Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi Episode 5

The Jedi has tapped into the Force again and saved Princess Leia, but may have played right into Imperial Inquisitor Reva's hands.

He might be a bit delayed, since their hyperdrive is broken and Imperial forces are right on their tail. Conveniently that's just enough information for her to figure out that Luke Skywalker is Vader's son -- probably should have changed his name -- and find the 10-year-old on the desert world. Except sneaky Inquisitor Reva ( Moses Ingram), aka the Third Sister, planted a tracker on Leia's cute droid LOLA, so the Empire can follow them.

Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 5 brought something to screen that fans have been clamouring for: flashbacks to prequel-era Obi-Wan and Anakin. In the scenes, which are ...

Someone else (opens in new tab) thinks the scenes add to A New Hope: "The flashback shows why Vader says "When I left you I was the apprentice..." He was remembering good times with Obi-Wan I am not OKAY," says another emotional viewer (opens in new tab). In the scenes, which are spread throughout the episode, a younger Anakin and Obi-Wan spar with their lightsabers.

We open with Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) standing in what looks like the Jedi temple on Coruscant. He's adorned in the rat tail look from Attack of ...

I’m too easily delighted by Star Wars that I need someone else to point out the numerous inconsistencies.) Obi-Wan behaved like Obi-Wan, Vader was Vader (and greatly supported by the appearance of Hayden Christensen as Anakin), and Reva finally found her footing. Since Vader and the Grand Inquisitor are bad guys (and seeing how we have one more episode to kill), Reva is left alive in the dirt where she discovers Obi-Wan’s cell phone. Did the Grand Inquisitor go to Vader immediately after his “death”? Shouldn’t Vader be pissed at the Grand Inquisitor seeing how the plan failed? Vader realizes his great blunder (his brief pause killed me) and can only watch (?) as the helpless extras (and Obi-Wan) take off into space. Back with Obi-Wan (and he is indeed Obi-Wan Kenobi and not ole Ben Kenobi), our heroes return to Jabiim and delight a small crowd of bad extras stolen from The Matrix sequels with news that Leia is okay. With that BS out of the way, Obi-Wan gets back to the task on hand and attempts to slow Reva down through the power of intimate conversation. With Vader relegated to the sidelines, Reva was supposed to be the one creating tension. (This is such a bizarre plot point in Revenge of the Sith. Vader is a bad guy, but having him straight up murder kids was a careless decision on George Lucas’ part. I’m not sure why, but I guess suddenly he knows everything about the young Inquisitor. And yes, we were all correct: she was a youngling during Order 66 and saw Anakin Skywalker (as Darth Vader) hilariously sidestep Jedi Knights to kill the younglings. Obi-Wan heads to a corner to listen to a private hologram voice mail from Bail Organa (Jimmy Smits) and likely spends the entire message determining just how much he should tell him about this f***ed-up mission. So, yes, after hours of waiting, we finally get our first flashback to a younger iteration of Obi-Wan and Darth Vader, which is what many of us expected way back in the first episode. We open with Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) standing in what looks like the Jedi temple on Coruscant. He’s adorned in the rat tail look from Attack of the Clones, so this is supposedly young, whiny Anni before he grew out his hair and became older, mopey Anni — despite Christensen looking like a well-groomed 40-year-old.

Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 5 is full of easter eggs and references that call back to other corners of the Star Wars universe. Spoilers ahead...

In the early 2000s, StarWars.com supported The Clone Wars with a variety of webcomics posted on Hyperspace, the official Star Wars fan club online portal. The planet Garel gets a shoutout this week, adding to its lengthy list of mentions, if not outright appearances. This location is also one of the few Expanded Universe concepts to be brought whole cloth into the movies for a major appearance. The duel between Anakin and Obi-Wan in the flashback seems to take place some time around Attack of the Clones, based on their appearances. But he found a new calling, joining the Rebel Alliance, where he worked alongside popular Expanded Universe characters like Kyle Katarn. After the fall of the Empire, Shelvay became part of Luke Skywalker’s New Jedi Order. Brought together by Qui-Gon and growing up as brothers-in-arms, their connection informs everything Darth Vader has become since his fall to the dark side.

While one of the main themes in Star Wars is hope, not every story ends happily. Fans who saw George Lucas' prequel trilogy and watched The Clone Wars ...

With only one episode remaining, it's hard to know whether fans have seen the last of these scenes which parallel current events. Again, this follows Disney first attaching a warning to Episode 1, which premiered on May 27. Netflix added a similar warning to Season 4 of Stranger Things, which happened to premiere the same day as Obi-Wan Kenobi's first episode.

Episode 5, titled 'Part V' of 'Obi-Wan Kenobi,' reveals the truth about Reva, the inquisitor played by Moses Ingram.

In fact, part of her doesn't really believe that she and Obi-Wan want the same sort of revenge on him at all. We touched on it above a bit, but Part V brings the opening scene of the very first Obi-Wan Kenobi episode all the way back to relevance. Obi-Wan and the viewers both come to the realization at the same time that the hero and the villain share a common foe: Vader. But that villain also isn't losing any love for the Jedis. It's truly a set-up where she's playing the system from the inside, but doesn't care about who she's hurting on the other side either. He talked Reva into attacking Vader, and clearly it was the wrong time; she was defeated. We've seen enough redemption stories; turning Kylo Ren was one of the many mistakes made in Rise of Skywalker. It's time for more villains being villains, even if the only side they're really on is their own. Episode 5 of Obi-Wan Kenobi—appropriately titled "Part V"—was easily the show's best since its two-episode premiere.

Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 5 rushes to a dramatic finish, setting the stage for an explosive season finale.

