You drive, I shoot! 😌✊

Okay but the humanity and kindness and empathy to Anakin’s line “I am not your failure,Obi-Wan.” There is so very little good in him,and we have seen it so deeply buried beneath an ocean of hatred and blinding pain. But I am so stuck on this line in particular,the entreaty and wavering earnestness to his voice as he bids Obi-Wan to not blame himself. This is the only real humanity we see in him until Luke,this small moment of Anakin so clearly shining through. It is not Vader’s pain in his voice,it is Anakin’s. We see the yellow recede from his eyes and the rounded, desperation to them as he says the words. It’s such a curious thing,that as much pain and misery he wanted to inflict on Obi-Wan,in this he did not want him to shoulder the blame. This line better than anything in Star Wars so perfectly illustrates that Anakin knows what he did,and he knows what choice he makes every single day. He killed the light within Anakin Skywalker,not Obi-Wan or anyone else. I killed Anakin Skywalker.

The Jedi Code and Obi-Wan Kenobi

You know what I love about that moment Obi-Wan said “Then my friend is truly dead,” and “Goodbye, Darth,”?

The final episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi is entirely about love. Obi-Wan leaves Leia and the ship of refugees because to him, they are more important. He finds the strength to break free of what would have been a stony tomb because he remembered Leia, and Luke, and Anakin, and how he loved all of them.

He wept as he spoke to Anakin because he loves him still.

But, as he said “Goodbye, Darth,” he let Anakin go.

He still loved Anakin more than anything. But Obi-Wan let Anakin go, because to hold on to him, to be attached in such a way that his life would still be centered on the memory of his brother, would be to burn with him. And he chose to love - to love Leia and Luke, Anakin’s living memory.

He was never truer to the Jedi and to the Force than he was in that moment. To love utterly selflessly and utterly determinedly, but without attachment.

What a beautiful thing it is, to choose to love the living without allowing the ghosts of the dead to cling to you.

What a glorious thing, to be a Jedi.

Honestly still just processing that finale. I cannot get over how much I love Reva.

Slightly feral about the way Reva, beyond her personal grudge, also comes into the story as the embodied rage of all those slain younglings.

Which creates an extra layer of tragedy to how Reva couldn’t even land a hit on him in their duel. Because there was nothing she or the other children could do protect themselves or their friends during Order 66.

With Reva we get something that has to some extent been missing until now. Reva gives a voice and face to all the younglings that fell victim to Order 66. The ones that didn’t make it. We’ve seen quite a few survivors like Cal Kestis, Ahsoka, Kanan Jarrus and Grogu. Reva on the other hand connects herself to those that died, those who were betrayed and didn’t have the luck to escape or be saved.

“What Jedi gave their life so that you might live?”

“We thought he was there to help us”

Because the one who was meant to save and protect them, was instead the one cutting them down.

Those last few moments before Vader stabs her just hammers it home, with the cuts to flashback, the vulnerable look on her face, his own words. Anakin Skywalker, murderer of children he had the duty to protect. Then, and now.

I think Vader is still pissed about Mustafar. But I mean it’s just my guess.

fellas is it gay to bury your weapons together in a shared coffin box entombing the lives you shared while wielding those blades as complementary halves of a single warrior

Leia is just like her mama I- 🤧🥺

I’m sorry but the darksiders being so fucking done with Vader’s absolute unhinged galaxy rending obsession over Obi-Wan is the funniest thing in the world. The Grand Inquisitor and Sidious both side eyeing him and being like bro can you fucking CHILL is absolutely riotous. The judgement,the exasperation from them.

Anakin foaming at the mouth and shrieking and crushing planets to dust writhing in his Obisession—

Sidious—I can’t believe I’m saying this but have you thought of LETTING GO?

