OBI-WAN KENOBI Is Reportedly Getting A Second Season And Some Early Spoilers Have Been Revealed

@dracula - sounds like that's a story they could tell....

@dracula - yeah. I still think it should've taken a cue from old Clint Eastwood westerns and have just been obi wan saving people on a small scale. Not this planet hoping rescue we're now learning he's going to be doing regularly.

@dracula - after 10 years in hiding, a random unimportant Jedi was able to track him down on Tattoine with ease and absolutely no explanation of how. Then not even a day later Bail Organa breaks into his home....

It's becoming painfully clear Disney just rushes these products out. I'm not even gonna call them films and series... they are products.

It became painfully clear to me when watching this video of Mark Hamill that Disney doesn't respect the material like George did.



In that video, Mark over and over shows how he gets this franchise on a level Disney never will. George set the standard, he fleshed out this world he was building and had an answer and motivation for everything. If an actor had a question or concern, George had already thought of it and had the answer. George may have had some questionable creative choices, but they were always well thought out and backed by reason and made sense in the context of his world building. And he wasn't so stubborn that he wasn't willing to deviate if his crew and writing team came up with something better George liked.

It's clear that Mark is used to an extremely detailed vision and approach to character work, a standard set by George. George helped his entire cast and crew understand his vision and WHO these characters are.

Hamill struggled on the new movies so much because not a single person mating the sequel trilogies new the plan. Because there was never a plan. Rey couldn't develop as a character because there was never an architect behind the new movies crafting characters, they farted out cliche place holders expecting the next team to flesh them out, then Rian took a shit over everything, and with one movie left they had no time to develop so they just vomited nostalgia and fan service onto the screen and pushed it out.

That's all Disney Star Wars has been. And the best of the best of Disney Star Wars is anything Dave and Jon have been a part of because they, more so, understand character work and world building.

And it's painfully obvious they aren't a part of Obi-Wan Kenobi. Because this show is as Hollow and pointless as the sequel trilogy. No grand ideas, no brilliant world building or character work.... just recycled Logan tropes and the illusion of depth.

This show feels heartless, despite Ewans best efforts. 3 episodes left and I kinda don't care about them. I kinda don't care if Obi-Wan and Vader fight again. The only reason imma keep watching is to see if they use Hayden in any meaningful way that actually pulls on some heart strings or if they are just gonna play it safe and cheat us on the meat of this story.

@SonOfAGif - Maul?

man we would really be messing with continuity there

@Origame - Well, I think that once Obi Wan cut himself of from the Force and went on self-exile on Tattoine he wouldn't have known that Anakin was still alive. He probably had heard of Darth Vader but wouldn't have put two and two together until he "turned his Force juices back on" as he did to save Leia and from what Reva said.

As far as from a narrative point of view, Obi Wan thinking all these years that he killed Anakin (or at least left him to die) further exasperated his guilt, by him feeling that not only had he failed Anakin as a mentor and a friend, but also was responsible for the death of his student, friend, and father of his children. That's a hell of a lot of guilt to carry around with you for 10 years and helps to explain why Obi Wan is as broken down as he is when we catch up with him in this series. Plus, there is the emotional gut-punch that he experiences at the end of Ep. 2 when he finds out that Anakin is still alive. Plus plus, that also kind of contributes to how poorly he stood up to Vader in their first confrontation: Vader has been waiting (and presumably practicing) for his eventual confrontation with Obi Wan, whereas Obi Wan (who was already well out of practice) had just learned that Anakin was still alive.

That's a lot of words to say that although it may seem to be a bit of a contrived plot device, in this context it makes sense to me.