Obi-Wan Kenobi: Episodes 1 & 2 Review - What's Our Verdict Reviews

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31st May 2022

Obi-Wan Kenobi: Episodes 1 & 2 Review

Ten years after Order 66, when most of the Jedi Order were killed, the Grand Inquisitor, Fifth Brother, and Third Sister (Reva Sevander) find a surviving Jedi, Nari, on Tatooine. Reva grows impatient and attempts to kill him, forcing the Grand Inquisitor to stop her, allowing Nari to escape. The Grand Inquisitor expresses his disapproval for Reva's recklessness and obsession with finding another surviving Jedi, Obi-Wan Kenobi, who, unbeknownst to them, is also on Tatooine. Under the alias "Ben", Kenobi works at a meat factory and watches over a young Luke Skywalker, the son of his former apprentice-turned-enemy Anakin Skywalker. He is haunted by memories of his past, and is unable to communicate with his former master Qui-Gon Jinn through the Force. Kenobi refuses to help Nari, and later sees his corpse hanging in town. On Alderaan, Anakin's daughter Leia, who was adopted by Kenobi's acquaintance Senator Bail Organa, is kidnapped by Vect Nokru's gang, a group of bounty hunters hired by Reva to lure Kenobi. Organa contacts Kenobi and pleads with him to help rescue Leia. Kenobi refuses at first, but relents after Organa personally meets him.

After tracking the kidnappers to the planet Daiyu, Kenobi encounters con man Haja Estree, who pretends to be a Jedi. Haja directs Kenobi to Leia's location, where he defeats the kidnappers and rescues her. The Grand Inquisitor learns of their presence and locks the city down. Reva disobeys orders to stand down and places a new bounty on Kenobi, causing mercenaries around the city to target him and Leia. When Leia realizes they are after Kenobi, she loses trust in him and runs away; he follows her onto a roof. With mercenaries attempting to kill them, Leia jumps off a roof and Kenobi saves her using the Force, gaining her trust. Haja finds them and directs them to an unguarded cargo port from which they can escape, but cannot stop Reva from following them. Reva reveals to Kenobi that Anakin, now known as Darth Vader, is still alive, which shocks him; he presumed Anakin had died ten years ago. The Grand Inquisitor arrives to arrest Kenobi himself, but Reva stabs him with her lightsaber, inadvertently allowing Kenobi and Leia to escape. Elsewhere, Darth Vader awakens in a bacta tank.

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Mattson Heiner

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The Real Ginge everyone! Mattson loves to binge watch the latest tv shows, movies, and deep dive into plot points. Besides trying to be a movie critic he enjoys all things sports and a warm pan of brownies!

Alec Burgess

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A connoisseur of all fine cinema, mediocre cinema, and even poor cinema you may think that Alec would have a better understanding of how movies work, and you'd be wrong. This self-styled man child believes that movies should not only be entertaining, but fun as well. Unburdened by things like reality he plans on continuing to live his best life while thumbing his nose at film critics. Enough of that noise, now let's get it!

JJ Crowder

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JJ, The Man, The Myth, The Legend...ok that's actually only true for the amount of movies and tv shows he has seen and for calling his co-hosts by the wrong names during introductions. But for real, he has seen A LOT of movies and TV.