re: Obi-Wan Kenobi (Disney+) - Episode 6 Discussion Thread

It was a good episode and a decent season. My biggest issues mostly have to do with the story fitting into A New Hope. First and foremost, I think prime suit Vader should be more powerful than Obi-Wan and that the only reason OWK’s alive in ANH is because Vader couldn’t find him between Mustafar and the Death Star.

But that aside, Obi-Wan should have killed Vader in this episode. Obviously he couldn’t because of plot armor but he definitely should have under the circumstances.

I have always thought of OWK as the consummate Jedi. Not necessarily the most powerful but the most professional, so to speak, who would do the right thing regardless of his personal feelings. He left Vader/Anakin for dead on Mustafar and he survived. He should have put his personal feelings for Anakin aside and struck him down without any hesitation the second time. Instead, he lets him live to be even more pissed off and terrorize the galaxy indefinitely until they meet again.

He told Vader/Anakin twice “I will do what I must” and didn’t follow through either time. The first time he probably didn’t expect Anakin to survive. The second time his head should have been flying off.

Fantastic end to the show. The last two episodes (especially this one) saved it. They shouldn’t have a season 2. That was a perfect ending

The finale was what I wanted to see the entire season.

Agreed that him not killing Darth was a real head scratcher.

so he literally made the same mistake twice. Way to go Ben.

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I'll be honest, they handled Reva's ending better than I thought they would. I thought she would be made the ultimate hero, but she really wasn't. She ended up a broken but redeemed person with the choice to go whichever direction she wants. I thought it was a good way to wrap up her part of this story.

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Except for the part about how her suddenly getting a conscience NOW, after killing countless children up to this point, makes no sense.

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Plot armor. It’s really that simple

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It could have been written dozens of ways where Vader is soundly defeated but Obi-wan is unable to kill him, like Vader had support, Obi-Wan had to choose between saving someone or killing vader, some geographic feature separates them, some creature attacks, and on and on.

Obi-wan just walking away from what he set out to do knowing that Vader survived their previous encounter when death seemed certain is silly.

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I'm not sure how Leia wouldn't remember Kenobi when making the message in a New Hope Later on

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Who says she doesn't.

She asked Obi Wan if she would ever see him again.

This was his response:

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"Maybe, someday. If you ever need help from a tired old man, but we must be careful. No one must know, or it could endanger us both."

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I’m still really surprised they had Obi Wan ragdoll Vader at the end. That’s not a diss to Obi Wan. He was def a top 5 Jedi during the Clone Wars, really only surpassed by Yoda, Windu and Anakin

But it was still surprising to see him show off some impressive power and get after Vader’s arse, especially after we see Vader stopping a ship, ripping it apart like it was made of cotton candy and then basically burying Obi Wan in the beginning part of the fight.

Enjoyed the last two episodes and dare I say they redeemed the show. These episodes corrected a lot of the complaints I had with the show:

Restored the actual Grand Inquisitor back to his place

Actually made Reva have a good backstory as a youngling / seeking revenge on Vader. This is way better than her just being some random Inquisitor trying to impress Vader by finding Kenobi

Implied Leia knows Kenobi in a New Hope, but is acting like she has not met him for secrecy reasons as Kenobi says

"Now I am the master" line still works in A New Hope. Anakin calls Kenobi master in the last episode. So the line still holds true. Vader obviously didn't see himself as the master quite yet.

Kenobi vs. Vader was epic. Truly. Vader had his badass moments but so did Obi Wan.

Finally saw Qui Gon force ghost. Wish we could've seen more of him, but I am guessing if they make season 2 we would see a lot more of Qui Gon.

"HELLO THERE!" - that was awesome