Is OBI-WAN KENOBI The Best or Worst of Disney STAR WARS? | ScreenCrush Rewind
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Obi-Wan Kenobi is at the
Obi-Wan Kenobi is at the halfway point, so it's a good time to reflect if this is a good Star wars show, or it the franchise spending too much time looking backwards?
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Written and Hosted by Ryan Arey (Twitter: ryanarey)
Guest Starring
Matt Singer: Twitter: mattsinger
Heather Antos: Twitter: HeatherAntos
Edited by Srinidhi Rao, Sean Martin, and Randolf Nombrado
We’re halfway through Obi-Wan kenobi, with the third episode marking the reunion of Kenobi and Darth Vader. So this seems like a good place to stop, reflect, and ask ourselves, is this show any good? Is it bad? Or is it great? A little later I’m going to talk to Matt Singer and Heather Antos to get their thoughts, but first here’s my take.
I think this show is great. No no I have more to say, I promise, insightful commentary, coming your way. I want to talk about why this show is great from two perspectives–as a Star Wars fan, and as a narrative story.
It’s kind of weird being part of Star wars fandom. There are segments of us who like everything Lucasfilm makes just because it’s Star Wars, some of us are a little more discerning, and there are other Star Wars fans that are always waiting to attack some aspect of anything new.
I’m not talking about you, by the way. You’re great.
Like you know what I mean though. Star Wars fans get hyper focused on the weirdest stuff. Like how goofty Temura Morrison looks teaching the tuskens to ride a speeder, or how Leia didn’t act like she knew Ben Kenobi in A New Hope.
But all of this is petty stuff. A good writer can tie up the Leia retcon with one sentence: she didn’t put her whole life story in a coded, treasonous transmission. And continuity eros in Star Wars are nothing new, like this [do remember your mother, images, feelings.. Then Padme dies in childbirth. But in this show, maybe Ben will share memories of Padme with Leia.
My point is, it’s fine. We need to stop getting worked up over every little–ahem–plot hole–before the series is even finished.
That being said, we will totally make a plot hole video after episode 6 airs.
So, as a Star wars fan, I love this show, because it is perfectly bridging the OT and the prequels. It always felt like there was a disconnect between the original films and the prequel series. Different actors, except for Ian McDirmid, different characters, different effects, different styles. You know, everything in the prequels is CGI and shiny, and the original trilogy was practical and grimy.
But Obi Wan Kenobi is the perfect transition between these two eras. We have a prequel character who is in an original trilogy setting. A clone trooper appears in live action, there are battle droid parts on the wall. It’s also linking up with the show Rebels and the Clone wars series by including characters from animation. But what’s most impressive is how the series is changing the way I see Darth Vader.
For instance, when you watch the original trilogy, you think of Vader as this badass, who carries this mysterious, hidden past.
It’s hard to reconcile that guy with the whiny kid from the prequels. I have watched the prequels and the original trilogy back to back before, which alters this [perception somewhat, but for the most part these feel like two different characters. Until this show.
When Vader is hunting You-en McGregor, I really felt like this was Anakin as Vader for the first time, because it’s a prequel actor in the scene. It adds so much more weight to the scene and the story, thinking that this is a little boy from tatooine who is trapped inside this armor.
But the series also works great as a single story about this sad, broken warrior. George Lucas’s influence form Samurai films like the Seven Samurai and Yojimbo, makes this kind of story a perfect fit for this universe.
To understand just how good this show is, let's compare it to its predecessor, the book of boba fett. Now I’ve been fairly kind to this show. It was well made, well acted, and pretty fun. But, it is a mess narratively.
Throughout the show we never understand what Boba Fett wants and why he wants it. The flashbacks are placed at random, and they only serve to withhold information from the audience that we should have known sooner. We learn that Boba Fett doesn’t want to make crime, he wants to make friends. But we don;t really learn that until episode 4.
#ObWanKenobi #StarWars #Review
0:00 Kenobi is the Best Disney Star Wars So Far
5:15 Kenobi is the Opposite of Book of Boba Fett
8:32 Show Overcomes Prequel-itis
11:02 How the Show Connects to Marvel Comics
12:50 Plot Holes in the Show
18:15 Is Star Wars Playing it too Safe?
