Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 6!

"You are the future," Obi-Wan pointedly tells Leia early on in the Kenobi finale. The show's place on the Star Wars timeline, tucked in-between the prequels and ...

In one last piece of fan-service, Obi-Wan is met with one final surpris: Qui-Gon Jinn. In Liam Neeson’s best cameo this year – with apologies to Derry Girls – he marks the first step forward for Obi-Wan’s inner peace, and gives the show one last chance to showcase Ewan McGregor’s incredible facial acting as he tearfully glimpses the Force ghost of his former master. The scene is heightened, too, by smart creative choices from Chow. The flashes of red and blue across the cracked mask of Vader act as clever flashes of symbolism, while the distorted clashing voices of both Hayden Christensen and James Earl Jones is the perfect way to communicate the final whispers of internal strife from within the Sith Lord. If there were any fears that the Obi-Wan Kenobi interquel would feel redundant, this scene is proof enough that it simply isn’t the case. If Obi-Wan and Vader’s lightsaber battle in the third episode was a rehearsal, then this is showtime; a main event that’s worth the wait – and then some. To stall for time, Obi-Wan takes off to a nearby planet and – inevitably – the Sith gives chase. The episode begins with Vader chasing down Obi-Wan and the Path refugees as they head to Tessen. Obi-Wan quickly concocts a plan to distract Vader and get Leia to safety. Obi-Wan Kenobi signs off with a rousing concluding episode, one packed with an abundance of fan service, well-earned emotional interactions, and a lightsaber battle that will live long in the memory.

The Obi-Wan Kenobi finale finally saw the Jedi Master say his most famous line – and the internet is loving it. Towards the very end of the episode, Uncle Owen ...

There's no word yet on an Obi-Wan Kenobi season 2, but you can read all about the chances of more through the link. And when he finally got the chance… The Obi-Wan Kenobi finale finally saw the Jedi Master say his most famous line – and the internet is loving it.

A slow Obi-Wan Kenobi finale strains even Star Wars' operatic credulity in favor of weightless fan service.

Like all Star Wars stories, Obi-Wan Kenobi still manages to leave the viewer with a sense of potential despite what actually appeared on screen. The final confrontation between Obi-Wan and Vader had some good dramatic moments (Vader moving the earth, and I am not immune to Obi-Wan’s Prequel fighting style) when it did not feel like a fated (scripted) high noon standoff in front of a cardboard set. What if Vader threatened Leia? What if Reva had a change of heart but didn’t know how to express that, finding herself at the wrong end of a blaster for a crime she actually didn’t commit? Speaking to the dead isn’t relevant to the plot. I can forgive a lot when it comes to Star Wars. Hyperspace moves at the speed of drama. The exception is Reva. Her choice is powerful but understated, a slow burn of conscience in which she decides not to become the monster haunting her own nightmares. It’s a slightly more naturalistic performance than in the Prequel Trilogy and yet does not lose the operatic size a core Star Wars character must have. But with Obi-Wan Kenobi, the last 20 minutes in particular devote the majority of their time to longing looks at the franchise’s past. And Beru’s insistence that the family stand their ground doesn’t work as a moment of fierce empowerment: the audience knows that Reva won’t kill the family, and that Beru’s later stand against the Empire will be completely ineffective. I’d have loved just one more flashback scene about what her dynamic with Vader was when she was younger, about how his hatred for Obi-Wan transferred to her or how her own festered. The finale wraps up with a crop of cameos and closed loops: Emperor Palpatine tells Vader to focus on the future, Obi-Wan and the Alderaan crew (including Leia, safe at home) look nervously toward what’s next for them, the Jedi Master briefly greets young Luke, and Qui-Gon’s ghost appears to lead his former apprentice into his contemplative desert fate. It’s the Jedi he wants, so Obi-Wan baits him into a fight on a rocky planet.

With Episode 6 of Obi-Wan Kenobi, the Disney+ show has come to an end--for now, as there's always talk about more seasons, even if the show is a limited ...

Obi-Wan says, "Hello there" at the end of the episode. The first time the character says this line is in Revenge of the Sith, when Obi-Wan surprises General Grievous and some battle droids. It was originally written by John Williams for The Empire Strikes Back. It's easily the most iconic piece of music from Star Wars as a whole. And much like the moment on Rebels, Obi-Wan thinks he can save his friend, and Vader says "I will destroy you." Anakin Skywalker was Ahsoka's master and eventually became Darth Vader. Ahsoka fought Vader on Rebels and destroyed the left side of his mask, showing what was underneath. In the background of a scene on Tatooine, there's this astromech droid just strolling around.

Welcome, Star Wars fans, to our final recap of Disney+'s Obi-Wan Kenobi series. I'm shocked that we're already at the final episode.

