Love the idea for an Obi Wan limited series.
Love that Hayden Christensen is returning.
Hate the idea of another face to face.
Maybe it will be some type of Sith Ritual battle.
In Clone Wars Yoda fights Palpatine and Yoda belives that everything is really happening until it's not.
Obi-Wan doesn't know Anakin is using a suit or even alive for that matter which is how they can get away with it being regular Hayden and not tin man.
So maybe it will be something like this with pre-suit Vader and Obi-Wan. Nothing is retconned and yet they still have a rematch of sorts.
When I see ANH scenes it just jives with me how much has been retconned/how many lines you have to stretch to make sense with the expanded content post OT. In a bad way.
The first sentence in this thread says it takes place a decade after the events of ROTSHopefully it takes place shortly after RotS, like a year or two. The original movie definitely gives the impression that a long period of time has passed since their last meeting.
Agreed.
damn commander cody is one of my all time favorites in clone wars.Kessel Run (source who stated bad batch is being made, and said a lando show is coming out has additonal details
- The main villain in Obi-Wan Kenobi, aside from Vader, is a clone squad led by Commander Cody for the express purpose of finding Kenobi. KRT speculates that this is the same squad of black-armored clone troopers we saw in the Bad Batch trailer. Edit: They also confirmed that Temuera has been cast in Kenobi.
- There are still two animated projects that have yet to be announced. Their speculation is a Rebels sequel and a High Republic animated show. KRT also claims there are 3-5 unannounced live-action shows, Boba Fett being one of them.
There's a great bit in the book Lost Stars when the imperial character Ciena is lined up with the other troops to welcome the Emperor to the second Death Star and she describes her horror at seeing his appearance and general demeanour as that of a eldritch abomination, being at odds with the more managed persona she is used to in holos.
Kessel Run (source who stated bad batch is being made, and said a lando show is coming out has additonal details
- The main villain in Obi-Wan Kenobi, aside from Vader, is a clone squad led by Commander Cody for the express purpose of finding Kenobi. KRT speculates that this is the same squad of black-armored clone troopers we saw in the Bad Batch trailer. Edit: They also confirmed that Temuera has been cast in Kenobi.
- There are still two animated projects that have yet to be announced. Their speculation is a Rebels sequel and a High Republic animated show. KRT also claims there are 3-5 unannounced live-action shows, Boba Fett being one of them.
The fact that we know how any potential fight ends already ruins that hyperbolic tag line anyway.If it's Obi fighting dream-Anakin in Dagobah's cave then it wouldn't be "the rematch of the century".
^^^ There was such a sadness in ANHope when you see him talking about Anakin, all those years since that day but now no wait wait wait wait wait they actually had this epic battle even after Mustafar. OK. Hate it,It will probably be really good tbh simply by just how good Ewan is in the role but I can still not like their decision story wise. I cannot wait until this series goes into the future
Vader being Luke's father was already a retcon of ANH people, you can't look at anything in that movie as gospel. I'm happy for them to stretch it as much as they have to in order to tell a fuller and more interesting story.
Hopefully it takes place shortly after RotS, like a year or two. The original movie definitely gives the impression that a long period of time has passed since their last meeting.
Excited. For years I and others have maintained that this line left the door open for another encounter.
Luke:
Come with me.
Darth Vader:
Obi-Wan once thought as you do. You don't know the *power* of the Dark Side, I *must* obey my master.
Glad to see this come true.
The original movie also gives the impression that the prequels totally wouldn't suck and Anakin wasn't a whiney-ass teenager.
They are bringing back that whiney-ass teenager. What, is he going to be in the Vader suit the whole time? Or is he going to walk around in Spawn makeup?
This doesn't make sense. I can only see him being used in flashbacks, but he's way too old for that now.
But he revealed he was disfigured in Episode 3 to the whole senate to gain sympathy. Gah, Star Wars.There's a great bit in the book Lost Stars when the imperial character Ciena is lined up with the other troops to welcome the Emperor to the second Death Star and she describes her horror at seeing his appearance and general demeanour as that of a eldritch abomination, being at odds with the more managed persona she is used to in holos.
He was talking about ROTSExcited. For years I and others have maintained that this line left the door open for another encounter.
Luke:
Come with me.
Darth Vader:
Obi-Wan once thought as you do. You don't know the *power* of the Dark Side, I *must* obey my master.
Glad to see this come true.
I'm totally okay with another encounter, that could be an awesome emotional moment for Obi-Wan, but another fight just seems... bleh. Like it has to end in a stalemate so I don't know the point of an actual all out lightsaber duel. Hopefully the creative team has a similar thought in mind.Excited. For years I and others have maintained that this line left the door open for another encounter.
Luke:
Come with me.
Darth Vader:
Obi-Wan once thought as you do. You don't know the *power* of the Dark Side, I *must* obey my master.
Glad to see this come true.
you don't know that for sure, prepare to be certain point of view'd.
finding out today there's a lot more canon nerds than I thought
surprised people would choose steadfast dedication to their own assumptions about one vague line in ANH, over getting another lightsaber duel between Obi-wan and Vader
This fight is going to be what Vader was talking about in RotJ when he told Luke "Obi-wan once thought as you do" about there still being good in him
Obi-wan brought a can of whoopass to mustafar, not an olive branch, so this is totally going to be Obi's ill-fated attempt to redeem him
finding out today there's a lot more canon nerds than I thought
surprised people would choose steadfast dedication to their own assumptions about one vague line in ANH, over getting another lightsaber duel between Obi-wan and Vader
This fight is going to be what Vader was talking about in RotJ when he told Luke "Obi-wan once thought as you do" about there still being good in him
Obi-wan brought a can of whoopass to mustafar, not an olive branch, so this is totally going to be Obi's ill-fated attempt to redeem him
Sigh. I had a rant ready before deciding to just accept the dumb ass retcons and just deal with it. Bunch of fucking incompetent sorry excuses of "writers". ANH made it perfectly clear both didn't see each other since that fateful day.
Which is how it should be. Why do they want to continue to turn this shit into, shit?
Flashbacks of them doing Clone War stuff would have been awesome and enough. Them fighting again for, reasons, just to have them fight? Complete and utter shit.
I can't help but to feel the ANH fight is gonna be cheapened by having a "by the way, they totally had another epic fight" moment.
I can't help but to feel the ANH fight is gonna be cheapened by having a "by the way, they totally had another epic fight" moment.
You're not wrong.It was already cheapened by the prequels turning Anakin from a tragic fallen hero in a whiny douchenozzle who was already committing genocide and acting like a creepy incel even before he turned evil.
So? There are plenty of real life examples of regimes rewritting historical events to suit their purposes.But he revealed he was disfigured in Episode 3 to the whole senate to gain sympathy. Gah, Star Wars.
So? There are plenty of real life examples of regimes rewritting historical events to suit their purposes.
it is not beyond belief that Palpatine milked the sympathy of his disfigurement for as long as required, and later transitioned to the stage-managed benevolent gracefully old statesman character
Recordings of the speech could be altered and anyone sharing contraband originals would presumably be visited by the ISB goon squad