![]() ![]() Bad Lola hacks the base’s ship-exit doors, trapping everyone inside as stormtroopers cut off the smaller exits. The tracking device in Leia’s L0-LA59 droid (Lola for short) reveals to the Imperial forces that the good guys are not, in fact, immediately returning the princess to Alderaan but stopping over in Jabiim to assist a group of refugees. Vader is able to close in on Kenobi and his pals because Reva’s unacknowledged-as-such gambit from the previous episode paid off. His sparring match with Master Kenobi offers some insight into how the traumatized Obi-Wan of this series may be strategizing as Vader closes in on him. For the short flashback woven into “Part V,” we finally get some proper human Anakin: cocky, insolent, and merciless with his lightsaber. But the medium shots, presumably the ones that aren’t just a close-up of a helmet … that’s all Christensen-standing-around magic!) It’s an analog version of the same emptiness. (Not when he’s fighting, and not when he’s shot wide. Yes, he got to play a hallucinated Ani in the distance back in “ Part III,” along with a few moments of bacta-tank seething and, apparently, certain shots of the fully dressed Vader. So by loving the glimpse “Part V” gives us of a younger Kenobi practice-dueling with a padawan-braid-era Anakin Skywalker, am I giving in to the dark side, embracing special-effects abilities that some consider to be unnatural? Here’s why I’d argue no: So far, Hayden Christensen’s performance as Vader in Obi-Wan Kenobi has been, like Hamill’s likeness-rights sign-off in the other recent shows, more of a ceremonial title than genuine acting. (Not to relitigate something that’s probably being discussed for the 800 billionth time on Twitter right this second, but it’s also the perfect comfort for anyone - Hamill included! - who may have been upset by the controversial decision to portray Luke as an actual human being in The Last Jedi.) After The Book of Boba Fett revealed the expressive limitations of Metaverse Luke, it became clear that some viewers just need that Skywalker security blanket, no matter how divorced it has become from genuine human feeling. What dark sorcery is this, leaving Star Wars fans wanting more de-aging effects, which are unsettlingly uncanny on their best day and unnervingly dodgy on their worst? Of course, some fans already can’t get enough of them there wasn’t exactly an outcry when The Mandalorian treated Mark Hamill like a corpse to be magically resurrected, rather than an actor who could no longer play a younger Luke Skywalker.
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