Star Wars Obi-Wan Kenobi (tv series)
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CopperRevan
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I was sort of joking ...like a billionth and 1 time will change my view and i would just use it as an excuse to watch it again...lol. On the contrary, in the OT it wouldn't have made sense for Obi-wan to start getting emotional here as Luke is a young man, as opposed to little Leia who is 10!!! Did we expect Older Obi to emotionally exceed Luke's emotion at the time? You immediately felt the weight of the situation with the music and that Luke's destiny was starting to unfold at a rapid pace.
CopperRevan
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Here's something funny:
My son (who is 6yrs old btw) after watching Luke unmask Vader in ROTJ goes to me:
"Dad, why is his face so white?"
To which, i replied: "well, his face hasn't seen the sun for many many years because it's been covered by the mask...your face would look like that too if it was hidden for that long."
Thinking i had answered him sufficiently, he then asked:
"well how come the Grand Inquisitor in the Kenobi show looks just as white when he was on Tatooine and there are two suns?"
ummm...
Now i know how Reva felt when little Leia asked her if she could visit her father first...lol
My son (who is 6yrs old btw) after watching Luke unmask Vader in ROTJ goes to me:
"Dad, why is his face so white?"
To which, i replied: "well, his face hasn't seen the sun for many many years because it's been covered by the mask...your face would look like that too if it was hidden for that long."
Thinking i had answered him sufficiently, he then asked:
"well how come the Grand Inquisitor in the Kenobi show looks just as white when he was on Tatooine and there are two suns?"
ummm...
Now i know how Reva felt when little Leia asked her if she could visit her father first...lol
I said the same thing while watching it. If you're going to go stupid, you might as well go full stupid.
I saw a review of this episode and the girl reviewing it had the best take on this show so far. She said they got Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen to come back, and this is what they came up with? That's pretty much how I've felt from Episode 3 on. The first two episodes hit the right notes, then it went off the rails. It's the Boba Fett show all over again. I've seen fan films that got SW better than these guys. Say what you will about Lucas, but I think when he was there as the glue to say "No they wouldn't do that." or "That's not SW". it made the shows make sense. Favreau and Filoni get it, I'm not sure about a lot of the others.
CopperRevan
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Well...next week is episode 5 of the OWK series and you all know what that means...
Yep...Mando and Grogu make their surprise return by flying his Naboo DeLorean back to Tatooine to revive this series as well...lol
Yep...Mando and Grogu make their surprise return by flying his Naboo DeLorean back to Tatooine to revive this series as well...lol
Wolfsburg
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Ol' Pablo has been on Twitter trying to justify the ignorance of canon he and the Kenobi writer seem to be exhibiting. He's trying to say Tatooine was ignorant of Vader because Luke had never heard of him and Luke even wanted to join the Imperial Academy.
Not sure how he could know with certainty that Luke had never heard of Vader but regardless, a farmboy living in the middle of nowhere specifically being sheltered from the Empire is hardly any kind of example to use. And frankly, I think there's a good possibility the "academy" in question is in fact not any Imperial Academy at all, although this seems to be an assumption many make.
Luke point blank says tells Obi-wan that "...it's not that I like the Empire; I hate it..." so it makes little sense that Luke would be begging to leave to join it. I also couldn't imagine Owen and Beru would ever have even entertained the idea of someone as valuable as Luke leaving to venture into the belly of the beast. I suppose one could argue they were just leading him on (errr... just one more season!) and didn't want to directly tell him no for some reason but even their private conversation between the two of them seemed to imply Owen's issues with being shorthanded were genuine and not merely an excuse to keep Luke at home. Beru even seems to be encouraging the notion of letting Luke go, but surely not to the Empire! So I think it's a stretch that the original intent was for the academy to be any kind of Imperial entity.
Not sure how he could know with certainty that Luke had never heard of Vader but regardless, a farmboy living in the middle of nowhere specifically being sheltered from the Empire is hardly any kind of example to use. And frankly, I think there's a good possibility the "academy" in question is in fact not any Imperial Academy at all, although this seems to be an assumption many make.
Luke point blank says tells Obi-wan that "...it's not that I like the Empire; I hate it..." so it makes little sense that Luke would be begging to leave to join it. I also couldn't imagine Owen and Beru would ever have even entertained the idea of someone as valuable as Luke leaving to venture into the belly of the beast. I suppose one could argue they were just leading him on (errr... just one more season!) and didn't want to directly tell him no for some reason but even their private conversation between the two of them seemed to imply Owen's issues with being shorthanded were genuine and not merely an excuse to keep Luke at home. Beru even seems to be encouraging the notion of letting Luke go, but surely not to the Empire! So I think it's a stretch that the original intent was for the academy to be any kind of Imperial entity.
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Joek3rr
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When Ben name drops Darth Vader as the former Jedi that killed Luke's father. Luke doesn't show any recognition. It's very likely that's the first time he had heard that name.
And per the deleted scene. Yes Luke is wanting to join the Imperial Academy, same as Biggs, as a means of getting off world. But as Biggs reminds him. Their plan was to then desert to the Alliance.
That's how I understood that too Joek3rr. Biggs and Luke were merely using the Academy application as a means to get off world and then jump ship to join the Rebellion. If I recall correctly the ship Biggs was assigned to (from the ANH novel) was the Rand Ecliptic. I think that's what it was called. If I got that right, I'd be shocked I still remember it, lol
Prop Collector
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I’ve got something that I need to say: “You gotta earn this, Leia and Ben…you..gotta..EARN this…”
RIP “Wade”….
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Prop Collector
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An adventure story set on Tatooine makes so much more sense for this series. If Ben should be interacting with one of the kids, it's Luke, who actually knows/recognizes him in ANH. I could see the same kind of dynamic between Ben/Luke/Owen as Locke/Walt/Michael on LOST.
It's also the right time for Qui-Gon to make an appearance, perhaps trying to convince Ben to train Luke and explaining the afterlife (which I suppose might still happen).
Darth Vader should not be shoehorned into the series, especially since it's strongly implied that they haven't seen one another since ROTS.
Instead, we got the drivel the Disney product team came up with. I assume since a sensible story involves mostly white males. Or maybe because they are absolutely ****ing clueless.
It's also the right time for Qui-Gon to make an appearance, perhaps trying to convince Ben to train Luke and explaining the afterlife (which I suppose might still happen).
Darth Vader should not be shoehorned into the series, especially since it's strongly implied that they haven't seen one another since ROTS.
Instead, we got the drivel the Disney product team came up with. I assume since a sensible story involves mostly white males. Or maybe because they are absolutely ****ing clueless.
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CopperRevan
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A few years ago I found this video for a movie that was actually about Star Wars.
It was a song originally about 2 real life individuals who were at an impasse and has to make a decision to move on. In many ways, it captures a lot of the emotion in the Star Wars community itself dealing with each other, old vs new, letting go...well, maybe I'm reaching but give it a listen.
It was a song originally about 2 real life individuals who were at an impasse and has to make a decision to move on. In many ways, it captures a lot of the emotion in the Star Wars community itself dealing with each other, old vs new, letting go...well, maybe I'm reaching but give it a listen.
