Obi-Wan, meanwhile, has just encountered the fugitive Jedi-hanging in the town square. I guess Alderaan is such a nice, peaceful place that they don’t worry too much about security because the plan goes off without a hitch.Īfter clashing with her snooty cousin at a banquet in the palace, Leia sneaks off instead of apologizing-breaking the sacred pinky swear with her father!-and the kidnappers swoop her up and take her to the gritty urban planet of Daiyu (an adventure young Leia seems only mildly resentful about given how stir crazy she’s gotten on Alderaan). The trap involves sending kidnappers to Alderaan where they lay in wait for Leia, who has a free spirit and is prone to sneaking out of the palace and into the surrounding woods. So she hatches a new plan and sets a trap for Kenobi. The Fifth Brother intervenes, stopping her and telling her that she’s gone too far. She tells the crowd-Obi-Wan hiding nearby in the shadows-that she’ll kill the farmer and his family if they don’t tell her where the Jedi is hiding. Reva notices Owen casting a furtive glance her way and hones in on him, but he plays it very cool telling her that Jedi are vermin, and he kills vermin on his farm. He’s just been scolded by Uncle Owen (Joel Edgerton) for surreptitiously dropping off a Star Wars toy (heh) for Luke (Grant Feely) when the Fifth Brother and Reva show up and start questioning everyone about the Jedi’s location. And straight to the showdown that’s hopefully building up in the final two episodes of the series.His first brush with Reva is a close call. Too late to actually help, he chokes out the Third Sister until she gasps out her real plan – using Leia’s loveable little droid, L0-LA59 (AKA Lola) to hide a tracking device that will lead her straight to Obi-Wan Kenobi. Teasing us with a full-blown inquisitor showdown but snatching it away in the final moments, the heroes are saved by reluctant rebel Roken ( O’Shea Jackson Jr., making his Star Wars debut here as a pilot with impeccable timing).įinally, then, Vader shows up. It might be the laziest bit of writing in the show so far but it thankfully doesn’t last long – and the ruse doesn’t work either – as the Third Sister spots them almost instantly. Somehow finding an XXL overcoat in the middle of the fortress (did one of the stormtroopers have it in a locker?!), Obi tries to walk out the front door smuggling a small girl under his arm. Slowly getting his mojo back, the raid gives Obi a chance to hone his fighting skills (one hallway battle nodding to his old Clone Wars glory days), as well as his force powers – graduating quickly from moving a few nuts and bolts with his mind to blowing up a whole underwater corridor. ![]() Now magically dry after swimming in through one of the sewer pipes, Obi is on a two-person rescue mission with Tia (Indira Varma). Strapped to a medieval torture rack and seconds away from being lasered into an amber coffin for display in the Inquisitor’s trophy room, things look bleak before Obi-Wan bursts in swinging his lightsaber. Have you seen the new #DarthVader billboard from #OLEDSpace and ILM in Times Square? #ObiWanKenobi is now streaming only on /IrYhJGZfWY Vivien Lyra Blair perfectly channels Carrie Fisher’s sass in a conversation that runs along the same lines as the princess’ later grown-up dealings with the Empire. Luckily, the name and the building design don’t spoil some great interrogation scenes between Leia and the Third Sister. ![]() Now swept away to an evil black pyramid in the middle of a water moon, Leia is chained up in the dungeons of “Fortress Inquisitorius”, giving us one of the silliest lines of the series so far. The last time we saw her, she was running right into the arms of the Third Sister (Moses Ingram). ![]() A bacta tank can cure pretty much anything in the Star Wars universe (see the first six episodes of The Book Of Boba Fett…) but Obi only floats around in it for a few minutes before panicking and climbing out – suddenly remembering about Princess Leia (Vivien Lyra Blair). Just like the middle chapters of The Mandalorian and The Book Of Boba Fett, Obi-Wan Kenobi is slightly sagging in the middle here – taking slightly too long on the off-roads after last week spoiled us with the return of Darth Vader.įresh from burning up his old master in a fire pit, Vader (Hayden Christensen with James Earl Jones on voice duties) steps back here as Obi-Wan (Ewan McGregor) recovers from his wounds. ![]() Star Wars goes back to its fairytale roots this week to give us a short, swashbuckling episode about rescuing a princess from a dragon in a castle.
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