I mean, that's not what happened at all.
Your assessment of it comes off like those people who criticize Star Wars\Star Trek despite never watching an episode of the newer stuff, but just taking from hater reviews (like RLM)
Star Wars Expanded Universe Thread
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I mean, that's not what happened at all.
Your assessment of it comes off like those people who criticize Star Wars\Star Trek despite never watching an episode of the newer stuff, but just taking from hater reviews (like RLM)
I'm kind of the opposite I guess. I love the OGT, but I want something new. I'm tired of the recycling and retelling of old tales. Mando gave me that. I was really hoping Rian Johnson's new "trilogy" would be happening sooner rather than later because I'm excited to see what other ideas are out there.
But it is. I get it, there's a deeper thread with the Inquisitors, but there's ZERO reason we needed Jimmy Smits. There's no reason for a side mission to save Leia.
I'm hopeful moving forward because Ewan McGregor is an awesome actor and a great Kenobi, but the first two episodes didn't give me what I was hoping for.
Not to be a jerk but your second part is wrong. He declined doing anything about Leia's kidnapping and refused to do it until Organa showed up literally in his house.
As for Boba, I wish he just stayed dead. Only thing I found interesting about that series was when Mando showed up again. I actually didn't even watch until then.
I guess then the question is, what would it take to get Kenobi out of hiding? I can't imagine it has anything would be able to do it other than Luke or Leia, and then we're right back in with the Skywalkers.
I'm with you though. I am probably the most excited about Mando and then maybe The Acolyte, something set hundreds of years before the Skywalkers.
What else do you think Kenobi would go do during this period? Saving Luke or Leia is about the only thing that would make sense. Plus in A New Hope doesn't Leia refer to Kenobi as an old friend or something (it's been awhile since I've watched it)? This story makes that Statement make sense.
You are correct about the "cookie-cutter" nature of the content Disney creates. I've seen almost all of the Marvel and Star wars series's offerings that are on Disney Plus. They are all very shallow plots with a ton of filler.
The character arc in Kenobi for the female has already started the patten set up by several other Disney Plus Series. You just wait, Reva is going to end up "seeing the light and saving the day and or sacrafic herself" or, "realize she is the only person who can stop her and will sacrifice herself." It wouldn't shock me if Reva dies trying to save either Leia or Luke at the end of the series.
So picking nits here on the impact to cannon. In A New Hope, Leia asks Obi Wan for help referring to his help during the Clone Wars. But now that he has met Leia and reduced her in this series, wouldn't that have been mentioned in her pleas to Obi Wan?
I wish they had just left Leia out of it.
I wish they had just left Leia out of it.
Funny how nobody in the galaxy can find Obi Wan. Yet, Obi Wan turns down a request from Bail, and he finds him in short order.
So far the series has gone WAY out of the way to make sure Obi Wan doesn't tell Leia his true name. Probably the only way they can and keep in canon.
I'm really not sure, and I get it, the end of this story always leads back to Luke and it has to.
It just seems like fan service over and over and over again without any new ideas. Hopefully they can do something fun with the Inquisitors, but the Grand Inquisitor was killed in a surprise attack, so I'm not really sold on their Jedi abilities.
I'm not here to argue and tell anyone they're wrong for liking or disliking Kenobi, the first two episodes just haven't grabbed me like I hoped they would.
How dare any of you question my fandom or loyalty to Star Wars. I've watched the damn films on VHS religiously since I could **** in a diaper. Star Wars is MY LIFE.
but in all seriousness, I am a huge SW fan and it's been great seeing the Mouse bring new material.
How dare any of you question my fandom or loyalty to Star Wars. I've watched the damn films on VHS religiously since I could **** in a diaper. Star Wars is MY LIFE.
The Grand Inquisitor is most likely not dead, or the canonicity of Rebels is now called into question as he was in that series and it occurs about 5 years after this, I believe, And that is ultimately the problem with prequels flashbacks, or gap stories. If you have a character that is known to survive to a later story, the danger to them is muted to non-existent. The only decent way to approach these stories is from an emotional or character building approach. Action is less powerful without danger.
The relative power level of Force users is all over the place throughout all of the SW franchise. They get shown as damned near superhuman at times and taken out as easily as a stormtrooper at others.
Interesting that the Grand Inquisitor apparently survives a lightsaber to the chest, yet Qui-Gon didn't.
Is there a reason the title grand inquisitor can't pass onto someone else? That's not a snarky question, I actually don't know if that is possible.
Perhaps differences in physiology of a human vs a Pau'an. Or just sci-fi not maintaining consistency. Happens a lot.
The Inquisitors kind of suck. The GI basically fought to a standstill with like 14 year old Ezra Bridger.
Head cannon im going with the Grand Inquiz is just a title. and the current guy is dead, but they bring another guy with the proper head shape in to replace him. Then that one dies in Rebels.
Maybe they are just messed up clones of ol paps and they just use the rejects for something rather than throwing them away.
Maybe they are just messed up clones of ol paps and they just use the rejects for something rather than throwing them away.
