Obi-Wan Kenobi recap: series premiere on Disney Plus

The wait is over! Obi-Wan Kenobi has premiered on Disney Plus, marking the return of a fan-favorite Star Wars character, starring Ewan McGregor. The collection launched with a two-episode premiere final night time, Could 26, jumping the gun on the introduced air time by just a few hours. The remaining 4 episodes will roll out weekly on Wednesdays going ahead. For the period, we’ll offer Obi-Wan Kenobi recaps each week on the day of launch, so verify again right here each Wednesday beginning subsequent week.

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For now, you’ll be able to learn on for our recap of Obi-Wan Kenobi episodes one and two. Please word that each one of our recaps will include spoilers as we break down main occasions all through the collection.

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Obi-Wan Kenobi fills in gaps between the unique Star Wars trilogy and the prequel trilogy. The six-episode restricted collection is about 10 years after the occasions of Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith, placing it virtually precisely in between that movie and 1977’s unique Star Wars.

A little bit of context: Revenge of the Sith ended with Kenobi delivering an toddler Luke Skywalker to his aunt and uncle on Tattooine, the place Luke will develop up till he meets “Ben” Kenobi within the 1977 movie. So far as we all know, Kenobi has stored a distant eye on his ward this complete time, however the brand new collection guarantees to disclose what that appeared like in apply.

Ewan McGregor stars as Obi-Wan Kenobi, reprising the function from the prequel trilogy. Becoming a member of him from the prequels are Hayden Christensen as Kenobi’s former pupil Anakin Skywalker, now Darth Vader, together with Bonnie Piesse and Joel Edgerton reprising their roles as Luke Skywalker’s Aunt Beru and Uncle Owen, respectively, and Benjamin Bratt as Bail Organa.

New Obi-Wan Kenobi forged members embrace Moses Ingram, Kumail Nanjiani, Indira Varma, Rupert Pal, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Sung Kang, Simone Kessell, Flea, and Benny Safdie.

So, let’s dig into what occurred this week on Obi-Wan Kenobi. In case you haven’t watched it but, please remember the fact that some spoilers will comply with.

Obi-Wan Kenobi recap: What occurred in episode 1?

The Obi-Wan Kenobi premiere units the stage fairly properly, introducing new enemies for the growing older Jedi as he tries to put low on Tatooine, maintaining a watchful eye on younger Luke Skywalker.

Under are just a few key takeaways and observations from Obi-Wan Kenobi episode one:

• The episode opens in a tragically well timed method, with a flashback to the storming of the Jedi Academy following Order 66 to kill all Jedi, 10 years earlier than’s the present’s occasions. The homicide of youngsters in Revenge of the Sith was one of many Star Wars franchise’s darkest moments. It units the tone for the Obi-Wan Kenobi collection properly, although with some unintentional parallels to present occasions that make it really feel much more surprising.
• We see that the Empire has been looking Jedi for these 10 years. One Inquisitor (Jedi hunter) named Reva has been doggedly looking for Kenobi to curry favor with Darth Vader.
• Obi-Wan Kenobi has been dwelling a quiet life on Tatooine, much like that glimpsed in 1977’s Star Wars, with parallels to Rey in The Drive Awakens and Luke in The Final Jedi. He works at a meat processing facility, incomes a meagre wage and staying out of different folks’s enterprise, even when he witnesses injustice. Not like Luke in The Final Jedi, Obi-Wan appears defeated relatively than having grown essential of the Jedi.
• We see Luke and Leia as youngsters. Each are harking back to their dad and mom, with Luke enjoying at flying a speeder, and Leia utilizing decoys to take her place at official ceremonies.
• When Leia is kidnapped, her adoptive father Bail Organa involves Obi-Wan for assist, although the retired Jedi is reluctant to get entangled. “I’m not who I was, he says.”
• Episode one ends with Obi-Wan retrieving his lightsaber and leaving Tatooine for the primary time in a decade to seek out Leia. He’s pushed to motion when a younger and inexperienced Jedi is killed on the town by the Inquisitors.
• The premiere episode teases the return of Kenobi’s mentor Qui-Gon Jinn, with “Ben” making an attempt to talk to the late Jedi Grasp’s Drive ghost. Liam Neeson just lately acknowledged he’d wish to return to the function of Qui-Gon, however solely in a Star Wars film. It’s totally attainable the actor mentioned that to throw followers off. We wouldn’t be stunned to see him making an look earlier than that is throughout.

Obi-Wan Kenobi recap: What occurred in episode 2?

Obi-Wan Kenobi episode two continues instantly from episode one. Under are just a few key moments and observations:

• Obi-Wan arrives on the planet Daiyu searching for Leia. The planet is a bustling city space, however it’s clearly a secure haven for criminals. Obi-Wan makes contact with a conman, performed by Kumail Nanjiani, pretending to be a Jedi to rip-off folks.
• The Jedi infiltrates a drug facility based mostly on the conman’s intel and finds Leia there. As he fights his approach by way of guards, we see that Obi-Wan has misplaced a few of his combating expertise by way of the years. Nonetheless, he will get Leia out, with Reva and the opposite Inquisitors on his tail.
• As with the younger Anakin, Obi-Wan is a mix of irritated and affectionate to Leia as he tries to get her off-planet. The precocious younger princess is filled with questions and doesn’t fairly imagine him. She catches on to the truth that she was kidnapped particularly to lure Obi-Wan out of hiding.
• Reva plunges her lightsaber into the Grand Inquisitor when he tries to intervene together with her looking Obi-Wan. She seemingly kills her boss to take his place and proceed the seek for Vader’s outdated pal.
• Obi-Wan and Leia are virtually caught, however with assist from the conman, they make their approach off of Daiyu. Earlier than they do, Reva reveals to Obi-Wan that his former Padawan and pal remains to be alive. She tells him that Anakin has develop into Darth Vader.
• The episode ends with Vader in a bacta tank, nonetheless therapeutic from his wounds acquired in his ultimate duel with Obi-Wan. The collection will doubtless construct in direction of one other combat between the 2 outdated pals.

That’s our breakdown of what occurred this week within the Obi-Wan Kenobi premiere. We’ll be again subsequent week with an Obi-Wan Kenobi recap of episode three, streaming on Wednesday, June 1.

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