Star Wars Obi-Wan Kenobi (tv series)

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Season two, Obi Wan Kenobi, the further adventures of a former Jedi searching for inner peace while protecting those whom will bring hope to the future. Scheduled for 10 episodes.


Spoilers in the episode listing as follows.



S2e1 / S2e2: Obi Wan converses with the ghost of his former master learning that defeat creates wisdom while he also contemplates leaving tattoine and Skywalker for a new future of his own. Meanwhile on the other side of the galaxy we find the construction of the first Death Star commencing under Director Krenic. With the Emperor overwhelmed with political turmoil, Darth Vader secretly hires shadow groups of bounty hunters to capture Obi Wan.

S2e3: Young Luke Skywalker and Owen Lars are out repairing moisture vaperators when they are ambushed by spice runners to be used as bait to expose the Tusken Raider clans that have been raiding their camps. Mewnwhile after being attacked by bounty hunters Obi Wan seeks his old Jawa friend to help navigate the subterranean caves of The Dune Sea. Darth Vader learns of Obi Wans location.

S2e4: while Obi Wan is trapped in the subterranean caves of the Dune Sea being hunted by bounty hunters, young Luke and Uncle Owen fail to escape their spice runner captors while capturing the curiosity of a young pirate pilot named Bo Shek whom will help them, for a price. The Emperor suspects Darth Vader may be again distracted by his old life of Anakin Skywalker and contemplates acquiring a new apprentice. Reveal Palpatines clone program under the shadow of the construction of the Death Star.

S2e5: Reva wanders through the western desert having not completely chosen the path of light or dark. Her past haunts her as flashbacks of her past expose a cruel and heartless series of acts against innocent unarmed victims. She meets a small group of seven ugnaughts sent on salvage by a local princess. Intrigued by their mission Reva returns with the seven ugnaughts on their ship to the princess' compound, a mining colony in the sky. Cloud City.

S2e6: Reva meets with an ambassador to Cloud City where she falsy identifies herself as an Imperial Ambassador. Meanwhile the seven ugnaughts prepare food and drink for the princess while whistling and singing song, a small rodent like chef is cooking the main meal. We meet a charming young rogue like character whom suspects there is more to the imperial ambassador (Reva) trapping her in a carbon freeze chamber and challenges her authority insinuating she is a rebel spy. Reva confides her past identity in her captor, he in turn confides he is a rebel spy, and introduces himself as Willrow Hood. Willrow informs Reva the empire is their main customer of Tibana gas being used to build a new rumored world ending space station. And imperial dignitaries are set to arrive.

S2e7: Reva and Willrow construct a plan to contaminate the Tibana gas. Reva theorizes when the contaminated gas is pumped into the lines of the death star construction platform it will expand and destroy the project. They need the help of the seven ugnaughts to pull it all off. But they are busy singing and dancing for the fair princess on the arrival of the imperial dignitaries. Reva continues her assumed identity of an imperial ambassador as the imperial dignitaries report to Darth Vader they suspect a rebel spy may be among them. Overhearing the conversation Reva learns the dignitaries are carrying the plans to the death star. Reva informs Willrow that if her plan to use the Tibana gas is not successful the plans must be copied and delivered to the rebellion. Willrow reveals he has a ship with a dual hyperdrive stored on the far side of the smelting yard.

S2e8: Reva is confronted by the imperial dignitaries about her credentials. We see Reva motion to Willrow as if she is going to attack the dignitaries when a door opens to reveal Directior Krenic with his squad of Death Troopers behind him. Krenic immediately recognizes Reva as a former Inquisitor. He reveals to her his dislike for Darth Vader and how his inability to let the past die negates the future power of the empire. Krenic informs Reva that Darth Vader will be personally overseeing the construction of the emperors quarters on the death star. If she wants to destroy him, now is the time. Reva asks why she should trust him, Krenic is displeased with the design of the death star. If it and Vader are destroyed his pure vision would be realised. Camera pans upwards to a vent, where we then reveal behind it Willrow watching with blaster in hand. He has heard everything.

S2e9: Reva and Krenic organize her passage aboard the imperial dignitaries shuttle. The dignitaries are at a formal banquet with the princess of cloud city when the seven ugnaughts serve a grand meal. As the ungnaugts perform a song and dance, one by one the dignitaries all pass out, followed by the princess and all others attending the banquet. The seven ugnaughts poisoned their food rendering everyone unconscious. At this time Reva is powering up the dignitaries shuttle to return with the Tibana gas convoy. Her and Krenic share a nod from ship to ship as Krenics ship blasts off into hyperspace one way, with the convoy and Reva going the other. Camera pulls in on cloud city where we see a flamboyant ship landing. Reveal a shiny cape and boots walking from the landing deck into a gambing casino and we hear "Sabac anyone?"... When an alarm sounds and over the loudspeaker we hear the princess of cloud city is no longer in power. The city is on lock down until further notice... The camera pans to extreme close up, and we reveal a smile, Landos smile and he says" luck is on my side".


