The Kristian Harloff Show - Obi-Wan Kenobi Episode 3 SPOILER Review!

Episode Date: June 1, 2022

Holy Moly! What an episode! Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 3 hit the air and what an episode it was. Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen, & Moses Ingram star in this series from Disney Plus about the fallen Jedi, Ben Kenobi. In the episode, Kenobi must deal with the fact that Anakin Skywalker has survived and is now Darth Vader. The fight begins! Follow on Twitter! Kristian Harloff https://twitter.com/KristianHarloff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's massive. What's going on? It's episode three of the Canobey series. If you're brand new to the channel, hey, there I am again with the same outfit on. Subscribe. Do me favor. Let's get there.

We didn't get to the 50,000, so no pie in the face. But if we get to 50,000, we'll come up with something new. Subscribe to it. Will you like, share, do all the rest of it. All right. Look. This is the best episode of Korn. Canobi thus far. There's no doubt about it. This is the reason we signed up for this show.

This is the reason we hoped the things that we'd get and we did. There's a lot in here that was absolutely spectacular. Some stuff in here didn't love. But again, if the first one I gave a 95% out of 100, this one I gave a 97 with the second one coming in at a second one coming in around 75. So it's a vast improvement from the third, some of the second one. All right. So because I'm back at home and because celebration is done and because I'm not at a hotel room, I'm going to go back to kind of what I did for, for Canobi, for Bono Fet and for Mandalorian and all those other things. Moon Night. Let's start with this. You know, look, here he is Canobi and he's meditating. He's trying so hard. the recap, by the way, the recap that they had in the beginning of episode one,

they did not show that at the screening at Celebration. So rewatching it, it's even more clear that eventually Quigon's going to appear. It'll probably just be at the end of the series. But he's trying, he's contacting him. He's like, come on, man, help me out here. We got some, we got issues. We got big issues. I just found out something.

And I can still alive. Help me. And he's trying. He's meditating. And he's in peace on this ship, trying as hard as he can. And then there's just this back and forth with the piece of Canobi and this metallic, you know, machinery putting Anakin together. And just, I mean, the last shot of episode two was so good where it was just daunting and eerie and creepy. And to carry on with that.

And he's, he's feeling it, man. And this is that shot that we saw in the trailer when his arms and his legs and everything we were putting back on. and then he'd just go one more over and they're putting the thing around his neck. It was a lot more, I don't know what the, what, not vile, but just like, the, the, it's disturbing and the way that this, he was put together in this as opposed to episode three, which still was cool, but this is, this is something a little bit more, you see the pain and the agony and just the, what he's become, you know, and, and obviously the, the, the, the, the, the, the, This is my favorite shot and probably what I'm going to put on the thumbnail.

This is my favorite shot because you actually get to see Hayden Christensen as Darkside Vader and the helmet going on. And just like he is, he said, you know, inside of the interviews when they gave him, what is this, this is a new Vader. This is a Vader that we haven't seen yet. We've heard about. We haven't seen just pure viciousness, the pure terror. And you understand, and we'll get more into it as we get farther into it.

as we get farther into the episode of why Ewell McGregor was saying that he was legit scared and had fear come out of him when he was in these scenes going up against Vader. You felt it. It felt like a horror movie at some points in the way that they shot. And that's the way Vader always felt in episode four. But as we get to, I mean, this shot is just fantastic. It's one of my favorite shots and anything Star Wars related thus far. And he's just, you know it.

