Watch Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Final Dual With a Revenge of the Sith Upgrade

Some may wonder why director Deborah Chow didn’t just do this: use that same music as Revenge of the Sith as a way to parallel the importance of these two facing off. And while we don’t know specifically if that choice was ever on the table, we can safely speculate about why. Themes get reused a lot in Star Wars—but rarely, outside of the opening fanfare, does that extend to a full-on retread of the exact same piece of music for several minutes in a row. Williams writes these scores with very particular scenes in mind. And this battle, cool as it may be, is simply not supposed to be as dramatic and terrifying as the first one. So not using the music isn’t just an easy choice, it’s not a choice at all. It’s a different time, a different place, with characters who have changed. And yet, it’s pretty damned cool to see it play out like this for fun, right?

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