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Episode 6 of Obi-Wan Kenobi starts on Tatooine with Reva looking for Owen. Meanwhile, Obi-Wan and the other rebels attempt to hold out from Vader and the star destroyer. Obi-Wan jumps on a drop-ship in order to pull Vader away from the refugees. Vader prepares his ship as he wants to face Obi-Wan alone on this planet. On the surface Obi-Wan and Vader fight. Obi-Wan buries Vader under some rocks But Vader escapes. Then Obi-Wan cracks Vader's helmet. “Anakin is gone. I am all that remains.” Vader says. Obi-Wan takes off, leaving Vader alone on the planet and the Star Destroyer lets him pass for some reason. Meanwhile, on Tatooine, Reva reaches Owen’s farm. Reva chases after Luke. Obi-Wan heads down to Tatooine where Reva knocks out Luke and looks set to kill him. Before she does, she sees herself in Luke’s position and changes her mind, realizing she’s pure evil. Reva carries an unconscious Luke across to Owen while Obi-Wan is watching on.

Meanwhile, Vader heads back to Mustafar and speaks to the Emperor about how he’s going to probe every system and find Obi-Wan.

Obi-Wan decides that Owen and Beru are the only protection Luke needs and decides to walk away, after meeting Luke with his trademark “Hello there”. Obi-Wan takes off and notices Qui-Gon’s force ghost out in the desert.

Highlights

• Awesome lightsaber battles
• Qui-Gon is back!

Lowlights

• Why does the star destroyer let Obi-Wan pass?
• How can Obi-Wan catch up with Reva so fast?
• Why does Obi-Wan leave Anakin again partly dead after a fight, fully knowing that Anakin is dead and that Vader will spread terror and death throughout the galaxy?
• Why is Obi-Wan stopping to watch over Luke a day after an almost deadly assault?

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Highlights:

• Since his former Padawan Ahsoka Tano and Rey struggled to do so in The Clone Wars finale and The Rise of Skywalker, respectively, Vader dragging down the ship with the Force appears to showcase his might (and mimics a sequence from the 2008 video game The Force Unleashed). When the ship is discovered to be empty, it seems less spectacular. In reality, Vader appears to be an idiot (don't tell him I said that).
• Reva is revealed to be a Jedi youngling who survived Order 66, when clone soldiers turned on their Jedi comrades. Anakin seemed to knife her as he invaded the Jedi Temple, and she pretended to be dead amid the remains of the other youngsters to avoid detection. That's really terrifying, and it's likely what caused the "upsetting" scene warning that precedes the program.
• The Grand Inquisitor is shown to have survived being skewered by Reva – which will come as no surprise to anybody who has watched the CGI animated series Rebels, given it is set after this and he is the major villain in season 1 – and he indicates that his thirst for vengeance helped him survive. He was probably also thrown in a bacta tank, which usually helps.

Lowlights:

• Despite this, Obi-Wan sees an opportunity in Reva's quest and surrenders, offering her the opportunity to kill Vader while he is preoccupied. However, it's all a ruse to allow Leia, Obi-Wan, and the refugees an opportunity to flee.
• Obi-Wan notices a number of lightsaber hilts in a box at the Path base, but none of them appear to belong to anybody we know.
• Following a botched assassination attempt on Vader, a gravely injured Reva notices Obi-lost Wan's commlink and hears a garbled message from Leia's foster father, Bail Organa (Jimmy Smits), that includes "learned of the children," "Tatooine," "Owen," and "the kid."

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Need to Know:

• At Fortress Inquisitorius on the ocean moon of Nur, a defiant Leia tells her stormtrooper captors that she is the daughter of a senator and a Princess of Alderaan
• Roken talks about the pain of losing his Force-sensitive spouse to the Inquisitors.
• Reva manages to save her life by revealing that she placed a tracker on their ship

Highlights:

• He discovers the remains of several fallen Jedi including a youngling
• Sensing Leia is in danger, Kenobi asks Tala to create a distraction
• Kenobi contacts Tala via comlink, inadvertently distracting her stormtrooper captors
• Kenobi uses the Force to delay a cracking window while Tala reunites with Leia

Lowlights:

• Roken reveals that the facility is unshielded since the Inquisitors believed that nobody is stupid enough to attack.
• Meanwhile, Kenobi shuts down the lights in the interrogation chamber and takes out both stormtrooper sentries with his lightsaber and frees Leia from the torture harness.
• This whole operation is way too easy.

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Obi Wan is trying to contact Quigon, Freck the miner, Obi Wan takes down stormtroopers, Tala saves the day, Tala and Leia escape through
tunnels, Obi Wan stays back and faces Darth Vader, “I am what you made me”, Obi Wan is hiding and running, Anakin burns Obi Wan, Tala saves him, Third Sister captures Leia

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Let's continue with Obi Wan Part 2! Obi Wan tracks Leia to Daiyu, we discover spice-drugs, harvested on a desert planet, there's a new Jedi in town, Kumail Nanjiani is now Haja, Obi Wan get's into fist-fighting, Darth Maul is now skin colored, Obi Wan becomes the new John Wick while Reva becomes Batman in order to impress Darth Vader. Obi learns that Anakin is alive (kind of), Reva makes shish kebab out of an Inquisitor aka Quinn and Haja saves the day!

Sounds good? then, let's talk about that!

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We watched part 1 of Obi Wan Kenobi and this is our take on that. What do you think about the inquisitors and little Leia? And do we really need to talk about Jar Jar Bings again? Uncle Owen is back and we even get to see a glimpse of Darth Vader! There are veteran clone troopers. 

Our favorites are probably Reva and Lola the robot. 

And did you know that the guy who looks like Sir Ilyn Pyne is Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers??? He is in there too!