Obi Wan Kenobi - Disney+ (may contain spoilers)

An OK episode but Quite predictable in places and no where near as good as episode 3 which was definitely the best episode so far.

Ah I was wondering how she got the tracker where she said she did as she was no where near it. A lot on hear nearly got there wish about third sister. Yes maybe she is not a great actor but she will get better.

Awful shite this is so far. Someone mentioned it earlier and I agree, I have no idea why this is called Obi-Wan? It seems to be about everyone else but him.

Dull episode

Yeah the episode involved several exaggerated/poorly set up shots like this. Lady takes out an officer in the background while nobody else in the room seems to notice all the kinematics happening behind them. And the officer next to her seems nonplussed by her strange behavior. A lot of TV-sneaking trope issues here.

And the (not-snow) Speeders, CGI looked kinda meh for them, and they just come barreling into the station and are last seen about to slam into a wall - it just would be nice to know what the speeders did, did they hit the brakes, bank to the sides, they aren't seen again until moments later when Kenobi and the gang board.

The lightbar sabers strike again this episode. I feel if George was directing for example, the blaster bolt deflections would be more convincing, for one - the sticks they used then, were not nearly so hefty as these lightbars are, and it shows, there's limits to how fast you can change its direction. For another, Ben would have retracted his saber to hold back the water and used both hands. I could see whipping it back out to deflect a shot or two once they cracked the door but he just looked awful unnatural there with one hand on the force power and another on the lightsaber doing feck all. And Reva's force choke at the end, it looked like she and the wires people had some miscommunication.

Sad that these issues will be ones I'll notice on repeats too but, overall, I did enjoy the episode, Leia was good, Reva was good as the archetypal SW interrogator, and Vader was Most Impressive. I love how he just came barreling into the room livid. I loved the moment she corrects Fifth Brother by repeating what Vader said to her last episode, and this just draws him closer to her, he's thinking "YES, THIS ONE GETS IT" and that's who he's putting in charge of these muppets. Fifths also kinda being a drama queen though, suggesting the Fortress Inquisitorius was about to be 'destroyed' by 2 air speeders, a spy and a jedi who are just rescuing the girl you baited them with.

Lest it be forgotten though: was that Plo Kloon @18:55? What a twisted place. It does look like a mausoleum, though, or more aptly an underwater catacomb, and not a lab that would relate to Sidious' future ambitions for force-sensitive cloning.

@ 27:00 - 2 of the stormtroopers rear armor looks inked/detailed and lovely, vs. most every other stormtrooper with the plain white, vacuformed onepiece. Perhaps they are CGI extras.

Or deliberate choice to cheaply exploit tension. Either way usually a bad choice.

Hard to keep a straight face with such a nice victim right lol

TBF she did follow through on hooking her up to, what I assume is a Mind Flayer.

Silly was Leia's force of will being stronger than Reva's. Maybe the force gave her a handicap with that

4: I'm confused but I'm guessing..

Oh dear, I nearly called it....instead we get Leia strapped to a chair with lasers (I dunno) moving towards her head.

Again, the "danger" is pointless, we know nothing happens Leia or Obi-Wan so why so many pointless scenarios. I think I'm just watching this to see how bad it gets, and it's not disappointing (Is disappointing?). I said at the start its a very middling show, but its dropping below the mid now as we pass the mid way.

Also, I just realised it looks like they raided the stock room from Batteries Not Included to make their droids...

So Leia knows Ben's real name is Obi Wan Kenobi and yet she refers to him as General Kenobi, the man who helped her father during the Clone Wars, not the man who saved her numerous times 9 years previously...

I also wonder how Leia will be able to become a Senator in the Imperial Senate having been associated with Kenobi, the Path, and her Father's connection to Kenobi. Surely she and her family would be watched by the Inquisitors, and the Empire thereafter, thwarting their every effort to influence or be a part of the Imperial Senate.

There is so much stupid shíte happening in this show that I can't decide if it's pure carelessness from Lucasfilm or complete incompetence.

Dreadful

But unfortunately, it's mandatory to finish.

Didn't check, but I'd say that clocked in at 30mins plus or minus a min or two for recap. Felt really short, and not in the good way.

My personal favourite was when Tala was, to all intents and purposes, having open conversations with Kenobi while in the Imperial control room.

I mean they even had a guy turn in her direction FFS.

No point even mentioning her "covertly" taking out the officer in a room full of them, because if you buy the first bit, that should be no issue.

I would love to have been a fly on the wall when the completed episodes are reviewed by the stakeholders.

That’s what she said

Gotta get the spin-offs ready! Tala-fornia? Third Sister, Sister?