Episode 3.5 is here - Obi Wan Kenobi trailer

[Phoenix]

The whole Obi-Wan series is pointless. You could say that everyone is back to where it is before. The show is just pandering to nostalgia and Disney is milking the sh*t out of it

Well not exactly. Obi-wan was broken when the show started, by the end he was basically the guy you now expect can actually fulfill his mandate of protecting Luke. The main issue is there were alot of plot contrivances, conveniences, and handwaving. Suspension of disbelief is needed to buy all these stories, and they crossed the line a few too many times here. As said before, much more storytelling/writing skill was needed to effectively tell a story about people whose penultimate fates we've known for 40 years.

[Phoenix]

Someone edited this down to a 2.5 movie which supposedly makes it a much better presentation overall( as much as you can work around the plot beats they came up with).

https://www.kaipattersonfilms.com/kenobi

Download a copy before Mickey gets it taken down.

[Bawkish]

Well not exactly. Obi-wan was broken when the show started, by the end he was basically the guy you now expect can actually fulfill his mandate of protecting Luke. The main issue is there were alot of plot contrivances, conveniences, and handwaving. Suspension of disbelief is needed to buy all these stories, and they crossed the line a few too many times here. As said before, much more storytelling/writing skill was needed to effectively tell a story about people whose penultimate fates we've known for 40 years.

That's just the show's make-up canon. You can safely assume that the end of Revenge of the Sith that Obi-Wan was not that troubled and indeed protecting Luke at a distance

[Phoenix]

That's just the show's make-up canon. You can safely assume that the end of Revenge of the Sith that Obi-Wan was not that troubled and indeed protecting Luke at a distance

Thats what I think most of us assumed. The show basically tried to 'force'(pun kinda intended) drama by having Obi-wan lose touch with his powers.

[hold this L]

Thats what I think most of us assumed. The show basically tried to 'force'(pun kinda intended) drama by having Obi-wan lose touch with his powers.

Which was dumb as f*ck. Goes from struggling with powers in episode 1 to downing Vader in a matter of what, 1 week?

[Phoenix]

Which was dumb as f*ck. Goes from struggling with powers in episode 1 to downing Vader in a matter of what, 1 week?

Exactly. They basically used the 4th episode with him infiltrating the underwater fortress as a 'shaking off the rust' mission which miraculously puts him right back at peak Obi-wan level. But that is why this project should have been a 2 hour movie. Remove the Reva plot, remove Obi-wan 'losing' his powers, and just focus on the interplay between him and Vader in a cat and mouse game. Dive even deeper into their respective characters through the flashbacks (which I did like, albeit they did a poor job of de-aging Anakin), cameo Leia, and if they felt compelled to throw in a B plot have Luke be captured or some shit and he has to go rescue him( what they did with Leia, except without her escaping and getting recaptured over and over).