**WARNING: Spoilers ahead for the Obi-Wan Kenobi series!**
There’s only one Obi-Wan Kenobi episode left to air on Disney Plus! After months of anticipating the arrival of this series, fearing that I was setting myself up for disappointment, I can honestly say the show has been everything I hoped it would be.
Ewan McGregor is perfect as a traumatized Obi-Wan, slowly rediscovering himself. Little Leia (Vivian Lyra Blair) is a funny, completely believable, younger version of the princess we all know and love. New characters like Reva (Moses Ingram) are worthy additions to the Star Wars landscape. My only real complaint is we’ve already reached the end of the series run.
Well, at least there’s still the finale episode to come. I have a few questions I’m hoping will be answered there. Read on!
Does Reva survive?
I want the answer to this question to be yes.
I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the character of Reva. Except for the Grand Inquisitor (Rupert Friend), whose story arc in Star Wars: Rebels added some dimension to his persona, the Inquisitors have been flatter characters as a group.
However, even before the reveal of her backstory in Obi-Wan Kenobi episode five, Reva was clever and creative enough to be compelling. Now that we better understand what genuinely drives her, her character has deepened for me.
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I don’t think Obi-Wan intended to abandon her heartlessly to Vader (Hayden Christensen). Still, he essentially did just that when he left her to fight Vader alone while saving Leia and the people on the transport. He had to know Reva wasn’t a match for his former apprentice.
Reva has spent years fighting alone, unprotected by those (like Obi-Wan) who were supposed to be there for her. I can’t imagine how she feels now about Obi-Wan. Will Reva understand what he did and ally herself with him, and with the resistance Bail Organa is quietly building? Or will she resent what happened and set herself against them?
I like characters I can’t reasonably predict. I want to spend more time with Reva.
Will Obi-Wan re-evaluate what he’s been doing on Tatooine all these years?
After everything that’s happened, I don’t think Obi-Wan can return to the life he was living before the series’ events. Just a few examples:
There was the young Jedi Obi-Wan disappointed at the series’ beginning, which the Inquisitors killed. Shortly after came Bail Organa’s (Jimmy Smits) insistence that nobody could help Leia but Obi-Wan, hearkening back poignantly to a decade ago when Jedi fixed things.
There was the discovery of all the dead Jedi in those tanks under the prison where Leia was, at least a few of whom Obi-Wan knew personally. There was the evidence, scratched right into the wall of the safehouse, that other Jedi (Quinlan Vos, for one) still worked for good, despite the fall of the Order and the Inquisitor danger. There was the powerful example of Tala (Indira Varma), who tried to right her wrongs.
Most pivotally, there is Obi-Wan’s step-by-step journey back to the Force.
We already know Obi-Wan will choose to remain on Tatooine, near Luke, but the way he lives must change.
Is the Obi-Wan Kenobi series ultimately a bridge?
The Obi-Wan (Stephen Stanton) whom Ezra Bridger (Taylor Gray) encounters in Star Wars: Rebels is very different from the timid, meek, fearful Obi-Wan we saw at the beginning of Obi-Wan Kenobi. With Ezra, Obi-Wan radiated wisdom and calm, and his facility with the Force was such that he easily defeated Maul (Sam Witwer).
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I think the Kenobi series is likely the bridge between the traumatized, depressed Obi-Wan we saw at the series’ beginning and the wise desert master Ezra found. I predict that Obi-Wan Kenobi‘s finale episode will make that obvious, but we’ll see.
Will Obi-Wan finally connect with Qui-Gon?
Obi-Wan has been trying to commune with his former master (Liam Neeson) throughout the series with no luck. However, his (Obi-Wan’s) ability to use the Force grew rusty in his decade of laying low on Tatooine. Now that he’s getting back in touch with the Force-sensitive side of himself, perhaps his ability to reach Qui-Gon might grow too?
Claudia Gray‘s short story, “Master and Apprentice,” from the collection From a Certain Point of View, made it clear that Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon were in regular communication when the events in Star Wars: A New Hope unfolded. Will the Obi-Wan Kenobi series finale show us the beginning of that revived relationship between the former master and padawan?
These last two might admittedly be a little nitpicky.
Do Obi-Wan and Leia (or Obi-Wan and Bail) concoct some code for future communications?
The message the adult Leia (Carrie Fisher) embeds for Obi-Wan (Alec Guinness) in R2-D2 that sets off the events of A New Hope doesn’t make much sense now, given Leia and Obi-Wan’s interaction in Obi-Wan Kenobi. After their adventure together, she does not need to remind Obi-Wan who she is or who Bail is. So, why did she do that?
The honest answer is that A New Hope was made many years before Obi-Wan Kenobi, and the stories are shifting. Still, that needs to be retconned. I’m curious to see if/how the Powers That Be of Kenobi addresses that.
Will Obi-Wan Kenobi triumph in a showdown with Vader? (Not just win, but triumph?)
The above is another retcon-type issue.
In A New Hope, when Vader and Obi-Wan begin their final battle, Vader comments that at his last meeting with Obi-Wan, he (Vader) was still the apprentice. This comment makes no sense now, given the Kenobi series, unless something happens between Vader and Obi-Wan in the Kenobi finale to put Obi-Wan in the teacher position again. Perhaps?
(Since we’re talking about that scene in A New Hope, can we get a viable explanation as to why Obi-Wan calls Vader “Darth” like it’s a name?)
Well, nitpicks notwithstanding, I’ll be sad to see the end of the Obi-Wan Kenobi series. It’s been a pleasure to see Ewan McGregor again in that role. I’m enjoying it.
How about you? Do you like Obi-Wan Kenobi? What do you hope to see in next week’s series finale? Let us know your thoughts in the comments and on social media!
This article was originally published on 6/17/22.
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