Obi Wan Kenobi - Disney+ (may contain spoilers)

Only the scruffy looking herders

It’s live

T'was glorius. Spoiler without context:

Well those two episodes were great fun and maybe the best thing done since the original trilogy for me.

It’s a bit more than that. Obi is broken entirely unconfident in his abilities, hasn’t really trained or even used the force in almost a decade. On the run, in hiding, with a naive quick witted little person with the ability to roast people who won’t shut up and who obi wouldn’t hurt a hair on her head. A 10 year old is no Toddler (ages 1-3 typ). Frankly I think it’s adorable and makes it a bit sweeter that she basically falls for han and loses her ability to savage him other than to call him a scruffy looking…. Nerf herder! “Who are you calling scruffy?” Interesting character arc choice

The grand inquisitor makes plenty of his own presence in Star Wars: Rebels. The rebellious sister is newer. The Inquisitors were probably most menacing in their prime, after order 66, and have gotten slower about their jobs since, the deeper that Jedi go into hiding. And her rebel streak seems specific to Kenobi only, I imagine they’re more effective than this on a Tuesday.

I think she's great really; how she knows either of them is an open question, but presumably related to the prologue/flashback scene we got. All I could say is there was one very weird jump/roll she did but that's not the actress, that's the crew & director.

I got the 'Matrix' vibe when watching, glad to see I wasn't the only one.

https://youtu.be/cSf98VAu8fk?t=58

Compared to https://youtu.be/fbmCFTXdF-o?t=28

I didn't want to do any gushing/spoiling much in my posts but aye, Debrah Chow made planet 2 feel like an Anime, even from the establishing shots, the landing pads they scene fade in from looked to me almost like an older painting compositing - Star Wars is an old hand at using painted backgrounds, and I got really strong Akira vibes from that shot (On Disney+ go to Episode 2, at 2:13:00).

I'm still just in love with your guy at 16:46. I was so ready for anywhere the story wanted to take me at that exact moment.

Oh, and props to Ewan McGregor's portrayal of PTSD.

@Overheal I edited my post an used spoilers, maybe you could delete your quote of my post?

As there is a spoiler warning, I didn't think to put my quote in spoilers. Sorry to anyone reading getting this far in the thread.

Also didn't think it spoiled anything of the plot.

With Joby Harold also involved, no wonder people are getting 'John Wick' vibes as well.

Kid Leia can outrun 3 grown adult hunters and a Jedi twice, even though she runs at the pace of a full nappy kid...hmmm

I got a mandalorian vibe from this, just swap characters and location and it feels the exact same basically, even the same director. High hopes have been dashed. A very middling 2 episodes.

Just to add, enjoyed the mandalorian a lot but I don't want to see the same plot/story repeated here.

Clearly you've never seen The Room 😂

1st episode was quite slow, but it set things up.

The 2nd episode obviously had a bit more action and I enjoyed it.

The last scene made me a happy middle aged man!

He's in Rebels, though. 🤷‍♂️

Hmm......that was not very good at all was it. Not quite Boba Fett awful, but massive improvement required.

Some broadly enjoyable scenes, with McGregor as watchable as Obi-Wan as ever, but a generally weak showing all round with near everything else. Absolutely zero menace or threat from the main villain, with even her tone and delivery akin to the very worst of "new Star Wars", full "Disney Princess" mode engaged with Leia (who appears to be aged between 4-12 years old for some reason depending on the scene) which got old quite quickly, so I'd hope she's not in tow much beyond, and while there's obviously a feel of the prequels which is fine, there's an awful whiff of 'Solo' from it's ill-judged humour to it's formulaic narrative. The entire inclusion of Kumail Nanjiani, the weak movement CG etc

As said, most of McGregor was fine as expected. Distanced from the Force and his previous life (albeit supposedly using his exile to commune with Qui-Gon which doesn't quite align to said removal from his old life, but let's not go there just yet). Luke's toy. His reaction to hearing of Anakin's survival (albeit surely you'd expect he was aware of Darth Vader's existence at some point over the previous 10 years considering the overall threat to his charge, but let's not go there.......let that one slide for now......after all, the far bigger issue of their confrontation is the real meat in this sandwich). The wino-Clonetrooper was a nice little touch for those familiar with the Prequels. The shaky cam use with the Jedi Temple flashback etc

Some positives, but clumsy decisions and poor execution drags it back to fairly middling for now. The hope is there that things will improve, but we shall see.