Obi-Wan Kenobi Episode 5 Review
Warning! Spoilers ahead for episode 5 of Obi-Wan Kenobi.
The latest installment of Obi-Wan Kenobi, “Part V,” picks up where the last episode left off with Obi-Wan escaping from the Empire with a secret tracking device planted on Leia’s droid. This week, Deborah Chow dives right into the action with another classic archetypal story setup: the enemy at the gate. Reva brings an army of Stormtroopers to the Jedi hideout and Obi-Wan galvanizes his fellow Jedi fugitives and their loved ones to fend them off long enough to plot another escape. There’s much more of a sense of urgency here than in the similar enemy-at-the-gate sequence in the third act of The Last Jedi.
“Part V” has a writing credit for Finding Nemo director Andrew Stanton alongside Obi-Wan Kenobi head writer Joby Harold. Their script is tightly structured, with an action-driven narrative that constantly raises the stakes. Viewers can’t get too comfortable at any point in this episode: Reva arrives at the gate, Reva breaks through the gate, the Stormtroopers kill a key character, and eventually Vader shows up. It’s a non-stop thrill-ride, but it always remains focused on the internal conflicts at play.
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Hayden Christensen finally gets to perform an entire scene with his face in this episode, unobscured by lava-burn prosthetics or an iconic black helmet. The whole episode is intercut with prequel-era flashbacks to Anakin training with Obi-Wan on Coruscant. This flashback isn’t just shoehorned in for fan service; it serves a purpose in this week’s individual narrative. The training flashbacks spliced into the present-day action serve the themes of the story and reflect the characters’ ideological dichotomy. Anakin’s
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