But from the second we see him, we're like, okay, so we're going to get this version of Vader and he's ready. And I have to give Hayden Christensen all the credit in the world. I believe that this is him in the suit coming out. When he cuts off that platform in Mustafa and he starts walking, that felt like Empire Vader, like the way his movement, the way that is, just the way that they shot him coming out. I was, I mean, my eyes were locked on Vader on every single thing because it was just like, okay, does he, does he, does he, feel like that Vader that we ultimately see turn into, you know, in four and five. And the answer is resounding yes, at least on my end. I don't know how you guys felt, but for me it was just absolutely incredible. We get to see the castle. These are things that we were hoping to see more

of in the films. We get to see it. He's in the castle. And Riva pops up to him and basically she's trying to, this was to me hilarious where she's trying to blame Obi-Wan for the grand inquisitor. and she's just, you know, for her, she just gutted the dude. And she goes, well, Obi-Wan's going to pay. She's like, hey, he don't care about the Grand Inquisitor. Shut up. It's about, it's about Obi-Wan. And she's like, okay, cool, I'm off the hook.

I don't either worry about it. But the thing that needs to be talked about here, that everybody was waiting. And even when they asked Christensen about, is James Earl Jones coming back? He said, no comment. Well, James-R-Jones is back. And no doubt about it. But they did something to his voice.

And I thought that they were good. And maybe they did do this. I don't know. Well, I'm sure we'll find out more as the interviews for this episode start to come out. Some people are saying that they did something similar to what they did with Mark Hamill for Luke. And I didn't like that because I think it sounded too robotic. And I guess if they did it here, it served the purpose because he sounds. again, at least to me,

he sounded about as episode four, episode five, Vader as you can get. There was no traces. My big concern has been that, you know, James Earl Jones is a legend. Love him. And again, I agree with everybody who said, if he wants to do it, he should do it.

I agree with you. All I'm telling is that in Rogue One, and even Rebels, you can tell that it was a more seasoned James Earl Jones and older James Earl Jones if I can than previously did not pick that up here whatever they did with the lines

or the voice everything it sounded if they can do this with James Earl Jones I'm going to shut my mouth I'm never going to say anything again because this was a terrifying Vader this was the Vader that I thought we were going to get hoped we were going to get and boy do we get him and he's just on a tear to get Kenobi and I loved this scene.

I thought this scene was so well executed and I thought Riva played it really well here. And I will say, again, just briefly mentioning this too, and a lot of other people have said the same thing. Just for everybody out there, it is okay for any, no matter who it is, whatever character, whatever actor it is, for you to have thoughts. And if you do it in a respectful manner,

concerns about performances, whether you liked or didn't like a character. that that's okay what is not okay is hate what is not okay is is messaging people who are acting and working and doing these things and and for what to make them feel bad about a job they have because you didn't like their particular choice and being racist is is what you were doing so there is a there's a a big difference for those two things. And I just want to, and, and kudos to Eurreger for his video and for Disney for addressing it in the manner that they did. But I don't want to get into the whole thing right now.

I'm just saying that I think, again, just criticisms or criticisms. And you're, and you should respectfully criticize anything that you like or dislike. But just do it in a way. People are people, man. It's, it's, especially the days that we live in. Anyway, I don't want to get preachy. I apologize. But getting into this scene, which I thought Riva played very well.

And I liked what she's doing in this episode overall because we start to get a little bit more of what her goal was. She wants to be Vader's, she wants to be the new inquisitor. And he says as much. He's like, I know what you're doing. You want to be the number one. You find Kenobi for me and you can be the number one. I still think there's something else there. She has more of an agenda.

But at least that's what we're led to believe is that she wants to be. be the Vader's number one. The shots of Vader, man, like these shots overall of Vader are just beautiful. I mean, his, his outfit, the costume, everything that they, everything they got with him, these shots that Debra Chow shoots him with menacing, absolutely menacing. And then you get to that shot of him on the deck with Leah now. Laya comes in and they're haven't and and leah i i never had a issue with with young lay i thought she was i did i didn't love the chase scene that she was in but that wasn't really necessarily her some people were complaining about the fact that they thought she was a little running away and doing all that stuff that she was

a little too much she's a nine or ten year old kid you have a kid they i i like the way they played her i thought it was great but they have a very different relationship now and she starts She's accepting him. He's telling him about the light and the dark side and all these things. And I thought it was a nice little moment between the two of them. And she's just like, she just wished you wouldn't have ran away. He's like, don't worry. We're going to get you home.