Unless Obi-Wan is able to use the Force to erase little Luke’s memory of this epic duel somehow, it’s more likely the Jedi Master and Reva will have to come to a different kind of understanding. So does Obi-Wan stage his own death in order to escape the Empire and go back to his peaceful life on Tatooine? Reva was consumed by revenge — and the need to prove herself as the Grand Inquisitor in order to get close to Vader — that it blinded her to the way all of her enemies were playing her the whole time, just as Obi-Wan manipulates young Anakin’s attacks. When the Dark Lord of the Sith does catch up with them, it’ll likely be up to Obi-Wan to distract Vader while the refugees figure out a way to escape again. Consider point #3 above: unless there’s a secret second season of the show in the works, Obi-Wan and Vader’s duel has to end with the Jedi Master finding a way to disappear again, perhaps even by convincing the Sith Lord that he’s finally dead. So, the big question is: are Obi-Wan and Vader going to fight again in the finale? Reva now knows that Obi-Wan is hiding something on the desert planet and that this mysterious child may be the key to discovering the Jedi Master’s secret. We see, for example, that Obi-Wan is able to once again outsmart a rage-filled Vader without having to actually face him, planting a decoy transport to shield the real one during the escape from Jabiim. In fact, it looks like he dispatches her much in the same way he did all those years ago when she was just a youngling, stabbing her in the abdomen, leaving her to die from her wound. But how did the Pau’an baddie survive being cut down by Reva’s saber on Daiyu? Well, let’s just put it this way: if Darth Maul can survive being sliced in half through sheer force of will (and with a little help from his powers), the Grand Inquisitor should be able to get up after taking a lightsaber blade to the stomach. But when the dust has settled, and only a wounded, revenge-fueled Reva remains on the desolate surface of Jabiim, some viewers might be left with quite a few questions about where the show is going next. There’s so much going on in the adrenaline-filled penultimate episode of the Disney+ series that viewers barely have time to process massive developments such as the heroic death of Tala Durith or Reva’s tragic past as a Jedi youngling.

Darth Vader pursues his old teacher in 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' on Disney Plus. Credit: Disney. I am worried about the future of Star Wars under Disney and the current ...

But other than that, I find myself mourning what could have been, and remembering hopes dashed when, as a teenager, I showed up to the movie theaters to watch The Phantom Menace and could barely contain my excitement, only to discover, well, Jar Jar Binks. Obi-Wan had gotten a message earlier from a concerned Bail Organa who mentions that he’s worried about “the children” in case “he finds out” and will go to Tatooine if he doesn’t hear back to check on the boy. Well, at the end of The Last Jedi we have Rey and Finn and Leia and the rest of the heroes trapped on a planet in a similar bunker with the forces of the First Order arrayed outside trying to get in. The de-aging powers that Disney has showed off in Star Wars and the MCU are absent here. She tossed a plan a decade in the making away. He tears the sides of the ship off to find that it’s empty. The actual Grand Inquisitor shows up and mocks her, sneering that her thirst for revenge was useful before it became tiresome. Inside, in order to fix the hangar controls Leia has to climb up into the vent to save the day. Then, Obi-Wan gets away before Vader arrives and races back to the rebel transport. I guess the tracker is more than just a tracker. Obi-Wan, Leia and Tala and the rest of the rebels show up at the base and Leia’s droid immediately goes and sabotages the hangar opening, trapping everyone inside. And on and on like that.

Obi-Wan is always careful with his lightsaber, but in Episode 5 he decides to go into one fight unarmed. Why?

This isn’t to say that lightsaber fights will no longer be a main attraction of Star Wars. It’s basically a given that we’ll have an epic Vader versus Obi-Wan showdown in this show’s finale. These fights mirror each other in that they show how Obi-Wan and Anakin have gone to two different extremes. Obi-Wan realizes Leia wasn’t the bait for him, but rather he was the bait for Vader, a way for her to get face-to-helmet with the Sith Lord and slaughter him the way he slaughtered her classmates.

Episode 5 of Obi-Wan Kenobi was filled with plenty of easter eggs and callbacks to earlier moments in the franchise. Did you spot them all?

The last thing they expected was for the heroic Jedi Knight, Anakin Skywalker to ignite his lightsaber and strike them down. Tala uses a thermal detonator, notable by its sphere shape, and glowing red light, to explore the hallway she is in, killing herself and many of the Empire’s forces. The Grand Inquisitor is a Pau’an male, and they are known for having two stomachs. The camera lingers on a young boy, sleeping, blissfully unaware of the events that will transpire in the final episode. When Princess Leia disguised herself as a bounty hunter in Return of the Jedi, she threatened Jabba the Hutt and his many guards with a thermal detonator. These Imperial soldiers are commanded by Vader and the Inquisitors, and the first iteration of Purge Troopers were remaining clones after Order 66 but were soon phased out as the years went on. “Part 5” of Obi-Wan Kenobi is no exception and has many great details for Star Wars fans to enjoy. Wearing his apparel from Attack of the Clones, complete with his short hair and Padawan braid. In Legends, staring into hyperspace could cause Hyper-rapture, which is a form of madness acquired from staring into hyperspace for too long a time. Anakin Skywalker, a role reprised by Hayden Christensen, stares at this building before turning to face his Jedi Master. Obi-Wan Kenobi “Part 5” opens up with a surprise. Obi-Wan Kenobi is one of Star Wars’ most iconic characters.

Easter eggs in the latest Obi-Wan Kenobi episode have brought some Legends characters back into the Star Wars universe.

Plus, DrunkWooky.com (opens in new tab) noticed the name Ekria, who was Aayla Secura's Padawan – Aayla herself was taught by Quinlan Vos, and he was name-dropped in Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 3. She has a lengthy (and disturbing) history with the Empire. In the episode, Obi-Wan comes across a wall on Jabiim covered in writing.