasn't just a fight tactic, it was a metaphorical representation of Anakin trying to pull away and Obi-Wan still trying to reach out, one last time. It's their bond in the Force, which has highly implied by the series to be a dyad.

Circles are representative of unity and the whole. They were known as The Team, a dynamic fighting force. They move as one, a call and an answer. Where you find Kenobi, Skywalker is not far behind. They were shown to experience the same pain, showing implied dyad levels of oneness in the Force. Not only are they constantly reaching, but they also form a closed unit, a circuit through which they feel one another from across the galaxy. They are an orbit around each other, a binary system of two stars like those in Tatooine's sky.

But there is also discord. They do not talk to each other, not on an intimate level. The few times Obi-Wan reaches out to Anakin, Anakin rejects the emotional support. Their circle, no matter how close, has a broken circuit. It is why Obi-Wan, ultimately, is not the one who saves Darth Vader, it is Luke. Anakin cannot accept the love and support of someone who knew him from before.

Finally, circles are also a metaphor for give and take. Obi-Wan trained Anakin, teaching him everything he knew but in turn, he learns from his training of Anakin. Anyone who has been a teacher or an instructor knows, that you learn just as much from your students as you did from your own education.

But it is a broken circle, an open one, because Anakin does not listen, does not internalize Obi-Wan's lessons.

Which makes Anakin's absolving Obi-Wan's guilt at the end so poignant. It's more emotional awareness than we've seen from him in the series. And what is so crucial about this moment is that Obi-Wan responds in kind, though not right away. Obi-Wan leaves that fight, leaves their bond, and accepts that Anakin is dead and he did not kill his friend. He is free of the cycle, slipping through the open circle they represent.