He fixes the droid, which is a sweet moment. And they arrive on the mining planet. And so so far, like I said, enjoying all of this, that everything that they're setting up so far because we're getting in these, what, 10 minutes, we've already established that Obi-1 is devastated. Obi-Wan can't believe that Anakin is indeed alive. We find a little bit more about Riva's motivation of what she wants. At least that's what we think.

That's what Vader thinks. And we find out that they're now set on this mining planet to go meet their contact that they were told they were going to meet. So as they get there, as you go back and you watch the episode for a second time, which I've already done, I'm sure you've done, the droid that they wind up becoming pals with is already there. They could have avoided all the conflict with the stormtroopers that are about to come up.

They just talked to this big hulking, Loufriigno-like droid. But everyone likes to sneak around. He wants to get past the stormtroopers. He does this more, a little bit more conversation with how the planet itself used to be kind of, you know, flourishing in the empire. You start to establish more. There's a lot more of the world building inside of the,

connecting from Revenge of the Sith leading into this and what we've seen so far and more of the there's we still have we're not transitioning into the ovie one that we know yet in episode four right he's still this hardened um he he's he's bombed still from what we saw in episode episode one of the series we saw him defeated he's still defeated but it looks like he's it's like he's climbing out of it a little bit, even though he got knocked down a peg, because obviously with the return of the idea that Vader's alive, and that's weighing very heavily on him. But I think Leah is bringing something out of him.

Now, there are going to be, I think, fair criticisms to a lot of this, where it's like Obi-Wan and Leah now are spending a lot of time together. And to also, I didn't realize when we talked about it in the last episode, I had said, you know, well, he never calls himself Obi-Wan, And so maybe she doesn't think it's him later on in episode four, but someone pointed out and they're absolutely right. Luke Skywalker, when he rescues, I'm here with Ben Kenobi.

She was Ben Kenobi, where? So you can play that as if, well, yeah, she's excited to see Ben Kenobi because this is the Ben Kenobi that rescued her all those and spent all that time with her years ago. But maybe she just would have addressed Obi-1 Kenobi a little bit differently than just you serve my father in the Clone Wars. But I think you've got to get over this stuff. I mean, and I'm talking to myself as well when I say that.

You got to get over these little things, and there are going to be these things that are going to, you're going to have to say, well, that doesn't necessarily tie into it. We're going to have to get over it. I know. Some of you get to piss you off and you're going to go, well, it doesn't, if, if, if now, everyone got his ass kicked by Vader,

and he wasn't but the learner. He was, he was the master clearly when he came in here. And when he says to him in episode four, your power is a weak old man he already said that the years are made him weaker so are they right con we gotta get over I know listen I'm not telling you

you have to enjoy it but you gotta get over it if you want to if you want to because there's just that's there's gonna be these little things that happen as you make more and more content inside of the television universe it just is what it is all right let's get back into it

so as we have this was an interesting part here because I didn't, when I first saw it, and I zoomed in for you guys, too. As he's walking and he's talking about more so about the, I like these moments between the two of them, where they're trying to figure it out, they're trying to meet their contact, and the contact isn't there, and they think,

this was one of the things that I was like, okay, Obi-1, and I know he's lost his patience and things too, but like it's, he just, he doesn't want to, he usually would be the one, stick around, wait, they'll be here. He doesn't trust anybody anymore. He's like, no, people are terrible. let's get the hell out of here. And Lance is like, well, they might show up.

So this shot here, when I initially saw it, I was like, okay, well, who the hell is that? Are we led to believe that that's going to be quig on? Probably not. And then they turned it around, and I'm going to show you, zoomed in, but initially they turned it around and they showed and I was like, oh, that's Anakin. But I was like, oh, that's Anakin all scarred up and, and a mess. But it's not. Like, look at that shot.

