It's insane to think how long this series/story was in development and how unbelievably underwhelming it is. This should've been an easy home run.

After the first episode introduced Leia, I didn't hate it but was hoping that it would only be a small part of the show. Now, 4 out of 6 episodes in, it's pretty much been the main plot.

For being a base that's half underwater, they really gotta work on the underwater security 2/2 infiltrations we've seen have been from underwater

Leia better get her mind Force wiped at the end of this series. No way she and Obi-Wan could have bonded like this and she had no reaction when he got killed by Vader. In ANH it seemed like Leia had only heard of Obi-Wan through her father. Also, Leia had to be subconsciously using the force to stop Reva from reading her mind. How did no one sense she was force sensitive?

my big issue with this show is that everything feels really railroaded, we know Kenobi and Leia survive so there's no real stakes. Because of this the empire also feels extra incompetent. Reva is annoying and the grand inquisitor isn't dead. This show should have just taken place on tatooine with Obi-Wan meditating to become a force ghost

The part where Obi-Wan hides Leia underneath the trench coat literally had me laughing, it reminded me of Austin Powers hiding Mini Me underneath the disguise. It's just as silly as the chase scene in the first episode. While the whole "Force Unleashed ll" scene with Obi-Wan saving Leia was cool, The rest of the episode was wack.

I really thought there were a noticeable amount of stupid creative choices or decisions in this episode. The fact that Leia undeniably knows “Ben” is obi wan kenobi now, the fact that fortress inquisitorius doesn’t have a shield for no reason other than plot convenience, the fact that they didn’t bother to scramble any TIE fighters as they were fleeing the fortress on a snowspeeder? That stormtrooper who just stood still and waited to die in the dark was also really dumb. Does he not at least have the sense to back up to a wall so that Obi wan can’t kill him from behind?, which is also what ended up happening. Nobody noticing that a child was obviously hiding in Obi wans coat was so stupid as well. I like this series and I think it’s pretty good, but damn did this episode really frustrate me.

I’m one of the Star Wars fans that has liked this series less with each episode and feel like this series overall didn’t need to exist. These episodes feel like spinning their wheels at this point from Vader leaving Kenobi alive done very poorly executed to the Grand Inquisitor of Rebels Season 1 getting stabbed pathetically by Reva to this filler episode which is supposed to be the end of the second act. Twin Suns episode of Rebels has currently had a better portrayal of Kenobi than anything here after Part 1. Fallen Order has done a superior version of Jedi escaping an underwater fortress. There are still no flashbacks of Kenobi and Anakin especially here when in the bacta tank they had the perfect chance to give us something that’s worth the existence of this show. Gonna feel disappointed to think that Rebels may be a better use of legacy and existing characters than anything here in Kenobi (aside from Young Leia who’s surrounded by continuity holes and middling writing)!

And now we can see they never had a direction for it. They simply made the show for the sake of it, as an excuse to grab some cash. "As long as we have obi and vader on film, even if there is no story, we will get paid" and that's all that matters to them

I didn’t like this episode mainly because of the small details. Like how Tala was talking to Kenobi within earshot of like 4 imperial agents, all the imperials not noticing Leia in Kenobi’s cloak or the show trying to make us care about whoever Wade was. Also Reva is still insufferable.

This show was the easiest fan service to make every fan happy. Could even still be 6 episodes. Just obi-wan in his cave, communicating with qui-gon, both to continue his training, and confiding in him about his failures. Throw in a clone wars flashback or two, and a darth Vader cameo of him hunting Jedi in general and boom. Everyone would love it. We needed a deeper, character driven story just following obi-wan and truly feeling his pain and grief, but with the one glimmer of hope in luke. Book of boba fett was similar in that it would’ve been so easy to make something good, but this is just mind blowing how they’re missing the mark

So Leia is supposed to be the daughter of an imperial senator. She gets kidnapped which makes obi wan and the rebels show up to rescue her... How the fkc does she end up being an imperial senator herself in ANH with everything that this chain of events already implies about her and even her father.

What really irked me is that the glass underwater was totally compromised by a single blaster bolt, like Wouldn’t that glass be much much more sturdy than that lmao

Also, still no flashbacks. At this point the only one we’ll have is one of Reva in the temple. Which is a disservice and just proves how much she’s been focused on over Kenobi. I’m hoping I’m wrong though

Stranger Things Season 4 episodes have all been well over an hour-long, with not even a 10th of the money Disney has. I want to genuinely know what excuse Disney has for not giving the same to us; For as complex and fleshed out as that escape plan needed to be to even have a chance of working, it's pretty ironic that this was the shortest episode so far with the most amount of plot armor and contrivances packed in. I'm not asking for Game of Thrones season 1-4 level writing here, I just want a semi-competent story told. I really, really, really wanted to like this show; especially after the abomination that was BoB. We continue to see this type of egregiously mediocre plot and dialogue, yet Disney still cannot learn from their easily correctable mistakes. They are so blind to their failures and do not hesitate to gaslight the fanbase, calling us toxic, racist, misogynistic, etc. when we criticize them. I'm not sure how much longer I can support this level of ineptitude by writers and producers that get paid way more than they should (especially when I see people in the comments below taking not even 15 minutes to write up better plot points of their own).

