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Obi Wan Kenobi is back with it's third episode and it's time to Reva-up your engines as we're
going through all the easter eggs, hidden details and things you missed.
As always our breakdown is gonna obviously be full of spoilers so if you haven't checked
it out then check out now.
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as well as Andor which is dropping at the end of August.
With that out the way, let's travel back to a long time ago in a galaxy far far away and
get into the breakdown.
Ok so last week had us picking up on Tattooine post Order 66 with Obi Wan Kenobi now lying
low.
Inquisitors scoured the galaxy for him, namely Third Sister who got a group of Flea ridden
pirates to Leia finger on a certain senators daughter.
After rescuing her from Daiyu we watched as Reva ended up taking down the Grand Inquisitor.
Since Friday there's been a lot of talk about how this breaks continuity as the bad guy
has appeared in several things past this point but The Kinda Funny podcast discussed how
the creative team said that he's alive, he's just been taken out of the show so that they
can progress the plot with the other characters.
Huge shoutouts to KyloKen_XA for pointing out that the Star Wars Novel Last Shot reveals
that Pau'uns have two stomachs so he could easily have been stabbed at this point and
survived it.
We've had darth maul get cut in half, Thundercat patch up blaster bolts on Fennec shand so
there is precident that he could survive this.
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Either way we'll get into it and we start off with Obi-Wan meditating in an attempt
to reach out to Qui-Gon.
Obi-Wan had shut himself off from the force and even buried his lightsaber so that he'd
be more difficult to track when it came to the Inquisitors.
We also get the line by Yoda Only Pain You Will Find.
This was said to Obi-Wan at the Jedi temple before he looked over the security footage
revealing Anakin was complicit in Order 66.
There's been a lot of back and forth over whether Yoda knew Anakin had turned at this
point and amongst the quotes we get further ones from both Anakin and Qui Gon.
Accompanying this is shots of Anakin suiting up but whereas in films it tends to be done
in a cool way, here there's a feeling of pain to the entire thing..
He has fake arms and legs and even his chest panel has gigantic spikes on it that stab
into his body so that they can be held in place.
Every moment of his life since Mustafar has been spent in agony and this pain has driven
him down the path of the darkside.
After being assembled we cut to the wide shot of the room which was also the same location
that we saw in Rogue One.
We are on Mustafar aka Fortress Vader, the home of the world's biggest dead beat dad.
The design of the fortress of course mirrors the Inquisitor one and also their ship which
has two spire shapes with a gap in the middle.
Vader resided here during his time off so that he could heal and also because it reminded
him of the place that he suffered his greatest defeat at.
It was a big gut punch last week for Obi-Wan to learn that Anakin was still alive and mirroring
this, Vader was built thinking that Padme died because of him along with their two children.
This is why he never really went searching for Luke and Leia and it was only upon enlisting
Boba Fett that he discovered Luke was his offspring.
Here he mainly spends his time meditating, dropping puns about choking people like we
got in Rogue one and also just chilling like a villain.
I always kinda wished that they'd called this The Empire state building but ey, can't win
em all.
Voiced by James Earl Jones he creates a really intimidating opening and you might recognise
these shots as being ones that were teased in the Obi-Wan sizzle reel released last year.
According to the leaks, his performance is made up of several people including Earl Jones
as the voice, Hayden Christensen for when the mask is off and Dmitrious Bistrevsky for
when he's in the suit.
The last one was named in the leaks as mentioned but whether that's true or not I'm not 100%
At this point we get a hologram from Reva and there's something that they subtly do
here.
In Empire Strikes Back when Vader spoke to the Emperor he appeared as a giant head, whereas
here Reva appears like a small figure.
It really shows who holds power over the others and this is also why Snoke appeared as a giant
hologram during the Force Awakens.
Now what Reva is currently after is unclear but I had an awesome theory dropped on my
last video by Gunslinger100.
They said that Reva might actually be trying to capture Obi-Wan so that she can gain a
private audience with Vader and then she'll be able to enact her true plan to kill him.
If she ended up becoming the grand inquisitor then this would allow her to meet with him
privately and this would give her an opportunity to strike him down.
However there are others that are after the seat too which is also shaped in that Sith
format.
That's branding.
She may even be after his spot and taking him out would make her next in line to become
Palps apprentice if she's the Grand Inquisitor.
Episode 1 opened with Order 66 being carried out and the first kid we see will probably
be revealed to be her.
There's been a lot of talk about how Reva knew that Darth Vader and Anakin were one
in the same but I suspect that it's gonna be revealed he was the one who found her after
the Jedi Temple attack.
He was there and would likely immediately begin recruiting inquisitors from the off.
We've had the Grand Inquisitor talk about how Kenobi should be left for Darth Vader
and she even ended up taking him out so I do think that it will likely come out that
this is all part of her plan to take out the person that destroyed her life.
It would make sense that Obi-Wan would also be someone that she hated too.
Though he went to the Jedi Temple with Yoda, he didn't really look for any survivors and
Reva might end up hating him because of this.
