“Honestly, for me the starting place was that I really wanted to do something that was character-based and character-driven, because that is the benefit of the limited series, is that you have more time to sort of tell a real character story. And so for me, the starting place of character is you just start and you look at who has been important to him in his life. And it’s quite hard to avoid Anakin/Vader in that scenario, especially coming out of Revenge of the Sith. So really it came out of an evolution of the character for me. It wasn’t just to sort of bring him back. It was really like, who means something and where are we at this point in the timeline with Vader?”

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Chow then went on to talk about Hayden Christensen, Ewan McGregor, and the general vice on set when Vader was there. As for what kind of Vader this is compared to the one we know from the Original Trilogy?

“For us, it’s very similar [to Obi-Wan] in the sense that he’s in between these two trilogies. So he isn’t the New Hope Vader quite yet, you know what I mean? So we are with the character sort of in the middle of this period. It is still Vader obviously, but it’s a Vader that isn’t quite as fully formed as A New Hope.”

Frankly for me, this is a tightrope and it would be so easy to fall off. However, if Chow and the rest of her team can get to the other side without falling off, we could be in for one hell of a show. I’ll be keeping my fingers crossed.

What do you think of the return of Darth Vader in Obi-Wan Kenobi and the comments of director Deborah Chow? Thoughts below as always.