Obi-Wan Kenobi (spoilers)

[Ryujin]

Bantha hair I can't explain.

The nomadic people of the Sahara don't exactly run around in Speedos.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

The nomadic people of the Sahara don't exactly run around in Speedos.

Nor fur coats. But sure, maybe bantha hair (or what we are calling "hair") does not function as we would expect.

 

[Ryujin]

Nor fur coats. But sure, maybe bantha hair (or what we are calling "hair") does not function as we would expect.

It would be tough to naturally develop flowing cotton robes, however, something like insulating air-filled hairs might be a possibility.

 

[pukunui]

Did anyone else pick up on the Quinlan Vos namedrop? I wonder if he will appear in this show or if that's just meant to be an Easter egg.

 

[Argyle King]

It's not bad, but something about the show just isn't clicking for me. I can't put my finger on what exactly it is, but something feels off.

 

[MarkB]

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.

I don't think anyone's saying that this was a plot hole that's been waiting 45 years to be fixed. Simply that there is some connective tissue there which lets this show tie in reasonably neatly with the established continuity and join a few dots.

 

[MarkB]

It's not bad, but something about the show just isn't clicking for me. I can't put my finger on what exactly it is, but something feels off.

The bit that keeps giving me a disconnect is the music. It's not bad or even particularly unfitting, but when they're evoking so many classic themes of the movies, it just feels weird for the actual theme music to be absent.

 

[DeviousQuail]

It's not bad, but something about the show just isn't clicking for me. I can't put my finger on what exactly it is, but something feels off.

I'm in the same boat. There could be any number of reasons but for me this is something that goes back to the Book of Boba Fett. The physical movement of the characters on screen during action bits sometimes feels like everyone is moving at .8 speed. And it's not happening all the time so it's hard to say if that's true or if I'm just reaching here.

What's weird is that I don't think this was an issue in Mando. The action in that show felt urgent. Watching people chase after Leia, Reva parkouring over the city, Obi-Wan playing tag with Vader, they all just felt a little too slow. I know I previously put some of that on having to work with Leia's actress' height but the more I see the more I think this is just a show(s) wide thing.

 

[Flamestrike]

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.

That could be explained by diplomacy though.

Like, even if I was on first name basis with someone official, in official communiques with that person, I'd still use their title, rather than address them informally.

She wasnt walking around calling Admiral Ackbar 'Gail' either, and referred to Han as 'General Solo' in an official capacity (and as a Scoundrel/ Nerf-herder in private).

 

[Flamestrike]

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.

Neebray/Legends