I gave this a chance, so you don't have to.
Follows the now-usual Disney pattern of employing third-rate talent for directing and writing. Not even Ewan McGregor can elevate this to being watchable - he gets nothing to work with. Don't bother with this.
The lady who plays the third sister, is an awful actress. Disney needs to stop catering to kids when it comes to marvel and star wars, too many scenes/stories are so childish.
Sigh, what a disappointment so far... Seems like target for this is 10 year old kids while it should be 30 y old fans raised on old SW and ObiWan.
And then there is acting and the story which is utterly crap. So many scenes are just pure cringe. Who signs off these shows? Are they all just horrible at their jobs or they don't care about SW anymore.
I loved Mandalorian but this is just crap so far.
Some blatant writing and casting errors get in the way of this being so much as passable. To name a few:
- They tried too hard to make child Leia precocious. In one scene she's Sherlock Holmes, in another she makes a self-jeopardizing comment or decision, but for the most part, she talks too much and is annoying.
- Reva is the least intimidating dark-side character I've encountered in Star Wars media. The actress is tragically unconvincing in that role.
- Then if those points weren't enough to make the episodes seem juvenile, Kumail Nanjiani's stupid face enters the picture, instantly signalling to the viewer that this show is ultimately some kind of comedy.
This is just....bad. Disney you really need to start listening to the people that are watching your shows, and not the minority that is shouting the loudest to bend to their will, ALLOT of bad press recently with your writers, and directors, actors, and their "message". You really are destroying a franchise, with a built in fan base, with terrible content.
The Mandalorian was new, refreshing, exciting, and was always over too quickly.
Boba was boring, slow, unimaginative, the best episodes were those that Boba was not in.
This Started bad, and got worse, so many problems, broken cannon, timeline jumbling, things that make no sense, course correct before it is too late.
Holy, so much of this was just straight up bad. Visuals were pretty good, costumes too, but that's about it. If they had just put some more money into the script and acting and less into a need for ticking every box a modern piece of film seems to need (maximum diversity, "unexpected" twists, catering to the fans etc.) then they might have created something much better. This however, I am not going to continue to watch.
This tv show is very current. A lot of nothing, empty and soulless. Pure boredom.
When it comes to the prequel trilogy, Disney has gone from barely acknowledging its existence to now padding their story out with fan fiction, all within the span of only a couple of years. The results are, as you might expect, pathetic and mind-numbingly dull. There’s just no way around it: this is another dreadful Disney+ show with production and directing that somehow manages to be even worse than The Book of Boba Fett. There’s this old Hollywood cliché that women can’t direct action, and well, I’ll just say that this show doesn’t do that stereotype any favours. Ewan McGregor kinda delivers, but most of the performances in this show are awkward and cringy. It looks really, really bland for the most part, and the story is uninteresting and dumb. It makes little to no sense in the timeline. Revenge of the Sith took its time to cram everyone into their starting position for A New Hope, and the fact that we have characters meeting up again between those time periods kinda fucks with the whole continuity in A New Hope, which only adds to the fan fiction feel of the show.
3/10
Kids crap. You can bravely pass it if you are older than 6
An absolute disappointment of a show. Poor handling of Obi Wan and Vader. Atrocious storytelling. Terrible chase and action scenes. The list goes on...
Horrible, they killed the show from the beginning with that horrible cast for the antagonist. it is difficult to watch that potato face any longer.
That Moses is such a bad actress, damn. I get so bored. Aren't there any good actors left?
They shouldn't give parts only because they are black. They should be good actors!
It carries the name but this show is a soulless shell of its legacy. I'd instead burn money than watch this again.
Only way to watch this show is like the A-team or mcguyver or something. Don’t take it serious, otherwise you will be disappointed. The writing is bad, Sfx are not good, story does not make any sense, why is Vader in Mordor, why can’t a Jedi catch a slow little girl.
Bad writing and directing, completely skippable.
Not going to say much because I already did that in my episode comments. To summarize the show in two words:
utterly disappointed
So many negative reviews but such a high rating. Suspicious
rather boring, and sometimes annoying
I didn’t expect much and somehow I was still surprised by how bad this is...
Redundant. Part V suggests it could end strong, but Ewen McGregor being a perfect Obi-Wan can't mask the generic, predictable story he's having to carry. Remember Leia? Remember Luke?? Remember Darth Vader?? Isn't it cool watching them in conflict all over again with new characters you'll immediately forget once this is all over??? It has solid characters, decent action sequences and acceptable performances, it just all feels a bit been there done that.
