‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ Adds Warning About “Upsetting” Violence To Disney+ Series Over Jedi School Shooting Scene

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Similarities between a horrible mass school shooting in Texas this week and a Jedi school massacre in Disney+’s new Obi-Wan Kenobi series has seen a succession of warnings added to the Ewan McGregor-led show.“There are certain scenes in this fictional series that some viewers may find upsetting,” it says right now in the details section of the Obi-Wan page on a number of accounts on the Mouse House streamer.That’s a bleaching and editing of sorts of the statement that previously on May 27“Although this fictional series is a continuation of the story from Star Wars movies filmed many years ago, some scenes may be upsetting to viewers in light of the recent tragic events,” it said before. “Warning: Contains violence involving children.”Oddly enough, the warning actually has to be sought out on the Kenobi page and is not to be found as a slate at the beginning of the opening episode.

One day after rolling out Kenobi at the Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim, Disney-owned Lucasfilm did not respond to request for comment today on the addition of the respective warnings.The company added the first version of the content warning early Friday, just hours after Obi-Wan Kenobi debuted.

The much anticipated series dropped its first two episodes late Thursday, almost three days after 19 children and two adults were killed in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.The scene in question is actually the first one in Obi-Wan Kenobi, which comes after a lengthy recap of the events leading up to the time frame of the series, which take place a decade after the events depicted in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith.The first Obi-Wan Kenobi scene shows the cavernous Jedi temple under attack from Imperial Inquisitor and Stormtroopers.