Star Wars Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 5

2022 - 6 - 15

obi wan kenobi episode 5

'Obi-Wan Kenobi' Episode 5 Recap: The Empire Strikes Back (CNET)

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 Recap, Theories, and Thoughts (ComingSoon.net)

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 Review: Not The Jedi We Were Looking ... (Forbes)

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.

Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 5 review (Dork Side of the Force)

Episode 5 of Obi-Wan Kenobi shows Vader at possibly his most terrifying yet, but that's not all the episode delivers for Star Wars fans.

The return of the true Grand Inquisitor moments later is a sigh of relief for Rebels fans and he is quick to dismiss Reva and they leave her to die. I like how she still has her time to shine and even a battle, if you could even call it that, with Lola that brings her back to their side. I had suspected this so it didn’t come as a big shock but what did was the revelation that she plans to kill Vader. It finally makes sense why she has been after Kenobi, only he can lure Vader out and therefore allow her to take a chance at killing him. Eventually, Obi-Wan is forced to speak with Reva in order to buy more time and we finally learn how she knows Vaders identity. He brings a subtle amount of comedy, not too much that it overtakes the show, but just enough to be enjoyable. This episode opens with something fans have been looking forward to and speculating about since the beginning.

<em>Obi-Wan Kenobi</em>'s Episode 5 Twist Sets Reva Apart ... (menshealth.com)

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 Ending Explained and Season Finale ... (Den of Geek)

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.