‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ Finale Recap: Ending and Cameos Explained

Obi-Wan Kenobi got here to an finish on Wednesday, with episode 6 — the season finale — of the live-action Star Wars present hitting Disney Plus. We caught up with exiled Jedi Obi-Wan (Ewan McGregor), little Princess Leia Organa (Vivien Lyra Blair) and a bunch of refugees after they fled from Darth Vader (previously Anakin Skywalker, performed by Hayden Christensen and voiced by James Earl Jones) in episode 5.Unfortunately, their escape will not be so simple. Anti-Imperial community chief Roken (O’Shea Jackson Jr.), who’s been serving to Jedi and Force sensitives escape the Empire by way of an underground railroad referred to as the Path, reveals that their ship’s hyperdrive is damaged and the Empire is in sizzling pursuit.Former Imperial Inquisitor Reva (Moses Ingram) was left for lifeless by Vader after she tried to strike the Sith Lord down. She’s too offended to die although and seemingly found out that 10-year-old Luke Skywalker (Grant Feely) is Vader’s secret son and dwelling in hiding on Tatooine. Obi-Wan sensed the hazard to Luke by way of the Force, so I assume he’ll must get again to the desert world to confront Reva. At least nobody found out that Leia is Vader’s different secret youngster.It’s time to attract deeply upon the Force and sense some SPOILERS for the finale. This collection takes place round 10 years after Revenge of the Sith and 9 years earlier than A New Hope.The grasp returnsWith Vader defeated and Reva having deserted her quest for vengeance by sparing younger Luke, Obi-Wan returns to his Tatooine exile a modified man — he is opened himself as much as the Force once more and has renewed hope for the longer term. He leaves his dingy cave, paying a quick go to to the Lars homestead. Uncle Owen (Joel Edgerton) initially regards the Jedi along with his normal suspicion however warms to him when Obi-Wan acknowledges that Luke “simply must be a boy” and that the Lars’ safety is all of the younger fella wants. Isn’t that good? It’s so good, the truth is, that Owen permits Obi-Wan to fulfill Luke.”Hello there,” he says to his future apprentice, breaking out his signature greeting as a result of Lucasfilm could not resist and all of us wanted to listen to it — I actually really feel higher.It’s our first time seeing Liam Neeson portraying Qui-Gon Jinn in live-action since 1999.
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Obi-Wan continues his trek to his new dwelling within the Dune Sea, the place we’ll discover him in A New Hope, however encounters one final particular person on his means — the Force ghost of his late grasp, Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson).”Well, took you lengthy sufficient,” Qui-Gon says.The spectral Jedi means that his former Padawan’s earlier hopelessness was the explanation he hadn’t proven up sooner.”I used to be all the time right here, Obi-Wan. You simply weren’t able to see,” he says. “Come on, we have got a methods to go.”Qui-Gon died in The Phantom Menace.
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Qui-Gon was impaled by Darth Maul in 1999 prequel trilogy opener The Phantom Menace, however achieved immortality by turning into  a Force ghost and continued to information his allies within the materials realm. He beforehand taught Yoda to do the identical in The Clone Wars season 6, the place he was additionally voiced by Neeson. These barely trippy (however superb) episodes reveal that Qui-Gon realized the power from mysterious Force priestesses.Over the following decade, main into the Original Trilogy, Qui-Gon will train this talent to Obi-Wan. This permits Obi-Wan and Yoda to supply Luke counsel after their deaths. Once he is redeemed in Return of the Jedi, Anakin will achieve this energy, whereas Luke and Leia will accomplish that after their deaths in The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker.The different masterKnowing Obi-Wan remains to be on the market, Vader throws a little bit hissy slot in his fortress on the disagreeable volcano planet Mustafar. Speaking to a holographic projection of his grasp, Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid, who’s performed the character since 1983’s Return of the Jedi), Vader vows to make a giant mess of the galaxy in his hunt for the Jedi.”I’m wondering in case your ideas on this are clear, Lord Vader,” Palpatine says. “Perhaps your emotions in your previous grasp have left you weakened. If your previous can’t be overcome…”Who hasn’t missed that pretty evil smile after a profitable manipulation?