Disney are course-correcting from the disastrous sequel trilogy by pumping out TV shows so safe you might as well not watch them at all. Mandalorian is the exception to that rule and potentially Andor. Obi-Wan is not awful, it's just disappointingly fine. 6/10.
Needs more Obi and Luke…. This B.S. with the new movies from Disney is getting ridiculous! Enough already with the women roles as main characters. Sorry don’t hate, nothing wrong with a strong female character…..dishes and doing laundry takes strength :joy::joy::joy::joy:. Some things shouldn’t be messed with.
Its good. Not more.
A bit childish in second episode.
A lot of the story doesn't make sense. Why was Reva/Third sister trying to kill Luke? Why was she crawling and looked to be dying in the fifth episode, only to get to Tatooine and fight people likes she's just a bit injured?
It's really sad that Ewan McGregor always gets the worst parts of Star Wars franchise; he really was the best thing about the prequels and this show. It feels like they aren't really trying to make a good story or have any character development. Many fight scenes are far from needed. We all know who's gonna win and the fights themselves aren't that well choreographed, so are completely pointless.
Hell was this bad! Boring, almost no story, no plots, poor CGI, bad acting.
The story fits on one paper and takes six episodes. Tough as chewing gum.
And hell, Obi-Wan had another chance to kill Darth Vader and decided not to do it. Come on. How stupid is this story telling? As if someone is not taking this opportunity on a second run.
Absolutely disgusting and poor series.
What a waste of time and money. A show show that didn’t need to exist since we knew that every important character would survive. Boring and annoying. And I still need to know what causes Leias memory loss before this show and Ep. IV.
07/22/22
-Just finished the season finale. Love what they did with Darth Vader. Showed just how menacing he could be. The show was tied together with his relationship to obi wan. Great watch that doesn't ruin canon of original trilogy.
Is Obi-Wan Kenobi perfect? Nope. But is it bad? Absolutely not. As always, people are way too negative and are copying the lame comments that they see on Reddit. Form your own opinion for once, and if you do, try to sit out more than 1/2 episodes before doing so. My god... let a show develop.
I don't think that Reva is that bad of a character. Would it be more fun if the Grand Inquisitor took that part in the series? Yes, I think so. Is the actress bad? Kind of. But the angle (however obvious) that she is an Order 66 survivor, is okay and doesn't deserve hate.
It's great to see Ewan as Obi-Wan again after all these years. It makes sense that, after 10 years, he isn't the Jedi that he once was and that he is struggling quite a bit. Does that struggle vanish at convenient times? Also yes, but give my man Ben some credit, he deserves a warm up to get back into it. Disney handled Darth Vader perfectly. The way he rampaged to that town, burned Obi-Wan and fought Reva a bit later. Amazing. He is menacing and a force (hehe) to be reckoned with. Hayden looked a bit too old in the flashbacks tho. He had his Episode II rat tail, but he looked like a senior citizen (I'm exaggerating obviously). Leia is a bit annoying, but she's also like that in the movies, so that makes sense I guess. I wished we saw a bit more of Luke, but it's fine either way.
The Vader vs. Obi-Wan showdown in the finale is all I wanted from this show. And we got it! I got goosebumps during that scene. If you don't think that made up for all the lesser parts, in the words of Obi-Wan: "well then you are lost."
All in all, I've enjoyed Obi-Wan. It has some amazing call backs and the cameo we all saw coming from a mile away to wrap it all up.
Pretty weak so far. Even worse than Boba Fett.
This Show ist like a bad fanfic.
I laughed a lot, I cried a lot while watching this series ♡
It is really entertaining as everything in star wars with lighsabers. I got what I expected.
There’s some moments that are sort of campy or nonsensical, but that’s just kind of reminiscent of old Star Wars as a whole. It’s a perfectly fine series, even if it’s a bit of an unnecessary one. It was great to see Ewan and Hayden back in their roles.
Those super shaky camera passages made me seasick!
I like Ewan McGregor. Could watch his day-to-day business as Obi-Wan six episodes long with his calming aura.
Although the show can build up a nice atmosphere with a lot of love details, there are too many plot holes with way too many Saturday morning cartoon scenes. Sadly, they destroy the little bit this series build up.
The pursuit of Leia, the gate scene and so many more. How many persons at Disney must have seen those scenes and were like "Yes. That's our vision for Star Wars. That's what we want to represent."
So just another content without quality control for Disney+ Embarrassing
Giving this a 6 overall and I feel that's generous. Kenobi was a completely forgettable experience.
