Obi-Wan Kenobi (spoilers)

[Ryujin]

I'm still not convinced.

She records the message as her ship is being taken. She's in a rush. So to convince him to help her, she says "you helped my father 20 years ago" and not "I'm the little girl whose life you saved."

I'm not buying it.

Also, Obi Wan is a jerk to his eopie. When we last see his eopie, he's tied it up. He then jets off to another planet entirely. What happens to the eopie? Does someone take it? Is it stolen? Does it starve or die from exposure?

This is on top of us seeing that he leaves it tied up all day while he's at work at the Krayt dragon meat processing plant.

Sarah McLaughlin would like a word with him about how he treats his space camel.

Compared to blasting a gate that they could just walk around, I'm willing to hand-wave a little wording in a "HELP!" message

 

[Maxperson]

It looks rather dry and hot. Come to Surrey, we have rain!

I've heard rumors of that stuff. It's supposed to fall from the sky, right?

 

[Morrus]

But, until this show, did she?

Because her message in SW makes it seem like she doesn't know Obi-Wan. She calls him "General Kenobi" and says that he served her father during the Clone Wars.

She doesn't say, "also, you rescued me that time when I was 10," and she doesn't call him Ben.

I don’t think she had time to record his entire resume.

 

[pukunui]

This is on top of us seeing that he leaves it tied up all day while he's at work at the Krayt dragon meat processing plant.

People keep saying that was a krayt dragon but it didn't really look like one to me. It looked more like a giant sand manta ray.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

Compared to blasting a gate that they could just walk around, I'm willing to hand-wave a little wording in a "HELP!" message

I find it interesting that the gate they could walk around came up in the same episode as the fire Vader or his stormtroopers could walk around. Both seem like problems that weren't inherent to the script or fundamental planning for the episode but when they tried to use the specific locations they did it just didn't work and they didn't bother to figure out a way to make it work. Seems like someone got careless and/or cheap.

The gate thing could also be an artifact of a version of the scene where he did try to take the moleman's bus-truck (which is what I expected when he disabled the gate), but I suspect when they blocked out the scene of them immediately facing a new set of stormtroopers it worked better if they were walking.

I think the reason why these things bother me is because they both have that feeling of something someone must have noticed during production but someone with the authority to try to change things to make the details make sense decided the audience would be too oblivious to notice. So does the gate really matter in the grand scheme of things? No. Did it substantially get in the way of my enjoyment of the episode? Not really. Do I feel slightly insulted as an audience member that they thought I wouldn't notice that it made no sense? Yes.

Both the gate and the fire seemed to be actual outdoor locations, whereas the live action Star Wars tv shows have relied heavily on digital sets. It may be the crew is out of their comfort zone and slipped up a bit.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

She has been trained as a diplomat and politician from a very young age. Of course she knows how to word a formal letter.

And does not make a habit of including secret personal information in her formal letters.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

People keep saying that was a krayt dragon but it didn't really look like one to me. It looked more like a giant sand manta ray.

It was definitely not a Krayt Dragon. Apparently people just assume that all massive animals on Tatooine are Krayt Dragons.

 

[pukunui]

It was definitely not a Krayt Dragon. Apparently people just assume that all massive animals on Tatooine are Krayt Dragons.

What I really want to know is how Tatooine is able to support so many massive animals - and why the banthas don't overheat in their shaggy coats.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

What I really want to know is how Tatooine is able to support so many massive animals - and why the banthas don't overheat in their shaggy coats.

Good question. I assume that they are extremely hardy but are dying off as time passes.

bet if you looked at the backstory of this giant fish-thing, it's probably extremely rare and learned to live in the clouds when the water dried up. This was probably one of the last ones, and was 500 years old or something. Brings tragedy to the somewhat comical bit of Ben carving it up for sushi to feed to his worm-horse.

Banthas must have a low body temp and the shaggy coat is insulating, keeping them cool.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

It was definitely not a Krayt Dragon. Apparently people just assume that all massive animals on Tatooine are Krayt Dragons.

Well we haven't met that much Tatooine ultra-megafauna, so folk are going to guess based on what they know. But given the size of predator the Krayt Dragon is we would have to guess that there are probably some prey of comparable or larger size somewhere in the ecosystem, or at least there were at some point.

What I really want to know is how Tatooine is able to support so many massive animals - and why the banthas don't overheat in their shaggy coats.

Well, per the Book of Boba Fett, it was once a lush rainforrest and ocean planet, so Banthas are explained as creatures whom the people who became the Tuskans maintained as beasts of burden after the ecosystem could no longer naturally support them. Perhaps some Tuskan tribe we haven't met uses Dewbacks instead. A few stray Krayt Dragons survived preying on these domesticated megafauna.

Bantha hair I can't explain.