*** OBI-WAN KENOBI *** (Disney+ Series)

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When Obi Wan is near defeat, Ghosty Qui Gon will show up, tell him to draw from the living Force and in mere seconds, Kenobi becomes the equal of Vader. Damages Vader's helmet giving him the scar seen in ROTJ, but not seen so far in this series. Obi Wan escapes and when he returns to Tatooine, he'll don the Jedi robes again and goes back to monitoring Luke from across the Dune Sea.
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Nah, Qui Gon is gonna hype him up before the training montage.
twilly
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So going Rocky IV montage style....
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Yes exactly. He'll have to visit Hoth to get the full experience.
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It'd be funny if Kenobi has a flashback to every Ani meme, and then laughs and says I can take this ***** and then kicks his ass.
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What will really be funny is in the next fight, Vader get the High Ground and Obi Wan takes him anyway because he underestimated his power..
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Vader snapping necks. Obviously trying to goad kenobi to come out.

Obi-wan can't take it. He steps out behind Vader and shouts "ANAKIN SKYWALKER. IS THIS WHAT YOUVE BECOME?"

"I am what you made me. "

Giant lightsaber battle where obi wan has clearly lost a step.

Obi wan is on the brink of death, Vader makes an insult like "you turned padme against me, stole our future from us."

Obi wan has a vision of Luke and leia which gives him the will to channel the force (callback to the fight with mail in ep1) and he fights back just well enough to escape.

There, I think I wrote a better scene than Deborah chow.
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This music plays.

Thomas Ford 91
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Where is this going? Maybe its just me being a 52 year old man, but something feels wrong about this show. They're screwing around with canon in ways that don't make sense. Unless maybe this is the intro to the Star Wars multiverse or everybody has their memory wiped at the end of the show.

Why have Kenobi and Vader battle between ROTS and ANH? You know they both survive. And, it screws up the dialogue in one of the most iconic scenes in film history; when they meet on the Death Star.

But, that's not the worst of it (so far). Leia and Kenobi hanging out is damn near sacrilege. In ANH she says "General Kenobi, years ago you served my father during the Clone Wars". In light of what we've seen, why would she say that? Instead she'd say; "Ben, remember me? You saved my waddling ass when I fell off a building about 8 years ago". Or, she'd think twice about leaving the fate of the Rebellion in the hands of a shaky old man who called her Leia in front of the stormtroopers.

I really think we're getting some kind of Multiverse setup. They've got to be screwing this up on purpose. It would have been so easy to write a really great story with a PTSD out-of-shape Kenobi living in isolation and facing off against Maul. Without complicating the relationship to The Movie this is all based on.



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A lot will have to happen in the next 3 episodes to smooth the transition of basically everything you mentioned and have everything in A New Hope make sense
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Is it weird to say that, even given everything we discussed, i still liked it and am looking forward to the next episode?

lol
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Haven't read the 226 replies I need to catch up on.

Watched episode 3 tonight.

Meh.

It is impressive they had Vader snap a kid's neck. Didn't expect that! Yikes!

"The years have made you weak!"

Not very original. Pretty close to "your powers are weak, old man".

Reminded me of the special edition edit where Han recaps almost word for word with Jabba the conversation he had skybox Greedo.

They need to let this board write the dialogue. It's bad.
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I mean the dialogue in ANH has been screwed for a while now. But it doesn't necessarily mess up the Vader/Obi Wan dialogue if we assume Obi Wan is going to win their next encounter.
Thomas Ford 91
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The dialogue in all these Disney+ SW shows is terrible. I've rationalized it by imagining these shows are us listening in on middle-school children in the future doing oral book reports.
Thomas Ford 91
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"When I left you I was but a learner, now I am the master"

No matter what happens in the remaining episodes, The Dark Lord of the Sith is not going to later refer to this stage of his career as "educational". He's earned all his degrees and he knows it.
Brian Earl Spilner
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Now THIS is podracing.

PatAg
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Someone else already said it, but Vader's first few minutes planetside were pretty metal.
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Brian Earl Spilner said:

And based on what Vader says to Obi-Wan in ANH, we know he has to win the next duel.

He's got a hell of a lot of ground to cover in three episodes as far as shaking off the rust.
Maybe, but I don't think "When I left you, I was but the learner, now I am the master" will ever make total sense no matter what happens in this series. If ANH was actually made after what we saw in ROTS, that line would have been written and delivered completely differently and I don't think this series is going to attempt to retcon that.

I'm not sure either of them will "win." I just have to imagine they've come up with a satisfying way for their final duel to end, considering we know neither of them dies. Feels like Reva is going to be involved, but for that to land emotionally, they better start really building out her backstory in Ep4/5 (and is that what we want in an Obi Wan series?). My hope is that Qui-Gon plays more of a meaningful role than just Force Ghost Trainer, but we'll see...
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A Stewade sighting!
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I mean Obi Wan could hit him with a "you still have a lot to learn Anakin" after the fight and it would still make sense assuming he wins.

I don't think that's the end of the world as far as continuity goes.
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Assuming we already saw Reva in the opening sequence of the show they've already started laying some of that groundwork.
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Totally, which is why I suspect that's what it will be. But zooming out, is a random Inquisitor we just met really going to be the central figure in the Obi Wan / Vader rematch? It looks like it's setting up that way, which is why they have some work to do to make it land emotionally.
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And Leia is going to turn her to the good side
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maroon barchetta said:

A Stewade sighting!

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wangus12
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I just want to see the 5th Brother or Vade smoke Reva.

I'm still enjoying it
Brian Earl Spilner
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I think in the final fight, Reva will try to intervene to help Vader, and for that, he will kill her immediately. He wants a clean win.
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Oh god, no. Why would you remix something so iconic.
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maroon barchetta
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Freck was basically the Horatio Sanz character from Mando. Same kinda deal really. A kinda quirky chunky alien thrown in the mix.
Brian Earl Spilner
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That was Zach Braff.
maroon barchetta
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Yes. I know that.
Brian Earl Spilner
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Not everyone does. Just sharing trivia.
 
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