Old Ben’s penultimate outing isn’t perfect, but it sets the stage for a high-stakes season finale and delivers a couple of moments fans have been clamoring to see.
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Back on Vader’s ship we’re treated to a cool shot of the Dark Lord staring into the perpetual blue stream of hyperspace before Reva advises him that they’re nearing Jabiim. Vader tells her to: “Lock down the facility,” but when the gutsy inquisitor warns him the rebels could survive a siege for days, he reveals that his intention is not to break the defenders but Kenobi.
It’s a clever idea to have both Vader and Obi-Wan reflecting on the same moment. It’s just a little hard to believe that their minds would go straight to a training encounter that must have played out hundreds of times over and not a more poignant moment, like their duel on Mustafar in ‘Revenge of the Sith’. We then cut to Vader as he orders the attack; old Ben was right.
As Leia enters the vent, Obi-Wan’s comlink begins to sound and he finds a secluded spot to receive a message from Bail Organa . It’s a foolish move that puts both Leia and Luke in danger but then again, Bail is Leia’s adoptive father. However, what makes no sense at all is why he needlessly spills a laughable amount of sensitive information: “if he’s [Vader] learned of the children… If I don’t hear from you soon, I’ll head to Tatooine. Owen will need help with the boy.
A firefight ensues and it’s nice to see Obi-Wan batting those blaster bolts back like it’s 2005. The stormtroopers push the defenders back into a series of corridors, where we see NED-B kicking imperial butt and using an old battle droid-issue E-5 blaster rifle to boot! Reva tells Obi-Wan: “You’re gonna die soon,” before the sassy Jedi Master retorts: “You’re not bringing him to me, I’m bringing him to you.” He points out that families are back in the facility and asks Reva if she’ll let them suffer the same fate as the younglings back on Coruscant. Kenobi offers to work together, prompting Reva to beckon two stormtroopers to take him back inside.
As Vader realizes that Obi-Wan has dispatched his captors, he strides deeper into the facility. A close-up of Reva connotes that she intended for the Jedi to escape. Apart from taking a few verbal cues from Yoda, it certainly looks like this is Disney’s attempt at navigating Vader’s much-talked-about line of dialogue in ‘A New Hope’: “When I left you, I was but the learner. Now I am the master.” This whole episode has highlighted a lesson from Obi-Wan that Anakin is still yet to master, and one he arguably conquers by giving up his pursuit of Kenobi. Whether or not he comes to that realization now or during the final episode is anyone’s guess.
Back on the fleeing transport, we find that the hyperdrive is down and the Empire is in pursuit. We then cut back to a barely alive Reva as she crawls her way over to her lightsaber and suddenly notices the commlink Haja dropped when fleeing. Kenobi senses a disturbance as Reva watches Bail’s message. The episode ends with an establishing shot of the Lars homestead and a close-up of a sleeping Luke.
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