It's also possible that her name is a play on Revan, a Jedi who broke away from the order
before becoming a Sith much like how she has here.
Now we cut back to the ship and hear Leia asks how the force works.
We also get this line by Obi-Wan...
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Possibly riffing on the similar line Han dropped in the Force Awakens.
From here they travel to Mapuzo which was first introduced in a Star Wars role playing
game.
Huge shoutouts to Erik Voss at new rockstars for pointing out that this was also hinted
at in the trailer due to the arrabesh writing that the Inquisitors look over.
Upon landing we see two droids, one that looks a lot like R5 but its difficult to tell as
his motivator isn't bust up.
Tge planet also has Stormtroopers on it and impreials strip the land of it's minerals.
Throughout the galaxy they threw lots of their efforts into mining so that they could build
weapons like the Death Star and they completely ravaged planets in order to take what they
wanted.
Obi-Wan has visions of a Jedi and I believe that this is Anakin though it is difficult
to make out.
Anakin is of course weighing heavily on his mind as he was his student and in failing
him he caused one of the greatest threats in the galaxy to rise up.
Now the show has kinda screwed the canon a bit as we have Leia clearly knowing Obi-Wan
due to him rescuing her life.
However in a New Hope she only really talks about him serving her father in the clone
wars and when Luke ends up fleeing, Yoda seemingly reveals to him that there is another.
The way this always came across to me was that only Yoda really knew about it but they
might end up altering things in this series.
I suppose you could kinda write it off as Leia being ten years old here so she might
not even remember it because, I can't really remember most of the s**t I did when I was
10.
Mainly cos I was drunk all the time.
I've also seen some people say that he introduced himself as Ben but she did hear him get called
Obi-Wan.
We of course know that Leia ended up naming her son Ben, after Kenobi which I always found
a bit weird as the pair never actually met in A New Hope.
However this could be explaining this and maybe we will get some of the plot holes smoothed
over come the end of the season.
Either way probably a minor inconsistency that means absolutely nothing and I've wasted
enough time talking about it already.
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Now at this point we see Fortress Inquisitorius, the base of the inquisitors.
It actually featured as the final level in Fallen Order and the spire in the sky also
goes deep into the ocean.
We can actually see lightsabers that they've taken from the jedi they've hunted in the
background which is such a nice detail.
Reva takes a long walk through the hallways in what is some of the most Epic walking I've
ever seen.
Bloody doesnt stop walking.
At this point she meets the other Inquisitors and Fifth Brother makes it clear he wants
the throne.
Now Fifth Brother is probably my favourite character in the show so far.
Played by Sung Kang you'll probably recognise him as playing Han from The Fast And Furious
Franchise.
I dropped a #JusticeForHanSolo joke last week and..yeah...go check check out the amazing
wit in that video.
Now Fifth Brother like the rest of the inquisitors ended up surviving Order 66 and after he was
taken in by the Imperials he was trained by the Grand Inquisitor and also Darth Vader.
During training he actually ended up having his hand sliced off, a classic thing that
pretty much happens to everyone in Star Wars.
They can't get enough.
Hunting surviving Jedi, He joined Vader on missions going after characters like Eeth
Koth and his Child.
one of the most important Inquisitors and he was tasked with destroying the Rebellion.
He met his end attempting to track down a Sith Holocron which is when he came face to
face with Ezra Bridger and his new best buddy Lord Maul.
Maul ended up killing him and most a lot of the other inquisitors whilst he tried to tempt
Ezra with the Darkside.
Definitely go check out Rebels if you wanna know more of his story and also the Grand
Inquisitors as well.
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Alongside him is Fourth Sister who is a bit of an unknown in the Star Wars canon.
She followed the rest of the inquisitors in being recruited from the Jedi Order but she's
not really appeared in the canon all that much and is actually missing from a lot of
the articles and sites that go over all the different members.
Because of this we don't really know what happened to her in the end but we do know
that she ended up losing her armour to Lina Graf.
Graf ended up wearing this and impersonating her in order to infiltrate Fortress Vader
on Mustafar but beyond this we know sweet f**k all.
Cut to Probe Droids being sent out into the galaxy, a motif that was of course how we
opened The Empire Strikes back.
Obi Wan and Leia reach the rendevous point but no ones there.
They flag down a crate carrier called Freck and Leia gives the name Luma.
Luma means light and this could have been picked by Leia because of Obi-Wans speech
about how the force was like turning the light on in the dark.
However, Luma is also a name that has popped up at several points with characters Luma
and Luma Rahl.
I feel like the shots in this vessel are also meant to reflect the earlier ones from Episode
1 in which he travelled to and from work.
In those scenes he was trying to hide from the Empire which he literally has to do when
they get boarded later one.
They state they're from Tawl the location we visited last week on Daiyu.
After the Stormtroopers show up they say they're looking for a Jedi and ey, look, look at the
clothes the guys wearing man, right infront of you.
Obi-Wan told Leia to keep quiet but he's the f**king idiot in this situation.