Watching Obi-Wan Kenobi after seeing everybody get angry about it for weeks, I kinda expected it would rob my house and harass my family. In the end, i found it less boring than The Book of Boba-Fett. Now, "less boring than The Book of Boba-Fett" is not a great compliment but, I mean, this is the usual Disney+ mediocre shit that's got a few really good ideas but lets them go to waste because it doesn't want/doesn't know how to develop them and it dilutes in six hours of TV a story that (maybe) didn't deserve more than a two hours movie. Also, I'm not sure about which creative decision I find more astonishing between (1) "let's throw away the script about Obi-Wan protecting Luke because it's too much like The Mandalorian and use a script about Obi-Wan protecting Leia instead" and (2) "finding narrative tension in a story about a protagonist and an antagonist who aren't really in danger is hard, so let's focus on putting in danger a third character who also cannot really be in danger and having a fourth character who only wants to kill one of those three characters (who cannot die)". And let's shoot ourselves in the foot, while we're at it. Then of course, even starting from that, you still can do good stuff if you can write in a way that creates narrative tension based on deep characterization, relationships, character's journey, developing those ideas that, I repeat, are there but, as usual, don't have any depth. Or maybe you can save the show with a spectacular visual approach, great action, those kinds of things. And sure, there are some good moments but mostly this is a show with amazing production values wasted on a visual and narrative approach that feels twenty years old. Which also makes me think that these shows are starting to really feel very flat and samey in terms of looks and I'm wondering if the celebrated StageCraft is the guilty party in that.
All that being said, I didn't find it particularly worse than the usual mediocre silly pop stuff that we get on Disney+. You know what didn't help? It being released while Stranger Things, Ms. Marvel and The Boys were reminding us that you can do silly pop stuff that is not even remotely perfect but has got so much more personality and/or ideas and/or interesting visual stuff.
The best thing SW has released in ages imo, Ewan and Hayden both bring their A game and they handled my favorite SW character great, I don't get the hate must be a bunch of sith on trakt
Dear writers... if you make a horror show, then you can let the villain appear behind any corner, have the protagonists go into the cellar even if it's the worst possible option, you can even have villains reappear despite being killed off before. You can basically do anything to get the scene you want to record.
If you make sci-fi, people will question how the villain got there so fast, why a stab to the guts didn't kill characters and why characters make obviously silly decisions. It's a different audience with different expectations. If your story doesn't rationally make sense, then no amount of great visuals and actors can save your project.
The series exudes a certain nostalgia, a throwback that tries to recover a certain spirit of the first films but at the same time establish the second batch of films as "foundational". The problem is that "Star Wars I, II and III" are difficult to defend as solvent cinematographic products, and using them as a reference means accepting mediocrity as a starting point. So Deborah Chow's inability to effectively handle a single action scene seems like a minor problem.
Pretty much worth for the last 2 eps alone, plus a few great moments in ep 1 and ep 3. Sadly everything was hit or miss, mostly way too slow paced/too much filler at times. I actually like the execution of kid Leia it was nice to see how she and Obi-Wan ultimately influenced each other.
Reva... while I don't hate her, and I think her concept as a character was interesting, I just thought she wasn't very well executed. They clearly hyped her up as deuteragonist to Obi-Wan but it honestly felt like she got too much screentime in comparison to Obi-Wan for most of the series.
Outside of that, the fanservice was great. It was nice to see REAL lightsaber fighting again.
I had high hopes for this show but this little girl is so bad I don’t want anything to do with this shit. She ruins every moment of it. Makes the shit unwatchable.
As per usual, Disney provides stories with more plot-holes than new content. Like why does Obi-Wan Kenobi's face not show any damage when pressed up against naked flames, why does he have a much weaker force due to 10 years without use, but in A New Hope he has his full Jedi abilities including Jedi mind tricks. I find the fact Obi-Wan and Vader have a confrontation before a new hope making their final battle less significant as this has happened before. Also Obi-Wan just flees and just kind of freaks out when he sees Vader, i much prefer how calm he is in A New Hope. Everything just feels forced, like in the first episode there was a whole scene with like 35 people and Reva just had to confront Owen WHILST Obi Wan was on the side. Also was it really a coincidence that the 1 person (Reva/Third Sister) determined to find Obi Wan was out of all the millions or maybe billions of planets on the planet he was off the grid at? Also how was Luke absolutely clueless on Jedi's and the force when there was literally Empire/Sith-Lord activity in his own town on a DESERT PLANET WHERE NOTHING HAPPENS YET DISNEY ALWAYS BRINGS US BACK TO THE BORING THING. Also i would've thought that after everything Leia and Obi Wan Experience she would mention something in the hologram requesting for help. THEN SHE NAMES HER SON AFTER HIM?? The kidnapping scene was atrocious, they couldn't reach out to grab her? The way they were running was incredibly slow and it looked weird. Overall Visuals are nice as the budgets are normally sizeable, i would recommend to watch the Mandalorian or rewatch the original trilogy as this is a classic Disney brand ownership cashgrab. Entertainment 5/10 Story 2/10 Visuals 8/10 Acting 6.5/10 (It appears that Chow has not directed Moses in the right direction to provide a complete character as her character is oversimplified and laughable) **Ep 5 was quite enjoyable
ShooFinished the 3rd episode, huge let down so far,i can live with same bad acting here and there but the main issue for me;
this is not the same Kenobi in the prequels,he's weak, coward doesn't know shit, whomever wrote this show should be fired
Edit After ep4 :
who the hell kidnap and interrogate 10 year old kid and believe their information..is this the empire of Cartoon Network!!!