S2e10: Reva and the contaminated Tibana gas convoy arrives at the location of the death stars construction. It's nearly completed minus the exterior panels and dish. Reva is on her own with the hope Willrow will continue the cause if her mission fails. Under the choas of the construction Reva passes the halls unnoticed. She enters a control room and requests the overseeing officer expidite the delivery of the Tibana gas as construction is to double its efforts to early completion under direct order of Directior Krenic. The officer informs Reva that Darth Vader himself has focused all work on the completion of the emperors quarters and any change to that will only be approved by himself personally. Reva, not accepting defeat, leaves the room entering the landing bay intending to ignite the Tibana gas., where we find Darth Vader blocking her path, alone. Impressed with her resilience, survival, intelligence, cunning planing, perfection, he offers to stand down and serve her as apprentice. All hail mighty Reva. Vader hands over his lightsaber to Reva, where she immediately strikes him down. Reva raises the lightsaber and let's out a defiant scream "I win".
Fade to black, then reveal bright light, two sun's, were back on tattoine. Obi Wan has survived the bounty hunters, befriended a pilot named Bo Shek, whom personally delivered young Luke Skywalker and Owen Lars back to their farm. Obi Wan and So Shek are having drinks in the cantina.

Roll credits.

Post credits scene: Willrow Hood and the seven ugnaughts are disposing of the imperial dignitaries in a smelting factory on cloud city. Willrow grabs a small case from the pile of dignitary things, opens it, and reveals the death star plans. He grabs a Canto case sitting nearby and places the plans inside. One ungaught looks to Willrow and says, should we stay or should we go, before he can answer we hear a voice over the loudspeaker exclaim "attention residents and workers of cloud city, this is Lando Callrissian, take the rest of the shift off, drinks are on me".
Reveal title "Landos House" coming soon.
 
NakedMoleRat said:
Just recently found him. Been getting caught up on past shows.
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Oh man! I bumped into him a long time ago. He was like the first to do videos on restoring toys. He doesn’t do that anymore.. which is a shame

Most of the guys on YouTube now have big expensive equipment, Michael did everything in his kitchen. Made it so EVERY could do this with minimal tools..

Wish he did more of that still

Anyway, I caught up on the video last night. I stand with him on this

What amazes me, is a lot of the YouTubers I usually agree with, totally loved this series.. which left me scratching my head..

Michael is really the only one who i can say is on the same exact page as me..

If they have a season 2 so help me god..

Either way.. I’m done watching any of this stuff anymore.
 
I know he plans on doing more restoration videos. It's just a matter of pushing through a backlog of other material first.

As far as the Kenobi show, I don't get the appeal either. I love the character and the legacy characters but their best stories have been told and ended years ago. Trying to squeeze more out of them feels unnecessary and damages their significance when trotted out by mediocre writing. There's nothing wrong with putting a definitive end to a story and the fact that so many properties are unwilling to do this because of money tells me everything I need to know about the motivations of the studios that I simply won't give them what they want.

If fans want to settle for scraps, that's their decision, but I'm not willing to.
 
That's the thing that gets me about this show. The premise, Obi-Wan dealing with the emotional trauma of Anakin's fall, and leaving him to die. That's deep. Obi-Wan having to come back to the Jedi we're more familiar with. Learning from Qui-Gon. Even trying to reach out to Vader. That's a very good premise.

But instead of a physical conflict. Why couldn't Obi-Wan try to reach Vader through the Force. Make the whole show far more cerebral and spiritual. Don't try to give the rematch of the century. It just muddies ANH and ROTS.
 
Joek3rr said:
That's the thing that gets me about this show. The premise, Obi-Wan dealing with the emotional trauma of Anakin's fall, and leaving him to die. That's deep. Obi-Wan having to come back to the Jedi we're more familiar with. Learning from Qui-Gon. Even trying to reach out to Vader. That's a very good premise.

But instead of a physical conflict. Why couldn't Obi-Wan try to reach Vader through the Force. Make the whole show far more cerebral and spiritual. Don't try to give the rematch of the century. It just muddies ANH and ROTS.
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But you're not realizing "the message" is absent from that and from what we as fans want from these shows. We want star wars not the message. That's not just in the show, it's built into the production.
 
Joek3rr said:
That's the thing that gets me about this show. The premise, Obi-Wan dealing with the emotional trauma of Anakin's fall, and leaving him to die. That's deep. Obi-Wan having to come back to the Jedi we're more familiar with. Learning from Qui-Gon. Even trying to reach out to Vader. That's a very good premise.

