Obi-Wan Kenobi

This is probably old news / thoughts... There's no way Vader didn't know that Luke was on Tatooine. They didn't exactly do a stellar job of hiding him, by not changing the surname and actually have him living with relatives etc. It could be a good way to explain why Vader never went after him. Perhaps him and Obi Wanker Nobby come to an accord of some sorts after a few dustups during this series and Vader just ends up wanting to sit back and see what path Luke will take.

Actually, now I come to think of it, I'd be much more interested in a Vader tv show than an Obi-wan one.
With him going off hunting jedi, learning from the emperor, etc..
Maybe that's what we're getting here, but it seems weird to focus it on Obi.

They could even base it on Karen Gillen's Vader comics, which seemed to be pretty well received.

You could, but considering his mastery of the force its funny no one went "could we not hide luke a bit better?". At least change his name to Glen Earthdancer or something.

Yeah but its full of sand. Which is all coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.

Going from the trailer it looks as though its going to be about hunting down the last few Jedis more than anything to do with Luke.

Karen Gillan? From Guardians of the Galaxy or do you mean Kieron Gillen from Pc Gamer?

A lot of the trailer seemed to be on Coruscant or something.

Yes. Same person.

It does blow my mind how much apathy this content farm model has generated. I couldnt care less about this, I havent watched half of the marvel things and there are a billion trek shows in the offing which will probably pass me by.

I could probably have mustered up some shits to give had this taken the story forward but since thats only allowed for mainline movies, we are forever stuck with fascinating stories about how Obi-Wan learned how to scream like a Krayt Dragon to scare off the fucking sand people.

I think you have to kind of hand-wave away (Obi-Wan style?) these sorts of inconsistencies and plot ridiculousnesses, because to a large extent Lucas was making it up as he went along. Yes, he had ideas about where it began and where it was going, but at the time he wrote Star Wars Vader wasn't Luke's dad, Leia wasn't his sister, etc. Every subsequent "retcon" (in the sense that he was sort of changing his mind, not that it technically retconned anything we'd already seen) made the galaxy smaller and made the characters' decisions that much dafter - like Obi-Wan going into hiding by, er, dressing exactly the same and keeping his surname.

I think this is all part and parcel of why I can get on board with Jar Jar and the space Vespas and all the other bollocks - for me, it's no different accepting that than it is Luke being hidden with his aunt and uncle but still going by the name of the magic space Nazi who's murdering all the Jedi.

Well, this is the thing. You can forgive a lot in the original trilogy. It is obviously seat of the pants and some things were clearly either off hand or not meant to be particularly significant. Then subsequent films/series/zoetropes pile a mountain of shite on top of them and just make everything seem stupid.

At what point do we have to concede that the original trilogy isn't as good as we keep telling ourselves it is?

Never!

As gash as the prequel were, I thought McGregor was totally fine, he went for a younger version of the Alec Guiness Obi-Wan, speaking the same way and nailed it.