So episode 5 of Obi-Wan Kenobi has finally dropped and it certainly delivered.we were
given a look at The return of the Grand inquisitor, how reva knows Anakin is Vader and Anakin
inside the Jedi temple during order 66.
So lets break down all of the lore and connections from the books, comics, games and other shows.
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So the Episode begins on a wide shot of the sprawling cityscape of Coruscant, in the beautifully
lit daytime over the planet.
We are then greeted by a Padawan Anakin Skywalker, exactly as he looked back in Attack of the
Clones.
He is waiting for his Master Obi-Wan to enter the room so he have a lightsaber sparing match
with, just like many Masters do with their apprentices.
This does also kind of look like the same room where Reva and the other younglings were
practicing in the Order 66 flashback scene, which makes sense.
This is a training room after all.
Before we can see any more of this, we jolt back to the present time with the stern and
cold Darth Vader awaiting the arrival of Reva.
When she enters the bridge of Vader’s ship she is told to kneel, and is then granted
the rank of Grand Inquisitor.
This does finally confirm that the Grand Inquisitor is actually a rank and not just the title
of the first Inquisitor to get the position, and we did also see that in the previous episodes.
Either way, we’ll cover the Grand Inquisitor much more later in the video.
All of the big questions will be answered and Rebels fans will be very happy!
After this we arrive on the planet of Jabiim.
This is actually the sight of one of the most brutal and bloody battles of the whole Clone
Wars, where Obi-Wan and Anakin fought alongside each other.
The Republic and the separatists suffered horrific losses, and the battle got so Bad
that Anakin genuinely believed Obi-Wan Kenobi had died.
Anakin was then ordered to lead an evactuation of the planet once the battle was lost, and
the he was faced with the horrifying decision of who to evacuate.
There weren’t enough transports for the locals there, so he decided to save his own
clones over the locals…
He then left them with the final words, “This is your war now”, marking Anakin as the
most hated man in Jabiim’s history for years to come.
Next up we arrive back on Jabiim, and Haja Estree happens to be waiting there because
of his little encounter with Reva earlier in the series.
He’s now wanted by the Empire, so he had nowhere else to go…
Estree claims to now know how it feels to be a real Jedi, but somehow sees a business
opportunity here…
Gotta love this man.
Now after this we actually get one of the deepest lore cuts in the show so far.
Vader is staring off into hyperspace like he often does, and this is actually for a
specific reason.
If you look out into The streaking lights of hyperspace for too long, you can actually
feel a form of psychosis known as Hyperspace sickness.
Usually people would try to avoid this, but Darth Vader actually loved it’s intoxicating
effect because it relieved some of his suffering and pain.
Back on Jabiim Obi-Wan Stares at another wall again filled with Aurbesh names and messages
from Order 66 surivors on the Path.
Some of these names and phrases include x
- Corwin Shelvay who was a Jedi knight during the time of Order 66 in Legends and was actually
saved by his master after he was tracked down.
He then also swayed dangerous close to the Dark Side, but joined Luke’s New Jedi After
the Battle of Endor.
- Drake Lo’gaan, who was a Padawan during the Clone Wars, and eventually got involved
with Prince Xizor in the criminal underworld.
- Tiberus Anderlock, who was a Jedi pilot during the time of the Rebellion.
- Roganda Isamaren, who was on the other wall in the Last Episode, and she served in the
Emperor’s hand, slowly climbing up the ladder of imperial society so she could get closer
to the Emperor.
- May the force be with you, which doesn’t need any explanation.
- There is no death, there is the force, which is part of the Jedi Code.
- One also says “only strength”, which is weird because that is part of the Sith
Code…
Maybe one of the survivors started turning towards the Dark Side after his rescue…
Very interesting.
He then turns to see a crate full of Lightsabers from other survivors.
Inside this crate we have the lightsabers of what look to be:
- Possibly Mace Windu’s Phantom Menace Lightasber - One that Kinda looks like Ki Adi-Mundi’s
Phantom menace lightsaber - Obi-Wan’s of course,
and then the rest probably belong to the other surivors at the camp.
Next up Darth Vader’s ship arrives and Obi-Wan immediately knows that Vader will attack immediately
because he doesn’t have patience for a siege.
How does he know this?
Well he remembers his sparring fight with Anakin back as a Padawan, where he warns him
that he is too aggressive.
Now we can gauge quite a few things about this time period just from a few specific
parts of Anakin.
He of course still has his Padawan Braid, and he was knighted just after Attack of the
Clones.
This places the flashback right before that.
Then we can also see that he is holding his Attack of the Clones lightsaber, again placing
it before the movie.
Although he definitely doesn’t look 17 anymore.
Maybe there could have been some de-aging, but it still looks great to be fair.