I thought it was him like, oh, that's, I mean, that's clearly Anakin, but that's, he's seeing these visions of, of Anakin. And what I took out of that is back to the Padmay conversation at the end of episode three of they're still good in him. And that's why, like, people, I, I never once questioned the fact that he didn't, he thought, he always thought that Anakin was dead. He thought he burnt up. He thought he was toast.

He didn't think he was, he was very, didn't hear about him. He didn't know, he didn't know. He's been hiding out. He doesn't know what the hell. going on. So that didn't shock to me. So it pissed me some people off and it didn't. It made sense to me that he thought for a while that he was dead. He was gone. And he now has this conflict because at some point you would think, maybe not, but you would think that after, like he's got to have another confrontation with Vader

where he's probably going to get the best of him this time, concluding the master part of it. That's part one. The other part of it is he's got to believe and how after this confrontation today at last episode i don't know but he's got to believe at some point that there is still good in him because that's the conversation that vader has with luke in in episode six where he says obi one once thought as you did and i assume we're going to see that it would make sense that we're going to see that but that's what i think the symbolism of this particular shot is it's it's seeing still the good in him this is before he's got to go up against this horror creature.

He goes up against a little later. And then there's a shot of Riva now. And this dynamic of what's going on. I think this is the best work that Moses Ingram has done thus far with the stuff where she's showing up. She's getting in there. And there's this dynamic between her and the other inquisitors. And there's this battle of power now. They know, they don't know what the hell happened to the grand inquisitor.

They don't really care. They just, they're fighting for power. She's like, I talked to Vader already. And he's like, oh, you did? Like, yeah, I did. I got, I got, I got his cell phone number. What do you got, dummy's e-mail? It's hotmail address?

Not me. I got direct contact with him. So, all right, fine. We'll go to the mining company. We'll go. We'll go check it out. I guess if he says go, we'll go. And they go.

And there's no one at this contact. Obi-won's like, people suck. and this is kind of the part where it's funny i don't mind the overall story portion i don't like a particular part of an execution here and you probably if you watch me long enough you know what i'm going to say they're waiting for this train to come here it comes here comes rat face magoo frack or whatever his name is and he's got i think he's Zach braff and i get why you put Zach Brath, you know, he wants to, he loves Star Wars, and he wants to be a part of it, and you should have him involved.

But I think that this is Zach Braff's voice, I can't stand when aliens have human voices. It drives me crazy. It takes me out of it, and it makes it so, the stuff that I didn't like about some of the prequel stuff. I know there's so many Dexter Jester fans. I know, I know, but, hey, Obi-Lan. And then you get Lady Proxima. Oh, hey, saw.

It just takes me out. The Trade Federation, it's so much more effective. Like, the Phantom Edit, I think, was one of them. When they put the voices, like, Jabba, if Jabba's going, Homba da, sing, womba da, vumbah, you're like, oh, wow. If Jabba would have been like, all right, Obi-Wan, or come on, solo, put him in the Rancorp pit. You're like, it just takes it away, and this took away from me.

It would not as, not as bad as those particular examples. but it was like, I don't know. I didn't, I, it, it definitely, the character, this empire sympathizing mole, whatever he is and fitting enough, gets him in there and says, come on in. I'll give you a ride. Come on. Who you got? Yes, this is my daughter and blah, blah, blah.

And of course, he tells Lay, not to say anything. You know she was going to. This thing is creepy looking, right? If he would, if it would have been interesting, if he had that, the subtitles and then, you know, whether Leah or the one, whoever was, they both. could understand him. Who cares? And I did love this moment where he knows right away, this guy's an empire sympathizer gets on. And now the stuff I did like where there's a lot of sweet moments here. And we learn stuff about Obi-Wan inside of these conversations. You know, stuff. And I know this

happens after the stormtroopers get in, but she asked about her mom. Did you really know my mom and all that? And he, and there was some sweet moments. He was just a story. He didn't want to get too much into it. He doesn't want to tell her too much. And I think that was a smart move by them because then you really started to get some tricky conversations. for canon and all that. But, Obi-1 had a brother. Doesn't remember him.

