Obi-Wan Kenobi (spoilers)

[trappedslider]

there's at least one movie in between this and A New Hope

 

[pukunui]

Yes, at midnight Pacific time.

Wednesday, June 1! But I don't think they release it at 12:01 am . . . not sure what time the episode goes live.

Thank you both. I live in the future (aka New Zealand), where it's already Weds. New shows usually pop up on Disney+ around 8:30 or 9pm our time. Sounds about right for shortly after midnight Pacific time (we're currently 19 hours ahead of the US west coast.)

 

[Guest 7034872]

Yikes. Tough crowd. I hope I look that good when I’m 50.

 

[Rabulias]

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.

Yeah in another thread recently I had a hard time believing that William Hartnell was 55 when he was cast as the first Doctor. I am 55 and look nowhere near that old (if I say so myself). Maybe it's better nutrition, health, etc., in the last half century? Or maybe living through World War II would age anyone.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

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.

It was Guinness who looked older than his years. But one might imagine Kenobi deliberately making himself look older as a disguise.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Some people, man.....

Would these same individuals send racist hate-mail to Mr. James Earl Jones for voicing Vader?? I mean, exactly what is their problem???

Have you seen Kevin Smith's Chasing Amy?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Yeah in another thread recently I had a hard time believing that William Hartnell was 55 when he was cast as the first Doctor. I am 55 and look nowhere near that old (if I say so myself). Maybe it's better nutrition, health, etc., in the last half century? Or maybe living through World War II would age anyone.

If you look at Hartnell's pre-Doctor Who roles he looks old in all of them. He is one of those people who was born looking old!

But my dad lived through WW2, and he has more hair and less grey than I do.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

there's at least one movie in between this and A New Hope

I thought that came between The Main Course and Coffee?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Obi-Wan looks pretty rough in the first two episodes . . .

When 51 years old you are, look as good you will not.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

One part that didn't work for me was little Leia making fun of how elderly Obi-Wan looked. He looks younger than her dad!

It seemed like something written by someone who assumed that Ewan McGregor had continued to age like a normal person for the last decade and a half since he finished the prequels, whereas as far as I can tell he mostly chose not to.