But instead of a physical conflict. Why couldn't Obi-Wan try to reach Vader through the Force. Make the whole show far more cerebral and spiritual. Don't try to give the rematch of the century. It just muddies ANH and ROTS.
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That sounds like an interesting book but the nuances of a story like that would be really difficult to pull off in a visual media format.
Star Wars isn't about subtlety, it's about "WOW! Look at THAT!" and "Look what he/she can DO!"... not to dismiss the all powerful nostalgia of "I remember THOSE!".
 
Bigdaddy said:
That sounds like an interesting book but the nuances of a story like that would be really difficult to pull off in a visual media format.
Star Wars isn't about subtlety, it's about "WOW! Look at THAT!" and "Look what he/she can DO!"... not to dismiss the all powerful nostalgia of "I remember THOSE!".
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I like to think if The House of Mouse gave more credit to what audiences want they could easily..
A different franchise and slightly different age group but look how and where they went with Harry Potter.
I bet some parents recoiled in horror when they first read little Johnny some of those stories at bedtime or taking little Lucy to the cinema too.. It had plenty of deaths switching of minds a dash of torture and probably raised a few questions in those bright young minds.
But..the kids lapped it up as did parents alike.

Plus they used a Nick Cave song in the movie.

Its about time we had a really gritty warts and all deeper
entrenched bloody SW..
 
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Lucas created Star Wars as an open rejection of the cynicism and moral ambiguity of his directorial contemporaries. While his aesthetic was grounded in realism with a "used universe" the themes were universal and optimistic. His work stood out because nearly everything around it felt hopeless by comparison. It perfectly balanced the lighthearted adventure with drama that still felt grounded enough for an audience to be emotionally invested, and deftly kept the material from becoming too silly but also not oppressively dark.

Modern audiences tend to think of aspirational heroes like Luke Skywalker as being bland or uninteresting but that's because these modern writers don't know how to write them and our culture appears to have no sense of dignity whatsoever. Heroes by definition are selfless. Without sacrifice, you cannot be a hero. Someone or something, whether literally or metaphorically has to die. As human beings we intrinsically know this and anyone saying otherwise is lying to themselves. Heroism comes at a cost, and that cost is your life, your well being, your wants, your desires, your dreams and sometimes as simple as your own basic needs of food, clothing, and shelter. A real hero is willing to give up these to do the right thing. In fact the more they have to give up, the greater their calling as a hero, and by extension the greater the satisfaction as an audience because we know what they are losing to save others. It's a reflection of the things we often can't do ourselves and we race after it because deep down we know we will never reach it, but we strive after it because it gives up hope that there might be better outside of ourselves.

Our culture and everything in it, is about self and the worship of self, where true heroism is a rejection of self. It doesn't mean that a hero needs to be flawless. Far from it! The difference being that modern "heroes" often start out with every positive trait an audience could want, whether it's strength or intelligence, or wit, and today's writers think that audiences will aspire to those traits. Some audiences crave wish fulfillment and want to live out their power fantasies, but that can only carry a story so far. Had Return of the Jedi been the first Star Wars film, there would be nowhere left for Luke to go as a character. That's why any story with him since has been severely lacking. That film works, only because of the first two films that preceeded it, and the journey Luke traveled to get to that point.

A hero has a flaw, or even multiple flaws, but the story exposes those flaws to the protagonist, and it's their choices, good or bad, that will reveal their true nature as a person. Despite being impatient and angry, Luke, time and again rebels against the temptation to join the dark side and is willing to die rather than give in to evil. In fact as each film goes he nearly does die and the stakes only build as the story progresses, but somehow he overcomes death, often by the help of those around him who are so moved by his selflessness that they choose to act accordingly.

I say all of this to illustrate that those defining characteristics or themes that Lucas baked into the DNA of this series are what made it the mega success it is today and why its endured, and will continue to endure as a film classic. Changing that formula is why any new addition will never feel right, unless handled by skilled writers. I don't need to know how clever the writers are. I don't want to read their power fantasies. I don't want their personal politics or commentary on them. I don't want snarky, know it all protagonists with rotten or boring personalities. I don't want retreads of the same things we've seen, only terribly written versions of them, or scripts that feel like they're written by bots where the raw ingredients of a story are there but combined in the wrong quantities and order to deliver a bland or unappetizing mess.

I want to be inspired by a modern hero. I want to see their struggles and for them to triumph over them not because they outsmarted everyone, not because they were physically stronger, not because they had a superpower, not because they had influence or fame. I want to see a lowly, humble character deal with mounting problems, relatable problems, and choose to set their own needs aside for the good of others, even if it means they might die in the process. This world needs heroes like that. I need heroes like that, because I know I can never be like that, but at least it gives me something to aim for.
 