Underrated scenes from first two Kenobi eps part 1:

10 year old Leia: my beloved childhood companion droid was smashed in front of me during a terrifying situation for me as a small child and now I’m alone 😕

Obi Wan, absentmindedly remembering Anakin bitching about loose wire jokes and R2 being a general pain in the ass: G O O D

Obi Wan, 0.5 seconds later recognizing how assholeish that sounded: i mean—

Darth Vader: Anakin is dead, I killed him, so leave you weak old man—

Obi-Wan: Alright, goodbye then, Darth.

Darth Vader:

Darth Vader:

Vaderkin: What. You’re actually leaving? Wait you can’t leave me again Obi-Wan plEase this is ILLEGAL OBI-WAN—

I think the impact Kenobi has on the sequels is kinda going under going under the radar

As I saw someone else say, what makes SW spin offs good is how they can give greater meaning to the source,

Leia's meeting and connection with Obi-Wan recontextualizes her faith in him in ANH, that's obvious

But it also helped improve the sequels, it's subtle, but it's there

For 6 years we've wondered why Han and Leia named their son after a guy they barely knew/didn't like or didn't get a chance to meet

And now we know, Ben Kenobi was the Jedi knight who came to Leia's rescue when she was a little girl, risked everything to save her, the embodiment of the stories she'd heard

Of course she named her son after him

This little thing just gives so much regarding Leia and Kylo, it makes his turn to the dark side that much more tragic

And this is what we need

This is how you improve the sequels, little things that add up, providing new insights on the characters, locations, events, and organizations

It's sooooo funny to me that Bail just knew where Obi-wan lived like he didn't even bother trying to look around towns, he just looked for the first cave that had signs of someone living there and was like "yep this is where that depressed bastard is gonna be"

The return of General Obi-Wan Kenobi: an action choreography breakdown

The action choreography for Obi-Wan’s lightsaber scenes in the Obi-Wan Kenobi series episode 4 is SO GOOD. Every one of Obi-Wan’s movements had intentional narrative impact. Every. Movement.

He starts off by striking from the darkness, still rusty and lacking in confidence. He wields his lightsaber like a vibroblade, two-handed, heavy, overextended. It takes four strikes to bring each stormtrooper down.

They run together. In the corridor, the seeker droid starts firing blaster bolts. Obi-Wan instinctively takes up a shoulder-wide stance, lightsaber aloft by his right shoulder. Form IV: Ataru. The lightsaber form of his childhood, his apprenticeship.

He deflects a blaster bolt away from Leia. Then another. Stormtroopers flood in from behind him. He tries to deflect a bolt at the Stormtroopers, but it misses, because he’s out of practice. His body is catching up with his muscle memory. But he parries again, and again, and the next shot downs a trooper. He’s stumbling through Ataru stances like half forgotten memory but each step is smoother and more fluid and then the droid is down. The last trooper is still shooting and by then he can act on instinct - and now the trooper goes down in one hit.

Obi-Wan spins his lightsaber afterwards. He doesn’t know why he does it, it’s just years of instinct, written into his bones.

In the next corridor every single deflected bolt is another trooper down. But Obi-Wan and Leia are pinned on both sides, and he finally shifts his weight and moves into a rapid series of flowing movements, a deadly whirl of light. This is the lightsaber style of ultimate defense, the style that proved in the Clone Wars to be devastatingly effective against blaster crossfire: Form III, Soresu. This is the the style Obi-Wan used in his prime.

This is lightsaber style of General Obi-Wan Kenobi.

This is how you use an action scene to show narrative progression. Obi-Wan walked into the torture chamber as a rusty, determined hermit. Five minutes later, he stood in the corridor as General Obi-Wan Kenobi.

In yet another edition of "I don't ship Obikin, but..."

Guys, that moment when they were holding hands while engaging in a full-on lightsaber fight? Like...actually holding hands. While beating each other with lightsabers. I just can't even with these two. Who put that in the fight choreography?

I don't have to ship it to acknowledge that Obikin shippers ain't wrong. These two have some kind of relationship, and whatever it is, it isn't normal.