With the success of the first two episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi, the series directed by Deborah Chow for Disney + whose premiere has become the most watched since the platform exists, one can only wish that it has the dramatic force that, for now, it lacks. Although the intervention of Hayden Christensen’s Anakin Skywalker as the iconic Darth Vader will help with that task. And so it is.
In fact, the last image of the second chapter is his. After the great commotion caused by Moses Ingram’s Reva, insubordinate inquisitor, by revealing to Ewan McGregor’s protagonist that her former padawan has not died, they show us this inside of what we suspect that it is a bacta tanksimilar to the one that already appears in boba fett book (since 2021) for the physical recovery of the character played by Temuera Morrison.
The opening sequence of the third episode, in which Obi-Wan Kenobi calls back to his late master, Liam Neeson’s Qui-Gon Jinn, while hearing tortured phrases from his past in his head, uses a worthy parallel montage with the preparation of the villain sith and the support of the appropriate soundtrack composed by Natalie Holt. Its objective is to produce in the spectators an emotional state of astonishment, with nostalgia at the ready, before the vision of the greatest myth of starwars.
The long-awaited return of Darth Vader in ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’
His threatening intervention fits with the attitude and the way of speaking that we know him since A new hope (1977), but we cannot avoid the sensation of the naive in its solemnity, from which its impressive participation in rogue one (2016) by silent. Our somewhat cynical age of dismantling such legends, in which Mark Hamill’s Luke Skywalker can contemptuously part with his lightsaber in the last jedi (2017) as a counterpoint, affects our perspective.
Secondly, interstellar travel what do we see in Obi-Wan Kenobijust like in the other installments of the saga or in that of his cousin in the space opera star trek (since 1966), with its aspect of the social routine that we frequent in any corner of our planet, always makes us think about whether the human future could be like this after the corresponding expansion throughout the galaxy. With workers who go about their business and hitchhikers like Vivien Lyra Blair’s talkative Leia Organa.
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Also, hallucinations about the young Anakin Skywalker, with that close-up of Deborah Chow and her director of photography, Chung-hoon Chung, wobbly and who seems to be turning into the crooked Dutchman, perhaps they are due to the psychic stress suffered by the jedi of Ewan McGregor, but they feel shocking in starwars. For lack of habit, at least. And because we consider them more normal in dark fantasy plots or thriller psychological.
At last the lightsabers collide again
How recognizable, on the other hand, a guy like the Freck of the possible Zach Braff, collaborator with imperial totalitarianism, and the terms about “order” in which he tries to justify himself. So typical of those who have defended and defend dictatorships of all stripes, from the Spanish Franco regime to any of the history that can occur to us. Y welcome Tala Durith by Indira Varmaactress whom we remember for her Ellaria Sand in Game of Thrones (2011-2019).
And, if we feared an aberrant close-up with Obi-Wan Kenobi’s hallucinations, this one comes when he perceives that Darth Vader is very close. The reunion of him, with the logic of adding the chapter of the search to take revenge on the one who destroyed his body in Revenge of the Sith (2005), the palpable tension in the midst of a darkness that illuminates the resplendent lightsaber of the jedi, it really satisfies us.
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The words exchanged by both hide a curious resemblance to certain details of the relationship between Bruce Wayne and Joker in Batman (1989), which we don’t know if the screenwriters Joby Harold, Hossein Amini, Stuart Beattie and Hannah Friedman are aware of. Yes, of course, from pleasant show offered by the laser sword fightso typical of starwarssad result. Because the resurrection of Ewan McGregor’s hero hasn’t really happened yet.
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