I’m suprised that there appears to be such momentum behind editing Kenobi, because I’ve found it near flawless so far. Perhaps that’s just a lack of imagination!
I definitely agree with a couple of tweaks mentioned here though - both regarding editing. The Leia capture definitely felt like she got away far too easily and for far too long, so I’m all for a quick sneaky sack on the head. And like others here, seeing Obi-Wan escape from Vader screen right, but then re-emerge in the next shot screen right, did make it look like he realised he forgot his keys and needed to dash back to grab them off the kitchen table.
And with all respect to Hal as ever, I feel like it’s worth revisiting the discussion about the Padmé’s survival canon conflict. The Obi-Wan show might do some work to reconcile Padmé dying in childbirth with Leia’s memories of her - perhaps Leia mentions that she dreams of her “as if she’s still with me” or something. But if that doesn’t happen, and the conflict remains, then I think it’s worth establishing which side of the conflicting information carries the most ‘canonical’ weight, and which must yield. And if that’s the case, then I think we can safely argue that Padmé’s death in childbirth is the more canonical, having been explicitly shown in a movie, and referenced here. Back when the conflict only existed between two films, it made sense to yield to the cultural weight of the original trilogy, but now, no new media is going to imply she survived, and more yet may continue to reference her death. I don’t think it’d be wise for us to be beholden to the idea of her survival, and to be encouraged to remove all new and future references to her death. Rather, I’d propose that the logical option here would be to simply remove the conflicting line from ROTJ, in spite of the cultural weight of the original trilogy. Pluck that rock out of the stream and allow the water to continue to flow in the direction it appears to be naturally going.
The cultural weight of the original trilogy is that none of this would even exist without it! There wouldn’t be any prequels, there wouldn’t be Luke and Leia as siblings, there wouldn’t be a Padme, and there wouldn’t be an Obi Wan Kenobi show if it weren’t for ROTJ. Like with Jenga, taking planks out of the bottom of the tower to put more on top is inherently unstable and leads to collapse.
With that said the usual way this is explained is that Leia is Force sensitive and was connected with her mother while in the womb. “Just flashes and images” is all she saw, and she remembered that her mother was kind and sad, which is a powerful understatement about the time of ROTS. This makes even more sense in the context of that specific conversation, with Luke talking to Leia about her being Force sensitive.