Star Wars Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 5

We open with Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) standing in what looks like the Jedi temple on Coruscant. He's adorned in the rat tail look from Attack of ...

I’m too easily delighted by Star Wars that I need someone else to point out the numerous inconsistencies.) Obi-Wan behaved like Obi-Wan, Vader was Vader (and greatly supported by the appearance of Hayden Christensen as Anakin), and Reva finally found her footing. Since Vader and the Grand Inquisitor are bad guys (and seeing how we have one more episode to kill), Reva is left alive in the dirt where she discovers Obi-Wan’s cell phone. Did the Grand Inquisitor go to Vader immediately after his “death”? Shouldn’t Vader be pissed at the Grand Inquisitor seeing how the plan failed? Vader realizes his great blunder (his brief pause killed me) and can only watch (?) as the helpless extras (and Obi-Wan) take off into space. Back with Obi-Wan (and he is indeed Obi-Wan Kenobi and not ole Ben Kenobi), our heroes return to Jabiim and delight a small crowd of bad extras stolen from The Matrix sequels with news that Leia is okay. With that BS out of the way, Obi-Wan gets back to the task on hand and attempts to slow Reva down through the power of intimate conversation. With Vader relegated to the sidelines, Reva was supposed to be the one creating tension. (This is such a bizarre plot point in Revenge of the Sith. Vader is a bad guy, but having him straight up murder kids was a careless decision on George Lucas’ part. I’m not sure why, but I guess suddenly he knows everything about the young Inquisitor. And yes, we were all correct: she was a youngling during Order 66 and saw Anakin Skywalker (as Darth Vader) hilariously sidestep Jedi Knights to kill the younglings. Obi-Wan heads to a corner to listen to a private hologram voice mail from Bail Organa (Jimmy Smits) and likely spends the entire message determining just how much he should tell him about this f***ed-up mission. So, yes, after hours of waiting, we finally get our first flashback to a younger iteration of Obi-Wan and Darth Vader, which is what many of us expected way back in the first episode. We open with Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) standing in what looks like the Jedi temple on Coruscant. He’s adorned in the rat tail look from Attack of the Clones, so this is supposedly young, whiny Anni before he grew out his hair and became older, mopey Anni — despite Christensen looking like a well-groomed 40-year-old.

Obi-Wan Kenobi adds to Star Wars movies both new and old in the character-driven, tragic episode 5 of the sci-fi series on Disney Plus.

That it takes so long is the cross laid upon Obi-Wan Kenobi’s shoulder and something he must carry alone. Both reference the Battle of Hoth, and keep consistent the motif of our heroes escaping by the skin of their teeth. Vader is reminded time and time again of Obi-Wan’s lesson of being too driven by negative feelings to see what’s in front of him. The friendship, the absence of judgement or fear. Flashbacks of Anakin and Obi-Wan running through a sparring duel frame the episode. Not everything, not enough to feel guilt or remorse, but certain things, like the look in Obi-Wan’s eyes.

After weeks of teasing Vader's return with a handful of small scenes, the episode put him front and centre of the action. *Spoilers follow – you have been ...

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However, according to The Direct, a second series is in development but fans are just going to have to wait and see if this is the case. The way the episode was left on a cliffhanger does also indicate that her fate is not sealed just yet. So how will she survive that attack and is she going to continue fighting to get her revenge? However, all hope is not lost as the original Grand Inquisitor survived a similar attack which means it is possible for her to recover. He states: "Revenge does wonders for the will to live," leaving fans wondering how he survived and if he was now on the Dark Side. She was actually a Jedi in training at the time of meeting Darth Vader and swore her revenge and so joined the Dark Side to try and take him down from the inside.

Darth Vader pursues his old teacher in 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' on Disney Plus. Credit: Disney. I am worried about the future of Star Wars under Disney and the current ...

But other than that, I find myself mourning what could have been, and remembering hopes dashed when, as a teenager, I showed up to the movie theaters to watch The Phantom Menace and could barely contain my excitement, only to discover, well, Jar Jar Binks. Obi-Wan had gotten a message earlier from a concerned Bail Organa who mentions that he’s worried about “the children” in case “he finds out” and will go to Tatooine if he doesn’t hear back to check on the boy. Well, at the end of The Last Jedi we have Rey and Finn and Leia and the rest of the heroes trapped on a planet in a similar bunker with the forces of the First Order arrayed outside trying to get in. The de-aging powers that Disney has showed off in Star Wars and the MCU are absent here. She tossed a plan a decade in the making away. He tears the sides of the ship off to find that it’s empty. The actual Grand Inquisitor shows up and mocks her, sneering that her thirst for revenge was useful before it became tiresome. Inside, in order to fix the hangar controls Leia has to climb up into the vent to save the day. Then, Obi-Wan gets away before Vader arrives and races back to the rebel transport. I guess the tracker is more than just a tracker. Obi-Wan, Leia and Tala and the rest of the rebels show up at the base and Leia’s droid immediately goes and sabotages the hangar opening, trapping everyone inside. And on and on like that.

The Jedi has tapped into the Force again and saved Princess Leia, but may have played right into Imperial Inquisitor Reva's hands.

He might be a bit delayed, since their hyperdrive is broken and Imperial forces are right on their tail. Conveniently that's just enough information for her to figure out that Luke Skywalker is Vader's son -- probably should have changed his name -- and find the 10-year-old on the desert world. Except sneaky Inquisitor Reva ( Moses Ingram), aka the Third Sister, planted a tracker on Leia's cute droid LOLA, so the Empire can follow them.