![]() In A New Hope he had no problem Jedi Mind-Tricking a Stormtrooper. I’ll talk more about the showdown with Vader in this episode in a minute, but the fact of the matter is Obi-Wan just kind of sucks right now. He’s grappled and blastered his way through most crises, and blundered his way through the rest-including screwing up and calling Leia by her real name after they’ve gone incognito. ![]() One time he used it to save an overly confident Leia from falling to her death (though a part of me wonders if he should have). Enough is enough.īy episode 2, Obi-Wan Kenobi used the Force, let me see, counting. I get establishing Obi-Wan as this burnt out old Jedi who has given up the ways of the Force and abandoned all hope and taken up work as a meat-cutter in a meat-cutting factory, but come on already. Look, maybe I’m jumping the gun here but we are halfway through the series. This feels like a recycled plot that just isn’t as new or interesting. We’ve been here, done that, blah blah blah. The problem, more than anything, is that she’s just second fiddle. This makes me think, maybe I wouldn’t care so much about Little Leia if there had been no Baby Yoda in the first place. He was ruled by his id not his ego, Force-choking anyone who dared lay a finger on Papa Mando. The thing about Grogu is that he was fifty years old and already quite powerful in the Force, but he was still a baby. We like a few flaws here and there.Īnd sure, okay, Leia never listens and she gets Ben in trouble time to time and she’s a rascally one, but realistically she’s still written above her age and that makes her less interesting, not more. It’s not fair to female characters to write them this way. She’s wise and clever and tough and fast and dear god Disney you can write strong female characters without Mary Suing so hard. But Leia is just way overcooked as a character. Silly Inquisitors Credit: Lucasfilm Leia Is Just Baby Yoda Minus Us Giving A DamnĪt first, I thought it was kind of a cool spin on things to headfake us with Luke and give us an Obi-Wan / Leia bonding adventure. The Inquisitors have shown up in other Star Wars shows- Rebels, for instance-and in the video games- Fallen Order-and they’ve always been frightening badasses. who don’t lose their quarry when he topples an awning on them. I want these Inquisitors to stop being Very Evil around one another and go be badass Jedi hunters. It’s all just extremely generic and cringey. Lots of jockeying for position and so forth. There’s a lot of Very Serious Grumbling that goes on between these two and the other Inquisitors. She’s just a cliche wrapped in a cliche dipped in a cliche and I suspect she’ll be just as predictable in the end as all that makes her sound.īut it’s not just Reva! Somehow Fifth Brother gets more and more over-acted and ridiculous every scene he’s in. hunt Jedi and make Papa Vader proud! The casting feels off to me, but maybe it’s also the way she’s written. In my last review of this show I noted how I just didn’t really like the casting choice for Reva, the spunky junior Inquisitor and Third Sister who just wants to show everyone that she’s got what it takes to. And it’s just dismally, dreadfully dull.Īllow me to elaborate: The Inquisitors Are So Cringe Starring Ewan McGregor, Moses Ingram, Rupert Friend, Joel Edgerton, Bonnie Piesse, Indira Varma, Sung Kang, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Kumail Nanjiani, Grant Feely as young Luke Skywalker, Vivien Lyra Blair as young Leia Organa, and Hayden Christensen as Darth Vader, new episodes of Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi are streaming Wednesdays on Disney+.The script is genuinely bad much of the time and Deborah Chow’s direction is sloppy and uninspired. What follows is a mission to the seedy planet Daiyu, where Obi-Wan retrieves the kidnapped Leia - only to be hounded by bounty hunters and the dark side Jedi hunters Reva, the Fifth Brother (Sung Kang), and the Grand Inquisitor (Rupert Friend).Īhead of the premiere of Obi-Wan Kenobi "Part III," premiering June 1 on Disney+, Lucasfilm has released new images from "Part I" and "Part II." See them in the gallery below. Nine years before Obi-Wan's last fight aboard the Death Star in A New Hope, the hermit Jedi Master sets out to rescue Leia, who reminds him of an old friend: her mother, Padme (Natalie Portman). "There is no one I trust more with my child than you. "You couldn't save Anakin, but you can save her," Leia's adoptive father, Senator Bail Organa (Jimmy Smits), says of Obi-Wan's friend and Jedi apprentice Anakin Skywalker, the Sith Lord Darth Vader (Hayden Christensen).
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