So Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 3 has finally dropped on Disney+, continuing the
tragic tale of Obi-Wan discovering the true fate of his former Apprentice Darth Vader.
In the episode we got some massive connections to the Star Wars books, games, comics and
tv shows, including one of Anakins darkest moments.
So hit that subscribe button and let’s get into it.
So the episode begins inside of the cargo ship they used to escape last episode, with
Obi-Wan yet again begging for his Master Qui-Gon Jinn to greet him from the cosmic force.
Instead however, he is only greeted by the chilling voice of Reva, warning Obi-Wan that
Anakin is still alive…
We then get some crosscut shots with Darth Vader inside of his tank, intertwined with
Obi-Wan hearing more voices from his past, including Yoda, Qui-Gon Jinn and Anakin on
that Fateful day on Mustafar.
Right after this, we see the final construction of Darth Vader’s suit onto his body, before
he menacingly walks forward at his fortress on Mustafar.
His suit in this series is actually pretty close to the one used in Rogue One.
Next, Vader moves to his throne room and opens a hologram call with Reva, revealing that
he has been watching her for some time now.
He also offers Reva the position of Grand Inquisitor is she is successful in finding
Kenobi.
This finally confirms the long held theory that the Grand Inquisitor is a rank that can
be earned, rather than just going to the first Inquisitor who joined.
In the very next shot, young Leia asks Obi-Wan what it feels like to use the force, and describes
it as the feeling of safety you get after turning on the light in a dark room.
Obviously this is the Jedi’s perspective on the force, but it’s actually pretty similar
to the way Ahsoka explained it to a young child on the planet Thabeska shortly after
Order 66.
After crashing her Venator into the unknown ice Moon, Ahsoka was forced to live in hiding
from the Empire, and she eventually discovered a young force-sensitive girl in the outer
Room.
She used a very similar way of describing the force to her, but this was before she
started moving towards the balance.
After this, Obi-Wan and Leia’s cargo ship arrives on the imperial controlled planet
of Mapuzo, where lots of imperial mining takes place.
Mapuzo was mentioned in Star Wars legends, and we don’t know much about it apart from
the fact that a huge robbery took place there…
During their journey across the planet, Obi-Wan is having horrific visions, which are powerful
enough to even scare Leia.
If it wasn’t already clear, he’s a very scarred man by this point in the timeline.
Now in the next shot we arrive at an extremely cool location, that we’ve actually seen
before in Star Wars Canon.
This place is called Fortress Inquisitorious and is the home base of Darth Vader’s inquisitors.
It is located on the Moon Nur in the Mustafar system, but was only moved there after Two
Inquisitors fell in love at their old headquarters on Coruscant and Darth Vader shredded up the
whole area to find them.
As a result, Palpatine forced Vader to move their headquarters to his home system of Mustafar,
and here we are.
It has previously appeared in the Darth Vader: 2017 comics as well as at the end of Jedi
Fallen Order.
Inside the main chamber, Reva comes in and asserts her position as the new leader following
the Grand Inquisitor’s “death”, if you can call it that, and you can actually see
some Jedi artefacts in the background.
First is either a Jedi Temple guard Mask, or one of the youngling helmets that they
used to train, and after that you can see a row of lightsabers.
These are presumably from inside the Jedi temple, after Vader’s complete slaughter.
Back on Mapuzo, Obi-Wan warns Leia that she shouldn’t talk when they eventually get
to their pickup point, but she goes right ahead anyway and gives the two names.
She chooses the name Luma for herself and Orden for Kenobi.
Obviously when put together, Luma Orden is roughly equal to Light Order, aka the Jedi
Order, and we have actually seen a Luma in Canon.
A Tooka Cat on Batuu at Galaxy’s edge who lost her owner is named Luma.
Next up we get a hilarious scene where a bunch of stormtroopers hop onto the transport and
Obi-Wan has to blagg his way out of the situation, making a few mistakes on the way.
He even says “when I look at Luma, I see her mother’s face”, which he’s honestly
not even lying about.
He sees so much of Padme in young Leia.
After this, Obi-Wan has a heart to heart where he confirms that he is not her real father,
and says he barely remembers what his parents even look like anymore, apart from a few small
details.
This is consistent with what we’ve already learned in Canon, and then Obi-Wan mentions
that he had a brother.
