Obi-Wan Kenobi (spoilers)

[Morrus]

I was a little bit disappointed that the invasion of the planet didn't involve cool vehicles of some kind.

Budget.

 

[MarkB]

It's Episode VIII, when Holdo rams an enemy ship at light-speed.

And in Rogue One we see what happens when people try that with Vader's ship.

 

[Morrus]

So apparently they didn’t de-age Anakin (other than giving him a silly haircut). That’s exactly what he looks like.

 

[MarkB]

So apparently they didn’t de-age Anakin (other than giving him a silly haircut). That’s exactly what he looks like.

Sounds about right. I hadn't been under the impression that he'd been de-aged until people started talking about it here.

 

[pukunui]

Is it comparable to the budget for The Mandalorian? If so, the krayt dragon battle says "yes."

It certainly feels like they didn't have as big a budget as The Mandalorian but I can't confirm it.

I was especially disappointed that they didn't give her a little more of a character moment in discovering she had been tracked (and her droid had been switched to evil-mode) by the empire because in the original movie, she is the one worried they are being tracked by the empire, when they are. It would have made this plot retread feel more like a cool character development thing rather than a plot retread.

Yeah, this was one of several missed opportunities this show has had.

And in Rogue One we see what happens when people try that with Vader's ship.

As someone explains in Ep 9, Holdo's maneuver was "one in a million". I think it helped that she entered hyperspace before hitting Supremacy, whereas the little Rebel ship that crashes into Vader's ship is still in the process of entering hyperspace when his comes out of it.

My big beef with Holdo's maneuver - and really that whole chase scene in Ep 9 - is that the way it's portrayed, the ships are stationary rather than in motion. Holdo really shouldn't have had time to turn her ship around, pause long enough to send a final message, then blast into hyperspace before Supremacy flew past her current position. (I can at least justify Leia's Mary Poppins moment by thinking that the ship was catching up to her as much as she was flying back to it.)

So apparently they didn’t de-age Anakin (other than giving him a silly haircut). That’s exactly what he looks like.

Huh. That explains that then! I would've thought they'd have at least tried to make Hayden look like a teenager again for that scene but maybe it wasn't in the budget!

 

[Rabulias]

It certainly feels like they didn't have as big a budget as The Mandalorian but I can't confirm it.

Maybe they are spending a lot of their budget in the next episode.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Is this a serious question?

No?

 

[Imaculata]

The attack on Hoth in ESB showed that the Imperial Fleet isn't very good with blockades...

But at least the rebels used a giant Ion Canon to temporarily disable some of the Star Destroyers, allowing shuttles to break the blockade.

In the episode there's nothing stopping the Empire from opening fire on the ship really, or using a tractor beam to bring the ship in.

It bothers me how sloppy these Disney shows tend to be with the plot. I'm fine with minor plot holes, but when the show establishes stakes (we must leave in a few hours), the stakes need to make sense (what happens in a few hours?). I still don't get what the urgency was. If they wanted to leave before the empire arrives, then you have to leave right now. But they were unaware that the droid was carrying a beacon. And once the empire has arrived, thats it right? You can't leave the planet. But apparently you can. Then what was the urgency?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

the ships are stationary rather than in motion.

Motion is relative. There is really no such thing as "stationary".

 

[fikuvino]

The inquisitor blade, however, is just dumb. Even in non-spinning mode it lacks a long enough handle to use two-blades effectively even in many of the limited ways that you could. Then it has spinning mode, which basically makes it impossible to really aim the blade at your opponent at all. I can imagine spinning mode might have some utility to basically turn the whole thing into a shield against blaster fire, or generally as a defensive function, but it seems to be presented as some sort of super-offensive mode and I appreciated seeing Darth Vader defeat it effortlessly.

The only benefit I could see to it is intimidation of people who aren't trained lightsaber duelists. That doesn't really confer enough of an advantage to be worth all the problems inherent with the design, though.

If I were hunting Jedi who might still have their lightsabers and wanted a specialized weapon, I would want to carry something like a lightsaber-tipped pike with a shaft that is coated in cortosis. The extra reach and ability to short-out a lightsaber simply by parrying it would be very useful.