Ewan McGregor should have passed on that stupid script.
PS.whomever going to shoot the writer;be a dear and shoot Moses can't act Ingram too.
I've been holding back my comments until i'd seen at least 3 episodes of this. To begin with, so far, the shows only been good enough for a 7/10 from me. Good, not great or amazing, just good. It's clear that Disney has chosen to bring in a new face to replace another main character that a lot of us know from the Rebels animated series and cater more to the woke audience. While I don't have anything against the character there does seem to be an empty choir screaming out for some form of purpose from them. What that is, i have no idea. Will they get better at acting? that also remains unclear. Obi-Wan's character has mentally and physically regressed so much as to assume that he's completely neglected his principles and training resulting in a husk of his former self. Not worthy of the title of Master any longer, I wonder if this show will ever build into anything compelling enough to warrant giving an 8/10 - Which is where it should be aiming for from all parties to be honest.
You can use the nostalgia generated by the prequels in your favor, they are very interesting moments to explore what lies ahead in the series. The performance of the inquisitors can be the point for or against the narrative.
Am I drunk or something? First episode is god awful. Like whole episode looks like something from random fan-fiction made into YT series. Awful green screen, thrash-tier acting (especially from third-sister, jeez), boring story. I feel like i am watching some parody of what Kenobi supposed to be. I really liked Mandalorian, i was disappointed with Book of Boba and this is... really something i guess...
typical disney marvel/starwars fare...
- ultra slow, the story likely fits onto a single page. plus lots of bad actors.
+ great visuals though. one or two good actors, who have far too few lines.
someone really should tell disney that great stories are made by a great cast. and never just by a single character.
I couldn't make it thru this series due to Moses Ingram's terrible acting skills. It was just too much to endure.
Reviewed this on Letterboxd first
since this is a tv show though I want to try and review TV shows on Trakt and movies on letterboxd, but whatever
I wanted to love this so much, but the way the story and writing goes is just so fucking bland and boring, that not even Ewan McGregor can save the bad script. I don't blame Deborah Chow at all, I don't blame any of the creatives except for the writers (specifically Joby Harold, fuck you) because that's what bogged the show down the most. There was so much potential and so much more interesting shit to go down and explore with Kenobi's character that, I will admit, gets touched on slightly in the show but god
disappointing, is what I'd call this.
Other things I noted while watching this:
- It looks cheap as fuck
- the 'volume' that they used, just like in Mandolorian and more recently The Batman, for some reason looks worse all around. I was convinced they straight up used greenscreen for those shots
- The show apparently went through a big rewrite? which would explain the messy story for sure, especially because the original writers had this big idea to explore Kenobi's sort of journey as a man in exile to a man who becomes the Ben we love and know. Or something like that, idk I only read the wikipedia article
- why does Andor look like a much better show.
- on the topic of Andor, why couldn't they have made this show distanced from the dumb Disney trend of being hopelessly attached the the Skywalker family. It would have been so much better as more of a character study that shows kenobi's growth.
At this point I'm rambling. 4/10 overall. So boring and so disappointing.
I agree with many here. So far terrible with 3rd sister to kids playing major roles and which such bad writing. Ewan can’t do much with this script. Surprised as being a major producer of this I guess he had no power to influence the writing.
It pains me saying this but it was mostly just boring. I'm glad it's over, for now.
This show feels like fan fiction. A terrible one.
I watched Pentex's "Kenobi: A Star Wars Story" fan edit; he cut out all the unnecessary things, made improvements, and turn the show into a 2-hour movie. There are multiple fan edits (The Patterson Cut for example), but the version I mentioned is the best. It's still not good, because the original material is not good, but there were some scenes that I enjoyed as a fan. 6/10 for the fanedit.
www.pentex-kenobi-cut.art
Milking the cow. Not very inspired.
