Obi-Wan Kenobi
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And it certainly is straightforward, perhaps to a fault.
When our hero wakes up, the show bites a little from aLast Jedimotif, following Obi-Wans Wheres Leia?
with an answering cut to Fortress Inquisitorious, a base on the watery moon of Nur.
A rhyme worthy of George Lucas, between two creative works he didnt have a hand in.
He hides from the bad guys, as he did by the lake on Naboo.
He defects blaster shots with his lightsaber, as he did slightly further away from the lake on Naboo.
(Maybe we should just be grateful that no one on the rescue mission says Youre up.)
Ah, yes: the throwing out of hard-won intel based on the assumption of fibs.
And thats the episode.
Its the episodes creepiest, most memorable image.
Its probably also a gallery of Easter eggs that dont tell us much we dont already know.
The shared pain of Obi-Wan and Reva is there, somewhere, hinting at something more complicated and regretful.
But is this a safe assumption?
Leias ultimate destination is her well-known home on Alderaan, after which (if not earlier!)
Obi-Wan would likely head back to his unknown-to-the-Empire cave.
Whos Wade, you ask?
RIP Wade and all of his characteristics, whatever they may be.
Bless these makers of live-actionStar Warsshows gamely rolling with previously established Saturday-morning-cartoon naming conventions.
More broadly, this might have been the single lowest alien population ever seen in a Star Wars episode.
