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- #1487355
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- The Kenobi <s>Movie</s> Show (Spoilers)
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I think it has less to do with the location and more to do with how it was shot. Like the shots of Obi and Vader actually clashing felt almost fan-filmy. Hard to put my finger on it.
I do agree with the character stuff though.
I think it’s the location + the lightsabers. They’re literally just facing off in an Earth quarry. And the way the red and blue light spills illuminate the scene and behave - the sabers actually look like the glowstick props they are.
This.
I don’t mean to come off so negative about the whole show. I do like lots of it and I do think it’s better to have a more pared down story that isn’t overambitious, and is more character focused. Arguably, a lot of people wanted the show to be even more like that and just be an introspective story about Obi Wan on Tatooine with no Vader (not directly anyway,) something more like the Kenobi novel. The only point against doing that would be that they just did Book of Boba Fett which was way too much Tatooine.
That’s my concern, not that it’s less bombastic and more character driven, but that it’s not focusing enough on the main character. It keeps cutting away during parts that I want to see more of, and adding more and more stuff about Leia and the inquisitors.