I’ve watched 3 episodes so far and I think this is the worst Star Wars related story I’ve seen and I’m not a huge fan of anything except the first 3 movies. I like the other movies, but not geeking out over them like I did when I saw the first 3 when I was a kid with my Dad & Brother at the movies and then watched them over and over on cable. Mando has its moments and Boba was decent even though I would like more violence and cool stuff like the opening seen of Mando season 1. The Star Wars franchise has always had a few weak links when it comes to acting, but the first 3 episodes are by far the worst acting I’ve seen so far in anything Star Wars related. Specifically the actress that is pursuing Kenobi everywhere. I mean Flea’s acting was better and he was awful too. Not a big fan of the Princess either and the whole Jedi chasing a 10 year old that doesn’t look or sound like she’s 10 around a city and across rooftops was just ridiculous. I could go on, but why bother. Disney is going to keep ruining this franchise like they are the Marvel one. I’ll be finishing this one just to see if it can actually get worse. This show is not even “fair”. I don’t know what # is for “poor” but if it’s anything higher than a 4 it’s worse than that, and probably closer to a 3/10 than a 4/10.
An another amazing live action series that makes you really feel for Old Ben in his exile watching over a young Luke Skywalker. For me this series also gave more dimension and form along with substance to the Inquisitors. The encounter with Vader giving fans everything they wished they saw out of their final duel on the Death Star.
“The Room” of Star Wars, with guest star MacGregor.
Script! Dialogue isn't great in Star Wars, but this is like generated by ChatGPT.
Casting! Rupert Friend unrecognisable and wasted for this role. Moses woman is just worst casting of the century .
Flea - unfair, he's a great guy and he can act, but he's given wrong role and then nobody directed him.
Evan can't play badly and he's like in his own movie, just terrible dialogue keeps pulling you out.
Editing! People chasing that little girl by giving her couple of seconds to run away. With camera placed to show all the mistakes. At least editor could cut one second earlier to spare this embarrassment, but they left all that calamity in!
Plot holes, let him in the open with weapon that makes him instantly recognisable . Why Ben has intruder alert if after looking at it he will just walk in without care anyway. And his things still get stolen. Why he has to work as meat cutter in poverty when his close friend is basically king of the world, couldn't Ben some retirement money? Dig out the box from the ground after many years, - it looks like put there minute ago.
Sets! Each planet location look like a small set just shot many times from a different angles to confuse you. And almost all of sets, even the desert, look fake and artificial. We have the technology! Why?
Don't waste 5 hours watching padded garbage. Watch the Patterson Cut (https://www.kaipattersonfilms.com/kenobi) instead. It's a 3 hour movie version of this show, that looks and feels like Star Wars.
7/10
Good show could have
been so much better,
the quality of writing
was all over the place
from Good to Terrible
to laughable.
Whatever stories this
show tried to tell
The Mandalorian told
them same stories
Ten+ times better.
"This Is The Way"
While this show was not the great show everyone was probably expecting it to be, I still enjoyed it for what it was. It was great to see Ewan and Hayden back in their respective roles, and I was glad this got made regardless of its quality.
The first episode was terrible, but I kept watching, hoping it would pick up; it didn’t.
Overal I think Kenobi was not that bad. At least not as utter rubbish as Book of Boba. Only a few scenes were too terrible to watch, like an escape from the inquisitors main base with hundreds of troopers, was mind numbing stupid and the later laser-quest rifle gun fight at the Path base.
Oh and of course when Vader held a ship that was blasting off, with his force-fingers, yes that was also retardly stupid.
What I dont like is how Disney seems to be hell bend on degrading all our heros to weaklings with a frail hart and not able to get stuff done
What's next? Chewbecca series while he's taking care of his mommy and nana and being bullied ?
Bland and adds little of value to the SW world at large
This miniseries would have worked better as a film as originally intended. It's lacking pace. The little girl is fantastic as Leia and the writers did an ace job with her dialogue. I would have enjoyed more of her. The main antagonist Third Sister is also good though her storyline gets too much time. Overall, the film is okay but I don't think I'd watch it again.
It's a prequel to what we already know so the likes of the children, Obi-wan and vada cannot be killed. So that leaves us with the usual kidnapped child plot with nothing happening to the main characters.
Disney are just milking the franchise for all they can.
Only some scenes was cool but otherwise it was not special. Sad to see how they make so bad story's. I don't wanna follow Leia or Rava. Should have been only obi-wan and Darth vader story and how Obi-wan trained for immortality. while defending Luke.
