Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi Post-Release

It got worse.

@xdax

“A refurbished Star Wars is on somewhere or everywhere. I have no intention of revisiting any galaxy. I shrivel inside each time it is mentioned. Twenty years ago, when the film was first shown, it had a freshness, also a sense of moral good and fun. Then I began to be uneasy at the influence it might be having. The first bad penny dropped in San Francisco when a sweet-faced boy of twelve told me proudly that he had seen Star Wars over a hundred times. His elegant mother nodded with approval. Looking into the boy’s eyes I thought I detected little star-shells of madness beginning to form and I guessed that one day they would explode.
‘I would love you to do something for me,’ I said.
‘Anything! Anything!’ the boy said rapturously.
‘You won’t like what I’m going to ask you to do,’ I said.
‘Anything, sir, anything!’
‘Well,’ I said, ‘do you think you could promise never to see Star Wars again?’
He burst into tears. His mother drew herself up to an immense height. ‘What a dreadful thing to say to a child!’ she barked, and dragged the poor kid away. Maybe she was right but I just hope the lad, now in his thirties, is not living in a fantasy world of secondhand, childish banalities.”

-Sir Alec Guinness, A Positively Final Appearance

Alec Guinness would feel vindicated but deeply saddened if he saw the state of the fandom today.

That part in particular about behind the scenes production… Maybe this wasn’t the point Mike was trying to make, but when I watched behind-the-scenes documentaries to the prequels as a teenager, despite them being “boring,” I couldn’t help but be fascinated because there was at least a certain sort of sincerity to them. Like what you were seeing was what you were getting; that film making was essentially still just another job and nowhere near as glamorous as Hollywood would try to convince you it was.

As for Obi-Wan – Yeah, no, probably won’t watch. On paper it’s all a good idea as an interquel between the two trilogies (including bringing back McGregor and Christrnsen), but there’s just not enough to pull me in, and the negative reception is enough to keep me disinterested.

Reva is such a mary-sue she makes Rey look like a well developed character

@Mustangride1 The Inquisitors are Disney Star Wars creations appearing in 2014 first in that crap show Rebels. They never existed in the actual EU. In actual Star Wars Canon, Vader was the tip of the spear during the Jedi purges with just regular troops backing him up.

To answer your question outside of that, I have no fucking clue, but I’m not surprised that Disney fucks up their own paper thin continuity.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by Roas.

And those trying to explain away the bad writing/plot holes have come up with this:

Obi-Wan Kenobi Theory: Leia Didn’t Remember Ben Due to One Sinister Reason

The following contains spoilers for the first three episodes …

You have been warned.

One of the most intriguing topics fans are chattering about online as they dissect Obi-Wan Kenobi’s story is why Princess Leia didn’t remember him in Star Wars: A New Hope.

Because the writers of this show are stupid?

However, rather than be an oversight or plot hole, Leia might not have remembered old Ben for one sinister reason.

Ok, lets hear the next level of demonizing a fan favorite male character.

This has to do with Ben’s Jedi powers, namely the mind trick….

This would allow Ben the ability once more, but rather than control someone in a short burst of time to do something physically, like let him pass a checkpoint, Ben may turn it into a mind-wipe.

Oh goodie!  The jedi can force mind wipe someone now!

Granted, it’d be Obi-Wan crossing a major line…

Something those that hate canon (and the lack of source material) have no issues with doing.

Ultimately, there’s also another way of working around demonizing Obi-Wan. If he doubled up and mind-wiped this hunt from the Empire’s Inquisitors that he didn’t kill, as well as Vader, it would …

Make for an even BIGGER problem.

Reports/logs in the Empire would have to be altered, all the stormtroopers who worked with the Inquisitor’s would know someone had killed them, etc… you are talking of hundreds of people needing to be mind wiped.

Then, you have VADER.

To think Obi-Wan would be able to mind wipe Vader is stupid..  There is no way someone as powerful in the force would fall for a mind trick.

And even if it did work, how close would the two have to be for a mind wipe to work?

And if it did work, then why did the jedi not use it more often?

And why did Obi-Wan not use it on the Death Star, or use in when his use of the lightsaber drew attention when he was trying to get a ship to take him and Luke off Tatooine?

No, this show is bad writing, canon breaking, garbage.

I don’t think Leia knew Obi-Wan on a personal level.

To me, it was that she learned from her parents (and the secrets of being a diplomat and part of the rebellion) that General Obi-Wan Kenobi was still alive, and if at the worst time if she ever needed help, to try and contact him.

That was my impressions from the George Lucas’ Star Wars.

Kenobi never left Tatooine until R2 came to him with the recording in a New Hope.

Yoda never left Dagobah during his exile as well.

Kenobi (like Yoda) was training under Qui-Gon’s force ghost guidance.

So what these morons on doing under KK, is pure garbage, IMO.

Digi, do not forget GAT also knew Vader was Luke.