9/17/2023 0 Comments Darth vader episode 4![]() ![]() Neat.īut while hints of the sequel trilogy have been promisingly incorporated into this narrative, Obi-Wan Kenobi increasingly seems like it’s attempting to answer a more tediously fan-friendly query: What if the Star Wars prequel trilogy was more like Rogue One (a prequel itself, you may recall)? The answer, sans the big-budget visual splendor of director Gareth Edwards, is a murky stew of regret, occasional badassery, and self-seriousness. A rhyme worthy of George Lucas, between two creative works he didn’t have a hand in. When our hero wakes up, the show bites a little from a Last Jedi motif, following Obi-Wan’s “Where’s Leia?” with an answering cut to Fortress Inquisitorious, a base on the watery moon of Nur. “Part 4” opens with Obi-Wan in shallow-focus disorientation, getting hauled away from his fiery sorta-rematch with Darth Vader, and going through what has become a Star Wars rite of passage: doing time in a bacta tank, baby! The most evocative and promising parts of the episode - at least those that don’t involve sweet defensive lightsaber moves - come in these early moments, where Obi-Wan’s stay in the bacta tank, treating his burns, is intercut with shots of Vader’s even-more-mangled body in his own bacta tank (presumably more of a second home for the former Anakin Skywalker). And it certainly is straightforward, perhaps to a fault. ![]() This should be the most straightforward Obi-Wan Kenobi episode yet: an urgent rescue mission running, barely over 30 minutes without its credits, on which Obi-Wan must fight through his not-quite-healed Vader injuries and his rusty command of the Force to mount a daring infiltration of enemy territory with the help of Tala (Indira Varma) and her imperial clearance. ![]()
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