Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 5

We get an extended sequence that has him lightsaber training with Obi-Wan back in what seems like maybe post Attack of the Clones, pre-Revenge of the Sith, ...

But overall, yes, this is an episode that finally seemed to live up to the promise of bringing Anakin/Vader back for this, and I’m definitely not opposed to the Hayden Christensen suggestion that Vader could have his own series during this era. I thought outside of the Vader fight it did suffer from some awkward choreography during the Stormtrooper invasion of the hideout (a frequent sticking point for this series), and I was not terribly interested in five scenes of Leia fiddling around with wires. I guess the idea was to work her way up and land an audience with Lord Vader for a chance to literally stab him in the back, but…that does not go so well, as you might expect.

In Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 5 we learn that the Grand Inquisitor is still alive and not dead. So how did the character survive?

While a relatively obscure bit of Star Wars trivia, the Pau’ans having two stomachs rather than one has previously been raised by fans as the reason behind his survival. The Grand Inquisitor likely survived as a result of his race having two stomachs. Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 5 featured the return of the Grand Inquisitor, who was presumed dead after Reva seemed to kill him with a lightsaber earlier in the series.

Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 5 brought something to screen that fans have been clamouring for: flashbacks to prequel-era Obi-Wan and Anakin. In the scenes, which are ...

Someone else (opens in new tab) thinks the scenes add to A New Hope: "The flashback shows why Vader says "When I left you I was the apprentice..." He was remembering good times with Obi-Wan I am not OKAY," says another emotional viewer (opens in new tab). In the scenes, which are spread throughout the episode, a younger Anakin and Obi-Wan spar with their lightsabers.

The endlessly hyped series, at that point, had told us nothing about its namesake, other than his fondness for prime cuts of space steak, and that Jedis' mid- ...

Star Wars bringing in a great actress in Moses Ingram to bring this character to life. A youngling at Order 66 who turned vengeful enough to hunt down the most powerful Force user in the galaxy. Episode Five of Obi-Wan Kenobi, which debuted on Disney+ Wednesday morning, delivers the signature Marvel/Star Wars penultimate episode twist.

An entertaining episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi pulls on Prequel heartstrings despite the show's artificial-looking locations.

Speaking of timing, six episodes turn out to be the perfect length for this Obi-Wan and Leia adventure. The Jabiim base is a re-skin of the heroes’ fortifications from The Empire Strikes Back and The Last Jedi, and it’s impossible to ignore the styrofoam look of the cave The camerawork often frames this location with symmetrical, cold competence, giving it less of a lived-in feel than Star Wars has at its best. Although Obi-Wan’s perspective on Reva’s plan feels a bit muddled by the end, the show continues to keep me hooked. Like the duel between Vader and Obi-Wan earlier in the show, the way characterization is shown through the swings of a lightsaber or lack thereof is exquisite. Obi-Wan tries to offer Reva a chance, distracting her in the process to buy the Jabiim refugees time to figure out their escape. The franchise is still making film history with the experimental combination of practical sets, digital painting, and the Volume, but the seams show more in Obi-Wan Kenobi than in The Mandalorian. But as a glimpse into what feels like a deleted scene from the Prequels, it works. I love Star Wars. Death, like hyperspace travel times, is mostly metaphor.) Left to die on Jabiim by the Empire, Reva finds Obi-Wan’s broken commlink with a message from Bail revealing that Obi-Wan was protecting another child on Tatooine. Seems like she’s headed there in the finale next week. But when Vader finally arrives and Reva confronts him, he toys with her before stabbing her in the gut and revealing that the Grand Inquisitor is still alive. The Empire has found the rebels on Jabiim. Leia’s hacked droid Lola sabotages the base’s power under orders from Reva. As a reward for her efforts, it seems the Third Sister finally gets what she wants: Darth Vader names her Grand Inquisitor and puts her in charge of retrieving Obi-Wan and Leia. Throughout the episode, Obi-Wan recalls a practice duel with Anakin that reveals Vader’s strengths and weaknesses. It’s a pity that Obi-Wan Kenobi hasn’t established enough of an identity to keep me from missing the much more cinematic The Mandalorian. Still, “Part 5” is very entertaining, hooking the show into the larger Skywalker story with good thematic awareness and some unexpected twists. She’s playing a very long game, trying to stab Vader in the back when the opportunity presents itself.

We get a suspenseful cliffhanger heading into the finale, and it only took a series of increasingly dumb, sloppy story turns to get there!

