Star Wars Goodbye There (Obi-Wan Kenobi TV Series Reborn)

[Husky_Khan]

Exclusive: ‘Obi-Wan’ Disney+ Series on Hold as Crew Sent Home

The Obi-Wan series starring Ewan McGregor has been put on hold, as crew were sent home so the scripts can be reworked for the Disney+ show.

collider.com

Collider with the scoop... crew sent home.

Apparently Kathleen Kennedy wasn't happy with the scripts... so undoubtedly we will be missing out on what would likely of been some great content.

Then again, a lot of Star Wars material has been extensively rewritten for better or worse... like... literally every Star Wars movie since The Force Awakens.

Another concern allegedly was that the Obi-Wan series might've been treading over too much similar territory as The Mandalorian since both would've involved themes of supervising bratty kids with sorcerous powers on desolate planets and keeping them safe from THE EMPIRE!

 

[Argent]

I agree and any thing that Kenndey dislike is most likely at least decent.

I have to wonder of this is a reaction to the movies being put on hold and the only well received Disney Star Wars are ones she had little part of. I get she is worried that she may be gone soon and is trying to show her worth before the Mouse kicks her out.

 

[Husky_Khan]

What's old is new again.

Two years after KK announced it would be delayed, it looks like the Obi-Wan Kenobi television series will premiere on Disney Plus on May 25th and Vader will be making an appearance in it.

Obi-Wan Kenobi Will Debut May 27 on Disney+

Ewan McGregor returns as the Jedi Master in the epic limited series.

www.starwars.com

 

[Battlegrinder]

There are terms I would use to describe a story about a man living alone in the desert for the better part of two decades.

Epic probably isn't one of them.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Kenobi Teaser Trailer dropped three days ago.

 

[Bear Ribs]

There are terms I would use to describe a story about a man living alone in the desert for the better part of two decades.

Epic probably isn't one of them.

I mean, "Obi-Wan Kenobi goes to buy groceries" could be a multi-part story involving a dewback-mounted tusken raider chase, climbing a mountain to get out of the Dune Sea, hitchhiking on a sandcrawler, and a violent confrontation with brutal Hutt Cartel thugs who are trying to strongarm a poor farmer family so the cartel can corner the market on bantha cheese.

 

[Skallagrim]

I mean, "Obi-Wan Kenobi goes to buy groceries" could be a multi-part story involving a dewback-mounted tusken raider chase, climbing a mountain to get out of the Dune Sea, hitchhiking on a sandcrawler, and a violent confrontation with brutal Hutt Cartel thugs who are trying to strongarm a poor farmer family so the cartel can corner the market on bantha cheese.

This already sounds better than what we're likely to get.

In fact, this sounds exactly like the kind of thing I wanted!

 

[Husky_Khan]

I mean, "Obi-Wan Kenobi goes to buy groceries" could be a multi-part story involving a dewback-mounted tusken raider chase, climbing a mountain to get out of the Dune Sea, hitchhiking on a sandcrawler, and a violent confrontation with brutal Hutt Cartel thugs who are trying to strongarm a poor farmer family so the cartel can corner the market on bantha cheese.

They already did stuff like this on Book of Boba Fett and it was f'ing awesome.

Oh wait... no they didn't...

 

[Bear Ribs]

Thinking on that concept and going further, I could totally get behind a Star Wars themed Dukes of Hazzard. A pair of moisture farmer brothers with a really tricked out pod racer/speeder are constantly at odds with a corrupt local strongman for Jabba and have to engage in all kinds of high-speed chases, crashes, racing, and trickery to keep one step ahead and protect the moisture farm from confiscation while their improbably hot sister provides distractions as needed and engages in her own races and stunts on the side.

 

[Skallagrim]

Thinking on that concept and going further, I could totally get behind a Star Wars themed Dukes of Hazzard. A pair of moisture farmer brothers with a really tricked out pod racer/speeder are constantly at odds with a corrupt local strongman for Jabba and have to engage in all kinds of high-speed chases, crashes, racing, and trickery to keep one step ahead and protect the moisture farm from confiscation while their improbably hot sister provides distractions as needed and engages in her own races and stunts on the side.

This comes fairly close to what I think the actual backstory for Anakin (and Owen) should have been. The two of them as foster brothers, in this kind of set-up. (I mean, there's no improbably hot sister in the story, but you could just have improbably hot young Beru Whitesun in the story.)

