“Justice”
In the previous episode, Reva was looking for Owen. Somehow she got there before Obi-Wan and the others, and she’s at full power now too. How did that happen? How did she recover from her injuries enough to make it here? Her goal here though is Luke, whom she’s desperate to find.
Meanwhile, Obi-Wan and the other rebels attempt to hold out against relentless blaster fire from Vader and the Star Destroyer. Obi-Wan admits to Leia that he’s scared, but he’s going to try and draw Vader’s attention away. He tasks Haja with getting Leia home and hugs the princess goodbye before leaving to face Vader one more time. ..
Roken sets up a dropship, which Obi-Wan jumps into and takes off. Vader believes they should keep tracking the rebels but Obi-Wan is blinded by hate and demands they follow him. With the blaster fire failing, and Obi-Wan heading toward a deserted planet, Vader prepares his ship as he wants to face Obi-Wan alone on this planet. It turns out Lola is in Obi-Wan’s possession. Why? Well, it’s to stop him feeling so scared, apparently. ..
Obi-Wan and Vader are fighting, but Obi-Wan is not running away. Vader has the upper hand, taking out Obi-Wan and burying him under a pile of rocks. “You have failed, Master,” Vader says.
In a shocking turn of events, Obi-Wan Kenobi defeats Darth Vader with the help of rocks he collected from his former student, Leia. This victory sets the stage for a powerful showdown between the two future Sith Lords.
This time, Obi-Wan bests Anakin, knocking him down and causing sparks to fly from his helmet. In fact, he rips it open and manages to see Anakin inside. Obi-Wan’s heart breaks as he sees his former pupil. “Anakin is gone. I am all what remains.” Vader says.
Vader is left alone on the planet and the Star Destroyer, surprisingly, not firing or chasing Obi-Wan’s ship. That’s lucky!
Meanwhile on Tatooine, Reva breaches the perimeter of Owen’s farm after Owen puts Luke in hiding. When Reva approaches, with her broken lightsaber, Owen starts firing on her with his blaster.
Owen uses metal to try and keep Reva’s lightsaber from hitting Luke. It doesn’t work! “What do you want?” Owen asks. “Justice.” The murderer says. Reva is blinded by hate, anger and suffering (sure sound like traits those in the Dark Side have!) and eventually chases after Luke, lightsaber flashing an angry red.
With Obi-Wan fresh from his victory over Vader, he heads down to Tatooine where Reva knocks out Luke and looks set to kill him. Before she does, she sees herself in Luke’s position and, realizing she’s pure evil, changes her mind.
Reva carries an unconscious Luke across to Owen while Obi-Wan is watching on. This time Reva is on her knees before Obi-Wan and starts crying. “I couldn’t do it.” She says tearfully, somehow regretting the fact she was unable to kill a little boy with a lightsaber. (I know this is her referencing the Jedi Temple and the Younglings, I jest.)
The murderer thinks back to the days when she was a young girl, killing and torturing people for fun. Now, she has a choice: become someone who is kind and gentle, or become the ruthless killer that she once was. She chooses to become him, and her mind starts to change.
Reva drops her lightsaber, Obi-Wan helps her up and tells her she’s free. And he walks away, leaving Reva to her devices.
Meanwhile, Vader heads back to Mustafar and speaks to the Emperor about how he plans to probe every system in order to find Obi-Wan. The Emperor is not sure if Vader is thinking clearly. ..
Leia Organa, now a general in the Rebel Alliance, returns to her home planet of Alderaan after time spent fighting against the Empire. She is armed with Obi-Wan Kenobi’s blaster holster, a reminder of his sacrifice in Episode 5. Leia decides she wants to change some things in the established hierarchy, as Obi-Wan touches down and admits that Leia is the one who has saved him. ..
After gushing praise on her, he warns Leia not to tell anyone about him if she should call on him in the future and takes off. What about Luke? Well, Obi-Wan decides to leave the cave and rides over to Owen’s farm.
After meeting Luke with his trademark “Hello there,” Obi-Wan decides that he and Owen are the only two people who can protect him from the evil Empire. He walks away, leaving Luke behind.
After handing over the toy plane, Obi-Wan notices Qui-Gon’s force ghost out in the desert. He encourages Obi-Wan to follow as they leave Luke unprotected. ..
The Episode Review
In a final episode that panders to nostalgia, Obi-Wan Kenobi falls short of the finish line and is forced to confront a lot of the problems with the show. One of the biggest issues is Reva, who comes across as too much likeable for her parts.
The character is poorly written from the start, with skewed motivations and no mention of how she managed to teleport from the “gutter” of that planet all the way over to Tatooine given the hangar was empty, Vader left and she’s supposedly badly injured. And doing so faster than Obi-Wan who’s being pursued by Vader, I may add.
The fight between Obi-wan and Vader is a nice touch that brings their conflict “full circle” back to A New Hope. But at the same time, it also slips into more continuity problems.
In Revenge of the Sith, it makes sense that Obi-Wan walks away from Anakin given he’s a crispy mess and close to death. Here though, he just walks away from Vader while he’s on his knees. And then he manages to leave the planet without the star destroyer bothering to chase him or send anyone down to check on Vader. ..
Despite the problems, this is still the best part of the episode, and that’s just as well given it’s sprinkled around skewed scenes involving Reva. ..
Reva’s new mission is to kill a young boy because she wants “justice.” But the only reason she can’t kill Luke is because she sees herself in that position. And then, by the end, Obi-Wan lets her live. And on that same subject, are we to believe a 10 year old Luke forgets what a lightsaber looks like after a traumatic experience from a crazy lady wielding one around in his house and chasing him?
I believe that Obi-Wan should have killed Reva, seeing as how Anakin was killed and she has caused so much pain and devastation on everyone around her. Instead, she’s just forgiven for torturing and murdering numerous innocent people.
As Obi-Wan Kenobi leaves Luke Skywalker behind, he has a choice to make: He can watch over the young Jedi or let him fall into the hands of the evil Reva. However, Obi-Wan decides against it and leaves Luke in the care of Owen and his team. However, we see Force-ghost Qui-Gon in this scene which is a nice touch!
The writing in this series is poor and it’s easy to see why. The first episode was full of errors and it took a while for the editors to catch them. This continued throughout the rest of the season, with some episodes having terrible grammar, poor sentence structure, and even misspelled words.
The Obi-Wan story in the Star Wars series is not as strong as it could be. The directing, editing, acting, and visual design are all weak. The finale is probably the best episode of the show, but that’s hardly a high bar to set.
