Obi-Wan Kenobi (spoilers)

[Benjamin Olson]

Well so far I love this show. I think bringing in little Leia was just a fantastically inspired idea. It recontextualizes why original movie Leia had such absolute faith in Obi-Wan Kenobi as the person she should turn to when she's in desperate need. It gives substantially more character development to the original trilogy main character who was most conspicuously underutilized. I had also always wondered about her pre-original trilogy life on Alderaan, as we just never got much information about it. It even raises the emotional stakes of Alderaan's destruction a little to have actually visited it not just in video games.

And the child actress is just doing a phenomenal job.

Ewan McGregor of course knocks his character out of the park, but we all just assumed he would, so that's not nearly as exciting as him getting paired with 10 year-old Leia.

There are two things in these episodes that took me out of the show. First, the clone trooper vet asking for change felt way too real. His appearance and Obi-wan's reaction to him was on a different level compared to the rest of the show. Just a huge moment of sadness and regret and a bunch of other feelings. I liked it but it felt like a scene from a different show.

That took me out of the show, not because I thought it was tonally off in any way, but simply because it got me thinking about how much more problematic the always problematic shoddy treatment of veterans would be in a universe where soldiers were literally created in government funded cloning centers for the purpose of war, with no family or connections outside of that life.

 

[pukunui]

That and he struggled pretty hard a Jedi Master when he was trying to lift her with the force.

For starters, he’s been trying not to use the Force for ten years, but also, I took that scene as being him struggling with committing to using the Force (knowing what the consequences will mean) as much as remembering how to use it.

Ahsoka did not realize it was Anakin inside the Vader outfit either when they fought on Rebels.

No, but then Obi-Wan had heard Sidious referring to Anakin as Vader in the temple recordings, whereas Ahsoka didn’t have that association, so she might have heard of a Lord Vader without knowing who he was, whereas so Obi-Wan would.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

My 10 yo thought Leia was a bit small. I can’t find any info on the actress. I enjoyed her sassy, precocious performance, though.

She is 9, apparently. My partner (a primary school teacher) tracked it down because she thought she looked too young. I guess she was cast for precociousness rather than being exactly the right age!

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Maybe he let them know this (or just Reva?) to use against Obi-Wan just as she did.

Reva clearly has more backstory to be disclosed. She is presumably one of the younglings seen during the opening attack on the Jedi temple sequence, maybe she knew Anakin from the temple, then recognised pre-armour Vader during the attack?

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

She is 9, apparently. My partner (a primary school teacher) tracked it down because she thought she looked too young. I guess she was cast for precociousness rather than being exactly the right age!

Leia is only 9 or 10 at this time, depending on that exact day of the year, so the actress matches. The show said 10 years after Order 66 and Luke and Leia were born after Order 66 was executed.

 

[Arilyn]

I'm really enjoying this so far. Haven't been paying much attention to the other Star Wars shows, but this one I like. Looking forward to next week's episode.

 

[Zardnaar]

I liked it off to a better start than BoBF.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Leia is only 9 or 10 at this time, depending on that exact day of the year, so the actress matches. The show said 10 years after Order 66 and Luke and Leia were born after Order 66 was executed.

She says she is 10. But if we assume Kenobi wants to give the toy to Luke as a Birthday present, they are only just 10. Add to that that they where premature.

 

[MarkB]

She says she is 10. But if we assume Kenobi wants to give the toy to Luke as a Birthday present, they are only just 10. Add to that that they where premature.

And Leia wasn't exactly tall even as an adult, so the actress's height works.

 

[MarkB]

I know that getting shot or stabbed -- never mind getting cut in half -- doesn't automatically result in death in the Star Wars universe, but I am curious to see how the Grand Inquisitor survives. He obviously has to come back, since he is the primary antagonist of season 1 of Rebels.

Is it confirmed that he's actually the same character? He certainly seems to be the same species, but in terms of character and physicality I'm just not getting the vibe of him being the person we saw in Rebels.