imagine this: - when Obi-Wan’s in the bacta tank, he sees flashes of Anakin burning on Mustafar, juxtaposed against himself burning in the fire last episode… - another scene where he tries and fails to contact Qui-Gon… he’s practicing his Force stuff, it’s not going well. someone in and says “we’ve found Leia with some technobabble!” and this buoys Obi-Wan’s spirits, and he’s able to grab his lightsaber from afar with the Force. - he and Tala infiltrate the fortress as portrayed. - the Jedi tomb scene was cool, but it was unconnected… make that a bigger deal, with Obi-Wan seeing someone he actually knows. maybe even Quinlan Vos? - Obi-Wan saves Leia from the torture room, they have that broken window escape scene, but then Reva catches up to them. - THEY FIGHT. - Obi-Wan is timid, but he’s still able to hold his own against a lowly Inquisitor… then Reva taps into some serious Dark Side anger and gets in a few good licks and gains the upper hand. - Obi-Wan, in some sort of tight spot, again closes his eyes and reaches out in the Force, and hears a voice… it’s hard to understand who it is, but it just _miiiight_ be Qui-Gon Jinn. the voice simply says _”trust_ the Force.” - Obi-Wan does some cool shit, disarms Reva, knocks her to the ground, and holds his lightsaber to her neck. - he’s considering killing her, looks off and sees Tala and Leia on a shuttle, ready to go… - Reva says some really hateful, deluded Dark Side crap… Obi-Wan realizes the path she’s gone down, and chooses the higher path for himself, and spares her, and the heroes escape. - the scene with Vader and Reva happens similarly, but Vader gives her a nice scar on her face for her failure (or something like that). she can still say she put a tracker on the droid or whatever, but it’s obvious that the screwed up, and didn’t intentionally let them escape… - the final scene can be the same, with Obi-Wan happy to have saved Leia, and feeling a little confident in his abilities and his cause for the first time in the series so far…

the first three episodes were building up to this super emotional vader/kenobi dynamic, with third sister acting as sort of a teaser for the real dark sider to come. but episode 4 really just came off as filler. also, Third sister is really really not intimidating and they’re not doing enough in my opinion with making her compelling and unique. the show is still using her as the main antagonist as opposed to DARTH FREAKING VADER. why??? it’s so frustrating because it’s so close to being amazing. Third sister could have been used better, and Reva could have told Obi that Vader was alive, without also knowing V is Anakin. Leia didn’t need to know that Ben is Obi Wan, that just muddys the water of ANH. Vader could have let Obi Wan go on purpose, but now it’s clear that he just gave up at the end of the last episode for some reason. so many little mistakes that don’t really matter alone but together they just confound me as a fan. also, helmet slap!

I really didn't like how vader seems to have had no plan and legitimately just let obi wan go because of the fire.

The fact that the Rebels series managed to introduce less plot holes, have less plot conveniences, and be more consistent with the canon as a whole compared to this show is beyond me. Like, one example is Maul's efforts in finding Obi-Wan in Rebels, the task seemed way more challenging and difficult; he went from joining Jedi and Sith Holocrons together to gain knowledge, to utilizing Night Sister magic, he and Ezra went through some pretty extensive means to locate Obi-Wan, these were like one-time options. While in this show, the Nari Jedi dude at the beginning just happens to discover Obi-Wan on Tatooinee... but how, or from whom? Surely Bail wouldn't endanger Obi-Wan & Luke by sending an already hunted Jedi to his location. And then we have Reva in her ultimate power of nosey-ness, she somehow knows of every dirty secret of the legacy characters, she'll probably end up discovering Obi-Wan's purpose on Tatooinee, how much you wanna bet? When Maul and Ezra discovered Obi-Wan's whereabouts, not even Ezra left Tatooinee knowing of Obi-Wan's purpose there; Maul discovered his purpose there, but that was why he had to die... so in that case, no one left Tatooinee knowing of Obi-Wan's purpose there. Not to mention that they got a writer who hasn't even seen ROTS, and later clarified that he quote: "had no knowledge of Obi-Wan already knowing who Vader was." The writing as a whole is wack.

So this is now the 3rd for Disney Series were a kid is captured and then rescued. When are the Disney writers gonna come up with something new? Got kinda excited when Obi-Wan was announced because I thought "finally a series concentrating on a specific character not a bunch of side characters we have never heard of, how wrong I was.

