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Obi-Wan Kenobi #6

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Obi-Wan Kenobi #6

Obi-Wan Kenobi #6 concludes the comic adaptation of the Disney+ television show giving us Obi-Wan Kenobi sacrificing himself to ensure Leia‘s escape, the Jedi’s encounter with Darth Vader on Jabiim’s moon, and the epilogue on Tatooine. The sixth issue of the six-issue mini-series doesn’t add anything new to events from the series but does offer a nice moment between Kenobi and Leia (a reimagined relationship that throws all kinds of chaos into the events of the original Star Wars) and of course the lightsaber duel between master and pupil (which stole a bit too much for my tastes from the superior episode of Star Wars Rebels).

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Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Identity Crisis

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  • Title: Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Identity Crisis
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Star Wars: The Bad Batch - Identity Crisis

“Identity Crisis” takes the focus off the clones and returns it to the Empire’s secret laboratory on Tantiss where Emerie Karr (Keisha Castle-Hughes) is read into the truth of Project Necromancer (confirming events which you likely surmised quite a long time ago). Other than confirming the evil manipulations of the Empire in kidnapping children and turning them into lab rats, which is hardly new ground, there’s not much of note in the episode other than another fan friendly cameo from another Star Wars: The Clone Wars recurring character. Emerie gets a close look at the “subjects” in these experiments, and a better understanding of who she his working for, although that doesn’t stop her from continuing to perform her duties.

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3 Body Problem – Red Coast / Destroyer of Worlds

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  • Title: 3 Body Problem – Red Coast / Destroyer of Worlds
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3 Body Problem - Red Coast / Destroyer of Worlds

The second and third episodes of the series begin fitting the pieces together. We learn that in China Ye Wenjie (Zine Tseng) is the one responsible for contact with alien life and an invitation that the world now must contend with. In the present, we see much more of the video game with Jack (John Bradley) and Jin (Jess Hong) both playing, first separately and then together, to solve the problem that gives the show its name. That problem ties directly to an impending alien arrival and it’s in the solving of the game, and an invitation given to the pair of them, that the show also incorporates the mysterious woman (Marlo Kelly) who doesn’t take kindly to one of the pair turning her down.

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Star Wars: The Bad Batch – The Harbinger

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Star Wars: The Bad Batch - The Harbinger

In what feels like an awkward bit of fan service, Star Wars: The Bad Batch brings in the character of Asajj Ventress (Nika Futterman) from the The Clone Wars series as the character to deliver the (rather obvious) news about what the “M count” stands for. While also bringing back one of the most divisive terms in Star Wars canon, the episode suggests that Omega‘s (Michelle Ang) high count allows for the possibility of the Force. While Omega has never shown any Force ability, and Ventress’ “tests” don’t show anything either, the need of a clone to have access to the Force is of course central to the events of The Rise of Skywalker.

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