I actually had to force myself to finish this… and it’s only 6 episodes. Not even the final battle between Ben and Anakin, and Liam Neeson’s cameo made me change my mind. I’m not going to continue.
Honestly feels like this show was written and filmed over the space of a month, because some Disney+ algorithm predicted subscriptions would start dropping in May. Big bad Mr Mouse couldn’t have that so they needed some Star Wars content quick time to keep us paying our fees.
There’s enjoyable moments, but it’s a mess. The story, the dialogue, the action scenes, they all feel hastily cobbled together. Using fan service as much as possible to paper over cracks in the facade.
As a stand-alone tv series, it’s watchable. And there are good points that’ll keep you somewhat entertained. But it won’t leave you clamouring for season 2.
But as a piece of Star Wars canon, for people that care about that sort of thing. It is extremely disappointing.
Actually a pretty decent show. I had low expectations going in based on Disney's horribly woke abuse of the Star Wars universe, but it turned out to be a bing-worthy show.
Don't get me wrong, it's far from great and is pretty formulaic and predictable. For me the most cringe worthy and nonsensical writing involving the 3rd Sister's actions, but still I enjoyed it much more than Boba Fett
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So I found this to be a bit of a mixed bag. On the one hand, the story-line is a bit mediocre and Inquisitor Reva was a bit one-dimensional. On the other hand, it was pretty cool to see another part of the story we've known and loved for decades filled in with a little more detail.
How I rate:
1-3 :heart: = seriously! don't waste your time
4-6 :heart: = you may or may not enjoy this
7-8 :heart: = I expect you will like this too
9-10 :heart: = movies and TV shows I really love!
Have to agree with the others, this is not very good. We know the starting point and the ending point of the characters but they play it like they may all die at any time. which ofc doesn't happen.
Would of been better off focusing on the creation of darth vader instead of a kids shows.
I chat about this series in this video:
bingeing stranger things, queer love, corrupt superheroes :sparkles: What I'm watching in June :rainbow: https://youtu.be/IHdOZWP_ki4
I think Kenobi should have been that movie series they talked about. The show was bland and lost. I wish it was better.
The series had a couple moments where it was really quite good. I think the first two episodes were the ones I enjoyed the most, the setup and then the early interactions with Ben and Leia were wonderful to watch. Now I think the series suffered from three big issues in general:
It had some good potential to be great, but then it just kind of fell flat on the story line and opted for flashy graphics and lightsaber duels to carry the show.
Not sure whether I should put this comment here or on the Season page since it feels like this will no longer be a limited series. Either way, here are my thoughts. This show is pure fan service, though most of that service is served in the final episode. It's fun to see McGregor back, but why are we seeing this story again? Does it add to the lore? Not really. Reva and Leia were great, it was also fun to see Hayden Christiansen too but...there wasn't a story. The writing is a mess, Episode 5 is where I just scratched my head and wondered how fast they wrote this. It's also worth noting that Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau were not involved with this, perhaps had they been this would have been more coherent and not feel like a 2-hour movie extended into six episodes (this is a criticism I have with not only this show but the Marvel stuff we received this year, none of it feels like a show and yes, that's a problem because then the storytelling feels off. Weirdly enough, the Disney+ stuff feels like it was made for Netflix). Anyways, this won't end up in my Best of the Year list, I'm sure one big IP show will but it won't be Star Wars related (we'll see which of the two big Fantasy shows will turn out to be best). Anyways, fun...but pointless.
I think that this received a lot of unfairly placed hatred from those who simply don't like Disney, b/c people like Ron DeSantis tell them not to like Disney. As someone who isn't overly invested in the whole Star Wars universe, I will say that this was an interesting watch, and I enjoyed the storyline. I liked how they connected Obi-Wan to Leia and Luke, as it fills in some of the backstory that was missing from later films in the series.
I think the thing that stood out most for me, though, was the acting. Both Moses Ingram and Vivien Lyra Blair were fantastic in their roles. Ms. Igram really captured her role quite well, as it called for a wide-range of emotions, and she played it remarkably well. She's been impressive in other roles, and I think that she's only going to become a much bigger star on the big screen. As for Ms. Blair, she was tremendous, especially for such a young actor. She played her role as someone w/ much more worldly knowledge than her age would indicate. She really nailed it, and I think that she has a bright future, as well.