This series is starting to approach Book of Boba Fett territory for me. It started off okay, first couple of episodes were decent. It's nice to catch up with some familiar characters. But after that initial hit it needed something more, but that something more just never seems to come. In fact, the issues start to compound on one another, becoming bigger and more glaring. Also, the end of this episode with Vader and Reva needs to bury the cope that Vader let Obi-Wan escape at the end of the previous episode. He was furious with Reva for letting Obi-Wan escape. It's a real shame Obi-Wan wasn't just yards away from Vader the day before. It was poor, contrived writing.

I actually boo'ed at my TV when Vader decided to not kill Reva. She had her chance and she failed. That's the "You have failed me for the last time" or "Apology Accepted" moment. That's when Vader kills you. I don't understand how they got this wrong. Adding to the many stupid decisions made in this episode, why didn't Reva look into the memory bank of the Lola droid to see if it had recorded any information about the Path? The writing gets dumber and my interest in Disney+ Star Wars goes with it.

There’s no chance they resolve the issues created by this. We already knew there were gonna be issues created but we hoped they would be solved. The mountain is just too high to climb in 2 episodes

The Inquisitorious officers actually all seemed fairly observant and correctly know to question people who look suspicious and yet when sirens go off a tall guy with a huge bulge in his long jacket is walking by... "Nah, it'll be fine..."

If Reva just had planted a tracking beacon on Leia's rescuers' ship and Kenobi had felt she was in danger and went to help her, we would end up with the same result, costing only maybe 10 minutes of show time, we wouldn't need to spend a whole episode on a filler side mission, and we would see more Vader and Kenobi, which is the solely reason I'm still watching this show.

"If this were a different series" perfectly describes my feelings. If they were trying to subvert my expectations, well...mission accomplished. I was expecting better. I would describe this episode as fan-fodder, full of superficially satisfying easter-eggs but little else.

I’m sorry Thor, as a Star Wars fan, I wanna like this, but it is just unbelievably dull and soulless. Those two adjectives are also how I feel about the franchise as a whole now.

After 4 episodes I still don't get why they needed to put Reva in this show. Why (literally) remove the grand inquisitor, an established and good character, to put in some new inquisitor who is kind of the villain but also not because Vader is the villain?? Also, compared to the other inquisitors she doesn't feel as scary other than her being unpredictable.

Weird how Vader let's the very obviously incompetent inquisitors do all the hard work when it's about probably the number one task of his life which is hunting/capturing Kenobi instead of doing it himself. Not just weird but sucks how the inquisitors steal the spotlight from Vader. I liked Reva in the first 2 episodes but they havent't built any reason to care about her as a character so now it is getting funny how the show is trying to force the character to the audience though there is substance to it. As an episode it was a dumb waste of time considering this show is only 6 episodes, there is no space for filler rescue missions in that, though at this point it's not a secret anymore that the writers of this show are not the right people for that job. This is getting so annoying, they have the Disney budget and technology and everything but getting people who understand the source material seems to be impossible. Or Disney just doesn't care. I wouldn't even mind so much if i didn't have to get excited for a week just to get a very short lackluster episode. Imo Disney should take a break from live-action Star Wars. Or make less of them and put more effort to individual shows. Like to me the movies beat the shows in so many ways, the sets, the atmosphere, directing. When i watch an episode of Obi Wan Kenobi i instantly get the feel that this all is acting and everything is just kind of put into place and recorded. It's not exactly a feel i want to get from "Star Wars" content

Can we acknowledge that all the people who defended the writers saying that Vader let obiwan go, were all wrong? Atleast the way vader acts in this episode, it definitely wasnt planned for some greater scheme

I don't think it was Revas original plan to let them get away. The tracker was a contingency in case they did escape to keep Vader from killing her

Can somebody please explain how Tala managed to knock out an Imperial Officer in the midst of other Officers, somehow in pin drop silence. Whilst on the other hand, the faintest of sounds on Obi Wan’s wallow talkie is heard by those patrolling storm troopers? Wtf?! It really is diabolical writing in parts.

I find it admirable that you've been trying to give them the benefit of the doubt. But this is Star Wars made by disney they are throwing buckets of money at it and literally have people on staff whose job it is to keep canon straight. In my opinion they must held to a higher standard than a fan project and this level of sloppiness is simply unacceptable. I have not been shy in my critic of the show I think it is completely sloppy writing done by people who are in it for nothing more than a pay check and some notoriety. For a lot of people this show was the last straw. For me the last straw was long ago. Either way this show had to be perfect. Not only is it not perfect, it's actively bad despite having a couple enjoyable and down good moments. I feel sorry for the people holding this show up as their last stand because now they have to come to terms with that.

