Both Kenobi and the ST suffer from the same basic issue. There is no story to tell, and both end in the same place where it started. Ultimately some of us are left wondering what was added to the overall story set out in the first six films. Star Wars has nothing new to say. It’s just regurgitating past stories while throwing in insufferable amounts of fan service.
I respect your opinion, but totally disagree. Sure, the saga can exist without this series, but this series addresses what Kenobi might have had to deal with after ROTS and before he could be the character he was in ANH. It brings the inquisitors into the live action canon (remember, Vader only helped the empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi - the Inquisitors were the ones doing most of the work). As for fan service, it is only insufferable if you don’t appreciate it. Those of us who appreciate it love every moment of it.
It addresses what Kenobi might have had to deal with by giving us another variation of what was already done in The Last Jedi. Star Wars is just going in circles. To me it’s just becoming very tiring, and reductive. There’s just so little originality. The start and end point of all these stories are set in stone, while the road in between is just repeating what was done before. Star Wars has become stale, like an old rock band who after 40+ years just plays the same set list over and over with very slight variations in the arangements of the music. I really hope Taika Waititi can do something different and exciting with his film, and thus inspire Lucasfilm to hire some good writers, that can bring back some creativity to this creative black hole.
I find it disappointing that you can’t see and enjoy the variations that make this unique. To put it in music terms, you are focused on the melody being the same while missing that the lyrics are different. It is a valid opinion, but I think you are missing out.
It just doesn’t do much for me anymore. What suprised me most about the Obi-Wan series is how little the final fight between Obi-Wan and Vader moved me, despite Ewan McGregor’s great performance. It wasn’t always like that. I liked Mando season 1 quite a bit, because it focussed on new characters and a new story. I thought the second season was fine, but it was too preoccupied with cameos and fan service, while the entire raison d’etre of the second season has been undone before the third season started. The Book of Boba Fett was just a poorly written mess with one good Mando episode. Finally Obi-Wan ultimately was a few cool moments held together by a flimsy story and at times surprisingly lazy writing, and cheap visuals.
So, yeah maybe there are a few attempts at new lyrics, but those lyrics have recently neither been good or memorable.
The trailer for Andor looked good, I must admit, so maybe that series may surprise me. On the other hand:
“There’s an old saying in Tennessee - I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, 'Fool me once, shame on… shame on you. Fool me - you can’t get fooled again.”