Doesn't know who he was. Can't figure it out. And it's this kind of heartbreaking thing of what happened to all the Jedi. It's that they take him at a very young age and they take him away. And you didn't really, you never really got that side of Obi-Wan.

I thought that was a really nice moment to get that from Obi-Wan. I really enjoyed that a lot. And as these stormtroopers get in to, there's these moments of them, you know, it's, you could also take this scene where he's, he's talking and the guy goes, he said Leia. Like, oh, I'm in Lana, whatever, or Luna, whatever.

And he played it off really well. O'Belon's always been a good liar, a certain point of view. But I thought that scene was great because it ultimately leads to what happens as we get closer. This is another one. This is a great. I mean, some of the shots really enjoy, but this was the scene I was talking about before

with Obi-1 talking about Padme to Leia. I thought it was, again, a sweet moment. So it ultimately leads to this, because you think that they're out of the woods and they're not. And this mole rat says, hey, guys, I got hands on my nose. I can scratch your nose. But before I do that,

I'm going to let you know that these guys are a little suspicious. So go check them out. Probe droid comes in, love this scene, and you knew it's going down. Plus, the fact that you've seen the trailer, you knew this is probably the part where he does this. He blasts away. And Obi-One, for someone who doesn't like the blaster, he's pretty good with it. And this, how about this when the Stormtrooper falls into the lasers and cuts himself in half? And that's why, for people who were worried that it was going to be too kiddish, there's some pretty brutal stuff in this episode particular.

Now, yay, he gets hitting the head. and there's no more bad alien voice. He's done. Oh, one clunks him on the head. And he's really good with the blaster because young Layas taken, he takes the Stormtrooper route. Now, the thing that this was another moment,

as I said, there are two particular things that I didn't necessarily like in the episode. And one was the Zach Braff, if that was indeed Zach Braff, talking normal. And then this scene, not that I didn't like the scene itself,

but a girl, comes in from Rome, Game of Thrones, and the second she walks out, the second she walks out, you're like, oh, she's the contact, she's, uh, they're gonna, general Hux this moment here.

And she does exactly that. I just thought it was very predictable. But the second she walked out, like, oh, she's going to help. There was, there was, in no, in no world that I think she was in imperial. I don't know if you guys did, but it seemed pretty predictable. Very minor gripe. Very minor gripe. but that was really where my my gripe ends because once she gets,

because it did add to her story about what, what she's doing and how she's working on the inside, basically, hey, when did you just wait? And then we get back to the Inquisitors who are just trying to figure out that, hey, he's there. You were right. He is there. Now we've got to go cause some stuff.

Let's tell Vader. Everybody told Vader. And now there's, I love this battle between the two of them. Because it's like, who's going to win out? I mean, ultimately we know who's going to win out. In this series, it could end with Reva getting favor, but first of all, I don't think she's going to survive. Second of all, I think she's going to wind up.

It seemed pretty clear by the end of this that we're, our, the cliche trope of her turning good, I think, is another thing we need to just accept. It seems to be, you talk about telegraphed, especially what happens at the end that we'll get into. But pretty telegraphed, that's exactly what's going to happen. And I'm on, you go for. the ride at this point. But I do like the dynamic that these two have because they're beefing and they're beefing hard. And we get back to Obi-One have the conversation about why don't you