The show so far has been Leah gets taken, Obi-Wan goes to find her. Leah gets taken again, Obi-Wan goes to find her again. 4 episodes and nothing has happened that is noteworthy in the bigger picture other than I guess the "fight" between Vader and Obi-Wan. Much like the sequels I'm not sure why this needs to exist

HAHAHA I like how Leia asks Reva “Is this a staring contest” when Reva is trying to read her mind! Like wait, Reva can’t even read Leia’s 10 year old mind when Leia is NOT EVEN TRYING TO FIGHT IT?

It felt like half of the scenes in this episode were just missing when I was watching it, making things pretty disorienting. Like when Ben and Tala went to talk to the rebel people, it felt like we were missing a full introduction to all three of those characters, especially when one of their deaths was dwelt on for so long at the end of the episode, we just jumped right into talking about a plan. Then once they landed Ben went from sitting inside the ship to immediately being swimming underwater. Next, after Tala gets past the security guard, she is next seen sitting at a desk talking to Ben. Does someone normally work at that desk? Why is nobody else in that room questioning the fact that someone they have never seen before is sitting at one of the desks? Then after the guy confronts her, how did nobody notice her attack that guy? Why did nobody question her return to the desk after? What was Ben's cylinder thing that he used to open the door to the restricted area? Was the door just unlocked? Did he hack it? Did he get a code cylinder that had clearance? After Tala manages to somehow take out the two stormtroopers escorting her, she then just appears across the base right next to Ben and Leia. Then when they go to escape, why not return to the ship they came in? What happened to it? Overall I just felt like there was a ton of connecting tissue missing as each scene seemed very disconnected from the last

I was really hoping for this dark series with flashbacks between Obi-Wan and Anakin, maybe some Ahsoka. Cody, Rex,... Just, more. I know things could still come but I dont think it will happen.

One thing I don't get is: When Vader is force choking Reva for her failure...why did he stop and let her go? We've seen Vader crush his subordinates again and again for far less egregious errors. For him to say "I underestimated you" simply because she used a tracker? I mean, come on! Between that and him letting Kenobi escape at the end of episode 3, Vader's malice and intimidation is being watered down to the point it's not any stronger than a $15 drink at Disneyland!

I remember you saying that Kenobi needed to do exceptionally well for the future of star wars. Instead I only see it fracturing the fanbase even further. I can't see any reconciliation under Disney anymore.

You can't just skip over how they escaped a planet with Vader and the Inquisitors present. There had to be AT LEAST two Star Destroyers on that planet to catch outbound ships

this show is bottom of the barrel for me, the writing is pathetic, using Hayden Christensen for about 15 seconds over 4 episodes, making Obi Wan a passenger in his own show, making Vader and the Empire out to be a bunch of sympathetic weaklings and for what? to push Reva, a character that has no life outside of these last two episodes?

I’m just sick of the constant teleporting and time skips. Episode 3: how did Reva get past Tala and Leia in the tunnel? Episode 4: how did Obi-wan and Tala somehow get off world if the only pilot that could take them was killed by the teleporting Reva? Episode 4: how did Reva somehow dismantle and rewire a droid in the few seconds she was away from Leia? Also, why is this Vader such a punk? The guy kills admirals left and right without a second thought. But somehow Reva is still alive despite her team rocket levels of failure

This episode felt like one big unfired Chekov's gun. For those that don't know, it's a writing tool where you introduce something in the first act, then USE IT in the final act. THIS episode and the show feels like the writer doesn't know what Chekov's gun is. And that's BAD because that's basic writing 101. You set something up, you pay it off later. And even with all of it's own problems, even The Rise of Skywalker had setup and payoff. Rey needs to learn how to commune with Force Ghosts? That's paid off in the final battle. Rey needs to find out who she is? We see hints of her being a Palpatine via the force lightning, that's confirmed later on. We see Rey with the Jedi Texts we later see her able to use the Force to heal, assuming she learned from the books. We see more payoff of the Force Dyad setup in The Last Jedi. Even the most messy trilogy in the history of trilogies, knows what CHEKOV'S GUN IS and most importantly, how to PROPERLY USE IT. Here...not at all. And it's annoying asf. And the expectations of Clone Wars flashbacks, Cal Kestis or Cere are VERY reasonable ones to have-they aren't outlandish, or impossible like say having Hayden come back for the sequel trilogy that just seemed like a way too out there expectation. But here? With him being MARKETED as ANAKIN AND VADER? Foolish. Absolutely foolish to not utilize Hayden more. I'd be insulted.

Imagine writing a show. And having so little imagination that the main story of the first 4 out of 6 episodes, is just Leia getting kidnapped and rescued twice...

Just like Book Of Boba Fett, Obi Wan Kenobi is in the same barrel of mediocrity and meh. I will give it this though: Ewan is fantastic and Leia is adorable and her actress was amazing in this.

Trailers: "The boy must be trained!" The show: (can barely lift a rock, runs away from Sith like a coward, uses fists and a blaster, also ignores the "boy" in question for most of the series)

I thought this episode was awful. I really hope this show can somehow salvage itself in the last two episodes but as of now it’s feeling like as big of a dud as Book of Boba Fett.