This is a bit of a throwback to the first ever Script of A New Hope, where Uncle Owen
was originally Obi-Wan’s brother…
Cool to see that brought back into Canon!
In the next shot, Obi-Wan and Leia are pulled over at an imperial checkpoint and the Stormtrooper
says he needs to initiate Protocol 23.
This is directly connected to Protocol 13, which was used in Rogue One and Star Wars
Rebels, and basically ordered all imperial staff to retreat to a single location, ready
for evacuation.
After this, Obi-Wan suffers a pretty bad imperial entanglement but is soon saved by a rogue
imperial Officer.
This then cuts back to Fortress Inquisitorious, where we find out they’re mining Vintrium
for batteries on Mapuzo.
Nice connection to the STar WArs: Clone Wars adventure game from back in the day.
Right after, the Imperial Officer brings Obi-Wan into a safe house and says that they’ve
established a group of these all across the Galaxy, sort of like an underground railroad
to safety.
The final destination at the end of the Path however is actually Jabiim, which is an absolutely
huge location from Obi-Wan’s story in Star Wars Legends.
The battle was so dire and bloody that Anakin actually believed Obi-Wan had been killed
there.
As the battle was coming to an end, Anakin Skywalker, on the orders of Palpatine, decided
that enough was enough and began an evacuation of all Republic Clone Troopers and Jedi.
The locals were left with the words “this is your war now”, which was seen as a disgusting
betrayal by Skywalker himself.
It’s possible that the events of Jabiim will be referenced in Canon in the next episode,
but we’ll have to see how much is kept the same.
Even though the locals of Jabiim won’t know Darth Vader is just Anakin Skywalker under
the suit, we’ll probably get a few references to his betrayal when we arrive there, just
as off hand comments.
I’ll definitely be covering this comic in full very shortly, so hit that subscribe button
to see the full and horrific battle of Jabiim.
After this Obi-Wan realizes that Quinlan Vos is alive and well and actually helps the operation
to bring younglings in.
We already knew that he was alive from the Darth Vader 2017 comics, so this is icing
on top.
In those comics, Darth Vader and the Grand Inquisitor have a list of the highest priority
Jedi survivors that they need to hunt down.
Quinlan Vos is on the list, and believed to be active…
This also makes it much more likely that Quinlan is Cid’s Jedi contact from Star Wars: The
Bad Batch.
Cid did say that she works with a Jedi from time to time, and given this new mention,
that’s probably going to be Quinlan Vos.
While this is happening, Obi-Wan falls into a deep panic realizing something or someone
terrible has arrived.
As he looks outside the window of the safehouse he sees the man he once trained, Darth Vader
and the Inquisitors.
As Obi-Wan tries to escape he is immediately caught off guard by Vader, but chooses not
to engage immediately.
Obi-Wan tries to escape, but it is no use.
Vader immediately corners Kenobi says that he has become what you made me.
Heartbreaking line, and at this point, Obi-Wan himself believes it is true.
The reason he’s in such a dark place is because he blames himself for both Anakin’s
Fall, and the current state of the Galaxy.
After this we are thrown right into the action, no fake outs this time.
The former master and apprentice clash their red and blue blades in a fight for the ages.
Vader then says, “you should have killed me when you had the chance”, obviously referring
to Mustafar, and then Obi-Wan cuts a pipe to put smoke in Vader’s face, just like
Luke did on cloud city with the Tibanna gas.
Right after, Vader lifts Kenobi up into the air with the force before stabbing his saber
into the ground to create fire.
this is kinda similar to what happened on Malachor in Star Wars Rebels, but regardless,
Vader wants Obi-Wan to feel the same pain he did on Mustafar.
I don’t know about you guys, but this is probably one of the most brutal versions of
Darth Vader we’ve ever seen, even across the movies, animated shows and the comics.
Cutting back to the inquisitors, the Fifth Brother is disgusted that Obi-Wan escaped,
knowing they’ll probably never get him at this point.
For the final scene we then move back into that cave where Reva has unfortunately caught
up to young Leia and a huge chase is about to unfold.
For that scene though, we’ll have to wait until the next episode…
So let me know in the comments what you thought about the fight between Darth Vader and Obi-Wan.
Did it meet your expectations or were you hoping for a bit more!
Also drop your predictions for the next episode in the comments below, as I think it’s going
to be an absolutely massive episode.
Thanks so much for watching guys, really hope you enjoyed the video.
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