He defects blaster shots with his lightsaber, as he did slightly further away from the lake on Naboo. He hides from the bad guys, as he did by the lake on Naboo. Phantom Menace fans will glory in the sight of McGregor returning to his Jedi-reflex regimen: He swims, as he did in the lake on Naboo. So, yes, Obi-Wan convinces Tala and her rebel-techie associates to help him throw together an impromptu rescue plan: Tala will use her clearance (and a fairly unconvincing bit of imperial browbeating) to hot-desk at the fortress for a bit, opening up a path for Obi-Wan to sneak in undetected. Like certain sequences of the unfinished other prequel trilogy that Rogue One and Solo were forming before Lucasfilm pivoted to TV, this episode sets up a thrilling heistlike operation while only intermittently accessing the buzz of urgent energy that powers the best mission movies. Neat.īut while hints of the sequel trilogy have been promisingly incorporated into this narrative, Obi-Wan Kenobi increasingly seems like it’s attempting to answer a more tediously fan-friendly query: What if the Star Wars prequel trilogy was more like Rogue One (a prequel itself, you may recall)? The answer, sans the big-budget visual splendor of director Gareth Edwards, is a murky stew of regret, occasional badassery, and self-seriousness. A rhyme worthy of George Lucas, between two creative works he didn’t have a hand in. When our hero wakes up, the show bites a little from a Last Jedi motif, following Obi-Wan’s “Where’s Leia?” with an answering cut to Fortress Inquisitorious, a base on the watery moon of Nur. “Part 4” opens with Obi-Wan in shallow-focus disorientation, getting hauled away from his fiery sorta-rematch with Darth Vader, and going through what has become a Star Wars rite of passage: doing time in a bacta tank, baby! The most evocative and promising parts of the episode - at least those that don’t involve sweet defensive lightsaber moves - come in these early moments, where Obi-Wan’s stay in the bacta tank, treating his burns, is intercut with shots of Vader’s even-more-mangled body in his own bacta tank (presumably more of a second home for the former Anakin Skywalker). And it certainly is straightforward, perhaps to a fault. This should be the most straightforward Obi-Wan Kenobi episode yet: an urgent rescue mission running, barely over 30 minutes without its credits, on which Obi-Wan must fight through his not-quite-healed Vader injuries and his rusty command of the Force to mount a daring infiltration of enemy territory with the help of Tala (Indira Varma) and her imperial clearance.
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