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Obi-Wan Kenobi has just dropped it’s finale and throughout this video we’re gonna be breaking down
all the easter eggms hidden details and things you missed. Last week had Roken and the Rebels
fleeing into space whilst Reva remained behind to try and strike down Vader. This backfired and she
ended up getting stabbed in the stomach similar to how she was when she was a child. We actually
had hints towards this wound all the way back in episode 3 when she ended up getting slammed
by Brother 5. She ended up touching it for a split second and It is possible that she had
cybernetic parts placed into this much like we saw with Fennec Shand. These just being stabbed
again would explain how she survived the encounter and they act as somewhat of a means to an endor.
This episode really wrestles with whether she’s friend or poe and come the end of
the entry they tie things up quite nicely without breaking the canon too much.
But does it work? Well we’ll talk about it later on but if you’ve been enjoying the
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With that out the way, thanks for clicking this, now let’s get into Episode 6.
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We open on Tattooine and see two Jawas as well as a blue astromech droid that’s
the same unit as R5 who would later get a bust motivator on the planet.
Motivators actually pop up again when we discover that the ship is struggling.
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Here we see Moisture dealers selling water in the street and
Reva ends up intervening on a guy who’s just, just a bit of a jerk.
Now this actually subtly hints that she’s turning back to the light
as she’s somewhat showing compassion to the locals by helping them out, even if she’s not
specifically doing it for their best interests. This was a big part of the Jedi order and maybe
getting that Arkham Asylum death screen last week made her restart with a new take on life.
Now in earlier breakdowns we talked about how Reva could likely be a play on the name Revan.
This was a jedi who ended up turning to the dark side much like she did. Similar to that fact Revan
also ended up going back to the light in the canonised ending which is what we see happen here.
Cut to the devastator chasing the Partisan ship
which we learn is heading to Tessen. I dopn’t believe that this ship has featured
in the saga before and it’s a refuge that they sadly won’t make it too.
Now Vader has of course searched near and Mustafar for Obi-Wan and he’s completely
obsessed with taking him down and getting his revenge of the sith. He’s very much
trying to use the reverse Uno card on him from their battle on Mustafar
and we’ve seen this throughout the show and the expanded lore. Episode 3 had him
dragging him through fire in order to burn him and in the comics we even had a section
where he dreamed about killing him on Mustafar during their battle.
He’s so fixated on Obi-Wan that he realises he’ll leave the others alone if it means he gets
him and thus he ends up leaving in order to head to a Moon of Mustafar.
This chase scene feels a lot more exciting than the dull one from The Last Jedi
and we actually see the struggle that they’re going and hopelessness that they feel.
However it is just the same plan as they have in that so Star Wars bout to get some s**t.
This episode is very much about Obi-Wan himself intervening in order to protect people
and he really lays his life on the line. We see that Obi-Wan gives her Tala’s holster
and it is possible that this is the one she ended up wearing in
Return Of The Jedi due to their similar designs.
This also popped up in the Princess Leia Age Of Rebellion Comic and it’s nice that
they at least kinda tied into that and in many ways Tala might have inspried her.
Cut to Luke and Uncle Owen who we learn as per usual, tired of your s**t Luke mate.
He never hits the thumbs up button,
always causes trouble and one of these days he’s gonna get his auntie and uncle killed…oh.
He learns about Reva and we see that Aunt Beru is played once more by Bonnie Piesse
who also played the character in Revenge Of The Sith.
Obi-Wan tries to reach out to Qui-Gon but he doesn’t get a response,
however come the end of the entry they finally reconnect, probably because the latter feels
a bit awkward about getting everyone to train the people who destroyed the Jedi even though
everyone was like, mate don’t do it. The Grand Inquisitor really wants Vader to
focus on thePartisans but as we discovered last week, Vader is often blinded by the thought of
Victory. Though he managed to sniff out Reva through doing this it was still clearly his
downfall and something that Obi-Wan said would keep him as a padawan until he overcame it.
This could explain why he says in A New Hope that he was but a learner when he and Obi-Wan last met
and him finally dropping this makes him become a master. Vader decides to face him alone but ey,
could’ve sent the Devastator after the Partisans and went for Obi-Wan yourself but nevermind.
