drcraig13
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Star Wars Obi-Wan Kenobi (tv series)
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Galactican
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Flashbacks could be used to show lightsabers and Jedi and Clones and battles..! 
Potroclo
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Isn't that covered in the clone wars? I haven't seen it, I can't stand the animation, but I think he's got his own storyline, even a romance or something.
How many times can that happen though? They already had Maul go after him in the Rebels series. I can't remember if he was after Obi Wan or Luke though. Anyway I think from what Lucas said (like anyone at Disney cares anymore...) was that they hid Luke there because they knew Vader would never look there. That implies that Vader was the main person sent out to investigate then kill Jedi, not bounty hunters, Inquisitors, or other Force sensitive Imperial agents.
Maul was crazy looking for Kenobi and then once him and Ezra cracked the holocron and it showed kenobis location he rushed there to kill him
While maul was in the stand off with Kenobi he read his mind and realized Kenobi was there protecting the chosen one
I loved the idea of hiding Luke on anakins home planet, Vader would never want to go back there because of all the negative impacts in his life.. slavery, his mothers death... Vader would never step foot back on that planet..
... that is until Disney bought Star Wars and had Vader visit jabba...
Terrible..
Somerset
Sr Member
To be fair the Clone Wars movie also had Anakin go back to Tatooine and that was back in 2008, well before Disney. I also found that to be very annoying though.
I could see this as a standalone movie or a short mini series. Have someone come to Tatooine and ask for help. Obi Wan says no but the person strong arms him into coming with them off planet or else they will reveal where he is located to the Empire. That would get him off planet, get into an adventure then come back to watch over Luke from a distance.
I agree though, get some new characters please and stop beating this dead horse!
I agree though, get some new characters please and stop beating this dead horse!
CT1138
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To be fair, he did seem VERY grumpy about being there.
sztriki
Sr Member
And sand...don't forget sand...
Strikerkc
Sr Member
Star Wars nerds are incredible. I spend years seeing EVERY one of them want a Kenobi story; never saw a single person pipe up and say "I Mean, I don't need it, but ok". All positive.
Now Disney says "Yup, we're looking to do one", and almost every freaking star wars fan that sees fit to chime in thinks it's the worst idea ever. This is incredible. This is why Disney "doesn't care" about the hard-core star wars fans; because they complain when they get what they asked for. They're not worth trying to please, because they don't want to be pleased; they want to be fans of the largest cinematic experience the world has ever seen, and they want to feel persecuted for it. Freaking nuts.
Now Disney says "Yup, we're looking to do one", and almost every freaking star wars fan that sees fit to chime in thinks it's the worst idea ever. This is incredible. This is why Disney "doesn't care" about the hard-core star wars fans; because they complain when they get what they asked for. They're not worth trying to please, because they don't want to be pleased; they want to be fans of the largest cinematic experience the world has ever seen, and they want to feel persecuted for it. Freaking nuts.
I would love a Prequel era Obi Wan story, but I just can't see how they would do a story between ROTS and ANH. There's an extremely limited amount of stories you could do there because he can't leave Tatooine, and more realistically, could never leave far enough that he couldn't get back to defend Luke.
See all the things I posited over in the conjectural Kenobi movie thread. Plenty he can do around the Dune Sea without a lightsaber and working to be super-subtle with any outward use of the Force. The two Kurosawa films I think of as inspiration are Yojimbo and Musashi. Just as Star Wars is a pretty close homage to Hidden Fortress, they could do an almost shot-for-shot echo of Yojimbo on Tatooine with Obi-Wan and it'd work great. No laser swords or galactic buckling of swashes required.
robn1
Master Member
When did this ever happen?
sztriki
Sr Member
I for myself never wanted the Kenobi movie and never understood why the massive hype from prequel lovers/revisionists. Probably cuz Ewan was the very few good things in the prequels even if the character was not.
Then again I never thought churning out a movie each year was a good idea to begin with.
Tan Djarka
Sr Member
I've said it before, and I'll say it again... While Ewan and Hayden Christiansen are still young enough, do a Clone Wars era adventure. With a better director, maybe we can see what AOTC could have been.
Potroclo
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That's the thing, wanted it for years, when it couldn't exist in the foreseable future. Now new films have been done and it turns out they're not so good precisely because of too much fan service. Films used to bee a form of art, now they are a form of business, and as a business you try to maximize your profit by giving people what they want, asssuming you'll sell more that way. But it turns out people don't really know what they want, because it's their hobby, their getaway, not their job, which is why you shouldn't listen to them all that much. There used to be professional artists that, from scratch, created things the people didn't even knew they wanted before they released it, but when they did oh boy, how people liked it, and that's what happened with OT. Or disliked it, but it was an assumed risk. Now everything is just rehash and regurgitation because these movies have become very expensive, and the risk of losing such big investments cannot be assumed anymore. So you listen to what fans say, make an average of it, turn out a mediocre product, cash in a couple billions and move along while the product quality slowly diminishes until you milk it dry or it becomes niche.
Must admit, i'm not up for this being a reality. Just leave the PT/OT characters alone.
I personally, would much prefer series/films set at the beginning of the Jedi order, and or, Republic (not based on previous games etc). Get some early proto-sabers, and perhaps make the Jedi more "Knightly" and i'd happily watch it.
I personally, would much prefer series/films set at the beginning of the Jedi order, and or, Republic (not based on previous games etc). Get some early proto-sabers, and perhaps make the Jedi more "Knightly" and i'd happily watch it.
I've heard this excuse time and again and while I can concede that it's true that some fans don't know what they want, a lot of us do and it's not the further adventures of known characters. For the fans that don't know what they want, I can agree with you, but for those of us that do know, I don't think dismissing them is the right attitude by Disney.
We want something truly new. I never asked for a Kenobi spin off, or Rogue One, or Solo. I never wanted those movies and they didn't add anything by making them in my opinion. They were Mad Lib Star Wars movies. Fill in the blank.
I never thought Kenobi was a bad idea as a stand alone. In fact it COULD be a fun scaled down adventure story with Ben traveling through Tatooinne on some small scale quest. I'm more opposed to them making a series out of it. Why? Because while we don't even really need a stand alone Kenobi movie, at least one adventure (if handled right) could be fun. Ewan McGregor was a bright spot in the prequels for sure and it would be cool to see him reprise the role if the script was good. To make a series though seems like overkill and kind of diminishes him going into hiding if he just goes on adventures at the drop of a hat.
The problem is that if they do it, they will try to answer questions no one has asked by trying to "fill in the blanks." Just like they did with Solo. It wasn't adding anything new to the character that we didn't already know by watching A New Hope. Often what these new stories are doing is at the expense of altering cherished characters arcs and introducing either contradictory motivations or leaving too many loose ends that never get resolved. Or they just are beat for beat feature length movies about everything that is discussed in the existing films. Information that was meant to be simple exposition and never intended to be explained because it wasn't necessary to the overall story.
You know what fans ACTUALLY want? They want a new story with new characters completely disconnected from the Rebellion Empire Conflict that have nothing to do with the Skywalker bloodline. Only then will we get something truly new for the series as a whole and honestly it's the only way that the series will ever survive the long haul if Disney plans on milking it for everything it's worth.
It's the only way for the fans to have ZERO expectations about characters or plots and they can go into it truly blind, not knowing what to expect. It's why I've said time and again that The Mandalorian has the potential to break new ground with this franchise.
Other than a few familiar droids, we know nothing. Absolutely nothing and no major players are involved that we know of and that interests me because I can be truly surprised.
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