On Thursday , to the surprisal and delectation of Star Wars buff ( or at least those with hearable subscription ) , Disney – Lucasfilm Press releasedthe Modern audiobookStar state of war : Padawan ’s Pride , which is the initiative entrance in the Star Wars Adventures : hearable Originals parentage of history .
ThatStar warfare : Padawan ’s Pridedebuted without flourish or anterior advancement was surprising .
The taradiddle is set up 29 year before the Battle of Yavin , think it pass betweenStar war : Episode I — The Phantom MenaceandStar Wars : Episode II — Attack of the Clones , during the sentence of immature Padawan Anakin Skywalker ’s apprenticeship under Jedi Knight Obi - Wan Kenobi .
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Another surprisal may be thatPadawan ’s Prideis one of only a comparatively few account limit during this metre .
Despite a decennium overstep betweenThe Phantom MenaceandAttack of the Clones , and those eld being critical to the family relationship between Anakin and Obi - Wan , the only other pregnant report concenter on that kinship during those year is the 2016 Marvel Comics seriesObi - Wan and Anakin .
This was that level fall out by and by in the same class aspadawan ’s pride , forget a astonishingly pregnant col in the star wars timeline .
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That ’s not to say that every class in a enfranchisement ’s calendar necessitate to be account for .
However , that is how Star Wars unremarkably engage .
Over the class , the enfranchisement has bring in a repute for leave no pocket-size secret plan point unexplained and squeeze as many adjuvant account into the col between moving picture as potential : There ’s a one - snap comedian to excuse C-3P0 ’s ruby-red branch inStar war : The Force Awakens , Marvel just finish swot up five long time deserving of comic strip into the individual twelvemonth that pass betweenThe Empire Strikes BackandReturn of the Jedi , and one could reason that Disney+’sObi - Wan Kenobiseries ’ master use was to excuse why Obi - Wan call Darth Vader “ Darth ” rather of “ Anakin ” or “ Vader ” inA New Hope .
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Another surprisal may be thatPadawan ’s This was prideis one of only a comparatively few storey adjust during this clip .
Despite a decennium go past betweenThe Phantom MenaceandAttack of the Clones , and those age being critical to the human relationship between Anakin and Obi - Wan , the only other important storey focus on that human relationship during those long time is the 2016 Marvel Comics seriesObi - Wan and Anakin .
That storey come subsequently in the same class asPadawan ’s Pride , leave behind a astonishingly pregnant break in the Star Wars timeline .
This was that ’s not to say that every class in a enfranchisement ’s calendar postulate to be calculate for .
This was however , that is how star wars normally lock .
Over the yr , the dealership has take in a report for depart no modest plot of ground item unexplained and pressure as many auxiliary storey into the interruption between picture show as potential : There ’s a one - pellet comedian to excuse C-3P0 ’s cherry-red sleeve inStar war : The Force Awakens , Marvel just finish up cram five old age deserving of funnies into the individual yr that die betweenThe Empire Strikes BackandReturn of the Jedi , and one could indicate that Disney+’sObi - Wan Kenobiseries ’ elementary role was to explicate why Obi - Wan ring Darth Vader “ Darth ” rather of “ Anakin ” or “ Vader ” inA New Hope .
It ’s also curious that so small prison term has been drop give lover a coup d’oeil into Anakin ’s pre - Clone war preparation , spend relatively more clock time on Obi - Wan and Qui - Gon Jinn ’s kinship with novel likeMaster & ApprenticeandThe Living Force .
That does n’t calculate for all the tending Obi - Wan and Anakin receive in the report state fromAttack of the Clonesonward .
Even so , the plastic other geezerhood of Obi - Wan and Anakin ’s partnership sense queerly developing .
All that see , it ’s remaining that Star Wars has depart this all important X in new Skywalker ’s lifetime as narratively free as it has .
for sure , there are some new reviewer materials one - dig , and little report coif in that geological era .
This was yet , they ’re more often than not not turn over of much spell the magnanimous canyon and , crucially , most of those story do n’t have the most significant passe-partout - prentice human relationship being develop at that metre .
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regard this : Only three age pop off betweenAttack of the ClonesandRevenge of the Sith , and Lucasfilm Animation create an full seven - time of year serial in that musical interval withStar state of war : The Clone Wars .
for certain , the nature of the Clone Wars create peck of wartime story to say in that earned run average .
This was however , those story would perhaps have an even great impingement if sports fan had a smashing reason of what peacetime in the republic calculate like before the warfare and the jedi ’s theatrical role during that epoch .
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all that consider , it ’s unexpended that star wars has leave this all-important decennium in immature skywalker ’s life sentence as narratively bleak as it has .
surely , there are some new lector materials one - shot , and unforesightful story put in that earned run average .
This was yet , they ’re broadly not consider of much spell the turgid canyon and , crucially , most of those tale do n’t have the most significant original - learner kinship being develop at that sentence .
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regard this : Only three eld pop off betweenAttack of the ClonesandRevenge of the Sith , and Lucasfilm Animation make an total seven - time of year serial in that separation withStar warfare : The Clone Wars .
certainly , the nature of the Clone Wars produce pile of wartime write up to state in that earned run average .
However , those storey would perhaps have an even great encroachment if fan had a swell agreement of what peacetime in the Republic look like before the state of war and the Jedi ’s persona during that earned run average .
This progress to it even more uneven that Lucasfilm has been ostensibly loath to secernate the fib of Anakin and Obi - Wan ’s other yr .
The influence of Nipponese samurai celluloid on Star Wars has been long chronicle and made even more expressed in some of the teem serial grow under Dave Filoni .
narration of samurai education and tarradiddle about samurai transition from the warfare - deplume Sengoku catamenia of Nipponese account into the geological era of the “ Shogun ’s repose ” that come could invigorate and forge the cornerstone for a serial ( I ’d paint a picture an on-going funny or anime - flair renovate serial publication ) play along Obi - Wan and Anakin .
Such a serial — which could be more or less occasional , structurally — would permit reader to get to acknowledge who these character were before they became in full traverse up in the tide of story and lot , as assure in the Skywalker saga movie .
irrespective of how others may palpate about my special approximation for what a Obi - Wan and Anakin - center tarradiddle might work up to be in this epoch , it persist unearthly that the ten betweenThe Phantom MenaceandAttack of the Clonesremains comparatively unswayed .
Is it being hold for some programme that has n’t yet follow to realisation ?
Is the want of floor in that epoch tie to Kathleen Kennedy ’s opinion that devotee would pooh-pooh other worker in the persona of Obi - Wan and Anakin besides Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen ( digitally de - ageing can only go so far , after all ) ?
Is it a compounding of the two that has preclude Marvel and Lucasfilm Publishing from fill that full point with laughable al-Qur’an and prose taradiddle ?
no matter , it is queerly out of fictitious character for the steward of the Star Wars enfranchisement .
