The following contains spoilers for Obi-Wan Kenobi Season 1, streaming now on Disney+.

One of the great things about the larger Star Wars universe is its inconsistencies. In a time when we didn't get 12 new hours each year, disparate books and comics told myriad stories that often openly contradicted the story we knew. Now that Disney established which Star Wars stories were official, some folks worried the Obi-Wan Kenobi series would break canon. Now that we've seen the full first season, it's clear that this show only adds to the emotional layers of the Star Wars story.

Yet even the official Star Wars canon is itself inconsistent. For example, in The Mandalorian Cobb Vanth tells a story about how he gets Boba Fett's armor that differs in some key details from the same story in the novel Star Wars: Aftermath by Chuck Wendig. The change was clearly made for simplicity's sake, and in the grand scheme of either story it doesn't matter. Details about the battle between Obi-Wan and Darth Vader in A New Hope on the other hand? Those are about as sacred as it gets for fans of that galaxy far, far away. Well, Obi-Wan Kenobi didn't just respect the canon, it crafted a tale that added so many layers to it.

Take the flashback to the Attack of the Clones-era training session with Anakin and Obi-Wan. While it's not clear when this takes place in relation to that movie, it likely occurred shortly before they went to see Padmé. Hayden Christensen's performance in that scene takes on new weight. Before, he was just a brash teenager rebuking his master in front of the girl he liked. Looking at that scene considering that he was just "humiliated" by his Master makes the outburst have more emotional context for both Obi-Wan and Anakin.

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Obi-Wan and Anakin sparring in the Jedi Temple on Coruscant in episode 5 of Obi-Wan

Looking ahead (or is it back?) to the original trilogy, the interactions between Obi-Wan and Leia make A New Hope even more tragic. The storytellers smartly included a line in the finale explaining that Obi-Wan told her to never betray that they knew each other for everyone's safety. Yet, even in that famous plea, the line "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope" feels that much more personal now. She's not yearning for the help of a Jedi, she wants her old friend who saved her life to help her family once again.

Even better, it helps fix a slight continuity error from A New Hope. When Luke Skywalker informs the Princess that he's on the Death Star with "Ben Kenobi," Leia should've been confused. Instead, she reacts with explosive exuberance, rushing out of the cell to get to him. After Obi-Wan Kenobi we now know why she was so eager to rush to the man who helped her escape from an Imperial death trap before. It even helps explain why, after watching her home planet be destroyed, Leia comforts Luke and mourns Ben Kenobi with him. You can imagine she was about to tell him the story we saw in Obi-Wan Kenobi when Han approaches to remind them they're not out of this yet.

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Obi-Wan and Young Leia walking along a path on Mapuzo in Obi-Wan Kenobi

A crucial part of Luke Skywalker's story is that he's the only one who could get his father to make the choice to reject darkness. To drive this home, in Luke's last conversation with Obi-Wan as played by Alec Guinness, the old Jedi Master tells him that Darth Vader must be destroyed. Yet, when Luke finally comes face to mask with Vader, the Sith Lord says that "Obi-Wan once felt" as Luke does. Now the line from Return of the Jedi makes sense. In all of their fights, Obi-Wan beats Vader but does not kill him. Except of course for their final fight, where Old Ben sacrifices himself so the rest can escape. With so many chances to kill him not taken, how could Vader not believe that Obi-Wan thought he could be saved?

For Obi-Wan himself, we see a moment in the finale where he finally believes that the Anakin he knew and loved was truly gone. (In Star Wars, no one is ever truly gone.) They even have Obi-Wan calling him "Darth" in a way clearly meant to mock him. That Obi-Wan referred to him as "Darth" instead of "Vader" was another inconsistency that bothered the canon-obsessed. Heck, Obi-Wan Kenobi even gave us a source point for Vader's best trick in A New Hope, letting the Rebels flee and lead the Empire to their base. It's the kind of "rhyming" that George Lucas always envisioned for the Star Wars galaxy. It also makes Obi-Wan's "certain point-of-view" interpretation, less a lie of omission. Instead, he's telling Luke Vader's own words.

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Darth Vader with a broken mask in Obi-Wan Kenobi

There is a fair argument to be made that Star Wars needs to expand its scope. Director Taika Waititi wants to move away from the Skywalkers, at least in his Star Wars movie. However, if any Disney+ Star Wars project deserved to tie into the Skywalker saga, it's Obi-Wan Kenobi. This character was so important to their story, of course it had to be all about them. Nothing in this show breaks Star Wars canon or disrespects the storytelling legacy that came before it. Instead, it makes these stories we've known for so long a little fresher for the next rewatch.

Another fair critique is that all of these gaps don't need to be filled in with series and movies. Part of the fun of Star Wars, especially for the fans who only had three to six movies growing up, was dreaming up the answers to those lingering questions. For those folks, ignoring or dismissing the events of Obi-Wan Kenobi makes sense. However, stories like these add more depth to the stories that came before. And no new story has ever "ruined" an old one.

Watch how Obi-Wan Kenobi fixes the Star Wars canon with Season 1 streaming on Disney+.