I love how obiwan had to chunk down the life bar of the stromtrooper with 3 lightsaber hits until he was finally dead with a small scratch on his armour..... and angry vader really gave me kylo ren tantrum vibes. What a great show....

I love Ewan, I'm glad he's getting his rhythm back and his confidence as Obi Wan, the laser scenes were excellent. However, I am so tired of Reva, this has become her show, and she's been in all 4 episodes, enough is enough! Vader should have force choked her, because she's reckless and selfish.

I’m sorry Thor I was watching your video on your 2nd channel, I immediately had to come here

My nitpick for this episode was how Tala was siting in a room with other people, where no one else was talking, yet no one noticed that she was having an intercom conversation that was obviously about breaking into the base! I think it was noticed only a couple of times when it was convenient for the plot, otherwise everyone looked the other way to the very suspicious two way conversation in a quiet room.

I liked the episode for what it was, but the things you're pointing out in this video are just too glaring to ignore. This show is wiping its butt with things like established canon and plot consistency, the characters are becoming increasingly inconsistent, and the fact that Vader didn't snap Reva's neck for failing LIKE HE SAID HE WOULD IN THE LAST EPISODE is the cherry on top of making the empire look like a complete joke

It is infuriating that the empire is consistently shown to be so incompetent. Cal Kestis breaks into the Fortress Inquisitorius via THE SAME METHOD as Kenobi in this series. Which means that a jedi has breached the security of the same imperial "fortress", made a joke of internal security, stolen something, and broke back out TWICE BY THE EXACT SAME ENTRY METHOD. You'd THINK that the empire would learn something about the integrity of their security after the first time. It is also shown in Fallen Order that the Mustafar system (or at minimum, Nur) is protected by an Imperial blockade of several ISDs. Theres no way that a freighter snuck past the ISDs in orbit, or remain in atmosphere without fighters being scrambled. Even given that all of that happens, there's NO WAY that that cargo ship is fast enough to run an imperial blockade. Its so lazy.

I fully expected "Mama Sandsnake" to die helping Obi Wan escape, showing there would be a cost to do this (instead a 'Red Shirt' dies to demonstrate the cost, and I didn't care about that unknown character at all).

I find myself watching this not out of curiosity or joy but rather in a state of mourning for Star Wars. This show was the one thing they absolutely needed to get right and they didn’t. RIP SW

I think this show should have been a movie. They’re wasting a lot of time on things that originally might have been good ideas but in execution are falling flat. I really enjoyed the inquisitors in rebels, but here they’re just not working at all. Make it a movie about kenobi and vader and don’t give us all the unnecessary stuff.

That scene with them escaping, looking like children trying to get into an R rated movie, was nearly my "that's it, I'm out!" moment. It probably could have been forgiven if it weren't for the fact that everyone was on high alert BECAUSE OF THEM. I like the animated stuff but there is a certain amount of suspension of disbelief that usually isn't required in the live action shows, that is until book of boba fett, which was a weird uneven amalgamation of good and ridiculous story telling. And I think Obi-Wan is the worst offender of this child like story telling yet. Yeah there is drama, but it is a very naive style of drama, and that is what I think is so off putting to many people...hell, I probably wouldn't have noticed half my complaints if the show was done in the rebels style animation (half, som complaints are fundamental). Star wars has never been Shakespeare, but it used to be classical myth making stories.

If you're going to do an infiltration of an impregnable fortress, make it feel like a clever approach was needed. This was just silly. Totally killed it for me, honestly. I don't hate this series at the moment, but I'm disappointed. Just stacks of wasted opportunities.

The only "relatively" decent thing about this episode was that Obi wan wasn't completely incompetent... And that's only a thing because of how pathetic he's been the first 3 episodes. I actually think a much more compelling story would have been having him STILL be at RoTS power levels but unable to act because of his mission.

im tired of feeling like the best we can hope for when it comes to a new piece of disney star wars is that its "not that bad" cause thats where most fans are at

From the start I was concerned that this series would create continuity/coherence issues with the "bigger picture". The progression of the episodes just confirmed my concerns. It is a totally unnecessary series with major plot holes between ROTS and ANH.

This is the episode for me where they broke too much lore to ignore as well.

I'm checked out of this series and added it to the list of Non Sanctioned Star Wars content along with Sequels and Solo. Kenobi isn't a hopeless dead beat loser, and neither is Luke or Han. Obi-Wan's lightsabers were never buried hopelessly in the sand. He was protecting Luke and everything the Jedi fought for.

Reva calls Ben as "Obi Wan" which Im pretty sure creates a plot hole.

this whole show has been nothing but plot conveniences, "and then" storytelling, with "well it says it right here in the script so.." We know next to nothing about any of the characters or their motivations created for this show. All we have gotten so far is a few good ideas, with a pile of "oh look at the shiny nostalgia" in a nonsensical discombobulated story that has broken canon thus far.

