82. Obi-Wan Kenobi S1E4 Part IV Recap and Discussion

Now, I don’t want to go off on a rant here…



LucasFilm needs to hire me to take a look at “final drafts” of scripts…or anyone who is a fan of good television. The writing places us in situations in part four of the story that are unnecessarily bad and we shouldn’t have to ignore our way out of trouble to enjoy the show. It isn’t hard here to see ways the story can be exactly the same, but more believable and still exciting, but we get things like Stormtroopers who don’t notice Obi-Wan in the hallway, except they do, and no one hearing Tala in the terminal room, except they do. Reva is written poorly and the acting isn’t good enough to cover it up. One of the parts of the episode I liked the most was Roken, Wade, and Sully, and we got precious little of those characters. Vader continues to dominate every scene in my mind and it’s the one thing that allows me to forget about the shortcomings. We’re still getting Vader hunting Obi-Wan, which is how the show was “pitched” to fans.

One of these days, This is the Way Podcast will have to download that already-purchased-game Jedi: Fallen Order, especially since a planet introduced there shows up in this episode. We don’t see the Grand Inquisitor in that game (to my knowledge) and we still haven’t seen him reappear here. There is a real “love/hate” relationship this podcast has with Obi-Wan Kenobi, the series here which is to say Steve loves the characters and hates how bad the writing makes them appear. Our allegiance will always be to the Star Wars we loved as a child and still get in shows like The Mandalorian and not to just anything that Disney slaps a label on for marketing their products.

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