stick around. He's like, oh, you know, impatience, man. The relationship that Leia has with the droids, I think is so consistent. Obviously with her character that we see later on with the older Leah the way that she's always been with droids throughout the entire saga. But it also played into, you start thinking about it more than this is Anakin's daughter and the, and the, the, the, the, the gift that he had with droids. So I thought that was, I really like the way that she, they're playing her. And I think she's, I think this little girl is so good. And she's so adorable. And I think she's great as Leah. I really do. She's, she's one of my, she's one of my favorite parts in this show so far. we have the, and this droid, who also, this loofaryino droid, I call him, he's pretty, you can tell

he's pretty chill, but he's ready to clunk people over the head with like pipes and stuff later on down the line. This is, and this is what, oh, wait a minute, I got to talk about this. This, this was, this was one where I went, oh, this is for cannon junkies, this is for people clone wars and, and other things. As they're going through this, this, I guess like, I don't know what the hell it is. The people scribbling on the wall. But while they're doing the Jedi that come through and that they give them refugee

and he looks up and he goes, Quinlan's been here. And I'm like, Quinlan Voss? He's like, yeah, he comes in and helps people out. All right. So we get confirmation that Quinlan Voss is alive. For people who are not Clone Wars or rebels fans, Quinlan Voss and Obi-Wan.

Well, he mentions Quinlan Voss in episode 3. Danikin at one point, he said that he's out kind of doing some stuff. And so and then Voss is part of one of my favorite novels, Dark Disciple, where he had a battle with the dark side himself, but he came out the other side of it. And he's been going through some stuff. My question is, and I'm not, I'm not going to, you know, from hearing his voice, hearing his name that he survived, I don't think that this means for people who heard Quinlan Voss and heard and people who are big Quinlan Voss fans, I don't necessarily think that this means he's going. to appear in this series. I hope he does, but I don't think it's something that's definitely going to happen.

Remember, we only have three episodes left of this series. So to fit him into it, I don't know. What it does mean, though, is if they start this, as they said very clearly at Star Wars Celebration and other things, that they're starting to make this shared universe within, whether it's the Mando era, and maybe they do some more stuff here. and again, they also mentioned that there's a potential of Obi-Wan season two. So I think that there's something that you could do, Quentin Voss, down the road.

And now that you see the ratings that this show is getting, and after this episode, if one and two did the numbers that they did, I can't even imagine what this episode did. I can't even imagine. But anyway, so Quinlan Voss indeed mentioned inside of this, which I thought was, I loved it. I definitely geeked out on that one when he said, Quinlan's been here.

And this is what I was talking about. My man with the phrygno droid is ready to crack skulls. He's got a big pipe in his hand, and this dummy is trying to mess with him. And I love that. Yeah, you can't understand. He's just a docking droid or whatever the hell. Then we start to hear, this is where it gets,

as they're trying to find this pilot, and they're trying to get lay off the planet, um, Obi-1 sense is something. And this, the dynamic here as, this is the only time thus far. And I,

and again, why I think that this is, uh, why we need to let this whole series play out before we start getting to, before we start judging someone on two episodes overall. Look at Riva in this particular shot. Long gone is the, I'm not doing what I'm,

told I'm going to be, I'm going to always kind of come off the line and and give my thoughts when I, when I, when I need, when I needed to happen, no matter who it is. Now with Vader, she knows because she's trying to get in favor of Vader. She's smart. She says, nope, I'm going to chill. And the two of them both get in the line and wait and there he is. And this scene, holy crap. Like they were, when he came in, when he comes and you're like, okay, well, what kind of

viciousness are they going to show Vader? They're just going to have him, you know, knock over some plants and go to find Obi-Wan and fight him in the desert. He's killing people left and right, snapping necks. And they said, this is a vicious Vader. This is, this, my, I was taking screenshots of this thing this morning. My four-year-old, there was no sound on it. There was no sound.

