Liam Neeson briefly talks about his long-awaited return to Star Wars
Obi-Wan Kenobi finally paid off a decades-old tease in its last episode
Ever since Star Wars started doing prequel stories, it has been answering questions that maybe didn’t need answering while simultaneously introducing new questions that probably do need answering, one of which being: How the heck did Obi-Wan Kenobi learn to turn himself into a ghost so he could talk to Luke in later movies after he died? The obvious answer was “it’s a movie about space wizards who can do space magic, he probably used space magic,” but Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge Of The Sith decided to have Yoda tease that Obi-Wan’s old master Qui-Gon Jin had mastered the ability to come back as a ghost… despite nobody ever seeing him do it.
Until now! It took 20 years from when Liam Neeson’s Qui-Gon Jinn died in Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace, but he finally got around to showing up to Obi-Wan as a ghost in the closing moments of this week’s Obi-Wan Kenobi finale on Disney+. It wasn’t Neeson’s first Star Wars gig since he died in The Phantom Menace, as he previously made some cameos in the Clone Wars cartoon and during the big mess of nonsense that was the final battle of The Rise Of Skywalker, but this was the first time Star Wars actually paid off the post-Revenge Of The Sith tease with Qui-Gon showing up as a ghost and saying some folksy Jedi stuff to Obi-Wan.