He flies in a shuttle, the same transport that we saw him riding
in at the end of Empire and also at the start of Return Of The Jedi.
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On the farm Luke says.
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Which is of course a play on him saying it in the Empire Strikes back.
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Vader and Obi-Wan come face to face but he refuses to run away like he did in Episode 3.
Interestingly everyone was saying he darted for the high ground.
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Vader says have you come to destroy me.
Potentially playing on him saying the opposite to Luke in Empire.
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He also says then you will die.
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Which is a line that the character said in Rebels.
Similar to this his mask also gets split later on exposing some of his face
and finally showing us Hayden in the suit. Through this we can hear both Hayden and
James Earl Jones dubbing the lines over each other which was how his dialogue played out in Rebels.
These quotes might niot actually be nods to em but,
we like a reach here at the channel so, moving on.
Obi-Wan ends up drawing his lightsaber and he adopts the stance that we’ve seen him take at
several points in his life with the blade up by his head whilst he extends his other arm.
This has appeared a number of times throughout the franchise and it’s sort of like poetry they rhyme.
The pair duke it out and unlike their last fight
there’s no lava here to fall into. Great battle of them just going all out and it’s nicely juxtaposed
by the more solitary and stealthy scenes that are happening with Reva.
Owen actually holds his own and you can kinda see why Obi-Wan trusted him to raise the child.
This is mirroed in Obi-Wan who still holds back when fighting Vader. Ever since he left him to
die on Mustafar he’s shown that he’s actually unable to deal a full killing blow to him
and this was of course seen in Episode 3 and A New Hope in which he sacrificed himself.
Obi-Wan gets buried under Rocks and making them levitate is one of the first things that
a Jedi learns. This shows the very base reaction to him and he ends up burying
the character lower than the audience scores for the show on Rotten Tomatoes.
He calls him Master which doesn’t break canon as he refers to himself as one in A New Hope.
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Now whilst they’re fighting I thought i’d just drop a quick correction on last weeks
video. We said that we thought this took place after Attack Of The Clones because Anakin was
looking at Padme’s penthouse which he wouldn’t know belonged to her unless they met. However,
due to the lightsaber that he carries here being destroyed in the factor and also the fact that
he still has his hand, it’s set either early on in Attack Of The Clones or just before it.
Still can’t explain why he looks like a 45 year old man but there was also
a hidden Mickey Mouse head in the scene. Those summmsoffbiches at Disney, I’ll never forgive em.
Back on the farm Reva badly busts up Owen and Beru which makes Luke flee into the desert.
He never actually sees the Lightsaber in the episode and this keeps up the canont
as Obi-Wan had to explain to him what one was in A New Hope. Later on he gets knocked
out so he’s unconscious when she draws it and this was something I theorised they had
to kinda do in order to not mess up a New Hope. Under the rocks we hear lines of dialogue from
their previous battles and initially it seems like these somewhat push him into fueling his anger.
However, he ends up channeling his thoughts of Luke and Leia which empowers him to finally
concentrate and lift the rocks. He later on builds up an array of these that he fires like bullets.
Lots of flashes again of the ending of Last Jedi here and again this
calls back to basic Jedi training in which they used their feelings.
This helps him overpower vader and it leaves him breathing heavily like how
he was when he was wounded in Return Of The Jedi.
After his helmet is split like Ryan Arey’s mom bit down too hard,
he ends up denying that he’s anakin.
Obi-Wan described him as being more machine than man now and this voice
distortion and machinery that surrounds him adds to why Obi-Wan felt this way.
Obi-Wan apologises for letting him down but Vader says that he killed Anakin. In A New Hope,
Obi-Wan of course told Luke that his father was killed by Darth Vader and he later explained
this as being the case, from a certain point of view. This line very much adds to this notion
that it was Vader who killed Anakin and unable to deal the killing blow once more.
Not gonna lie it did feel like fan fiction at points where they kinda overexplained things
and I think the writing is what really let this show down.
