Playing ANH:SE in the background right now and so far it plays really well post-Kenobi.
Even skipping RO and moving right into ANH there's a lot that feels like an organic continuation of OWK starting immediately with the subtitle of "A New Hope" (after so much focus had just been placed on Leia) and "There'll be no escape for the princess this time."
Vader feels MUCH more menacing stepping through the door now after OWK successfully covered the stain of ROTS "Nooo." Luke playing with that little T-16 model not only provides an obvious link to the OWK show but combined with young Luke hiding from Owen and pretending to pilot a fake ship really drives home how much of a dreaming goof-off Luke was any time he wasn't forced to do chores.
"What if this Obi-Wan comes looking for him/He won't" now feels like a definitive statement by Owen based on an agreement he had with Kenobi that Ben wouldn't set foot on their property, a conversation that was never had in the PT. In other words that conversation feels more linked to the PT than ever before thanks to the OWK bridge. That look Aunt Beru gives Owen at the table now plays like "maybe we better bust out the guns again," lol.
Leia saying "Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope" after first addressing him as "General Kenobi" does indeed now feel like she already knew him. As if she opened the message with a formal acknowledgement of his name, rank, and military history with her father but then drops the act at the very end to address him as Obi-Wan Kenobi as if to remind him of their special connection. So instead of sticking to the military formalities and protocol she says "Help me
Obi-Wan...not Ben, not General, Obi-Wan Kenobi the Jedi Master hero who rescued me."
Like if back in the day I had a message from George Bush to General Schwarzkopf. I could say "General Schwarzkopf, years ago you served President Bush. Now he once again asks for your assistance" but it would be very strange for me to close with "help me Norman Schwarzkopf" unless I actually knew him personally and knowledge of his full name actually meant something.