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It’s extra of that traditional Palps manipulation, since he desires his Sith apprentice centered on galactic domination slightly than revenge.The jab/delicate menace clearly leaves Vader staken.”Kenobi means nothing,” he says. “I serve solely you, my grasp.”The Imperial March performs as we depart Vader, suggesting that he is 100% Empire. Go workforce Sith.Palpatine, aka Darth Sidious, is obsessive about dishonest dying, however his use of the darkish facet of the Force means he cannot obtain immortality by turning into a Force ghost. He tries to take action utilizing darkish science and creates a cloned physique for his spirit to retreat to after Vader kills him in Return of the Jedi, however it’s all yucky (as seen in The Rise of Skywalker).The rematch of the centuryThe centerpiece of the episode is the true battle between Vader and Obi-Wan, on a desolate moon that the Jedi lures his former apprentice to, in an effort to attract the Imperials away from their pursuit of the refugees. Vader asks if Obi-Wan has come to destroy him.That epic Obi-Wan pose.
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“I’ll do what I have to,” Obi-Wan says, echoing his line from the beginning of their Return of the Sith duel he adopts his traditional prequel-era pose.It’s fairly a distinction with the third episode, the place Obi-Wan was tremendous rusty and bought battered by Vader. He has his groove again right here, and it is a fairly epic battle.”Your energy has returned, however the weak point stays,” says Vader, cracking the bottom with the Force and burying Obi-Wan alive. “And that’s the reason you’ll all the time lose.”Vader additionally has the excessive floor right here — Obi-Wan ought to have recognized he was in bother. Luckily for him, Vader makes the traditional villain error of failing to double-check that his adversary is lifeless.The Jedi escapes and assaults Vader once more, utilizing a mix of lightsaber assaults and Force projectiles to break the Sith Lord’s swimsuit. He finally slashes open the left facet of Vader’s helmet, partially revealing Anakin’s burnt face.Might need to get that fastened Ani.
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“Anakin is gone. I’m what stays,” he says, his James Earl Jones tone diminished to a barely digitized model of Hayden Christensen’s voice.An emotional Obi-Wan apologizes for what Anakin has turn out to be. “I’m not your failure Obi-Wan,” Vader responds. “You did not kill Anakin Skywalker, I did. The similar means I’ll destroy you.”This makes Obi-Wan settle for that his good friend and former apprentice is gone. He walks away from the defeated Sith Lord, leaving Vader to impotently scream his enemy’s identify.Even in animated kind, Vader will get tremendous bothered when his helmet is cracked open. Probably costly to repair.
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We’ve beforehand seen Vader’s cracked helmet within the epic season 2 finale of CGI animated collection Rebels (which takes place a couple of years after this present). Anakin’s former apprentice Ahsoka Tano slashes open the fitting facet of Vader’s masks, exposing a part of the fallen Jedi’s face.Like Obi-Wan, Ahsoka appears to get by way of to Vader’s former self momentarily. However, his rage and bitterness rapidly overcomes the connection, and he tries to assault his one-time good friend.It’s telling that neither Ahsoka nor Obi-Wan, two of the individuals Anakin was closest to in his previous life, can deliver him again. Only Luke Skywalker’s love and religion can redeem his father, inflicting the Sith Lord to surrender evil and sacrifice his life to slay Palpatine in Return of the Jedi, 13 years after the occasions of the Obi-Wan collection.
The redeemed Anakin asks Luke to take away his helmet altogether, revealing his face totally earlier than he dies. Obi-Wan and Ahsoka forcefully crack open his helmet to get to the gooey Anakin middle and solely see a part of his options, suggesting he is not keen to reveal his disgrace and guilt to them.Vengeance on TatooineSpeaking of Luke, Reva decides to seek out the younger fella on Tatooine. Aunt Beru (Bonnie Piesse) tells Owen they’re going to defend their nephew on the homestead and pulls out a cache of blasters they’d prepared for this state of affairs. It’s cool to see prequel trilogy actors Edgerton and Piesse getting some motion, however they’re no match for the extremely educated Reva (regardless that the previous Inquisitor’s accidents and self-doubt are in all probability slowing her down).This sequence comes inside a hair of breaking continuity, since Luke nearly sees Reva’s lightsaber and he or she assaults him with the Force — two issues his 19-year-old self has no familiarity with when Obi-Wan explains them in A New Hope. Given how disorienting being chased should be, it is easy to think about he forgot a lot of this.Reva struggles to ship the killing stroke.