I liked this limited series. It had an air of gravitas. The writing and acting was mature. The casting was spot on from the precocious Vivian Lyra Blair to the formidable Moses Ingram. (Anytime Indira Varma steps into a role my expectations for the project rises). Fans of the franchise should be pleased with the treatment of canonic characters and new additions. Ewan McGregor played the (not really) “old” Obi-Wan’s internal conflicts with great range. The visuals are stunning, the creatures are masterpieces. This is just a good, not rushed but not lagging, watch. I give this series an 8 (great) out of 10. [SciFi Drama]
The plot is garbage! It is in the same line as the ROS film. Don't expect too much for the show you will get very disappointed if you are a diehard fan of the SW franchise coming from a casual SW fan.
The director of all episodes is the same and she's not that good. Thanks to KK again.
You build up in your head a level of excitement over being able to explore Obi Wan's character a bit more only to be given a blah version of him. I mean, I like Ewan in a lot of things well enough, but he couldn't save the horrible trilogy and he's not redeeming himself here as Obi Wan either.
It was an OK show to watch, not great but not terrible, but what's irritating (beyond the horrible robotic non-acting of Moses Ingram) is that this was always to be a single season peek at Obi Wan Kenobi, but greedy Disney saw the numbers and is mulling continuing this into an ongoing scripted show so they can take a huge crap all over it like they do with everything they touch. And, let's face it, Disney isn't the Disney we grew up with, it's now just a propaganda machine.
good production quality but overall seams a bit "diluted"
it's like they had an story for 1.5-2h film but decided they really wanted this a 6 x 1h/episode series.
Third Sister's acting is awful. I'm all for inclusion but they could have hired somebody better.
More screen time with Anakin (aka flashbacks) would have been nice.
The most I can say it's that it's "fine" it has most of necessary the parts there (Ewan and Hayden) but something is seemingly missing (probably some soul) so the show just rings hollow to me. A real shame cause this is the first Star Wars project I mustered the energy to watch since TRoS but I probably should have stayed in my cave. A shame really cause I really wanted this to be good. People asking for a second season are delusional.
Some fun moments here and there fail to elevate a weak story told poorly. Everyone here deserves better. McGregor, Christiansen, Ingram, that poor little girl I hope isn't treated like the poor kid who played Anakin in The Phantom Menace, Flea and Kumail, Indira Varma, Sung Kang, Joel Edgerton.... I mean, that's a solid cast and all of them just deserved a better story, better scripts, better direction. But they got this. And so did we. Oh well.
worst of all of them Disney+ Star Wars shows... maybe the Mandalorian WAS a lucky punch. Cause Boba and now Obi Wan bombed imho...
I am not very well-versed in Star Wars and I wonder whether this show is as bad for Star Wars fans as the second season of "The Witcher" was for the fans of Sapkowski's novels? It is really hard for me too judge as I really don't know Star Wars inside out so maybe fans of both universes can enlighten me. Did the showrunners totally changed the protagonists' characters and behaviour as it was the case with the Netflix's Witcher?
I think if they packaged up the good bits of this series into a 2 hour movie it would have worked better. Far too many blatantly dumb things and bizarre action scenes (the Leia chase, Darth giving up in EP and that really bad running through town sequence that made it look like people were running on a treadmill.
Overall, I enjoyed it because it was Star Wars but never found myself getting overly excited about it.
Script: terrible. Story itself would have been alright if they hadn’t used the worst scriptwriters and the dialogue was actually better. Casting was very disappointing. Apart from Ewan McGregor, James Earl Jones as well as Indira Varma, it was a farce. Did not believe any of the lines. Nice to see Vader’s costume return. Fight scenes were good, though the handheld camera style was so out place and distracted so much of otherwise artistically well done scenes. Did feel least like a Star Wars thing so far.
Ye old Obi was just another space whale butcher like the rest of em.
One day, Beats boy, Plate on head boy and diversity hire come to his planet to find some space wizards.
After messing with the locals, diversity hire hits her 5 second enrage timer and flips out and cuts off some limbs.
She also decides to kidnap the princess she has seen in episode 4 as bait for Obi.
Obi gets master baited, but escapes with the princess, because their pursuit didn't want to interrupt the plot.
Diversity hire does some flips and hits her enrage timer again and kills Beats boy, because they are on the same side and she is angry.
Obi and the princess being the celebs of space decide to hide by getting in truck filled with storm troopers.
Obi uses his space wizard powers to shoot 10 storm troopers, because a fence is in the way.
Obi decides just to give up when another 3 storm troopers arive.
Friendly officer kills her colleagues, because they didn't attend her daughters birthday party.
Vader comes and starts snapping kids necks until Obi comes out.
Obi escapes Vader by simply walking away.
Vader uses a sneak attack by standing in the same spot and waiting for Obi to walk into him.
Vader decides to BBQ Obi for turning him into a potato.
