![]() ![]() Ingram is doing amazing work with the character, let’s give that character more to do. It’s unclear at this point what will happen to Reva: will Vader or Obi-Wan kill her? Will she realize the error of her ways and return to the Light? With two episodes remaining, we need her to do more than repeat her points and scowl about Kenobi. Reva is falling victim to the curse of all Star Wars villains–they love to hear themselves talk. There are only so many times a character can remind another that someone is dead (even if that character is reminding a child) or told that no one will be coming to save them before it begins to slice into the tension of the scene Leia knows, Reva. It’s during Reva’s scenes with Leia that the dialogue stumbles a little. Reva has had it with this kid, and sends Leia to an interrogation chamber, complete with a torture chair, but before she can use it on Leia, an officer appears to summon Reva. Leia agrees, but only if she can tell Bail first since they’re on the same side and all. Leia attempts to sneak Lola out, but Reva grabs the little droid and muses that she had a droid when she was young, but that it was taken away from her, just like everything else.ĭeciding to use a friendlier tack again, Reva tells Leia that if she just tells Reva what she knows about The Path, then she can go home. “Is this a staring contest?” an unmoved Leia asks and Reva has to admit that Leia is strong. Leia denies knowing anything and Reva attempts to read Leia’s mind. Reva tells Leia that Obi-Wan burned to death and that the people running “The Path,” whom Leia is protecting, are the ones who left him to die. Obi-Wan hears Leia screaming in the distance and tells Tala that they need a distraction.ĭuring these adventures, Leia (Vivien Lyra Blair) has been imprisoned in the Fortress, being interrogated by Reva ( Moses Ingram). One of them appears to be Jedi Master Tera Sinube and one, which stops Obi-Wan in his tracks, is a youngling, still with his little training helmet on his head. The bodies of Jedi and other Force-sensitives line the walls, encased in what looks like amber, faces frozen. He uses the Force to distract them and finds his way to the “secure sector,” which is not, as they’d suspected, the prison sector, but is instead a tomb. Tala makes (semi) quick work of the man, but gets back on comms just in time to alert a couple of stormtroopers that Obi-Wan is hiding nearby. Just like back on Naboo! Tala gives Obi-Wan directions to Leia over the galaxy’s most obvious comm conversation, but another Imperial interrupts her, asking her to step away from what is not her terminal. Tala lands on Nur, where she bosses her way to a terminal and accesses a map of the Fortress, opening an underwater port for a swimming Obi-Wan to sneak into. Frustrated, Tala decides that they’ll use her Imperial credentials and ship and she’ll sneak Obi-Wan in alone. Obi-Wan, kicking back into Republic General-mode, wants to use some of the available ships to launch an attack and rescue Leia, but Roken and his fellows, Wade (Ryder McLaughlin) and Sully (Maya Erskine), aren’t down for that plan. Roken shows Obi-Wan and Tala a rough holo-map of the Fortress Inquisitorius (yes, that’s still its name), explaining that it’s in the Mustafar sector. Obi-Wan argues that they can’t leave a 10-year-old girl in the hands of the Empire, and Roken, whose wife was Force-sensitive and taken by the Inquisitors, reluctantly agrees to help. They go to see fellow rebel Roken ( O’Shea Jackson, Jr), who is none-too-pleased that Obi-Wan is on their base, endangering their entire operation. Obi-Wan pops himself out of the tank to ask an alarmed Tala if anyone knows where Leia is. Inside the tank, Obi-Wan has flashbacks to his recent fight with Darth Vader ( Hayden Christensen), who is having similar flashbacks in his bacta tank on Mustafar. Tala ( Indira Varma) has taken Obi-Wan ( Ewan McGregor) to Jabiim, where he’s promptly deposited in a bacta tank. There’s going to be enough bouncing around this week! Note: for ease of reading, I’ll be separating the Obi-Wan/Tala story from the Leia/Reva story, though they significantly overlap in the episode itself. How tired will Obi-Wan be this week? Let’s find out. Deborah Chow’s direction, particularly in the fight sequences, shines as we meet a collection of new characters and plunge into a chilling Imperial stronghold. “Part 4” is that classic Star Wars plot: the rescue, but while this episode was full up on action and tension, it still hit repetitive beats in several scenes. Hello there! We’re down to the final episodes of this (season? series?) of Obi-Wan Kenobi, and like its Disney+ brethren, it’s wavering between plot movement and filler as the end draws near.
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