OK I guess I have to watch this Obi-Wan show now.
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Iāve been watching the Essex Serpent on Appletv+. Itās a pseudo Victorian show with a sci-fi element. I like historical shows like this and I like sci-fi, so itās a good match. Show is ok. Has Claire Danes and Loki.
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Honestly, i think this one might be better binged, so waiting was a good idea. Thereās a lot of stuff in early episodes that pay off later, but when the episodes came out, didnāt seem to make sense.
The part of the fight where Obi-Wan slices off the helmet and talks to Vader is a direct parallel to a scene from Rebels where Ahsoka duels him. The emotional impacts are similar, too, as itās when Ahsoka first learns that Vader is/was Anakin
Yes. The wife is out for a bit this afternoon. Not a SW fan or of loud TV so Iāll be watching home alone on the big TV based on the hyperbole itt.
Watched āFirst Killā. At first the imdb rating was bad, then there was outrage because people seemed to hate it because there were lesbians in it and now its above 6.x. Overall underwhelming. The plot is kinda confusing: vampires, monster hunters, ghouls, witches or whatever this lost brother is doing. There wasnt a real plot line to follow. I thought it could be hunting down the ghoul that ripped the boy in school but it was mostly about these two families. And then in the final episode the sister gets blamed by her little sister for something she didnt start. The boys wanted to kill her not her fault that they failed. Its just dumb and childish how it plays out. Also nobody seemed to notices after Juliette killed the one guy and drained him that she finally had her first kill for real. The whole time she needed pills to feel good.
I third the comments on OWK VI.
Lol donāt unless youāre a super fan and you would have already seen it if so. Itās awful.
I saw a comment that this is the downside of using the Volumeā¦they canāt really do fast chase scenes because thereās just not enough spaceā¦and moving the scenery behind them would just look like greenscreen all over again.
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the kenobi finale wasā¦ ok. I wonāt spoil anything other than to say it was slightly better than previous episodes
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Kenobi final was pretty good, but ultimately Iād give the series a 6/10 if ANH didnāt exist and a 4/10 knowing it does.
I donāt buy that the Emperor would give up hunting Obi-Wan, knowing heās about the only big threat to the Empire. Obi-Wan wouldāve killed Vader, especially b/c heās made peace with the fact that heās Vader and no longer Anakin, plus he cares deeply for Leia and would want to eliminate a threat to her. He literally said āone of us must dieā before the final Vader v. Obi encounter. Leiaās reactions to Obi also make zero sense in ANH given their relationship here. All those aside, I just think the overall quality seemed like a step down from the other series weāve seen.
Ultimately, I think this series shouldnāt have dealt with Luke and Leia at all and only briefly mentioned Vader, so Iāll consider S2 to be the real S1 with (hopefully) new characters and stories for Obi-Wan.
Mandalorian 9/10
Boba Fett 6.5/10
Obi-Wan 4/10
Iāll still eat up anything Star Wars live action that comes out, but interest was kinda waning in Obi-Wan, and with Boba I was digging the backstory they were building with the Raiders, then they threw it away and changed gears.
I think Andor starts at the end of August, so my goal now is to get through Rebels before then.
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Having all these vehicles airing one after the other is also meh.
Find me Lukes love child.
I thought about this a bit and think it makes sense. the emperor is hubris personified, he (probably correctly) does not see the jedi as a threat because heās spent over a decade genociding any force sensitive he can find and 99.9% of the jedi are dead. as far as not killing vader - he wasnt capable of it, and the show made mention at least one time that it didnāt seem like he even wanted to kill anakin at all.
i think itās more complex than it seems - I think kenobi found peace in that duel in knowing heād finally ābeatenā anakin/vader. even more is resolved by anakin (quite surprisingly) telling him it wasnāt his fault. it was a consistent theme in the prequels how insanely competitive they were and often jealous of each other for various reasons. i even have a little fan theory that kenobi may have been in love a little bit with padme. it was a dick move but he is a dick even in ANH - he barely shows luke how to use a sword and then just peaces the fuck out except for some random ghost advice here and there. it seems ben in ANH has little interest in doing much until he hears leia is in danger (which adds up now) and then he selfishly recruits luke to achieve his own ends.
this isnt a new thing Iām thinking up now, in the EU it was a nauseatingly persistent theme amongst lukeās internal musings about how fucked up it was what yoda/ben did to him. i dont think kenobi comes off as a hero here nor is he supposed to - I think itās a story about a guy that had a really rough life and finally found his peace.
iād be hesistant against judging this stuff too harshly based on the old filmsā content. a big reason the EU took off like it did was it filled a ton of plot holes those films had. for instance a question Iām asking myself over and over the last few days is how the FUCK did vader know luke was his son? like Iāve gone back and watched now and I swear itās like all of a sudden he just knows and it isnāt clear how or why. a long time ago the explanation was he could āsenseā it (dumb, why couldnt he figure out leia was his daughter til the end of ep VI then?) or that his name was āskywalkerā (in a vast galaxy i assume surnames are gonna be pretty common, given that anakin was born to a skywalker it wouldnt be too crazy to assume thereād be others around that area with that name) or he recognized the lightsaber (most likely but that still barely makes sense). still though itās not really explained and the films give you the impression he knew the entire time.
I just take a deep breath, the only things that matter in the skywalker story are ANH, TESB, ROTJ. Everything else is just fan service.
Every single thing it attempts to add more explanation to is better left to the imagination. We donāt need context for egghead Vaderās skull dent or Leiaās holster. Thereās not a single part of this show that meaningfully shifts or adds insight into any character backstory. It doesnāt have any impact whatsoever on any story arc except to cheapen them. -100/10.
Look at how fucked up you are now
this is so hilarious. i tend to love villains in shows when theyāre complex but this guyās a real transparent piece of crap and i have a hard time believing this is real.
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The guy who points out that people who think Homelander is a good guy are also likely the same people who thought Skyler was wrong for being against Walt in BB is spot on.
lol well I hated skyler and sympathized with that viewpoint, but I was well well well well fucking aware that I was on team bad guy