Obi-Wan Kenobi

I Still think this would have made a brilliant 3 parter or even just a film. Making it into a series means its lost the usual movie finesse (those ships I'm looking at you) and heavy editing that the first 4 episodes needed.

I think, on reflection, my real problem with it is that the currently the plot is entirely driven forward by leia who I would have been tempted to force choke within 30 seconds of meeting.

And, obviously, it’s prequel.

Easy there Rolf!

Regardless of the quality of the finished production I think this is broadly true of almost every D+ original (as opposes to the Hulu and Star originals that air on D+ in the UK)

Obi Wan, Hawkeye, and Moonknight in particular all feel like they were movie pitches that have been stretched to series length without necessarily having the padded and additional content to fully justify their 5+ hour run times. Not that they aren’y entertaining they just could’ve been a better fit done differently.

As someone who's enjoyed this show from the start, I do agree that it falls into the "not quite enough plot to justify a TV series" camp that a HUGE amount of streaming shows also fall into. The whole idea of making a "six hour movie" or whatever is really annoying. Like, you need more than "this ep they're on this planet"; each episode needs a proper arc. Mando did it! Mando was really good at it!

With this show, I felt that the first two episodes were pretty great, but III and IV dragged. This ep was an improvement as it felt it earned its place. In a way, I sorta think the first five eps could have been told in three. But like I say, I'm really enjoying it, and unlike Bongo my favourite character is actually Little Leia, who is awesome and deserves her own show.

Incidentally, I see a lot of people saying Moon Knight could have been a movie, but I disagree on that one. A couple of the episodes dragged a bit, but I think you needed the luxury of a TV runtime to have the trippy afterlife/flashback episodes. Truncating those for the cinema would have diminished their impact.

They’re all several episodes of a second act. That would be ok if they still had something approaching 3 acts within each episode, instead they always feel like they’re building up to something and it takes too long to get there.

They should write for twice as many episodes as they have of these things then edit the script down to that and then refine it.

That said, episode 5 of this is still very good, they could have cut the previous 4 into 2 or 3 though depending on length.

It’s not just D+ either, Foundation did the same thing and most other shows that aren’t amongst the best of the year.

Well it's getting there. He's just had 10 years off and needs longer to warm up.

Honestly, the best bit for me was when he did that one little saber-twirl after killing some stormtroopers in Ep4.

I mean, isn't that all we wanted? Ewan twirling his lightsaber in a sexy fashion.

Yes. It was pretty light touch, the de-aging.

I'm still shocked by how little McGregor has aged. Christensen has caught up and passed him! He's ten years younger, but he looks ten years older.

That was a good scene, though.

Latest episode was better but the inconsistencies are still there, lasergate is one I can't get over.

As mentioned the Third Sisters plan is a bit shonky, the scale was awful in the escaping transport scene and the Empire's constant buffoonery in trying to capture anyone is difficult to overlook.

I mean there's a Star Destroyer in orbit. Have half a dozen Tie Fighters hovering over the base. Open doors and boom job done.

This is the most nitpicky thing but - I like The Third Sister as a name, its mysterious and has the air of a Dark Souls boss about it, but the fact that everyone keeps saying it all the time does chip away at that mystique a bit

I think Kenobi is highlighting a weakness in using characters we already know the fates of, it dramatically limits what you can do with them as you know they can't be harmed in any significant way where's the threat? It also makes other characters less important because you know they're probably going to die or not play a huge role as you've never seen them before.

This will also apply to Andor, we know the hero dies on Scarif, he's as safe as houses in the show.

As I said before, this applies to the likes of Bond films, MI films, Die Hard etc. and people also rewatch them multiple times. Knowing what ultimately happens to the characters isn’t the problem, the journey needs to be good enough.

Oh god, the sliding then jumping bits got right on my fucking tits.