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Post #1487324

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Hal 9000
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KENOBI: A STAR WARS STORY [The Radical "Help Me Obi-Wan Kenobi" Cut]
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Date created
4-Jun-2022, 12:35 PM

To Eddie’s point, I do already make a version of LOE available in which Padme dies. However, my main concern has always been for the saga itself to feel cohesive regardless of any other (in the old way of thinking about it, “EU”) material. So whether Kenobi addresses it or not, the saga viewer is still presented with the apparent contradiction.

Assuming the subject isn’t broached in the remainder of the Kenobi series, I would prefer to leave LOE as it is but to trim a couple things about Kenobi to let the viewer go on believing Padme had lived for some amount of time on Alderaan. I really like Leia’s conversation with Ben in episode 3 because when she wonders about her father, it implies she has less reason to wonder about her mother.

Now, if they go balls to the wall with a hard comment on the discrepancy by having Ben inject memories into her or something like that in a way essential to the story, then we might have an issue. But even so, two versions of LOE dodge the issue. If Kenobi does make a deliberate solution to it, there’ll still be the “saga only” version that coheres better directly with ROTJ.