My four-year-old saw Vader walking through. She buried her head into my shoulder and she said, scary. Yeah, he is. Kid, well, he's all sunshine and rainbows. Nice parenting. So chokes out this dude

with the condom hat, breaks a neck. What a shot that is. Look at that shot. Oh, look at that shot. Vader is just, it's, this reminded me of Tyson

coming into the ring back when he was, you know, in his prime. And he's just, look at that. Bodies everywhere, on the floor.

screaming, yelling, he just wants Canobi. And Kenobi's like, get the hell out of here. And for a lot of different reasons, obviously. Big reason is keep her safe. But another reason is he might sense that it's your pops. And he doesn't want to tell her that, obviously. Get the hell out of there. And back to Vader.

And I thought they'd just give a nice, perfect blend of Vader and how it worked out and how on everything he was kind of going into. So as he's. and then this he said don't do anything now this is where we go back to now she knows Vader's on his on his hunt well I'm not going to let this moron tell me what I'm doing

I'm going to get in favor because it's between me and you pal it's on and here's this shot that we have seen in the posters again a great moment because as Obi-1 is walking through and this is not the Obi-one he said it many times is not the Obi-one that we know from the prequels This, Obi-1 is not battle-tested. I mean, excuse me, I should have battle-tested, but he's not battle-ready.

He's not battle-ready. And he knows it as he walks up and Vader's, Vader is ready to go. Vader's been killing fools for the last 10 years. He's ready. He's going to, he's like, you want to do this? Let's get it. I ain't going to be like last time. No high ground this time, humpface.

And Obi-Wan just goes, yeah, okay, I'm going to run away now. And he takes off. Smart move. and it had a very empire strikes back feel to it where the kind of the back and forth of all right layas trying to get away here's obi one just being hunted down in the same way that Vader was hunting down Luke

and when he sees him and he says to him he goes what have you become and he says to him I am what you made me great moment again fantastic dialogue from or the sound from

Jamesville Jones in the way that they made it sound. It's like I was never taken out of it. I mean, there were a couple of times, like when I watch Rogue One, which I love, and I watch Rebels, I am taken out of it a little bit because I can notice the difference in the age. I could not tell at all in this.

They were clearly aware of it, and they did it very well. Because Vader is just on a hunt. And speaking of that, and this is where I think we get more into Riva and what she's going into. And back to Vader, and Vader's just overpowering Obi-Wan.

Obi-Wan can't do anything. He's trying. He's got this lightsaber and he's just getting smacked around. And this is a sweet shot in the two of them. And, oh, I'll tell you what I was missing. I was missing, which I don't understand why, and I'd love to get an answer to it. We might never get an answer to it.

John Williams did the theme to Obi-Wan, and they clearly have the rights to all of the music. In Rebels, Kevin Kiner used a lot of the things. and especially used the imperial theme when Vader showed up. I thought it would have been a lot more devastating if went, don, don, don, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't. I was like, oh, man, that would have been, I was missing that theme. I was missing that theme.

It's the same thing that kind of, I think, missed a little bit when they had, when they didn't have Luke do it. I think we missed out when Vader didn't do it. So that being said, this shot, itself is extraordinary. It's got that feel for sure. And then we go back and now, even though she made the promise to Obi-Wan,

she's not, she's not, she said, all right, I'm going to go, I'll go save him. I'm going to help him out. You got it. You get to the pilot. Let's do it. I'll help. And Vader's one-handed at this point.

He's just, there's nothing that Obi-Wan can do. do. And I think that there's got to be, you know, there's going to be two battles, obviously. It has to be. There has to be a second battle. But this is the shot where I was then, I was always convinced that she's going to turn, but even more so now. Something happens where, like that shot, look at her eyes. She sees something in there. She sees something that she's reading. This is clearly one of the paduanes that we saw in the beginning of, in the beginning of the, the, the, episode, or excuse me, the first episode. So, and then she gets mad, but there's something, there's something going on here. And this is, this is ultimately going to be, whatever the reveal is

