So the time is finally here…
The show we’ve all been waiting for for literally years since it was still just a
movie, has finally released.
The premiere actually dropped as a 2 episode special, so i’ll be covering both in this
video.
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The episode begins with a full recap of the prequel of the prequel trilogy from Anakin’s
earliest days to the moment he is put in to the Vader suit.
The recap then ends on Master Yoda telling Obi-Wan that Qui-Gon has some teachings still
left for him…
I’m sure that will definitely play into the series, as not too long ago, one of the
new Star Wars Canon novels confirmed that Qui-Gon learned to manifest himself as a force
ghost, and not just a voice in 10bby, the exact same year as the show.
As the episode properly begins we thrown right into a serene flashback of a group of Jedi
younglings training with their master on Coruscant.
Things are going well, but then everything changes…
Order 66 is declared by Palpatine and the Clone Troopers of Anakin’s 501st legion
storm into the room, trying to kill everyone inside, even the younglings…
One of the younglings on the run is a young girl named Reva…
Who will go on to become the third sister.
Just in case you haven’t seen Star Wars Rebels, the Inquisitors are a group of fallen
Jedi who serve under Darth Vader with the goal of hunting down and killing the remaining
Jedi in the galaxy.
Their ranking sister is just their gender + number, with the highest ranking being the
Grand Inquisitor.
After all of this we cut to 10 years later, on the streets of Tatooine.
Overhead the shadow of a mammoth Inquisitor ship called the inquisitor transport scythe,
is coming down for a landing, scaring the citizens of Tatooine.
Off the ship walks a group of Darth Vader’s inquisitors, of course first seen in Rebels,
including the Grand Inquisitor himself, the fifth brother and the third Sister Reva.
The inquisitors patrol the streets of the Tatooine and the grand Inquisitor even growls
a bit, which is a nod to his species, the Pau’an
Now after that, the Grand Inquisitor enters a local saloon and intimiated the hiding Jedi
inside, Nari, into leaping out to protect an innocent civillian.
This leads onto a huge, Tatooine wide chase to find him, but the Grand Inquisitors wars
Reva not to pursue bigger fish…
INcluding Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Next we cut to see what Obi-Wan is up to in the year 10BBY, where we see he’s working
a food processing planet out in the desert…
It appears they’re processing the meat of a huge krayt dragon, ready to sell to customers
across the rich planets of the galaxy.
Moving on from this, Obi-Wan sees injustice being done anywhere he looks and he is challenged
to fight it, but at this point he cannot.
He must remain in hiding to protect the son of his former master.
We then move back to a cave where Obi-Wan has setup his new living quarters, inside
we see Obi-Wan buy the t-16 skyhopper toy which Luke uses in a New Hope.
Not long after, Obi-Wan goes to sleep and is greeted by extremely painful flashbacks
from many moments of the prequel trilogy with his former apprentice, including the fight
on Mustafar, the chase in Attack of the Clones and importantly, Padme saying that there is
still good in Anakin.
As he is awoken from this horrible experience he calls out to his Master Qui-Gon Jinn, but
he still hears no response.
It’s clear he’s been trying to commune with him for these whole 10 years in isolation.
Right after, Obi-Wan goes up to a nearby perch to spy on the Lars homestead and young Luke
Skywalker and is happy to see him laughing and having fun inside of a simulator.
As a result, he drops off the t-16 toy and starts returning back to his cave… on the
return, a reckless young Jedi appears and calls out Obi-Wan’s true identity.
He very stupidly flashes his lightsaber and then wants Obi-Wan to help him fight back
for those in need, but Kenobi just can’t do it…
The time of the Jedi is over in his eyes…
After that we cut to the beautiful lucious world of Alderaan where we think Princess
Leia is being dressed ready for an official ceremony…
Hilariously though she is being a rebel at even this young age, and put someone else
in here place, while she goes out to play in the woods.
Out there, she is sightseeing the leaving ships, calling out a Tri-Wing which is a really
obscure ship created in 2019, only seen in Star Wars: Fascinating facts… the ship of
an Aqullian Ranger which is a really, really old cut, coming from the Adventures of Luke
skywalker and the original Ralph McQuarie concept art.
Young Leia finally calls out the Merson Pirates who were active during the final days of the
Republic and attack luxury ships near asteroid belts.
They even took out a ship of 500 people and took them as slaves for the Zygerrian empire,
the biggest Slave owners in the Galaxy.
When Breha Organa comes out to tell Leia to get back to the palace, she says “it’s
like raising a ‘glor’ag’, which is a species literally only mentioned once in a
Star Wars Adventure Journal published in 1994.
Sadly, after being caught, Breha tells Leia to turn off her droid Lola, which is a new
model we haven’t yet seen.
We then cut back to Tatooine where Uncle Owen dumps the t-16 skyhopper toy back to Obi-Wan
in disgust, warning him to stay away from Luke, because he already failed one Skywalker.