I tried to warn people the show was going to be more of the same :( I wish they would stop telling stories about fan favourites when they clearly don’t have the reverence or respect needed to actually make a good show that will portray the legacy characters correctly. The last two episodes are going to have to be better then perfect to fix this series for me, and even then not sure if you can call a series even good when 2/3 of it are garbage

To me its really incredible how anyone can still be in denial/making excuses or try to justify that this show is "about to get better" as if its just around the corner that the show will miraculously get better. If 90% of the show so far is crap doesn't it mean its crap? Do those 10% make it some how great or disqualify the bad? That's just how your review comes across. It doesn't do you any justice. Either the show is crap or its good.

No 'benefit of the doubt' left for me. I really, really wanted to like this series. Now I'm not even sure I want to finish it. There is no way to make this fit into established movie cannon at this point. I don't see anyway for them to make this fit anymore. Vader knows in ANH that Obi-wan wasn't dead. Leia obviously doesn't know obi personally in ANH. Too many other inconsistencies along the way. Are we to believe vader is an idiot and wouldn't go after Leia again after this drew out obi wan? This is the filming and production of a first draft of somebody's fan-fic.

I was in the watch party with Star Wars theory last night, we did find out the writer is not familiar with canon or was aware at first obi wan knew Vader=anakin

For me there is no way Kenobi wins when the duel of the century takes place. Think it through. If he does, there is no way that he spends the next 10 years or so like we think he does. He's already seen way too much of Vader than I ever thought he would, the Empire knows too much about him, Palpatine is as surpirsed as anyone when Kenobi turns up on the deathstar....Vader needs to belive he killed Ben to become the cold, focused Sith we see down the line....in my opinion

I can’t imagine what George Lucas thinks as he watches this soulless empty shell of his once passion project. I picture him wiping away tears with 100 dollar bills.

He was already referred to as Obi Won twice in front of Leia. Once in front of her and in this episode directly to her by Reva Ren. It become apparent how much Kennedys side of SW is influencing this show.

This episode is pretty much a copy pasted way worse version of the exact level and plot point for point beat for beat from Jedi Fallen Order. Except fallen order somehow looked way better, had better writing and had better acting. Add to that the fact that Fallen Order took place 5 years before this and destroyed large portions of the base, involved the exact same break in and exact same flooding from window issue it is just inconceivable that: 1. nobody would know or mention that all that had happened; 2. The structure and security of the facility wouldnt be tailored against those weaknesses; 3. Vader wouldnt be like wait wtf i literally went through this identical plot in this identical location with a previous inquisitor recently. On top of that, All of it was just extremely lazy and added nothing at all to the story.

Maybe Reva is the only one that knows about the connection between Organa and Kenobi? If she dies at the end, it might work. I guess the Grand Inquisitor should know, but he is still nowhere to be found. Although, if he comes back, maybe he just doesn’t see it as his place to hunt Kenobi? Thinking about it, Vader knows about Kenobi’s connection with Bail, so maybe there is a reason why Vader decides not to use Leia to draw Kenobi out? Or maybe he just sees it as a plan that has already failed? Maybe it’s because, assuming Kenobi beats Vader in their next duel, Vader uses the next few years to train even more, and then by the time he is ready to face Kenobi again, Leia is a Junior Senator, and the Emperor refused to allow Vader to cause an incident in the Senate. He has been show to care little about Vader’s hunt for Kenobi, so I think it could make sense. I think they could make it work, but it will be hard. On the note of the escape and tracking, she knew that Janna and Kenobi knew where the Path was, so she would be able to get it out of Janna. The tracker was a back up plan. And I’m guessing that what will even if they drop off Leia, either the droid will slip away and back onto the ship, or it has a tracker that it will plant. I don’t see the transport getting into the atmosphere as being that bad, as the Mantis was able to get there with relative ease. Maybe if it was closer together it would be less likely, but one minor infiltration in 10 years would likely mean that the security was sloppy at best, especially 5 years later. Same reason why they weren’t able to scramble Tie Fighters that fast. They weren’t fast enough to scramble fighters after the Mantis.

It feels like it breaks the story with reva just revealing to leia that Ben and kenobi are the same person. Also the interrogation scene felt weird with reva thinking that leia would know anything about the path that we literally just found out about in the episode last week. 4:20 also two inquisitors where in the same area as them and they didn’t sense anything?! 12:19 are you saying you want that force diad crap or something?!

