SomethinSomethinDarkSide said:
I honestly don’t understand how it looked as low budget as it did at times. The first fight between Obi-Wan and Vader in that quarry literally looked like a fan film. Like, how do you get Ewan McGregor back and not give this project all you’ve got? If they could do it for Andor they could have done it for this.
I don’t even think you need Andor level, but it looks fairly cheap and they burned through budget on casting real actors for the Inquisitors when they do nearly nothing. For the story, really, all that functions is the Grand Inquisitor. And then burning budget EVEN MORE on Kumail Nanjiani, whose only there to really be a plot device. How much money did all this cost, for just not doing much?
Also, while we all know that the prequels and the OT don’t line up perfectly, the events of this show take it way too far. Leia having a whole adventure with Obi-Wan as a kid is ridiculous. In ANH she only knows Obi-Wan by name and reputation. She’s really not upset at his death in ANH because she never knew him.
I think there’s a way to make this work. I thank God for the idea, if He wills, that I posted somewhere else in a redo for the Kenobi show, to keep Leia in this adventure, justify why she named her son Ben (because to suggest it fits with this I think doesn’t make sense, as she doesn’t know him as Ben), and still keep Leia from realizing she knows Obi-Wan in ANH: Have her never learn his real name in this show and only know him as Ben the entire time. You can do this fun thing where you retroactively say that when Luke comes in to rescue Leia and says he’s with Ben Kenobi, Leia’s exuberant response is her realizing her dad sent to her get the help of the man who rescued her as a child, that Ben and Obi are the same person. Her not mourning his death can make sense, to me, because she doesn’t mourn her planet’s death in that movie either, so retroactively say she’s entirely emotionally compartmentalizing and is comforting Luke about it as a way to account for it. As for ideas as well, why not instead of fake jedi guy as a helper to Obi, it’s Commander Cody? Working to try and make up his betrayal to Obi?