This is interrupted though by Reva confronting and cornering Owen, threatening to kill them
if the Jedi among them is not given up.
Moving on from this, Breha Organa greets her sister and family.
This could actually be Deara Antilles, who was Breha’s sister in Star Wars Legends,
but was blackmailed and worked as a spy against her for Darth Vader.
At the party you can actually even see c3po making a small little appearance.
Back at the party, Leia is insulted by her cousin for not being a real Organa, and when
her mother tells her to apologise, she says she’d rather be eaten by a Jakobeast.
These were huge arctic animals found in the Tundras of Ice planets in the outer rim.
They were pretty gentle beasts but a lot of them were actually force sensitive and used
the force in many ways to help them survive.
They would topple over trees with force pushes and knock predators off balance using the
same.
When the beasts came together, they had enough force power to knock over an entire forest…
Straight after, Bail talks to Leia and mentions that he wanted to chase Purgill when he was
younger.
These are the same space whale creatures that have a natural hyperspace ability and took
Ezra and Thrawn to the unknown regions at the end of Star Wars Rebels.
While he’s giving this talk to Leia he leans down in the same way that Leia does when sending
the message to Kenobi in a New Hope, coming full circle.
This also happens in Star Wars rebels too, so very nice connective tissue.
After this, Leia returns to her ship spotting tree but is immediately captured by a group
of smugglers.
This worried Bail and Breha so deeply that they are forced to call Obi-Wan Kenobi out
of Exile…
But he’s not the man he used to be and declines to help them…
This leads Bail to do the extraordinary and come to Obi-Wan’s cave.
He mentions that Obi-Wan failed Anakin before, but he won’t do that again with rescuing
leia.
After this, Obi-Wan agrees and is forced to dig up his old lightsabers and Jedi robes
which he buried there many years earlier.
For a shot time, he will not be Ben Kenobi anymore, but back to Obi-Wan Kenobi.
And thats where part 1 ends!
Episode 2 begins with Kenobi jetting off to the planet Daiyu.
As soon as he gets there, he again asks for Qui-Gon’s guidance… but sadly he doesn’t
appear.
As Obi-Wan is trawling the streets he comes across a veteran Clone Trooper of the Clone
Wars begging for money…
Really sad to see what the empire has done to Clone Troopers after replacing with with
Project War Mantle from Star Wars: The Bad Batch, and Rogue One.
Seeing this clone Veteran causes obi-Wan both Fear and PTSD, worried about Order 66.
He is also offered an assortment of spices like Glitterstim, which is a huge drug from
Star Wars Legends.
It gave its users a brief, but pleasurable telepathic boost and heightened their mental
state.
After this Obi-Wan brutally confronts a fake Jedi named Naja using Magnets and wires, who
is scamming people for protection.
Naja gives Kenobi the location to a spice den where various aliens are cooking crystal
spice…
Unfortunately he gets captured and cornered, but he actually pulls out the old Walter White
Move, smashing a jar of spice to escape, just like Heisenberg smashed the Fulminated Mercury.
After this, Leia and Kenobi are forced to get disguises to slip offworld, and Obi-Wan
mentions that their cover story is that they are farmers from the planet Tawl.
This is actually a brand new planet.
As Leia runs away from Kenobi after seeing his wanted Holo, we get a look at some aquatic
life tanks, and inside is actually a young Dianoga, the same species from the trash compactor!
Pretty cool.
Soon after Leia falls off of a building while running and Kenobi is forced to use the force
to save her, just like Cal Kestis did for Prauf in Jedi Fallen ORder.
Although that too caught the attention of the empire.
After this, the rogue criminal Naja returns to Kenobi and wants to make amends for his
past actions, so he sends Obi-Wan to an automated cargo port which will take him to the planet
Mapuzo.
This is a planet from deep in Star Wars Legends, where a huge criminal operation called the
Mapuzo Break in took place.
It featured in the Alliance Intelligence Reports books, but not much else is known.
Next up, Reva catches Naja and uses a mind probe to get Kenobi’s location from him.
This is the same technique used by Kylo Ren on Rey in the Force Awakens.
Right after that, Kenobi tells Leia that she reminds him of someone he once knew.
A fearless leader who was stubborn and brave.
Obviously he’s talking about Padme, Leia’s true mother.
Following this, Kenobi is sent into full shock.
He finds out that Anakin Skywalker, Darth Vader, his old apprentice is in fact still
alive.
Obi-Wan can barely breathe realizing this fact, and then we cut straight to the man
himself.
Darth Vader inside of his bacta tank.
For some weird reason they also fake the death of the Grand Inquisitor by having Reva kill
him, even though we know he survives in Rebels.
And thats where the episodes come to an end.
What do you think we’ll see next week?
Thanks so much for watching guys, really hope you enjoyed.
SEe you in the next one.