We haven’t finished talking about the beginning and Disney+ has already released the third episode of ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’, the Star Wars miniseries starring Ewan McGregor. After a quite satisfactory premiere, we arrived at the middle of the series with the first great confrontation of fiction.
Spoilers for ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ Part III from here on, of course.
The episode begins with Kenobi mulling over the revelation that Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) is still alive. This upsets her deeply, because it is one of the great thorns in her past. He doesn’t have much reaction time though, as he and Leia (Vivian Lyra Blair) are on the run from the inquisitors.
From farmers in Mapuzo
Thus, the action takes place on the mining planet of Mapuzo, where there are our suspicious hero and his puppy to rescue. As a mole miner takes them to the spaceport, a perceptive Leia discovers that Obi-Wan knows who her real parents are.
Meanwhile, we discover that Reva (Moses Ingram) is under the direct orders of Darth Vader himselfwhich causes a, shall we say, leadership crisis for Rupert Friend’s Grand Inquisitor.
Returning to the mining planet, there we will meet Tala, a disillusioned imperial officer played by Indira Varma (‘Game of Thrones’). This will lead to a refuge and will reveal the existence of a whole network called “The Path”, destined to help all those persecuted by the Empire.
There, our protagonists witness the worst forecast: not only have the inquisitors found out that they are taking refuge on that planet, but Darth Vader himself accompanies them. This brings us to a third act of the episode with an expected first confrontation between Anakin and Obi-Wan.
The script is still lazy
But we have to talk about the script. Seriously. Already in the criticism of the premiere of the series, he highlighted that the writing of the series falls into the easy, the accommodated. Although Chow’s direction continues to be successful for me, excuse the redundancy, the script of Joby Harold, Hossein Amini and Stuart Beattiestill leaves something to be desired.
This third episode has moments that directly crush the pact with the viewer. This time not so much in the chases, but in the hunt between cat and mouse: we do not know where people appear, where they inadvertently leave the shelter, etc. In the end it turns out that we have a certain sensationalism that forces the viewer a little so that we enter their story.
Lastly, the episode ends with Obi-Wan being burned and rescued by Tala while Reva mysteriously finds Leia. The knot of the series is in full swing and has left us with an interesting question: why exactly are they hunting not only the Jedi but also the everything sensitive to force?, what about those “that do not return”?