Much like “The Last Jedi,” which had to retroactively figure out why Mark Hamill’s Luke Skywalker disappeared from the galaxy in the time between “Return of the Jedi” and “The Force Awakens,” viewers came into “Obi-Wan Kenobi” knowing that much of Kenobi’s time spent in exile between “Revenge of the Sith” and “Star Wars” would predominantly deal with his lingering guilt in allowing his former Padawan to fall to the Dark Side. Both Jedi Masters failed spectacularly when it came to guiding their younger protégés along the right path, and the echoes of their defeats reverberate throughout the course of the franchise.

Episode five of “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” directed by Deborah Chow and written by Joby Harold and Andrew Stanton, goes out of its way to remind fans of the magnitude of Obi-Wan’s mistakes. Reva (Moses Ingram) is shown to have been one of the younglings who narrowly survived Anakin’s coldblooded rampage through the Jedi temple upon the implementation of Palpatine’s Order 66. As much as the Inquisitor secretly plans on turning on Vader himself for his crimes, she still holds Obi-Wan personally responsible for allowing such a thing to happen in the first place — similar to Ben Solo blaming his uncle Luke in “The Last Jedi.” Although Anakin (and Kylo Ren) is ultimately accountable for his own choices and his own inability to take his Master’s lessons to heart, juxtaposing these flashbacks of their lightsaber duel by bringing us right back to the present, in the midst of Vader’s crusade to hunt down and destroy Obi-Wan at all costs, only further emphasizes our hero’s shortcomings.

Which is a good thing! Even Jedi are only human, after all. Obi-Wan coming to terms with his mistakes is why we’re watching in the first place.