He passes it off as seeing her mothers face when he looks at her which is of course a
reference to Padme but man, the writing in this scene dear me.
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However, Vivien Lyra Blair comes through, delivering a line that's very reminicent of
Carrie Fishers performance in Return Of The Jedi, when she was discussing her mother.
So far I trhink she's nailed the young version of the character and he even asks if Obi-Wan
if he's her father.
This could be riffing on Anakin accusing Padme and Obi-Wan of hooking up but my man was all
about the bro's before Yod'sa.
Obi-Wan talks about being taken away from his family when he was very young and he even
brings up his brother which is something that I think is new for the canon.
Stopped at a checkpoint by the troopers and scanned by a probe drop, Obi-Wan ends up using
his blaster to take out the imperials.
This is covert for him as using a lightsaber will obviously alert them and we get somewhat
of a willhelm scream, though not exactly that when the trooper falls over the edge.
Ambushed by more troops they're saved by an Imperial named Tala who leads them to an underground
railroad esque sanctuary for the Jedi.
This was discussed more in the rebels episode 'Path Of The Jedi' and it's been used a number
of times to chronicle their journey.
This also provided them with new identities and led them to Jabiim, a planet that Obi-Wan
led a skirmish on during the clone wars.
If you recognise Tala it's likely also because she's played by Indira Varma who played Ellaria
Sand in Game Of Thrones.
They meet a loader droid called Ned-B that leads them into the safe house.
They also bring a Quinlan Vos, a Jedi Master who we know from the canon lived long enough
to see the empire fall.
He was actually a renowned rulebreaker which fits into this notion of smuggling Younglings
that we discover he did.
Now though we don't know what happened with Grogu it is possible that he went through
this too and ey, as they say this is the way.
There's still a lot of mystery over who the jedi who saved him was and potentially we'll
learn it was Quinlan the entire time.
The peace is broken by Stormtroopers who arrive and after realising they're compromised they're
led away.
Obi-Wan gives the name Ben once more, showing how much he has given up on the old life.
Much like a New Hope and the death star, he senses Vader arriving on the planet which
is where everything kicks off.
Such a cool moment and I love how you have Vaders breathing mirrored in Obi-Wan's.
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Guy just starts choking people in an attempt to draw Obi-Wan out and as soon as he kills
a father and son you know its on.
Probably reaching but Obi-Wan and Anakin had a Father and Son relationship so him killing
these first could metaphorically show how he feels about the whole dad thing he had
going on.
Either way this choking is also something that he did to Padme in Revenge Of The Sith
before their battle, like what we have here.
It's sort of like Poetry they rhyme and the pair end up coming face to face.
Obi-Wan ends up fleeing, however, we need bloody fights and watching him spark it up
amongst the dark sand is brilliant.
We also get a moment in which his saber is used to mirror him killing Younglings in the
prequels.
Really nice attention to detail by the creative team that shows how they're scenes of him
hunting the jedi reflect one anohter.
Here the lightsaber duel is far closer to how it was in a new hope with less of the
twirling and more of the classic swordsmanship that the original duels were based on.
Great seeing them fight once more and I was actually surprsied they went head to head
this early on.
Darth vader then drops this line
kill me when you had the chance
And we can now add it to this supercut.
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Revea ends up looking for Leia and she discovers the path and Tala tells her to go on her own.
She comes across the Jedi crest which triggers her because it very much adds to her feeling
of abandoment if our theory is right.
Which...probably is and I dont even need to add a Theory Time Theory Time Theory time.
She was left to fend for herself and she ended up joining the Inquisitors who've subjected
her to a life of Tourment whilst others got away.
Vader ends up suspending Obi-Wan in the air and he attempts to drag him through fire so
that he ends up suffering the same fate that Anakin did...again it's sort of like...nevermind.
Tala gets the high ground and she buys an escape for Obi-Wan and they'll never find
him, no way mate, No way can they find him now.
They did kinda set this up by saying that Tala wears her blaster on one side because
shes a quicker draw with it and it gives her the opportunity to beat them punks.
However Reva tracks down Leia, ending the episode on a cliffhanger.
As for my thoughts on the series so far, I did really enjoy the first episode but the
second one was a bit meh to me and my feelings were kinda up in the air for the show.
However, I thorouhgly enjoyed this one and it gave us what we wanted in terms of having
Obi-Wan and Vader finally facing off.
Episode 4 is right around the corner and though I had mixed feelings with the first two, this
got me back onboard
Now we also have some minor leaks for the end of the video before we wrap up.
There was a big plot leak posted on reddit a while back that got the first two episodes
bang on and though it didn't detail the others after it it did say some details about the
rest of the series.
These aren't major ones but turn off incase you don't wanna know.
Anyway we will apparently be getting lots of flashbacks in the upcoming entries of a
de-aged Hayden Christensen.
This could potentially be during the Clone Wars and both his and Obi-Wan's time together
or it could be after the events of Order 66.
I'm learning more towards the latter as it could explain Reva's backstory but let me
know below what you think.
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