Yeh i feel about the same this episode was okay. But yeh i'm now realizing the main jist of this show is centered around Kenobi rescuing young Leia, they've just basically stretched it out and it's meant that there's not really much going on here. Yeh the Imperials looked frickin stupid not noticing Obi-Wan in a Imperial cap with his beard and 4 legs walking under his coat. I dont get how when those airspeeders came just conveniently at the right moment, why then didn't they scramble the tie fighters after them? Also when the airspeeders turned up for the rescue, how did Kenobi, Indra and kid Leia all fit in that little ship!? Last i remembered only two pilots can fit in there, one in the back on the grapple tow-cable gun and one in pilot cockpit. Anyway yeh things i liked, the whole mission impossible thing of sneaking into the inquisitorious base, with Kenobi swimming underwater, while Indra is undercover and guiding him in. I also liked seeing ewan use his Jedi lightsaber skills all coming back to him slowly but surely. Obviously every scene with Hayden as Vader was badass and might i just say, your boy James Earl Jones sounds amazing as Vader here. I'm sure they used somekind of digital work to clean up his voice now, cause Jones did not sound like this in Rogue One. His voice was abit more gruff in that awesome movie just sayin. Yeh so overall i give this a 3 out of 5, this show really should have been 12 nice 40min long episodes.

To give the show an ounce of credit, this episode looked very visually appealing, especially when placed next to episode 3s duel location. I still think there are issues with the pacing so far, and I'm sad such a short episode gave us such little Kenobi and Vader. The shot with Vader speed walking at Reva was incredible to look at, but his extreme patience towards her seems a little odd given his history with other inquisitors. While its very far from the worst (looking at TBoBF) the smaller errors and disregard for continuity is very very frustrating.

I had to back it up after the smack because I was laughing too hard... I couldn't believe my own eyes 😂 Come on, a barehanded smack from a small woman staggers a trained soldier in full body armor?

I think that when Vader tells Obi-Wan "I've been waiting for you" he meant that he could sense his presence on the Death Star and was waiting and looking forward to facing off with his old master again. I never thought Vader meant that he had been waiting for Obi-Wan all those years, since the Jedi were pressumed to be dead. I don't think Vader knew Obi-Wan was still alive until he sensed his presence on the Death Star.

Two things: 1. Obi-Wan's lightsaber literally bounces off of a Stormtrooper 2. This "impenetrable fortresss" is flooded by a SINGLE blaster shot This show devours the brain cells of its viewers

I'm just scared that they mess my Boy Quinlan Vos up, as they did with boba. Im exited and scared at the same time about seeing him in Kenobi

I agree, this story prolonged for too long "the kidnap" writers have not a clear vision or goal with this show, no reason to extend kidnap and rescue of leia, tracker on droid should've been done in episode 3

This series is about the inevitable Reva redemption arc, and nothing else.

This episode was where they tripped. They're in a hole now and the next two episodes will have to be INSANELY good to climb out. But considering the episodes keep getting weaker and weaker, I doubt this will happen.

What I thought was ridiculous is Reva has the force ability to read minds and she tries with Leia. However, when she questions Tala she doesn't think to use it to see whether she is a spy or not. So Reva only needed to use her mind trick, yet she doesn't use it while interigating who she thinks is a spy? Please, Disney, you need to better because this is terrible writing.

The first thing I thought of when Reva was interrigating Leia was the episode of Rebels when Thrawn had Hera and was interrigating her. It was pretty close to identical.

love ur vids man keep it up i was looking forward to this vid

(Spoilers for JFO) As a huge fan of Jedi Fallen Order, the depiction of the Fortress Inquisitorius here was extremely underwhelming. Cal and friends had to make their ship practically invisible and then use tiny escape pods to get inside, in order to avoid being seen by the huge fleet of star destroyers and ships high above. Plus, way more enemies to fight, nearly impossible to sneak through. Cal must have done some serious damage back in the day for the Fortress to have such a drastic drop in defenses. (: Making this rescue the 4th episode of the series rather than the final mission the way JFO did, that also undercut how formidible this Fortress ought to be. Thank you JFO for making this place matter and the stakes higher.

I haven’t had any issues believing in Obi-Wan’s character arc. When you look at the timeline this is set in, the trauma he went through (with additional possible Force-sensitive influences), and the severe isolation he’a been enduring, the portrayal of Obi-wan makes sense. I can look at the writing and Ewen’s performance and see a decade of being ground deeper into misery and depression. Leia is a delight in her portrayal, even if the character arc for her is struggling. I also don’t mind Reva and how Ingram is portraying her. I’m not connecting as well with her character but that’s mostly writing and a bit Ingram herself being very new to professional acting. Ingram is putting everything she has into this role and the areas where her lack of experience are highlighted by the many veteran actors surrounding her. The story is the biggest issue I’m having. The idea is good but I’ve gone from being excited to watch Kenobi to an attitude more akin to, “Well, I guess I’ll watch the episode now so I don’t get spoiled by media commentary”. Obi-wan being drawn out of seclusion and rededicating himself to the Jedi way is a great idea but it feels like they’re trying to do too much. Instead of keeping a narrow focus on Obi-wan and using just Vader as his pursuer, we’re also building up Leia and Reva’s stories. And that’s just too much for a mere 6-episode series. I’ve been delighted by the prequel-era tie-ins and my husband, a burnt out Star Wars fan, did comment in passing that he thought the set and costuming design was a good blend of the prequel and original eras. But the original era itself doesn’t feel like it’s getting much respect and that is quite disheartening. I’m planning to watch this through to its conclusion but my expectations have been greatly diminished, which is disappointing.

