It’s just a shame it happened to not be the ship he was looking for. Obi-Wan Kenobi has done a great job of showing us a full-strength Vader and this is yet another thrilling example. The same can’t be said for the moment Darth Vader force pulls the escaping resistance spacecraft down to the ground – a moment all Star Wars: The Force Unleashed fans will enjoy. The base assault has faint echoes of the assault on Hoth, but is nowhere near as exciting or visually interesting, and it is times like this you just wish the Imperial Theme would kick in to lift the moment.
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While we didn’t know her long enough for it to feel like a real gut-punch, it does serve as a moment of real jeopardy in a series that has contained relatively little, due to the fact we know most of its lead characters survive. One shot does hit however, and Tala’s sacrifice foreshadows the one Obi-Wan himself will make to help Luke escape 10 years in the future.
The action for the most part is yet another opportunity for stormtroopers to display they’re the most ineffective military unit to ever grace the screen, charging through narrow corridors and missing almost every shot. This episode does little to expand on that though, and it feels like the narrative between Vader and Kenobi has been on pause ever since their showdown at the end of episode 3. The episode does a great job of delving into Reva’s relationships with both Obi-Wan and Vader, but truthfully neither of those are as interesting as the one between the two main adversaries. I wouldn’t be surprised if “brown rock” was the only design note given.
However, it’s more a cover band version because it has nowhere the same sense of scale or visual identity as the Crait attack. If episode 3 paid homage to Empire with its Cloud City showdown, episode 4 was A New Hope’s Death Star escape in a different prison, this time it’s The Last Jedi that gets the tribute treatment, with a cluster of the resistance trapped on the planet Jabiiim. Obi-Wan Kenobi seems insistent on reminding us of some of Star Wars’ greatest moments, with familiar scenarios popping up like a force ghost reminding us of ‘the good old days'. Ultimately, it moves the plot along well – even tying up some threads – and keeps us eagerly awaiting another Kenobi and Vader showdown. Obi-Wan Kenobi’s penultimate episode puts the spotlight on Reva, rounding out her character and telling her story to satisfying effect, with a handful of action scenes that serve the story well, even if they aren’t all presented in the most stylish of manners.
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