Obi-Wan Kenobi (spoilers)

[MarkB]

The word "Padawan" was annoying enough. Lucas doubled down with "youngling".

Anything to avoid having to include the dialogue "he's slaughtering children" in your family-friendly movie.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

One of them is confirmed to be Nari (the fugitive jedi). Who appears to be in his early 20s (the actor is older, but he is acting). Reva would be the same. No problem.

Got a link? Because I have seen nothing but speculation and zero confirmation from Disney/Lucasfilm that any of those five children were young versions of any adult character so far.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

those kids were around 10 or so werent they - its 10 years later, Reva could be early 20s …

Really? Because they seemed about 6 or 7 to me. But considering all the people who said there was no way the Leia actress was even 9, who knows.

 

[Hriston]

The important word being "almost" in that he's not advocating for the Jedi to end, since he makes it clear to Owen that he still wants to train Luke once he's old enough. Obi-Wan is very much in survival mode when we first see him, but he's not interested in burning it all to the ground like old Luke is. He's just trying to hang in there until the time is right for him to come out of hiding again ...


I am anticipating another showdown between Obi-Wan and Vader, which will put a new spin on Vader's EP 4 comment about sensing a presence he hasn't felt since conveniently whenever.

Well, he didn’t throw the lightsaber offered to him by the young Jedi over his shoulder like Luke did, but he refused it just the same and told him to bury it in the desert. The parallel is obvious and, I think, intentional.

Digging it up is his first step in acknowledging that the Jedi can be relevant again. It’ll be interesting to see what shape that takes in the coming episodes.

 

[Maxperson]

Anything to avoid having to include the dialogue "he's slaughtering children" in your family-friendly movie.

I'm pretty sure that even without that direct dialogue, "he's slaughtering children" was still in that movie. He killed them. They were children. The words wouldn't have made much difference.

 

[Flamestrike]

The word "Padawan" was annoying enough. Lucas doubled down with "youngling".

Lucas didnt invent Youngling. It's been around since the 12th century:

Definition of YOUNGLING

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Lucas didnt invent Youngling. It's been around since the 12th century:

Definition of YOUNGLING

I don't think I implied that he invented the word! He used it, in a way that many people (myself included) found cringe-worthy. Like I said earlier, though. I'm used to it now. Still cringe a little inside, though!

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I'm pretty sure that even without that direct dialogue, "he's slaughtering children" was still in that movie. He killed them. They were children. The words wouldn't have made much difference.

All he had to do was to not make the jedi training start so young. Luke being "too old" to start, could have been by a couple of years. Vader killing "padawans" would have been plenty bad enough.

 

[Flamestrike]

Well, he didn’t throw the lightsaber offered to him by the young Jedi over his shoulder like Luke did, but he refused it just the same and told him to bury it in the desert. The parallel is obvious and, I think, intentional.

Digging it up is his first step in acknowledging that the Jedi can be relevant again. It’ll be interesting to see what shape that takes in the coming episodes.

I think we'll see Obi Wan mirror Palpatine and have one of his force powers redirected on him by Reva, changing him into Sir Alec Guinness.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I think it's interesting that Alec Guinness was 63 when he played Obi-Wan. The current show takes place ~9 years before Star Wars (I still have trouble calling it "A New Hope") and Ewan is currently 51. While I have a hard time imagining Ewan looking as old as Guinness did in 9 years, it's not out of the question.