For me, this is perhaps the most disappointing season of television I have ever watched. I almost said second most, remembering that Game of Thrones season 8 happened - but if I'm being honest, my expectations for season 8 of Game of Thrones were already quite low after the disappointment that was season 7.
Obi-Wan Kenobi is a show that you will quickly find is almost nothing like what is advertised. In the lead-up to this show airing, we were given multiple interviews with Hayden and Ewan, and we were led to believe that this show would be heavily focused on the relationship between their two characters. Unfortunately, we get what is probably akin to maybe one whole episode at absolute most that focuses on these characters. This show could honestly be renamed to 'Leia: A Star Wars Story' and it would make a lot of sense. The plot mainly focuses on Obi-Wan trying to rescue Leia and take her home, meanwhile, the most pathetic force user we've ever seen on screen, Reva (the third sister) chases after Kenobi for Vader. We get a couple of flashbacks of Obi-Wan and Anakin from years past, and those moments are pretty good, but they're so minimal that they basically didn't even happen.
The writing in this show is downright dreadful, as is the action choreography. There are scenes in this show where child Leia is literally outrunning groups of grown men who are out to get her, and she evades them for some time by literally ducking under trees and bushes, meanwhile these pursuers act as though a branch is some magical barrier and run awkwardly around it. There's a scene in the final episode where Reva (a force user with a lightsaber) is literally bested and held off by uncle Owen and his wife. No, I am not making this up. The lightsabers in this show don't even make sense. Stormtroopers take hits from lightsabers as though they're existing in a Lego game rather than a live-action Star Wars show. Reva is stabbed through the gut by Darth Vader and left for dead at one point, only to be standing and walking around Tatooine at the start of the next episode (a couple of hours later) with zero explanation given as to how this could be possible.
I really wanted to love this show. I was so hyped for it. But I cannot lie - this is by far the WORST Star Wars series to date. And while it might be better than The Rise of Skywalker, I'd say it's worse than every other Star Wars movie.
Review by ragreynoldsVIP 7BlockedParentSpoilers2022-06-22T13:16:45Z
For me, this is perhaps the most disappointing season of television I have ever watched. I almost said second most, remembering that Game of Thrones season 8 happened - but if I'm being honest, my expectations for season 8 of Game of Thrones were already quite low after the disappointment that was season 7.
Obi-Wan Kenobi is a show that you will quickly find is almost nothing like what is advertised. In the lead-up to this show airing, we were given multiple interviews with Hayden and Ewan, and we were led to believe that this show would be heavily focused on the relationship between their two characters. Unfortunately, we get what is probably akin to maybe one whole episode at absolute most that focuses on these characters. This show could honestly be renamed to 'Leia: A Star Wars Story' and it would make a lot of sense. The plot mainly focuses on Obi-Wan trying to rescue Leia and take her home, meanwhile, the most pathetic force user we've ever seen on screen, Reva (the third sister) chases after Kenobi for Vader. We get a couple of flashbacks of Obi-Wan and Anakin from years past, and those moments are pretty good, but they're so minimal that they basically didn't even happen.
The writing in this show is downright dreadful, as is the action choreography. There are scenes in this show where child Leia is literally outrunning groups of grown men who are out to get her, and she evades them for some time by literally ducking under trees and bushes, meanwhile these pursuers act as though a branch is some magical barrier and run awkwardly around it. There's a scene in the final episode where Reva (a force user with a lightsaber) is literally bested and held off by uncle Owen and his wife. No, I am not making this up. The lightsabers in this show don't even make sense. Stormtroopers take hits from lightsabers as though they're existing in a Lego game rather than a live-action Star Wars show. Reva is stabbed through the gut by Darth Vader and left for dead at one point, only to be standing and walking around Tatooine at the start of the next episode (a couple of hours later) with zero explanation given as to how this could be possible.
I really wanted to love this show. I was so hyped for it. But I cannot lie - this is by far the WORST Star Wars series to date. And while it might be better than The Rise of Skywalker, I'd say it's worse than every other Star Wars movie.