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Reva finally catches up with him however cannot kill the unconscious boy after she sees her younger self in him. Obi-Wan arrives simply as she brings Luke dwelling safely, and he or she wonders if looking a toddler has made her turn out to be as unhealthy as Vader. “No, you might have chosen to not,” Obi-Wan assures her. “Who you turn out to be now, that’s as much as you.”Reva tosses her lightsaber within the sand, suggesting that she’s renouncing violence. It’s unclear what occurs to her after this, because the character has by no means appeared outdoors this present. Reva’s survival and redemption is the one of many few elements that does not really feel like a closed loop when it comes to storytelling. Most of the opposite Inquisitors meet grisly ends in Rebels and online game Jedi: Fallen Order, so it is cool to know there’s not less than one wandering the galaxy.

The idea of a darkish Force consumer attacking the Lars homestead is harking back to the non-canon shaggy dog story Old Wounds, which is accessible within the 2005 graphic novel Star Wars: Visionaries. It sees Darth Maul (sporting bionic legs a number of years earlier than he’d do in canon in The Clone Wars) coming after younger Luke to attract out his previous adversary Obi-Wan. It ends with Owen taking pictures Maul within the head, and Obi-Wan burns the previous Sith Lord’s physique within the desert.Calm on AlderaanWith Leia safely again together with her foster mother and father on Alderaan, Obi-Wan visits as he promised to. He additionally tells her in regards to the qualities she inherited from her late organic mom Padmé Amidala and her at the moment evil dad Anakin.”You are smart, discerned, kind-hearted. These are qualities that got here out of your mom,” he says. “But you’re additionally passionate and fearless, forthright. And these are items out of your father.”Leia is reunited together with her droid LOLA.
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Secondary accounts like this may sorta clarify why Leia remembers her mom as “very lovely, form, however unhappy” in Return of the Jedi. Since Padmé died simply after Leia and Luke had been born in Revenge of the Sith, there is not any means Leia truly remembers her.Obi-servations and Easter eggsNeeson will play Qui-Gon once more in CGI animated collection Tales of the Jedi, which hits Disney Plus this fall. The actor’s son will voice a youthful model of the character.Reva appears to get from Jabiim to Tatooine tremendous rapidly. The timing of occasions on this episode makes extra sense if you happen to work underneath the idea that Reva’s scenes happen after the Obi-Wan/Vader battle, slightly than concurrently.Ian McDiarmid’s Palpatine make-up is nearer to his Return of the Jedi look than we noticed in Revenge of the Sith and The Rise of Skywalker; I all the time bought the sense that Lucasfilm struggled to duplicate that unique make-up within the character’s subsequent appearances.Obi-Wan’s outfit within the ultimate Tatooine scenes is much like Sideshow’s Mythos determine, which was based mostly on a creative interpretation of his look between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope earlier than this present was introduced.I assume the connection Leia and Obi-Wan forge on this collection is the explanation she’ll identify her and Han Solo’s son after him (effectively, his Tatooine alias). At least Ben Solo seems alright ultimately.Obi-Wan encourages Roken (O’Shea Jackson Jr.), to proceed his marketing campaign of riot. It’s probably he’ll present up as Rebel Alliance chief in Andor (presumably in season 2, which is able to lead immediately into Rogue One).The Grand Inquisitor (Rupert Friend) is courageous to induce Vader to observe the refugees as an alternative of Obi-Wan.Bonnie Piesse and her husband had been members of the NXIVM cult, however left the group in 2017 and spoke out in opposition to it. This is documented in HBO collection The Vow.If you need extra Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan or Obi-Wan and Anakin adventures, take a look at the 2019 novel Master & Apprentice or this yr’s Brotherhood.That’s it for Obi-Wan Kenobi on Disney Plus, however Star Wars will return to Disney Plus on Aug. 31 with Andor, a Rogue One prequel collection centered on insurgent spy Cassian Andor.
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