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Written and Hosted by Ryan Arey (Twitter: ryanarey)
Guest Starring
Matt Singer: Twitter: mattsinger
Heather Antos: Twitter: HeatherAntos
Edited by Srinidhi Rao, Sean Martin, and Randolf Nombrado
We’re halfway through Obi-Wan kenobi, with the third episode marking the reunion of Kenobi and Darth Vader. So this seems like a good place to stop, reflect, and ask ourselves, is this show any good? Is it bad? Or is it great? A little later I’m going to talk to Matt Singer and Heather Antos to get their thoughts, but first here’s my take.
I think this show is great. No no I have more to say, I promise, insightful commentary, coming your way. I want to talk about why this show is great from two perspectives–as a Star Wars fan, and as a narrative story.
It’s kind of weird being part of Star wars fandom. There are segments of us who like everything Lucasfilm makes just because it’s Star Wars, some of us are a little more discerning, and there are other Star Wars fans that are always waiting to attack some aspect of anything new.
I’m not talking about you, by the way. You’re great.
Like you know what I mean though. Star Wars fans get hyper focused on the weirdest stuff. Like how goofty Temura Morrison looks teaching the tuskens to ride a speeder, or how Leia didn’t act like she knew Ben Kenobi in A New Hope.
But all of this is petty stuff. A good writer can tie up the Leia retcon with one sentence: she didn’t put her whole life story in a coded, treasonous transmission. And continuity eros in Star Wars are nothing new, like this [do remember your mother, images, feelings.. Then Padme dies in childbirth. But in this show, maybe Ben will share memories of Padme with Leia.
My point is, it’s fine. We need to stop getting worked up over every little–ahem–plot hole–before the series is even finished.
That being said, we will totally make a plot hole video after episode 6 airs.
So, as a Star wars fan, I love this show, because it is perfectly bridging the OT and the prequels. It always felt like there was a disconnect between the original films and the prequel series. Different actors, except for Ian McDirmid, different characters, different effects, different styles. You know, everything in the prequels is CGI and shiny, and the original trilogy was practical and grimy.
But Obi Wan Kenobi is the perfect transition between these two eras. We have a prequel character who is in an original trilogy setting. A clone trooper appears in live action, there are battle droid parts on the wall. It’s also linking up with the show Rebels and the Clone wars series by including characters from animation. But what’s most impressive is how the series is changing the way I see Darth Vader.
For instance, when you watch the original trilogy, you think of Vader as this badass, who carries this mysterious, hidden past.
It’s hard to reconcile that guy with the whiny kid from the prequels. I have watched the prequels and the original trilogy back to back before, which alters this [perception somewhat, but for the most part these feel like two different characters. Until this show.
When Vader is hunting You-en McGregor, I really felt like this was Anakin as Vader for the first time, because it’s a prequel actor in the scene. It adds so much more weight to the scene and the story, thinking that this is a little boy from tatooine who is trapped inside this armor.
But the series also works great as a single story about this sad, broken warrior. George Lucas’s influence form Samurai films like the Seven Samurai and Yojimbo, makes this kind of story a perfect fit for this universe.
To understand just how good this show is, let's compare it to its predecessor, the book of boba fett. Now I’ve been fairly kind to this show. It was well made, well acted, and pretty fun. But, it is a mess narratively.
Throughout the show we never understand what Boba Fett wants and why he wants it. The flashbacks are placed at random, and they only serve to withhold information from the audience that we should have known sooner. We learn that Boba Fett doesn’t want to make crime, he wants to make friends. But we don;t really learn that until episode 4.
#ObWanKenobi #StarWars #Review
0:00 Kenobi is the Best Disney Star Wars So Far
5:15 Kenobi is the Opposite of Book of Boba Fett
8:32 Show Overcomes Prequel-itis
11:02 How the Show Connects to Marvel Comics
12:50 Plot Holes in the Show
18:15 Is Star Wars Playing it too Safe?
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