Your concerns about Bail Organa make so much sense. None of this makes sense. The empire would never let Leia or Bail hold power after the events of this story.

Who could have guessed that Robot Chicken makes the best stars was content.

"Obi-wan Kenobi. Obi-wan. Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time.' 'I think my uncle knows him. He said he was dead.' 'Oh, he's not dead. Not yet.' 'Oh so you know him.' 'Of course I know him. He's me. I've not gone by the name Obi-wan since, oh, before you were born." - Star Wars A New Hope

I hate that I'm not liking a show about Kenobi with Ewan MacGregor and Hayden Christensen in it. I'm just really underwhelmed by each episode. I just see it as glorified fan fiction at this point and it softens the blow. I will say, the line "I've been waiting for you Obi-Wan" can mean he's been waiting for him since he sensed him on the Death Star, though I'm starting to get annoyed with how loose they're playing with the Canon and the lines in that ANH. I don't want to keep going back and reinterpreting these lines to fit in a show I don't like nor fit in my own head canon at this point.

The REAL question I ask myself is how will this affect D+ subscriptions or purchase of collector's merch? Will fans who dislike the series (and an ever growing body of SW content) still unload tons of cash for SW properties? Then what is the motive for Lucasfilm to not alter the deal any further?

OK CHECK IT OUT: I would like to make a few points here. I'm getting tired of the plot convenience of bluffing past security check points and being able to use any officer's code cylinder to get through certain doors. When I was in the military, years ago, I was very low in rank. Part of my job was to guard a secure room. No matter how high of a ranking officer approached me, they could not get in regardless of how many threats they made me unless they had the proper credentials. The Empire is not just ranked based, they have mentioned about proper areas and what not many times. So code cylinders would only work for the proper doors. Even my security badge now only works for certain doors in the hospital I go to every night. Also, the Empire runs on tight schedules. The crew of the Ghost used this against the Empire as did Han Solo when floating away with the rest of garbage. The Disney writers keep forgetting how efficient the Empire is. My other big concern is Leia. When Vader boarded Leia's ship in a New Hope, he was still concerned about optics towards the Senate by covering his tracks. He said Send a distress beacon and notify the Senate that all aboard were killed. Why would Vader be so laid back now knowing that baby Leia knows so much about their dealings. You would think he would stop at nothing to cover this stuff up seeing that she is a senators daughter and will run her mouth. I could go on and on...Hell maybe I need to make a video myself about these things...LOL. Love Thor Skywalker though!

I keep trying to like this show and expect the best, but it just makes me wonder if the producers really thought that Leia being so closely involved with Obi-Wan is a good idea, considering ANH canon. I think they're bending it waaaaay too much in their favor. Like, at this point Obi-Wan is a great part of her childhood experience. She knows him, she likes him, she cares about him. Yet ANH makes it feel like she only knew him from her father's stories. That would make more sense if Obi-Wan was involved in Leia's rescue mission if she was a toddler or something, and she wouldn't really remember it later in her life. As much as it's fun to see little Leia and her interactions with Obi-Wan, that makes zero sense. As a stand alone side story about Obi-Wan it's okay to watch. But considering the whole SW canon... what the hell?

As this series has progress, I'm losing more and more interest in it. There's too many lore breaking moments that I can't overlook as well as some plot holes that don't make sense which has diminished my overall enjoyment. Concerning Storm trooper armor ; it's absolutely useless. I still remember in R1 where dirt kicked in a trooper's general direction was enough to knock him off balance. The empire would probably better served just to deploy them in their undies.

Stop thinking. Unquestioningly accept whatever is presented. Buy more Disney product. Always buy more Disney product.

Sharing so much of your observations and concerns. Lack of consistency and content. Watching this review in particular felt like hearing my thoughts into structured words, with images. Thanks for the work! I see that whole show as, again, a clumsily handled soft reboot of sw core moments. A Help me ObiWan Kenobi remixed for/from ep4. The Vader-Ben we meet again.. Let’s hope they don’t have Leia’s memory wiped out by a force user and call it a day?

Why there was tie fighters in the inquisitor base if none of them chase a single fighter? And also not even one imperial checks a bearded guy with four legs. Also the way the plot moves is dumb, like in the sisters arc in s7 of clone wars, when an entire episode serves no purpose at all