Star Wars Obi-Wan Kenobi (tv series)

[Jamesfett]

Episode 4 Spoiler alert.


It sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[James Kenobi 1138]

My other hot take: I liked Kenobi EP4

 

[harrisonp]

I liked this episode much more than 3 but overall I think this show should have been about a different character. We all love Obi-Wan, love Ewan, but the story is bogged down by what we know and feel for the character. A show about a lesser-known or unknown to the audience Jedi would have been a more refreshing way to tell this story IMO.

I know Moses is getting some negativity for non acting reasons, but my big issue with Reva and a lot of the Disney canon is that these characters are written to speak like they’re from Earth.

Star Wars dialogue IS CORNY, it’s a bastardized fantasy/Shakespearean/Arthurian fairy tale. It bothers me when modern inflection comes through in the acting. Finn and Poe are big perpetrators of this in the ST, and it’s continuing here with Reva, and Haja a bit, as well as Mayfeld and Pelli on Mando.

The themes of resistance against this awful foe are great and timeless, but Star Wars of the era in which this show is set is supposed to be space WW2, and it feels tonally wrong to me currently.

 

[joberg]

Episode 4 Spoiler alert.


It sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Saw the spoiler on line...what the heck is that? I don't know if the series will be re-named "The Keystone Cops" after that move

 

[Psab keel]

Ugh…ugh…argh…AAAAAHHHHHH!

This show is killing me. Fumbling around, taking missteps at every possible turn.

Whose idea was it to put together 9 year-old child actor written by people who have never encountered a 9 year-old with silly, hammy, impossible to take seriously Reva? What dialogue is this? What’s more intimidating:

“You WILL tell me what you know.”

vs the actual line

“You’re gonna tell me what I wanna know!”

No one, and I mean NO ONE in the Empire should be saying “wanna” or “gonna”.

When was it established Leia knew a single thing about “the Path” outside of the one, singular safe house she’d been to?

The music angers me. So much. It’s getting worse. There was one brief section in the middle that was sort of Star Wars-esque but it was brief and lacking.

Why do these new shows insist on inventing new security systems and things like that that make ANH harder and harder to buy? So they have Imperial droids roaming the corridors of “Fortress Inquisitorious” (which made me gag when I heard it) by the dozens, but the Death Star has none?

Why would there be so much security for a big freezer with Jedi in it? Why are they keeping the bodies? I mean, seriously, this doesn’t even match up to the canon they established in this show. If they were so intent on killing the Jedi to put them into their Jurassic Park amber collection, why’d they leave the dude from the first episode just hanging around on Tatooine?

Supposedly Force-users can sense other Force-users. So why doesn’t Reva go, “hey, you’re practically a damn Jedi, Leia. I’m gonna turn you in to my boss so I can get some brownie points, who cares about Kenobi because you’re clearly very Force-sensitive.” Whoops, then they run a blood test for the midi-chlorians and find out she’s related to Anakin, show over, goodbye. Someone’s going to chime in now and say, “but ROTJ ruined that first by making Leia Luke’s sister, and that’s why you should humbly accept all BS from here until the end of time, because the OT retconned things.” To which I say, humbly go and eat a brick.

The little “rag-tag” group of Path people were all terrible. Reminded me of the Resistance in a bad way. (Like, TLJ bad.) Remember when the Rebellion seemed like it was staffed by people who were prepared to fight, and didn’t look like college-aged actors getting their first break?

So glad we spent valuable time in this brief 30 minute episode (including a recap and an long logo intro and a show intro) showing us how a bacta tank works, the very, very poorly edited “flashbacks” to the battle we just watched last week, and then bearded man saying “I won’t help you. Actually, I will. You convinced me by doing and saying nothing.”

I’m finishing this show out of morbid curiosity alone at this point. Nothing they could say or do can fix the lack of attention to detail, to canon, to the writing, its overall execution. It’s a big mess, and while overall the pacing has been (until now, apparently) somewhat more competent than BOBF, it’s clear that this is a story that an algorithm demanded they tell to fill content, not one anyone was interested in telling. Same with BOBF, except that show had an episode or two of escape in the middle where it shifted focus back to a character they wanted to tell a story about.

Some may say “hey, power to you if you enjoyed this. Like what you like, and all that.” Not me. Not anymore. Stop defending this. Please. All you’re doing is allowing more of this trite, poorly written garbage to get made. It’s destroying me. You shouldn’t be content with table scraps.

 

[Krieger]

My other hot take: I liked Kenobi EP4

same

 

[ghostryder]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1534581068963225600

 

[AJK001]

I have a question for all the experts and this relates to the same exact thing happening in ANH. Since Reva put a tracker in the droid was she planning on letting them escape all along or was that a just in case move. The same thing occurred in ANH when they put a tracker on the Falcon and again it appears they were planning on letting them escape all along.

 

[James Kenobi 1138]

In both cases, I feel the tracker was more of a Plan B.

Plan A is to actually capture them, Plan B is to track them if they get away.

 

[HMSwolfe]

Is this show implying Reva gave Vader the idea to do that in ANH?

 

[AJK001]

Duplicate

 

[AJK001]

In both cases, I feel the tracker was more of a Plan B.

Plan A is to actually capture them, Plan B is to track them if they get away.

That actually makes sense but this is Star Wars and sometimes this don't make a lot sense.

 

[Krieger]

In both cases, I feel the tracker was more of a Plan B.

Plan A is to actually capture them, Plan B is to track them if they get away.

and aim at them, but not AT them when they escape

 

[JoeG]

Well I enjoyed the hell out of this latest episode. There were a couple little nitpicky things, but overall I was happy with it. So far this series has been giving me what I'd want out of a show featuring Obi Wan set during this time period.

 

[Kylash]

At least the stormtroopers looked great?

 

[James Kenobi 1138]

 

[vadermania]

Just watched Episode IV. Can‘t we just talk Elon into buying the franchise from Disney?

 

[NakedMoleRat]

I’m guessing that ‘Ben’ will wipe Leia’s mind of her memories of their time together at the end of the series. Otherwise…

 

[vadermania]

Are the Stormtroopers wearing armour or useless white plastic costumes?

 

[kalkamel]

I have a question for all the experts and this relates to the same exact thing happening in ANH. Since Reva put a tracker in the droid was she planning on letting them escape all along or was that a just in case move. The same thing occurred in ANH when they put a tracker on the Falcon and again it appears they were planning on letting them escape all along.

It doesn't take a tracker... or a genius... to tell where Obi-wan will most likely take Leia next... ALDERAAN!