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Post #1494002

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Kaweebo
Parent topic
Obi-Wan Kenobi Redux Ideas Thread
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Date created
9-Jul-2022, 5:19 PM

There’s definitely good ideas there but imo, the guy didn’t go far enough. Reva is still the one who orchestrated the plan to kidnap Kenobi and thus puts him and his connection to the Organas on the Empire’s radar, Leia still knows who Obi-Wan is rather than just his pseudonym of Ben and Vader still does the really stupid thing of having the whole Star Destroyer give up the chase on the Path ship just to sit outside the planet where he and Obi-Wan have their final duel.

Even the changes he made to how the scene on Mapuzo ends still doesn’t really work all that well because Vader still lets him go only to get enraged when Reva fails to catch him later on Nur. If he wants Obi-Wan at ‘full power,’ he’s still not there even at the Inquisitorous headquarters. It just comes off really sloppy (also the line about the Inquisitorius HQ not having shields is still present, despite contradicting Jedi: Fallen Order.)

Further, the final duel between Kenobi and Vader still doesn’t work even if Qui-Gon tells him he’s the Chosen One. One, this contradicts Star Wars: Rebels where it is made explicitly clear that Obi-Wan considers Luke to be the Chosen One instead, but it also still doesn’t explain why Obi-Wan is adamant that Luke be willing to kill Anakin later on. It makes way more sense if Obi-Wan believes that Anakin should die but gets prevented from doing so.

While I think this would be kind of tacky (and just to keep this sort of on-brand for the thread), I’d almost rather Obi-Wan get a Force vision of Luke as a Jedi facing Vader in RotJ or something as a reason why he lets Vader live, ultimately deciding that it’s not his destiny to kill him. Again, it’s tacky but still works 10x better than not at all, because the alternative is he doesn’t kill him out of a personal unwillingness to do so and thus leaves the burden on Luke. At least with this, he could chalk it up to “the will of the Force.” It’d also put slightly more meaning to their meeting at the end of the series as he’s coming face to face with the one he’s ‘seen’ end the conflict once and for all.

I also agree with Pixeljoker about the music choices, there were too many callbacks pulled directly from the movies that just don’t work and would have been better silent. The best thing the edit does is cut Reva out before she becomes egregious by the last episode and does what she does on Tatooine, which is easily the worst part of the show for me. Otherwise it falls quite a bit short of what I’d want out of a ‘perfect’ edit.