When they go to rescue Leia on the Death Star, she and Obi-Wan never cross paths. In some ways, this makes A New Hope more tragic than ever. This means that Obi-Wan will develop a much closer bond to young Leia than he ever does to Luke. I suspect that Obi-Wan and Leia’s adventure is just beginning and will be resolved in the six-episode arc of this limited series. It’s actually kind of interesting to think about where this story is headed. My how disappointed an older Ben Kenobi must have been when he discovered that Leia’s twin brother was so much duller. She’s incisive enough to impress him-and a fair bit wittier than 19-year-old Luke was in A New Hope. But she’s as precocious as ever and never really stops beleaguering our hero with questions and commentary. He convinces her to follow him and make their escape, and they manage to get out just before Reva shows up. She thwacks him in the stomach when he enters, certain he’s just another bad guy. The spice fills the small chamber and the kidnappers fall to the floor in a drugged daze. A spice dealer sympathetic to his story about searching for his “daughter” gives him a little bulb of spice, which he tosses on the ground, quickly pulling a gas mask he was using as a disguise earlier over his face. The Jedi, however, has a trick up his sleeve (quite literally). The kidnappers, led by Vect Nokru (Flea) grab him and reveal that the whole thing was just an elaborate trap set by Reva who is on her way now. Kenobi sneaks his way in and finds the cell where Leia is presumably being held, but it’s an ambus. Haja sends him to a wretched hive of scum and villainy where it seems likely the girl is being held. Obi-Wan is not a fan, however, and gets the man to help him at blaster-point. Nanjiani is as charming and funny as ever and Haja turns out to be a really great character who I hope we see more of in this limited series. I’m referring, of course, to Haja Estree (Kumail Nanjiani) a con-artist who uses magnets and accomplices to pull off Force grabs and Jedi Mind Tricks. It’s a place where no signals can be traced in or out and where fake Jedi scam unsuspecting people. Stormtroopers tell people to get out of the way. Obi-Wan heads to Daiyu and begins his search for the missing Leia. Grudgingly, the Jedi Master agrees, taking on a role perhaps more suited for our Beskar Steel armored friend. Bail convinces him to go search for the girl and tells her where the kidnappers are headed. So when Bail Organa is standing in Obi-Wan’s cave, his defenses are already down. Perhaps because he was tired of running, perhaps to save the innocents of Tatooine from the Inquisitors-but certainly because Obi-Wan refused to help him and sent him to fend for himself in his time of need. It’s heavily implied that he committed suicide. Obi-Wan, meanwhile, has just encountered the fugitive Jedi-hanging in the town square. I guess Alderaan is such a nice, peaceful place that they don’t worry too much about security because the plan goes off without a hitch.Īfter clashing with her snooty cousin at a banquet in the palace, Leia sneaks off instead of apologizing-breaking the sacred pinky swear with her father!-and the kidnappers swoop her up and take her to the gritty urban planet of Daiyu (an adventure young Leia seems only mildly resentful about given how stir crazy she’s gotten on Alderaan). Kenobi series free#The trap involves sending kidnappers to Alderaan where they lay in wait for Leia, who has a free spirit and is prone to sneaking out of the palace and into the surrounding woods. So she hatches a new plan and sets a trap for Kenobi. The Fifth Brother intervenes, stopping her and telling her that she’s gone too far. She tells the crowd-Obi-Wan hiding nearby in the shadows-that she’ll kill the farmer and his family if they don’t tell her where the Jedi is hiding. Reva notices Owen casting a furtive glance her way and hones in on him, but he plays it very cool telling her that Jedi are vermin, and he kills vermin on his farm. He’s just been scolded by Uncle Owen (Joel Edgerton) for surreptitiously dropping off a Star Wars toy (heh) for Luke (Grant Feely) when the Fifth Brother and Reva show up and start questioning everyone about the Jedi’s location. His first brush with Reva is a close call.
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