Also he decides to let him get away, because he wants to kill him in episode 4.
Reeeva decides to teleport and kidnap the princess and use her as bait again.
Obi gets master baited and rescues the princess again, because friendly officer demands some stuff and kills some dudes.
After letting Obi destroy their base and kill their dudes Reeeva reveals that this was her master plan to master bait Obi again.
After following Obi to a blast door a storm trooper tells Reeeva he just spoke with Obi through a blast door, but she has to use the force to talk to Obi, because you can't talk through a blast door.
After trying to blow up the blast door for a while she decides to just open the door.
The 10 year old princess becomes a master engineer and lets them escape.
Reeeva turns on Darth Vader, because Obi seems like a nice dude after all and gets stabbed to death.
Reeeva just walks it off and decides to kill Luke, because she hit her enrage timer again.
Vader pulls their ship from the sky and destroys it, but they were actually on another ship right next to him and he decides not to destroy that one and just let them leave.
After chasing Obi, Vader decides to let the princess and her friends escape, because they are just 2000 guys on a Star destroyer and you can't chase 2 ships at once or hit them with 5000 lasers while they are slowly flying away.
Vader and Obi decide to fight and Obi wins, because he has seen it in episode 3 and it's not episode 4 yet.
Reeeva decides to not kill Luke, because he stubbed his toe and fainted.
Obi high fives Leia and Luke and everybody forgets this has ever happened.
Disney decides that everybody who sees any plotholes is a rascist and clap themselves on the back for another job well done.
I am not really into Star Wars as I watched it for the first time as an adult and a Tolkien fan, as a sort of an afterthought or a classic a fantasy/sci-fi fan must know, which is probably the reason why I never really loved the saga, perhaps if I had watched it as a child I would have liked it more. This show got rather bad reviews and even though I may not understand some things about Star Wars, most of the episode was rather boring and devoid of feeling. I like the music the best, it is quite atmospheric. The Star Wars world seems a strange mixture of advanced technology and really ancient-looking like societies. I wonder about the language used by the creature doing business with Obi, are there really fictional languages developed for Star Wars or was it just talking gibberish? As a Tolkien fan, I really care about the linguistic part of a given universe, and I guess there should have been millions of languages in the galaxy, whereas it looks like this aspect is hardly touched upon. Maybe some SW fans can explain this better to me.
Some cool moments throughout but the low stakes make it a dull watch.
Not a bad show. It was entertaining. But OMG Princess Leia & The Third Sister we’re such annoying characters. Ignore all the crazy fans, it’s good way to pass 6 hours. There are far worst shows out there.
Absolutely essential for REAL Star Wars fans, and that means not "The Last Jedi" lovers... Thank God that J.J. Abrams saved the last trilogy by taking over from the highly incompetent Ryan Johnson, who has no clue what the Star Wars universe is about.... but I diverse, Obi-Wan Kenobi is the perfect filler between episode 3 and episode 4.... Ewan McGregor is as always the perfect Obi-Wan.... I've been a fan since 1977, when episode 4 came to Belgium, and now, many years later, I'm still getting goosebumps when the John Williams theme starts yet another story in the Star Wars universe....
Amongst all of the contrivances, poor casting and horrible writing, Disney throws some scraps to the fans with two fight sequences that end in complete stupidity.
After Disney strings along the fans long enough to extract as much value as possible, they will reboot the franchise with a remake of episodes IV to VI. It will be based in an alternate timeline so they can write off fan criticism, and so they can still go back to the original universe if it fails. It’s been done before.
As someone who isn’t really a fan of Star Wars (I’ve only seen a few movies) this was fun and aside from some deaths which obviously couldn’t happen because this thing is supposed to be canon, I found it fun, visuals were very good as well which is a plus
A banal and bland Fanfiction, all is Too nonsense, Too Stupid, shot Too dark, Obiwan is pathetic, Vader is an incompetent fool and Reva is a very bad villain. But who cares is Star wars! ...right? ...right?
Started off really uneventful and slow, after e3 it got better. Keep it up I guess hehe
Best star wars tv show ever! Wow
Absolutly fantastic but with a few flaws
Watching the 3rd episode now, a lot of nonsense and bad acting, disappointing.
Roll on the 27th,this has got to be good.
Shout by The GuitaristBlockedParent2022-06-16T01:26:19Z— updated 2022-07-12T21:44:09Z
Terrible. Another Kathleen Kennedy POS. The storyline sucks and in so many cases, the scenes don't make any sense and are not believeable (within the Star Wars realm of course), and the acting and directing are trash. This was written for 12 year olds who want to be preached to.