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Psab keel said:
Lucas created Star Wars as an open rejection of the cynicism and moral ambiguity of his directorial contemporaries. While his aesthetic was grounded in realism with a "used universe" the themes were universal and optimistic. His work stood out because nearly everything around it felt hopeless by comparison. It perfectly balanced the lighthearted adventure with drama that still felt grounded enough for an audience to be emotionally invested, and deftly kept the material from becoming too silly but also not oppressively dark.

Modern audiences tend to think of aspirational heroes like Luke Skywalker as being bland or uninteresting but that's because these modern writers don't know how to write them and our culture appears to have no sense of dignity whatsoever. Heroes by definition are selfless. Without sacrifice, you cannot be a hero. Someone or something, whether literally or metaphorically has to die. As human beings we intrinsically know this and anyone saying otherwise is lying to themselves. Heroism comes at a cost, and that cost is your life, your well being, your wants, your desires, your dreams and sometimes as simple as your own basic needs of food, clothing, and shelter. A real hero is willing to give up these to do the right thing. In fact the more they have to give up, the greater their calling as a hero, and by extension the greater the satisfaction as an audience because we know what they are losing to save others. It's a reflection of the things we often can't do ourselves and we race after it because deep down we know we will never reach it, but we strive after it because it gives up hope that there might be better outside of ourselves.

Our culture and everything in it, is about self and the worship of self, where true heroism is a rejection of self. It doesn't mean that a hero needs to be flawless. Far from it! The difference being that modern "heroes" often start out with every positive trait an audience could want, whether it's strength or intelligence, or wit, and today's writers think that audiences will aspire to those traits. Some audiences crave wish fulfillment and want to live out their power fantasies, but that can only carry a story so far. Had Return of the Jedi been the first Star Wars film, there would be nowhere left for Luke to go as a character. That's why any story with him since has been severely lacking. That film works, only because of the first two films that preceeded it, and the journey Luke traveled to get to that point.

A hero has a flaw, or even multiple flaws, but the story exposes those flaws to the protagonist, and it's their choices, good or bad, that will reveal their true nature as a person. Despite being impatient and angry, Luke, time and again rebels against the temptation to join the dark side and is willing to die rather than give in to evil. In fact as each film goes he nearly does die and the stakes only build as the story progresses, but somehow he overcomes death, often by the help of those around him who are so moved by his selflessness that they choose to act accordingly.

I say all of this to illustrate that those defining characteristics or themes that Lucas baked into the DNA of this series are what made it the mega success it is today and why its endured, and will continue to endure as a film classic. Changing that formula is why any new addition will never feel right, unless handled by skilled writers. I don't need to know how clever the writers are. I don't want to read their power fantasies. I don't want their personal politics or commentary on them. I don't want snarky, know it all protagonists with rotten or boring personalities. I don't want retreads of the same things we've seen, only terribly written versions of them, or scripts that feel like they're written by bots where the raw ingredients of a story are there but combined in the wrong quantities and order to deliver a bland or unappetizing mess.

I want to be inspired by a modern hero. I want to see their struggles and for them to triumph over them not because they outsmarted everyone, not because they were physically stronger, not because they had a superpower, not because they had influence or fame. I want to see a lowly, humble character deal with mounting problems, relatable problems, and choose to set their own needs aside for the good of others, even if it means they might die in the process. This world needs heroes like that. I need heroes like that, because I know I can never be like that, but at least it gives me something to aim for.
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Joek3rr said:
That's the thing that gets me about this show. The premise, Obi-Wan dealing with the emotional trauma of Anakin's fall, and leaving him to die. That's deep. Obi-Wan having to come back to the Jedi we're more familiar with. Learning from Qui-Gon. Even trying to reach out to Vader. That's a very good premise.

But instead of a physical conflict. Why couldn't Obi-Wan try to reach Vader through the Force. Make the whole show far more cerebral and spiritual. Don't try to give the rematch of the century. It just muddies ANH and ROTS.
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2 big reasons.

1) that would be a very contemplative and deep analysis of who Obi Wan and the Jedi is. It requires deep understanding of Obi Wan, his history, past adventures, etc and the Jedi Order at that time. Disney doesnt have time for that.

2) Obi Wan is another obvious cash grab to get more D+ subscriptions catered to casuals for empty content. Screw the fans, just get more eyes on D+. And the easy way to get more eyes is more lightsabers and pew pew blasters.

I do think your idea of Obi Wan facing his losses and rethinking his life and holding on to hope while being marooned on a desert planet watching a child and keeping faith (in a sense invoking Qui Gon and his faith in Anakin) would be interesting and could be done tastefully in a short 3 episode series. I think alot will call the show boring for being all talk and debate and no action and lightsabers which wont get eyes unfortunately.
 
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