Still, though -- the fact that a Pau'an in a video game can end up looking so close to their depiction in RotS, while live action Grand Inquisitor is over here looking so cheapo, is pretty jarring.
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Obi-Wan Kenobi |OT| Well of course I know him. He's me! [SPOILERS ON EPISODE DROP - NO LEAKS]
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Still, though -- the fact that a Pau'an in a video game can end up looking so close to their depiction in RotS, while live action Grand Inquisitor is over here looking so cheapo, is pretty jarring.
It's unfortunate but Solo set this precedent with the more humanoid looking Pykes.
Just watched both episodes back to back. I already like it more than Mando and Boba Fett! Loved the clone war vet in episode 2, and Leia's ability to assess people in a really withering away. Wasn't too fond of her running away like an idiot for so long, but it is what it is... think it's gonna be good!
The action is just laughably bad in the last few Star Wars shows. Both Leía chases, like was mentioned, but also all the fight scenes felt very fake and feel very slow.
Reva just standing there at the end with a FULL LIT lightsaber within reach of the transport and she didn't jump on, or try to stop it some other way? It's just weird. The story is good though.
Reva just standing there at the end with a FULL LIT lightsaber within reach of the transport and she didn't jump on, or try to stop it some other way? It's just weird. The story is good though.
Yeah, I guess I'm not surprised. The only time they've been right is with the hatred towards Rise of Skywalker. I'm just gonna stay out of this thread like I do for every SW thread.
This is the best Star Wars has been since the acquisition. Love seeing little Leia and I LOVED seeing Kumail. He's hilarious and then kind of amazingly loyal and brave. Reva is a fantastic villain, truly menacing, and I was shocked they had her kill the inquisitor. Please don't disappoint me, show— I'm getting a Star Wars feeling I haven't felt in a long time.
Man that was rough. Really thought Lucasfilm would bring their A game for this.
If I didn't have any nostalgia for the prequels I don't know what would keep me watching.
If I didn't have any nostalgia for the prequels I don't know what would keep me watching.
The grand inquisitor has to be mixed race. This is now the only explanation we can accept because of how bad he looks.
Yeah, the Inquisitor looked fine. The face makeup went a long way in selling his vibe.
Like, no, it's not 100% lore accurate, but whatever.
"I think the chase in TLJ was boring and didn't do much for me, cool scenes with Rey tho"
If you apply the Star Wars Era Criticism Filter™ becomes
"That was an EMBARRASSING, AMATEURISH, excuse for a chase, like my eyes were in disbelief at just how bad it was, it's just a FUNDAMENTAL MISUNDERSTANDING of how chase sequences operate, the Rey stuff was okay I guess"
And every single one of us has used the filter at some point. It is inevitable.
The best scene has to be Obi Wan giving to the beggar veteran from the 501st, knowing what they had done a decade earlier.
Temeura cameoing as a homeless vet was a surprise (but a welcome one to be sure).
The kid they've gotten for Leia is a great find.
The kid they've gotten for Leia is a great find.
Yeah, Grand Inquisitor looks like a potato head in wide shots, but in close ups the makeup looks better.
Well, this is my first Disney Star Wars show (I don't watch a lot of current TV, but Ewan's Obi-Wan and the sort of cultural re-assessment of the prequels got me intrigued -- it's been a few years as I dipped out pretty hard when Rise of Skywalker ended up being an incel dump). Despite being massively into Star Wars as a kid, I approach it from a pretty removed and curious place nowadays. So far, I think this show is a mixed bag that I'm enjoying in a kind of high-calorie, low-nutritional-content kinda way. I can see right through the mechanics of the emotional beats, but I'm still having enough fun to be affected by them.
Stuff I like so far:
Stuff I like so far:
- That prequel recap was so well edited, it made the prequels look like sci-fi Lord of the Rings
- Ewan's Obi-Wan has always been money, he still is
- Even though it's kind of silly that Star Wars has become this series where you must see every single character when they were baby children, little Leia is a treat -- the kid has chops and the characterization is on-point
- I actually like the gravity that the Leia rescue mission and the Alderaan stuff lends to A New Hope in a few different ways (despite it being a little cagey with the wording of Leia's distress message in that movie)
- Some of the returning supporting cast is fire. Bail and Owen both turn in great performances
- While his performance at first seemed aesthetically out of place in a Star War, I really came around the Kumail Nanjiani's character. It does a lot to recontextualize what the Jedi have become in the cultural mythos at this point, and I thought that him essentially being
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The signals for tracking ships, communication, like the bounty hunters getting the request to hunt Obi is possible
Yeah I think he still looks cool. It's not 1:1 to animation/ROTS but I still dig him. The other Inquisitors look cool and they gave us a dinosaur bounty hunter, I'm loving it. The action figure they made for Grand Inquisitor looks sweet too.