And then Obi-Wan shows up, just as the brothers are already in disagreement. Uncle Cliegg is retiring, and Owen wants to buy the moisture farm off him and move in with Beru. But Anakin wants more adventures. So Anakin ends up going with Obi-Wan to become a Jedi, and Owen stays on Tatooine to settle down.

This also handily prevents "kid Anakin". (In fact, if you imagine Anakin as someone resembling a 20-something John Schneider, that works pretty well.)

 

[Skallagrim]

Kenobi Teaser Trailer dropped three days ago.

Meanwhile, regarding the actual trailer: in conversation, @Earl has already given voice to what are also my own fears -- that they're foolishly aiming for some kind of "uplifting", "heroic" tale. Which is the wrong tone, because these are the Dark Times.

If Obi-Wan ends up redeeming any Inquisitors in this (or even achieves any kind of victory against the Empire), that would suck so much. But I'm afraid they may be stupid enough to go for that. Earl already suggested that going by previous Disney attempts at writing charcter arcs, the female Inquisitor is might as well be wearing an "Ask Me About My Contrived Redemption Arc" shirt. Which would undermine the whole concept of the Dark Times, and Obi-Wan's fatalism about the Dark Side being something that dooms you forever. So I really hope they avoid that.

Any kind of redemption here only works... sort of... if they just blatantly repeat the Fallen Order plot, with an Inquisitor turning back to the Light due to Obi-Wan's guidance... before being ruthlessly murdered by Vader. Which then solidifies Obi-Wan's belief that Vader is an unrepentant monster that should just be put down. That technically works. It's just that they already did that same thing in the game. So now it's just redundant, from a narrative point of view.

 

[Agent23]

After tBoBF's underwhelming last episode I can't wait to see what dumpsterfire the Anthropocentric Rodent is cooking up for us next.

 

[Sailor.X]

While I like the promise of the series. I am kind of more interested in Season 2 of he Bad Batch. We already know what happens to Ben Kenobi. Just saying.

 

[Bear Ribs]

While I like the promise of the series. I am kind of more interested in Season 2 of he Bad Batch. We already know what happens to Ben Kenobi. Just saying.

Your expectations have been subverted! Luke is killed in season 2 and Obi-Wan has a clone of him made as a replacement. The actual character in the OT was Luuke all along.

 

[Bacle]

I think Kenobi is going to be forced to go off-world for something, either because Qui-Gonn's ghost tells him to, or because he wants to throw off anyone getting near Luke and wants to lead the Inquisitors away.

It could also be mostly flashbacks as he learns the stuff about the Force that Qui-Gonn told him to learn so he could be come a Force ghost. Or, like with Fett and Cade Bane's duel, this could be a way to reuse the aborted 'Crystal Heist' arc from Clone Wars where Obiwan and Anakin had some serious convo's about how Ahsoka leaving affected Anakin.

Also, hearing rumors the city we see is on Nar Shaddaa, which would be cool; I do not think any of the live action stuff has ever really touched Hutt Space before.

 

[Bacle]

So heard from a..source who saw an early screening that Vader and Kenobi do not meet in this series, which is a relief.

Didn't get anything else out of him, but that much he admitted.

 

[Husky_Khan]

It's been a long journey... but the Obi Wan Kenobi series has dropped the first two episodes on Disney Plus.

Has anyone seen it yet?

Is it any good?

I'm waiting for word of mouth to see if its worth my time after the stinker that was Book of Boba Fett... though I'm sure I'll end up watching it sooner or later because friends or relatives or whatnot will drag me into it.

 

[Rhyse]

It's been a long journey... but the Obi Wan Kenobi series has dropped the first two episodes on Disney Plus.

Has anyone seen it yet?

Is it any good?

I'm waiting for word of mouth to see if its worth my time after the stinker that was Book of Boba Fett... though I'm sure I'll end up watching it sooner or later because friends or relatives or whatnot will drag me into it.

I watched both episodes. It's okay?

The main villain is really, really not bringing her A-game as an actress. There's a scene in the second episode that was so painfully contrived I had to force myself to keep watching. But the special effects are pretty, costumes are neat. The acting isn't atrocious so far.

They're not actively pissing on the legacy characters, which is a nice change of pace. Oh, they do have the stupid spinning inquisitor lightsabres though. Those still look like shit.

 

[Agent23]

Meh, saw the first episode, I can sum it up as "white many trying to put a stronk emancipated black waminz down..." after I put on my babylonBee glasses on. I bet there shall be lots of reeing.

 

[posh-goofiness]

INB4, this will end like all the other nu Star Wars content. In shit.