Kenobi - S1E3 (Spoilers)

"Solarite;c-2363882" wrote:
Darth Vader letting go of a droid that saves Obiwan... Because of some flames?! No sense because Obiwan cannot die at this point in the story.The 3rd sister is still the most competent and the others are stupid...
In short, this series deteriorates from episode to episode.

It's not a droid, someone's inside it. I'd go as far as to say even Quinlan Voss is in the droid hiding to keep helping and be covert. He's good at that kind of stuff.