Back in the present, the Imperial forces mount an E-Webb Heavy repeater to attack the base
and this is kind of a nice little throwback to Echo base on Hoth.
It’s also a nod to the formation used by Moff Gideon in the Mandalorian Season 1 with
the exact same weapon.
Seems to be a common tactic.
There are also Clone Purge troopers in the formation like the ones first seen in the
Darth Vader comics and Jedi Fallen Order, which could actually be Clone Troopers since
a lot of them were pulled from the old Clone Ranks.
After this Obi-Wan receives a panicked message from Bail Organa, saying that he’ll go to
Tatooine if he doesn’t hear back shortly to help Owen with Luke.
During this conversation though, Tala walks in and mentions that in her past she took
part in a horrid mission on the planet Garel.
Garel is actually the planet where the Phoenix cell from Star Wars Rebels later set up a
base.
The Phoenix cell included Hera, Sabine, Kanan, Rex and Ezra.
Awesome little connection to Star Wars Rebels there.
Tala tells that she followed orders to round up force sensitive families there, and from
that moment onward, she dedicated her life to protecting force sensitives, so that nobody
else would have to go through that pain.
Next When Obi-Wan makes the request to Negotiate, the Purge trooper does have an American accent,
so these may be later generation Purge troopers who aren’t clones.
Right after this, Obi-Wan and Reva begin a dialogue and he wonders how she could possibly
know that Anakin was Vader.
She then reveals that she saw Anakin taking Part in the slaughter of the Jedi temple with
her own eyes.
She believed he was only there to help him, but that was not to be.
Reva then gives a heart chilling description of how she played dead to avoid Anakin’s
wrath, and felt the bodies of her dead friends go cold around her.
Obi-Wan then has the shocking realization that she is not serving Vader, but instead
hunting Anakin.
Reva then demands to know where Obi-Wan was during all of that, because he was Anakin’s
master.
Why couldn’t he stop him.
Before Reva can go any further though, she snaps out of it and almost kills Obi-Wan by
busting through the blast doors.
This then causes a massive Battlefront 2 Co-Op style battle to ensue, with obi-Wan facing
down a horde of Stormtroopers led by Reva.
In the huge battle, Obi-Wan also saved Corran Horn’s mother Nyche, who if you don’t
know Corran Horn, was one of the most renowned Jedi from Luke’s new order in Legends.
We already have confirmation that this is him from the previous episodes, so it’s
nice to see his Mother also be a major part of the action.
Soon after Tala gives her life in a heartbreaking sacrifice by priming a blast charge, leaving
Kenobi to watch.
The entire base are left shocked and horrified by the action, but they know it was a sacrifice
so that they could live.
We then cut back to the flashback scene where Anakin shows his pure rage, and repeatedly
swings at Kenobi in a very similar way to what Vader does to Luke in their fight on
the second Death Star.
Obi-Wan then surrenders to Reva’s forces and Obi-Wan again tries to get Reva to turn
on her Master Vader.
As Leia finally succeeds with opening the hatch and the force sensitives make it to
the transport, they are abruptly stopped by Vader brutally pulling right back to the ground
and absolutely tearing the ship apart with fury…
The only problem for the Sith Lord is, they tricked him, and the ship he pulled down was
empty…
After this, Reva attempts to backstab Vader but the Sith Lord is not going to be fooled
that easily.
Reva channels all of her anger, rage and fury from that night of Order 66 and tries to take
the Dark Lord down, but has no chance.
She even ignites the second blade of the Saber and Starts spinning it, a feature of Inquisitor
sabers that we first saw in STar Wars rebels.
Awesmeoly though, Vader uses the force to slow the spin down and split the saber in
half.
He gives one back to her and they engage in a full on lightsaber battle.
After a complete failure, Reva is stabbed through the chest with her flashing back to
the night of Order 66 and the Grand Inquisitor finally returns from his long absence.
We then see Anakin slaughter even more younglings inside the temple, before the Grand Inquisitors
pulls his pin back and takes his rightful position as the leader of the Inquisitorious.
Now Reva actually survives this and manages to crawl back to her lightsaber.
On top of this, she also manages to find the little holo puck that Obi-Wan lost earlier
and sees the message on it.
This allows Reva to learn from Bail Organa that Owen will need help protecting a young
boy on Tatooine.
Obviously we know from the first Episode, Reva knows who Owen is, and now knows that
he is hiding something Major of Tatooine.
Back on the sandy planet we cut to an ominous shot of the young Luke Skywalker asleep in
his bed, not knowing that something terrifying is coming his way and things are about to
get very dangerous for him and the family.
But let me know what you think Reva will do to Luke, Owen and Beru next episode in the
commenets down below.
We’re now setup for a huge finale next week and one that will probably be massive.
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