As he leaves the planet he senses that Luke is in danger and we cut to Reva standing over him
about to strike him down. However she very much sees herself in him and refuses to cut him down.
Obi-Wan arrives and mentions the Dune Sea, a location that was brought up in A New Hope.
Reva returns with the boy and turns out she’s redeemed herself.
Spent several years cutting down kids but just like how Vader murdered millions but
then turned against the Emperor now, all is forgiven Space Hitler.
She knows the secret of Luke and for some reason Obi-Wan decides to take the
chane of letting her live after she drops her ligthsaber. This idea of byuring it in the sand
was very much seen as a way of shutting oneself off from the force. Obi-Wan dug his up earlier in
the season and Rey of course did it for Luke and Leia at the end of Rise Of Skywalker.
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From her we cut to Mustafar and get a cameo by Ian Mcdermott who is once more reprising his role
as Palpatine. He questions whether his feelings are clear on the matter and if he’s potentially
returned to serving Obi-Wan. The Sith were notorious for back and front stabbing each other
so him overthrowing Palps would be a big worry. This was of course his
plan the entire time and just like how Reva wanted to kill her master in Vader,
Vader also wanted to oust the Emporer with his son.
This kinda leads me into the next point with Palps and I also think
he’s probe droiding to see if he knows about his children.
Now Vader was completely unaware that he had kids at this point as Palpatine told
him that they’d died along with Padme. It was something that pushed him further down the dark
path he was on but he did eventually learn that Luke was his son after the events of a New Hope.
We cut to Leias home and see All ders right instead of All
ders wrong and f**k me that has to be the s**test pun we’ve ever dropped.
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Anyway she gets herself ready this time instead of the servants doing it like how they would
have in Episode 1 and shows her independence. She knows how she wants to lead from now on and
as we saw in the Sequel trilogy she became a fearless leader. Obi-Wan say he will help the
Organas again if they need it and this would of course be why Leia reaches out to him.
Really nice goodbye between Leia and Obi-Wan, just a shame she never remembers this and was like,
you served my dad mate but I never met you you chump.
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He brings up her parents and says that she carries the best qualities of both Anakin
and Padme. In episode 3 we did discuss how he acknowledged the similarities with Padme
but I also said a lot of her qualities were down to Anakin too. It’s nice that
they acknowledged there was good in hm and this would of course lead to his redemption.
Back Home Obi-Wan ends up donning his original white robes that he had in
the original and prequel trilogy. Later on he puts a coat over this and this is
actually what he wore in Star Wars Issue 15 which centred around his adventures
on the planet. This series has cherrypicked moments from that including the gift he gave
to Luke being destroyed by Owen and also the fact that he watched over the boy.
He ends up letting Luke grow up as a normal boy that works 80 hours a
week doing back breaking farm work and he lets him stay with Owen who’s become
a powerful mentor. He’s very much like a Johnathan Kent type figure who wants
whats best for the boy but he doesn’t want to force him to become Superman.
At this point Luke is given the t-16 Toy which Owen of course
ended up breaking in Episode 1. This toy also appeared in A New Hope when we
could see Luke playing with during his time with the droids in the first act.
There’s very much this hopeful feeling to the ending and we know from the Path
and the lightsabers that we saw last week that the Jedi weren’t completely
wiped out after the events of Order 66. We’re yet to meet them all but the names
on the wall made it clear that several survived and are out there in the Galaxy.
Obi-Wan also drops Hello There.
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Out in the desert the ghost of Qui-Gon begins to form and I love how he’s just kinda mosying about.
Now one Qui-Gon is attached to the living force
and this is how he was able to come back and communicate with the jedi. Force Ghosts were
never really in the prequel trilogy which seemed a bit off as there were thousands and
thousands of dead Jedi but absolutely none of them reached out to any of the others.
Looking at the bigger story of Qui-Gon, he was someone that understood that the
force went past life and death and that it existed inside everything and everyone.
Upon death he came to realise that he didn’t have an individual existence
and instead he just became part of the force. Though he thought this was
a better kind of existence due to the petty squabbles that the living had,
he did still will to return to the living world. After death he started to train his consciouness
to return there and he managed to leave the unity of the force in order to commune with the living.
