The Star Wars thread - "Chewie, we're home." - The Bear and Badger

g.man

Yossarian wrote:

g.man wrote:

I'm guessing they cast very young in the hope of keeping her in the part as she ages.

A year young, apparently: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8643487/

Indeed. That'll be part of why they picked her. 9 years old but looks about 5 or 6. We can keep her in the part for yeeeeeeeeeeaars.

stellavista

“She is an actress and producer…”

Producer also. The force is strong with this one.

RedDave2

https://youtu.be/axjQR7c2nMg

Episode 2 of Larry. Mmmh.... you love to see it.

g.man

Huzzah!

g.man

Ep2 done, and Larry is unsurprisingly turning out to be glorious.

RedDave2

The bit when he tells Duke that he is glad he never had kids and does the shifty eyes... chefs kiss.

g.man

Aye, there’s some pure gold in there.

RamSteelwood

Just caught up with the last 10+ pages of this having stopped watching after ep3 and waiting until today to watch the last few eps with my kid.

Occasionally enthralling, often comical and sometimes moronic, the thread is a great companion piece to the show

RamSteelwood

Anyway, while there is lots to nitpick, something that really stood out in the last ep that i thought was just too jarring was reva managing to recover, get a ship and get to tattooine in the same time vader was chasing the refugees.
i know time and distance are always abused for narrative reasons, but i have two issues. firstly, it's a general issue i think with the disney stuff (and i think maybe the prequels started it) that makes the universe seem smaller cos people just pop up wherever they need to be in a moments notice - there was a sense in the originals that even hyperspace was long hike and you'd be hours if not days travelling to different systems. Tattooine is supposed to be a remote planet in the outer rim that no one had any reason to bother with and now people just pop there like they're nipping to the corner shop!
secondly, i just thought in terms of narrative it didn't add any extra tension or drama having the reva/luke stuff happen at the same time as kenobi/vader. i think it could have just initially let you forget about reva, leave her for dead, focus on kenobi/vader and getting leia home. that plays out almost the same, kenobi meets Leia at home and they're all 'phew, job done'....let you think the show is over. Then Reva arrives on tattoine, and kenobi gets his spider sense tingling about luke, and he's like "oh shit" but he's got a long ride home stuck in hyperspace. will he get back in time?

stellavista

You can take your pick of random jarring moments across the whole series. Off the top of my head:

- Obi’s magic elevator
- Adults chasing Leia
- Big gun shooting door until Reva lightsabers it open
- Stormtroopers running up to rebels to shoot them in the chest at point blank range after said door is opened
- Darth letting Obi escape after first duel
- Reva’s magic taxi to Tattoine
- Obi carefully disabling a laser gate that he could more easily and simply walk around (compounded by the editing to show the gate in a long shot afterwards to further highlight its redundancy)

It was almost as if a different director was creating each scene - kind of like a really expensive version of that game you play as kids where each person writes a sentence at a time then folds the paper down and you only read all the sentences together when you unfold the paper at the end.

g.man

MattyJ

I'm three episodes in to Obi Wan. So you're telling me that he has dedicated his life to watching over Luke, but hasn't been practicing with the force and his saber every day?! He's let his powers go to waste?!

b0r1s

Worst babysitter.

Paul the sparky

When you're a famous Jedi trying to hide, lightsaber practice is a bit of a tell

MattyJ

Paul the sparky wrote:

When you're a famous Jedi trying to hide, lightsaber practice is a bit of a tell

I'm sure no one would see in his cave in the middle of the desert.

Paul the sparky

Ah well. As long as you're sure

stellavista

Not practising with a lightsaber and therefore having rusty sabre skills is definitely something that would be understood considering he is in hiding. But not using the force at all? When you believe you’re protecting the son of the chosen one? Madness, madness I tell you. In the series they kind of hint it is because Obi has lost faith in the force, which just seems unbelievable for the character. It’s all just bad story writing IMHO.

acemuzzy

Couldn't like sith detect the force being used?

MattyJ

They could've feel Obi Wan when he's 10 feet away *shrug*. Force powers seem extremely plot dependent.

davyK

Given Obi Wan was pretty much an invincible Jedi at the end of SW:ep.3 they needed to create some kind of tension by downgrading him. The concept of the series was flawed because of that.

LivDiv

I just took it that he blamed himself for the fall of everything and had decided any form of practicing is a risk.
They could have showed that more to be fair, in fact I had hoped the show might be a bit darker in that respect. They had an interesting conflicted character plus an actor with the chops to handle it but they stuck with Saturday matinee stuff.

acemuzzy

I suspect they also know (the majority of) their audience tbf... plenty of younger kids ain't gonna be giving two hoots

LivDiv

Yeah it will be exactly that.

Paul the sparky

MattyJ wrote:

They could've feel Obi Wan when he's 10 feet away *shrug*. Force powers seem extremely plot dependent.

Maybe they couldn't sense him because he's severed his connection to the force? Like that's kind of the point in the not training thing?

I don't think it's that he's lost faith in the force either, he just felt that they'd lost the war. No point throwing your life away by that stage, so all the training etc goes out the window as it's safer that way. He said as much to the Jedi who asked for his help

LivDiv

The whole force powers thing has been inconsistent for a long time, pretty much since the prequels started. Just got to roll with it really, thems the Star Wars.

EvilRedEye

I think they were trying to bridge bad-ass Kenobi from the prequels with very much not a bad-ass Kenobi from the OT. I might be imagining this but I think they might have mentioned it in an interview. Isn't he trying to avoid being sensed by Darth Vader as well?

MattyJ

I can see that side, just it goes against him supposed to be looking after Luke. What exactly is he planning to do if the empire show up?

g.man

They should have got Dick Van Dyke to play Kenobi.

MattyJ

Episode 4 picked up though. Nice to see Obi

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g.man

I want to see them do the old bamboo with lightsabers.

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