When they crossed lightsabers for a second time, Obi-Wan's dialogue ("I will do what I must") parroted the same scene and ended similarly, with Vader gaining the high ground over Obi-Wan.
Obi-Wan and Vader's first confrontation in Obi-Wan Kenobi recreated and reversed their fight on Mustafar in Revenge of the Sith. With Obi-Wan Kenobi, I feel increasingly afraid that under Disney's stewardship, Star Wars is becoming so insular that it has nothing to say to anyone who isn't already a Star Wars fan. As a result (and I'm far from the first person to note this), creatives who love Star Wars don't go on to produce original work inspired by Star Wars, they just make more Star Wars, turning it into a franchise that looks like nothing so much as a snake eating its own tail. To get a sizable budget in the modern Hollywood system is to agree to work with superheroes, toys, or other corporate IP.
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Outside of Disney, Academy Award nominee Greta Gerwig is making a movie about Barbie (which admittedly looks rad). Chloe Zhao, the Oscar-winning director behind Nomadland, followed her indie drama up with Eternals. Barry Jenkins, the Oscar-winning director behind Moonlight, is attached to a live-action The Lion King sequel. In a media landscape largely dominated by one corporation and the massive franchises it wields like blunt weapons, there is increasingly little room for new voices or ideas. Important people are important and Star Wars isn't about anything.
The Rise of Skywalker and the dire finale of The Mandalorian's second season - which saw the return of a deaged and deep faked Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker - offer a resounding no to that last question. Love it or hate it, The Last Jedi was about something, about characters questioning if everything they were taught was wrong, if their legacy was failure, if the Force - largely confined to important people, and specifically, one important family - was universal enough that it could work through people who came from nothing. "See," they seem to be saying, "We know the meme, too." Whereas the original moment served as a small bit of characterization for Obi-Wan, this only serves as characterization of the show and the diehard Star Wars fans running it. This moment is entirely for the benefit of Star Wars fans. There's no reason, though, for Obi-Wan Kenobi to be similarly attached to a turn of phrase he used once 10 years before. Fans latch onto small things all the time.
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Obi-Wan is skilled and assured enough that he can jump into battle with the four-armed, four-lightsaber-wielding General Grievous, and greet the legendary android with cool confidence. The moment isn't especially important in Revenge of the Sith, except, perhaps, as characterization. In scripting this scene, writers Joby Harold, Andrew Stanton, and Hossein Amini are working firmly in meta territory, taking a moment from Revenge of the Sith which became a meme among Star Wars fans, and folding it - freighted with 17 years of assigned meaning - back into the context of the canonical work itself.
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