going to be, this is her story. And I think that, again, as they play into it, we, we understand that this is going to be, this is a redemption story at this point. Again, you cannot like it. I certainly am tired of the trope, but what are you going to do? So you accept it. It's clearly in her eyes right there. That does not look like an evil person. person right there. That looks like somebody for a moment drops that shield and something else is in there, which is why I give, I think this is why this is Moses Ingram's best episode thus far. You read a lot in her eyes right there of what's happening when she sees that. There's there's deep meaning inside of what she's seeing and then she gets pissed off about it. But we jump back to Kenobi trying. He's just

trying. And at this point, Vader's just fed up with it, picks him up in the air. And this was, this was horrifying. This was just like fire starter stuff. throws the dude. Now, how he doesn't burn his face, I have no idea, but he throws him with fire resistant, whatever. But look at that shot. Just dumps him into the fire. And he, like, there is,

there is not a morsel of goodness invader at this point. He's just like, yeah, you're, you're excruciating pain. It's like starting right now. And it's probably going to happen for a while. I'm going to, I'm, I'm going to murder you slowly and watch you die. So enjoy it. And then, look, I mean, he's, he's enjoying this. What a scene is.

That's like Michael Myers type stuff right there. And I loved what they did there. And then she goes, she's up there. And what is the character's name? Is it, I don't want, I wonder if it's, I wonder if it's, what's her face from Fallen Order, her mom? I wonder. I had inversa's mom.

I don't know, maybe not. But either way, she's out there and she's sniping fools. And this was, again, reminded me very much of the original trilogy. on how this was shot where there was these moments sometimes where Vader would be in a whether it was empire or with in in in episode four when the door shut on him he's just he's right there you can't walk through it you know it's it's more of that realistic not realistic but you know I guess so in the prequels they could leap and jump and fly and and even and even in episode two of this one where where ingram's jumping over buildings and doing all that Vader's like I it's fire

I'm not walking through fire. It's all right. You might get away. She saves them. She's like, let's get the hell out of here. And then there's the big reveal at the end where where Moses Ingram or Riva, rather, kidnaps Leah, takes her away.

Now I think that that's going to ultimately lead to more discovery of whatever the hell happens. She's not getting back to Aldron anytime soon. And so I think that Riva is going to use this as a piece of discovery and other things that she finds out. It's going to be more now. And it's probably going to be Leah that also helps the turn with Riva, with conversations that she has with her.

If I was the guest, she probably has flashbacks and memories of her as a kid and all these other things. And who knows? I mean, there's only four or five and six. Only three episodes left. So if you're going to redeem her, you've got to start to make that turn now.

And I think this was the first glimpse of it. Love this episode. Absolutely love that I've already watched it twice, and I'll watch it again. This is some of the best Star Wars stuff we've gotten in a bit, you know, and it is, and it's always going to be that conversation. Well, when people say that, some of the best Star Wars stuff we ever got in the Latin, in Boba Fed, the best stuff we ever got was Luke in this stuff we get Vader. But this is a different thing because of the fact that this is a Obi-One series and we were waiting for Vader and we're waiting for the first kind of performance of him and Hayden and how it all plays out and what he was going to sound like and all of that delivered. That was one of the main things everyone was looking for.

is Vader going to deliver? Is Vader going to live up to the Vader expectations as he always does? And I'm waiting to see the comments, but I'm going to guess that most of you in here were pretty ecstatic about seeing Hayden as Vader and the walk and the voice and all of that. I think a lot of us might, maybe I'm wrong. I feel like a lot of us were missing the imperial theme. maybe I'm wrong. So much. Look, we're doing a Sith Council spoiler discussion too, but as we do every Wednesday, I'm going to get mine out there.

I'm going to try to get them out a little earlier than I did today. Just had a couple things come up in the morning. So putting this up as soon as possible. And I would love to hear you guys thoughts on it. If you haven't already, please subscribe, hit that subscribe button, the like and share, all that stuff. We had some Sith Council shirts. Those are up there.

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