He actually guided Yoda on Dagobah and helped him to gain his own form of immortality through
becoming one with the living force like he had. In the expanded lore, Qui-Gon initially
only existed as a voice, however as he drew on memories of his life his robes started to form
around him and he eventually took shape, appearing like the body that he once had.
He says he’s always been there Obi-Wan just wasn’t ready to see
and he will help further train him to master his abilities and become a ghost like he did.
Obi-Wan rides off on the back of his Eiope as the twin suns of Tattooine bear down on him
and this is iconography that we’ve of course seen throughout the saga.
Titled Binary Sunset it’s something that Lucas and co used to show
everything is sort of like Poetry they rhyme.
Luke first looked over the sunset all the way back in A New Hope
and then Owen and Beru did it at the end of Revenge Of The Sith. This was then carried
out by Rey at the end of Rise Of Skywalker and it’s used here to bring this series to a close.
Pretty solid episode I just felt the writing let it down a bit but these closing scenes
really elevated it for me. Lots of powerful and impactful moments,
and great goodbyes that tease what could come down the line.
Now as for my thoughts on the series, I am kinda torn on it in all honesty. I feel that there’s
a lot of great moments in it but there’s also some really stupid character choices and things
that they do at certain points in the series that knock it down a couple of notches. Every
episode has had it’s strong points but I feel that the true conflict of the show should’ve
been between Vader and Obi-Wan which wasn’t really explored all that indepth until episode 5. I think
the marketing for the series knew that that was what people wanted to see in the show the most as
well too which is why Hayden and Ewan were both heavily featured in interviews for the series.
Their realtionship, the fact Obi-Wan is protecting his kids and in someways now their father figure
would’ve added more interesting dynamics to it but instead their fight feels like a footnote.
Now I do feel that Moses Ingram was a good villain and her story was clearly given the
most thought throughout the series. However, even then I feel like a lot of the more interesting
things got left out and with them going in the direction of putting her as the main bad guy
I think we should’ve had more focus on her backstory, seen how she survived the temple,
her training with the inquisitors and so on. Like I said I think the focus should’ve
been Vader and Obi-Wan but considering they didn’t do that I also don’t think
they really knocked it out the park either with who they chose to put the focus on.
I think the 6 episode format Disney seem to be stuck on
has a lot of issues in general and it doesn’t really give us enough
time to properly explore everything like a ten episode tv show would.
We have a pretty similar plot to A New Hope here where we’re basically getting a rescue mission
on Leia, meeting a scoundrel that turns good, breaking into an imperial fortress to save her,
escaping, getting tracked by the Empire and having a big battle.
However it feels like they do less than a two hour movie even though they have more time.
If you watch a tv show like The Boys and see what they do in six episodes, how many characters they
fully develop and where they take them and then compare it to this it seems really simplistic.
Now as for the good, I think Ewan really nailed it in terms of doing the old weathered,
out the game, character that we’ve seen become a motif in the last couple of decades.
Unforgiven and Logan both handled it really well and though the Last Jedi failed in it,
I think Obi-Wan was done really well as they showed him growing as a character throughout it.
There were also some of the big action set pieces that I think worked really well such as the fight
in episode 3 and all the scenes with Vader really captured how threatening of a villain he is. I’ve
talked about this in depth and I think for all the hangups I have with Disney’s handling of Star Wars
that they’ve at least nailed their most important character in him. Whether it’s Rogue One,
him dragging people along the street or just dangling Reva in the air, I think Vader has
been really strong in this series and again, would’ve loved to have spent more time with him.
I also really liked Tala and the Inquisitors, especially Brother 5,
again, I just wish that we had more.
Overall I think the show is good, it’s just not great
and for a property like Obi-Wan Kenobi that’s what I was hoping for.
With a second season potentially in the works I’d love to see Lucasfilm take a look at what worked
and what didn’t really give the show the space it needs to develop storylines and plot points.
In the end I don’t hate what we got, I just wanted a little bit more and that’s why it gets a…
7/10
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