“Obi-Wan Kenobi” Episode 4 Recap: Under Pressure
thewrap.comHeavy spoilers for “Obi-Wan Kenobi’s” fourth episode follow! Turn back now if you haven’t watched!Obi-Wan (Ewan McGregor) is injured and clearly out of it after his battle with Darth Vader (Hayden Christensen, with help from James Earl Jones and an AI voice generator).
He’s badly burned and in rough shape. Tala (Indira Varma), the Imperial higher-up turned Rebel leader, is rushing him to a Rebel base. “You’re going to be okay,” she tells Obi-Wan.
Then, to somebody else: “Get the Bacta tank ready.” (You know, because we didn’t have enough Bacta tank shenanigans in “The Book of Boba Fett.”) Mercifully, his time in the tank is brief; he has some flashes of Vader (and his own healing vat) along with images from their most recent duel.When Obi-Wan gets out of the tank he has one question: “Where’s Leia?” (Can we pause to just recognize that some of the angrier “Star Wars” fans might have been unhappy with Rian Johnson’s “The Last Jedi,” but its influence is still clearly felt.
This editorial cut – from “Where’s Leia” to where Leia actually is, echoes the “Where’s Han?” moment from “The Last Jedi” and the general editorial pattern of that film.)We then cut to the water moon where the Inquisitors have their base of operations.
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