The wild card seemingly fueling Reva’s will to live is her extremely convenient discovery of the worried message from Bail Organa. When checking in on Obi-Wan, he somehow lets slip (in a message he knows is risky to begin with, sent to someone who knows all of this already) that Vader has secret children and that one of them is a boy on Tatooine. Now Reva knows. Flashback contrasts also highlight McGregor’s skill as a performer; his work as a broken-down Kenobi is more impressive after seeing how easily he can slip back into the rhythms of Attack of the Clones–era Obi-Wan, his light frustration with his star pupil chased with a bit of playful affection. But his youthful insouciance and relentlessness connect better than ever to a Darth Vader who rips apart chunks of starships and glories in keeping Reva from even swinging her lightsaber, much less connecting with his hulking frame. “Part V” is full of the kinds of details that might breeze by unnoticed in a well-paced two-hour film, or at least might not stick out until the second or third rewatch. In the Star Wars TV shows, the former Grand Inquisitor can get run through by Reva only to show up a few episodes later to watch her get run through by Vader, which inexplicably leaves her alive, presumably to continue a daisy chain of watching other characters get run through with a laser sword and live to fight another day. It’s a cliffhanger heading into the finale, and it only took a series of increasingly dumb, sloppy story turns to get there! Reva has been obsessed with locating Kenobi for Vader, to the point of being willing to maim or kill plenty of other Jedi in the process — a darker reflection of Tala, whose work with the Empire has resulted in her turning spy for the Path. But it still seems unclear what Reva actually planned to do with old Ben. Is she using him as a surefire way to become First Inquisitor, which would provide a means for her to get closer to Vader? (Surely there are easier ways to get within killing distance! The character stuff in “Part V,” however, is a welcome improvement from last week, in large part owing to that flashback. Perhaps informed by his thoughts of younger Anakin, or perhaps because he isn’t completely cut off from the Force, he intuits both the obvious twist about Reva and one the show has better concealed: Yes, she is one of the padawans we saw in the very first scene of the series, who witnessed the killing of her fellow younglings. Vader is able to close in on Kenobi and his pals because Reva’s unacknowledged-as-such gambit from the previous episode paid off. His sparring match with Master Kenobi offers some insight into how the traumatized Obi-Wan of this series may be strategizing as Vader closes in on him. — who may have been upset by the controversial decision to portray Luke as an actual human being in The Last Jedi.)

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.

While one of the main themes in Star Wars is hope, not every story ends happily. Fans who saw George Lucas' prequel trilogy and watched The Clone Wars ...

With only one episode remaining, it's hard to know whether fans have seen the last of these scenes which parallel current events. Again, this follows Disney first attaching a warning to Episode 1, which premiered on May 27. Netflix added a similar warning to Season 4 of Stranger Things, which happened to premiere the same day as Obi-Wan Kenobi's first episode.

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.

Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 5 brought something to screen that fans have been clamouring for: flashbacks to prequel-era Obi-Wan and Anakin. In the scenes, which are ...

Someone else (opens in new tab) thinks the scenes add to A New Hope: "The flashback shows why Vader says "When I left you I was the apprentice..." He was remembering good times with Obi-Wan I am not OKAY," says another emotional viewer (opens in new tab). In the scenes, which are spread throughout the episode, a younger Anakin and Obi-Wan spar with their lightsabers.

Episode 5, titled 'Part V' of 'Obi-Wan Kenobi,' reveals the truth about Reva, the inquisitor played by Moses Ingram.

In fact, part of her doesn't really believe that she and Obi-Wan want the same sort of revenge on him at all. We touched on it above a bit, but Part V brings the opening scene of the very first Obi-Wan Kenobi episode all the way back to relevance. Obi-Wan and the viewers both come to the realization at the same time that the hero and the villain share a common foe: Vader. But that villain also isn't losing any love for the Jedis. It's truly a set-up where she's playing the system from the inside, but doesn't care about who she's hurting on the other side either. He talked Reva into attacking Vader, and clearly it was the wrong time; she was defeated. We've seen enough redemption stories; turning Kylo Ren was one of the many mistakes made in Rise of Skywalker. It's time for more villains being villains, even if the only side they're really on is their own. Episode 5 of Obi-Wan Kenobi—appropriately titled "Part V"—was easily the show's best since its two-episode premiere.

Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 5 rushes to a dramatic finish, setting the stage for an explosive season finale.

Unless Obi-Wan is able to use the Force to erase little Luke’s memory of this epic duel somehow, it’s more likely the Jedi Master and Reva will have to come to a different kind of understanding. So does Obi-Wan stage his own death in order to escape the Empire and go back to his peaceful life on Tatooine? Reva was consumed by revenge — and the need to prove herself as the Grand Inquisitor in order to get close to Vader — that it blinded her to the way all of her enemies were playing her the whole time, just as Obi-Wan manipulates young Anakin’s attacks. When the Dark Lord of the Sith does catch up with them, it’ll likely be up to Obi-Wan to distract Vader while the refugees figure out a way to escape again. Consider point #3 above: unless there’s a secret second season of the show in the works, Obi-Wan and Vader’s duel has to end with the Jedi Master finding a way to disappear again, perhaps even by convincing the Sith Lord that he’s finally dead. So, the big question is: are Obi-Wan and Vader going to fight again in the finale? Reva now knows that Obi-Wan is hiding something on the desert planet and that this mysterious child may be the key to discovering the Jedi Master’s secret. We see, for example, that Obi-Wan is able to once again outsmart a rage-filled Vader without having to actually face him, planting a decoy transport to shield the real one during the escape from Jabiim. In fact, it looks like he dispatches her much in the same way he did all those years ago when she was just a youngling, stabbing her in the abdomen, leaving her to die from her wound. But how did the Pau’an baddie survive being cut down by Reva’s saber on Daiyu? Well, let’s just put it this way: if Darth Maul can survive being sliced in half through sheer force of will (and with a little help from his powers), the Grand Inquisitor should be able to get up after taking a lightsaber blade to the stomach. But when the dust has settled, and only a wounded, revenge-fueled Reva remains on the desolate surface of Jabiim, some viewers might be left with quite a few questions about where the show is going next. There’s so much going on in the adrenaline-filled penultimate episode of the Disney+ series that viewers barely have time to process massive developments such as the heroic death of Tala Durith or Reva’s tragic past as a Jedi youngling.