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BACK ONCE AGAIN FOR THE RENEGADE MASTER

HE WAS THE ORIGINAL Jedi Knight and – for all anyone knew back in 1977 – the only remaining follower of a famously hokey religion. Depending on your point of view, he was also a “crazy old man”, a hero of the Clone Wars, or the “only hope” of a fledgling Rebellion.

Whether you called him Old Ben or Obi-Wan, he explained (almost) everything we needed to know about the Jedi who were once guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic, not to mention a certain former pupil who was seduced by the Dark Side of the Force. And as he spouted a load of hippy-ish “mumbo-jumbo” (Han Solo’s words, not ours) about mystical energy fields binding the galaxy together, he turned out to be Basil Exposition in a galaxy far, far away – a job he did so well

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