Episode 3 started off with promise, but the inquisitors are just terrible and just ruin every scene they are in. Their acting and dialogue is atrocious. Much of the episode just felt like it was heavily padded out and you could have done away with half of it and it wouldn’t have affected anything. While better than the first two episodes , it is just by a small margin. But i wonder how much of that was just down to having vader on screen again.
The checkpoint scene had me scratching my head. Obi-wan attempts and fails to turn off the laser beams then shoots it to disable it. Why not just walk around it? Really, it was just blocking the road and empty spaces either side of the blockade, just a few metres across. Just bloody walk around it.
It’s obvious that they are using AI tech for vader’s voice, which works really well in this, and Vader sounds so much like his OT version instead of the weaker and older JEJ vocal used in Rebels and Rogue One. But there’s something not quite right about the costume. I’m not sure if its the way its shot or the costume itself, but it looks so plastic and cheap. More like an off the shelf mass produced item than something crafted and shot for a feature. The saber duel was THE WORSE in the entire saga. the blocking and execution was BAD. Sure, Obi-Wan is supposed to be weak in this , but that’s not what the problem was. It was so badly shot and edited. It looked so fake. This is supposed to be showing vader at his height? But all they did was show Vader just randomly killing civilians , which came off as just a lame attempt to show " oooh, he’s an evil badass". Vader can throw Obi-Wan all over the place, drag him through fire and torture him. But put a wall of fire in his way and he just stands there and watches Obi being rescued? From the same distance that he was able to lift obi-wan into the air. But he couldn’t stop a droid? And just let them escape. I guess vaders force abilities don’t work through fire… oh wait, didn’t vader just do exactly that just moments earlier? But they just stand there.
The duel did one thing though. It completely destroyed the duel in ANH. It destroyed the meaning in Vaders line to Obi-Wan. " when i left you i was but the learner, now I am the master". Yet Vader was shown to be far superior to obi-Wan during this brief duel. He was not a learner. He doesn’t see himself as such either according to this series. He was more powerful than Obi-Wan. I’ve always said that they should never duel in this series and everything i, and many others, were worried about came true in this one episode.
Ewans accent again is all over the place.
When Obi-Wan started to sense the “disturbance in the force”, THIS is the moment that he should have learned that Anakin was still alive. NOT being told by the inquisitor. It would have been a much more dramatic moment. More emotional .Why did they not do this? Was it really just to get that reveal at the end of Ep 2? They really dropped the ball on that one. Another example of just how b ad the writing is on this show.
Then we get the inquisitor magically finding the other end of the tunnel and beating leia to her destination. Convenient.
It’s just written and executed so badly. One or two good moments cannot rescue lame episodes. The bad outweighs the good i’m afraid.
3 eps in and i do have a feeling that some good editing to condense this over-stretched series into one movie length feature could pull something good out of it. But that depends on what is to come… 3 eps left and i’m not holding out much hope.