Help me obi wan kenobi7/11/2023 The latter is but a blip at the end, and something fans were dying to see for quite some time. Two big cameos in the episode are Ian McDiarmid’s Emperor and Liam Neeson’s Qui-Gon Jinn force guest. If they keep Obi-Wan Kenobi going, it will be interesting to see how Reva lives in the light and her struggle to keep up with that. Typically when dark Jedis have turned to the light side, i.e., Vader and Kylo Ren, it’s moments before their deaths. “You haven’t failed them by choosing mercy,” Obi-Wan tells her. Reva carries Luke’s body back to Obi-Wan. That’s when Anakin and the clone troopers raided the Jedi Temple and killed the younglings little Reva’s life was spared because she played dead as we saw in flashbacks on the show. She’s moved enough as she approaches young Luke in the Tatooine rocks to see herself when she was victimized during Order 66. What’s redeeming here in Reva is her transformation to the light side. Now Owen in his early days has the cajones to take on a dark Jedi with a blaster. When we first meet Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru in the 1977 film, they’re peaceful folks in the middle of nowhere. Seeing Uncle Owen with a laser rifle shooting after the Third Sister was a bit much he’s a farmer, not a fighter, and has had no business fighting evil space people. She was clearly headed back to Tatooine to nab the kid. We had a sense at the end of episode 5 that Imperial Inquisitor Reva would survive when she reached for that comlink, thus learning the whereabout of Luke. We knew that all along.īut what now for Obi-Wan? It’s back to being a hermit in a Tatooine desert cave until the events of the 1977 film occur. “I did.” And then in a play on a line from Luke Skywalker in Return of the Jedi, Obi-Wan responds, “Then my friend is truly dead.” Well, duh. “You didn’t kill Anakin Skywalker,” Darth Vader booms. Ben sees Anakin’s face, and calls out his name, and apologizes. Ben damages Darth Vader again, slaying his helmet and breaking the control box on his chest. Was Darth angry that Obi-Wan split his body in two back in Revenge of the Sith? Or is it just about good and evil? Or the taxation of trade routes? What was the point of seeing Darth Vader and Obi-Wan fight again in a lightsaber battle –the aorta of the finale– that sees the latter buried momentarily beneath a pile of boulders? I would say the arc here in Obi-Wan Kenobi is this old Jedi regaining his strength after hiding out in the desert during an Imperial Jedi purge. So what tried to move the needle forward here in Star Wars lore in the Obi-Wan Kenobi season finale? Darth Vader was rather one-note obsessed in chasing down his old master for nothing more than revenge, whereas in Empire Strikes Back his pursuit of Luke was the mere fact that he’s his long-lost son. The only upside here for Disney is that any shortfall of success in a Star Wars TV series, i.e., low viewership, can be hidden, especially compared with the public scrutiny of a box office upset ( Han Solo: A Star Wars Story displeased the masses and wound up as the lowest-grossing film in the franchise with $213.7 million domestic, $392.9M worldwide). What aggravates fans the most? When canon is broken or fudged with (i.e., “Han shot first”), and Obi-Wan Kenobi does bear some guilt in that. When Disney begins to fill those gaps, say with the backstory of Han Solo or Obi-Wan, it requires a steady hand, and it’s an impossible task to make everyone happy. The constant risk for Disney and Lucasfilm in expanding the classic character backstories of the Star Wars universe is that franchise architect George Lucas, at least on screen, didn’t go to the well often enough, unlike Star Trek, which has been relentlessly tapped since its onset.įor decades, Star Wars fans have been stuck in their rigid ideology of what works, doesn’t work and is proper in a universe that has a lot of black holes. If Lucasfilm has that in the cards down the road, does Princess Leia fall in love with her Imperial captors ala Patty Hearst? The early swashbuckling days of little Princess Leia Organa was quite charming, though how lame is it that she becomes the princess who’s continually kidnapped by the Imperials? Surely, she can’t get kidnapped again before she’s taken hostage by Darth Vader and her planet Alderaan blown to bits. 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' EP Joby Harold On "The Calm And The Patience" In The Iconic Jedi & Why Princess Leia Gets Captured A Lot - Crew Call Podcastīut overall, was Obi-Wan Kenobi good enough? How did it elevate the Star Wars canon? Half of the time it wasn’t doing that, and half of the time it was.
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