Really, this series would have made a solid 2-hour film, and I fully expect a number of fan edits to rework the 6 hours of footage into a more streamlined experience. (This nitpick is more a fault of the prequels than Obi-Wan Kenobi, but you gotta work within the defined constructs of the Star Wars franchise — otherwise what the hell are we doing here?) “But also, you’re under arrest for the murder of several people (including a Jedi) and the kidnapping of Princess Leia of Alderaan.” Star Wars loves to reward last-second reclamation (?) projects, but where Darth Vader and Kylo Ren (spoiler alert) died after embracing their inner good guy (conveniently sidestepping the consequences), Reva is very much alive and free to star in her own spinoff. “I fear for her future,” Bail Organa (Jimmy Smits) says, nodding to Leia (no one tell him about Alderaan). “The Empire grows stronger and bolder.” I really want to see Padme again.” Palpatine quickly peaces out and Vader leans back in his chair as the Imperial March finally plays on the soundtrack. Back under the rocks, Obi-Wan thinks of a happy thought (Leia!) and escapes a crushing death (snare drum). Emboldened, Obi-Wan attacks Vader with reckless abandon. (McGregor recalling his “I will do what I must” line from Revenge of the Sith slaps hard.) The former pals engage in combat. “I got something I wanna say,” comes the familiar voice of Reva (Moses Ingram) who Force pushes the man to the side and questions the water vendor about Owen Lars (Joel Edgerton). Frankly, I’m surprised Reva is in as good a shape as she is considering she just got stabbed by Darth Vader a few hours prior. Vader exits his ship and (after walking a mile) comes face to face with a decidedly more noble Obi-Wan Kenobi. “The circle is now complete,” Obi-Wan says. The rebel vessel poops out Obi-Wan’s escape craft (how big is that ship?) in front of Vader and the man in black orders his men to follow. Obi-Wan implores Haja to take Leia back to Alderaan as soon as he’s in the clear. I’m hoping the last episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi delivers the strong character and/or spectacle we’ve come to expect from Star Wars in a big way.

Obi-Wan and ex-Anakin finally get the lightsaber duel (and closure) they've been brooding about for a decade. A recap of “Part VI,” the sixth episode and ...

There’s a bit more of this matching game later in the episode, as Obi-Wan agrees to take a more hands-off “here if you need me” approach to his watching over Luke, tacitly explaining why a teenage Luke is familiar with “crazy old Ben” rather than “the cool lightsaber-wielding guy who’s always watching our backs.” It helps Obi-Wan’s case that he’s not the one who saves Luke from Reva, who knocks him down from an embankment and approaches his unconscious body, ready to strike. I understand that the funky-alien-diner vibe was ultimately not the goal of this relatively somber character piece, but if Obi-Wan pulls a classic prestige TV and does follow up its “limited series” with a second season, I dearly hope it will leave room for some more Lucas-style whimsy. • The petty question that always lingers with me when a cinematic event or character makes the jump to TV is this: Did this need to be a series? (It seems like Vader would have the resources to pursue Obi-Wan while sending the rest of the Empire after the others, but never mind.) Here is the actual lightsaber battle, that “rematch of the century” that can’t really hope to live up to the operatic intensity of characters battling it out on an erupting lava planet. Obi-Wan Kenobi started out feeling like a sequel to a prequel; it ended up feeling like a prequel to itself. That’s doubly true of Obi-Wan’s crushing rejection of Vader’s vow for revenge: “Good-bye,” he says, before adding an uneasy “Darth.” Obi-Wan has never really talked about attempting to bring Anakin back from the dark side; the futile hope and subsequent sad reality of the situation are all allowed to live in McGregor’s performance. (“The weakness still remains … which is why you will always lose!” isn’t worlds away from Darth Helmet’s “Evil will always triumph over good … because good is dumb.”) As directed by Deborah Chow, the fight feels like it has its own visual identity, using her favored (and, let’s be frank, probably cost-effective) lightsabers-as-lanterns technique and the landscape’s roughness to stage something scrappier and less elegant than the Revenge of the Sith face-off. For a few minutes, the show, too, gets to pierce through all of that heavy helmet iconography and look for a human who might be able to meet Obi-Wan’s gaze. As the entertaining and satisfying “Part VI” opens, the Empire is hot on the heels of the transport carrying various Force-adjacent refugees, and while Roken (O’Shea Jackson Jr.) tries to keep hope alive among his passengers, he quietly confides to Obi-Wan that they’re basically screwed. (Doesn’t he also … want to save everyone?) Okay, fine, you want to make it clear that Obi-Wan is actually ready to stop avoiding the big Darth, but boy, it would have been cool if Roken felt like an actual character and not just the person who spouts off contradictory assertions to gin up nominal conflict. Gleaming, menacing helmets have become a major part of the Star Wars iconography, to the point where they’ve come to symbolize a kind of originalist traditionalism in the series. Yet the movie is prescient about one aspect of Star Wars movies that had not yet been produced back in 1987: Underneath the gleaming, menacing dark helmet is a whiny, insecure human being — whether it’s Rick Moranis or Hayden Christensen.