Unrelated to that, but thinking about the shoe again, the bit about Padme hit me way harder than I expected it to.
I think it's the latter. She's getting raised by Bail and has the blood of Padme in her, plus she was always really on top of things in the OT. I don't think it's a force thing, Leia never needed it to be good at what age does.
Obi-wan remains a good person, despite everything that's happened to him. It's a nice bit of characterization.
I just wish I had more places to talk about the show. Finally I've gotten to a point where I've just been genuinely happy about some dumb Star Wars just embracing being dumb Star Wars and then Darth Killjoylius somehow returns
Morbius fandom is more fun.
Agree completely. It's weird, but all the Disney Star Wars live action shows feel the same....if that makes sense. And not in good way.
They just feel cheap and bland. The writing, direction, acting.....none of it is good.
This is kindest place on the internet to discuss it currently.
You probably really want to avoid Twitter and broader places.
Maybe dedicated forums are nicer ? Not sure.
Well I think ultimately both since Leia's just always been a perceptive character in every story and I don't think it's always the Force (or maybe?), but I do they're trying to build on her Force powers being a bit dormant and then slowly starting to emerge, maybe accelerated now that she's on the run and in danger.
Terribly strange they didn't think of this sooner, but they're… working on it:
Disney “Working” On Adding Violence Advisory To ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ Series Due To Similarities To Texas School Shooting; ‘Star Wars’ Show Currently Has “Upsetting” Warning On Streamer Landing Page – Update
UPDATED with Disney statement: Similarities between a horrible mass shooting at a Texas elementary school this week and a Jedi school massacre in Disney+’s new Obi-Wan Kenobi series has seen a succession of warnings added to the Ewan McGregor-led show. “There are certain scenes in this fictional...
deadline.com
The problem, to me, are those who insist Star Wars (particularly the OT) is some sort of high art.
Star Wars is a young kid story about space wizards that clumsily touches heavy themes sometimes. It's at it's best when it embraces what it is. It literally has the same structure and themes of a Shonen anime.
The reason why the only pieces of SW Media I truly dislike are TFA and TROS is because they seem to be embarrassed of what came before and tried to erase parts of it.
Fuck it, go crazy. Do Luuke for all I care, just make it fun
I didn't actually take that as Obi being honest. I thought it was just him trying to convince her to keep going.
"General Kenobi, you fought along side my father during the Clone Wars, and also you saved me that time when I was 10 and we had an adventure together. "
Meh.
Meh.
Right. We know for a fact that Obi-Wan will lie through his teeth if he believes it serves the greater good.
For Obi Wan specifically, Phantom Menace > Attack of the Clones > The Clone Wars > Revenge of the Sith. Once the show is done, following it up with Rebels > Rogue One > A New Hope would be the ticket.
Bad Batch and Solo are set in the same time period, but so far there hasn't been anything super relevant in either that's shown up in Obi Wan.
If it bothers you as much as it bothers me, tell yourself that in the rush she just didn't get that people called him "obiwan" and she still thinks his name is Ben.
I like Bail Organa. And his interactions with Leia.
I liked that scene where Obi talked to Leia about Padme.
I liked that scene where Obi talked to Leia about Padme.
I wish I liked this, but the quality just isn't there. I shouldn't be able to find better Star Wars action scenes in YouTube fan films than an official Obi Wan show.
They're squinting real hard from Alderaan.
I thought of it as absolutely no kinds of communication in / out of the planet, but internal-to-internal stuff like the bounty going out to everyone was fine. Star Wars tech is usually flexible to what the story needs in the moment, though.
Okay, yeah. This makes the most sense to me, and adds an interesting little bit of characterization too.
Idk how to explain it better than… the action feels like it's at the speed of a stage show rather than an action movie
Wow, that's really cool. And it basically confirms we're getting some Bo-Katan/Satine stuff.
My guy at this point we know they randomly picked Obiwan content and it will have 0 bearing on the show itself.
