What if he becomes Alec Guinness as George Smiley?
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A Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy: The Star Wars Thread
I really really liked these episodes. Ewan McGregor can still kill it as Obi-wan, and that was my lowest expectation for this show; it's nice to see this show is going beyond that and producing some good character work. I'm even slightly seeing some parallels with Ben here and Luke in The Last Jedi. It's like poetry, it rhymes.
The range of emotions Kenobi displays when he learns the truth of Vader’s survival (confusion, shock, fear, sadness, panic, guilt, despair, and maybe a little hope, all at once) were SO well portrayed by McGregor. Anakin still being alive would be such a nightmare after a decade of grieving, hiding, shoving it all down. Reaching out for him. And then the smash cut to Vader sensing him back in his tank. So good. I liked it all, but that was so good.
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Was Vader in the tank Hayden Christensen? He was credited for that episode...
Yep.
Gotta say this I’m liking this a lot more than I was expecting when it was announced
I was pretty down on Obi-wan in my previous posts, but one thing I do really like is the interactions Obi-wan had with Kumail Nanjiani's character. It's fun to see Obi-wan experience a little moral greys. He goes from being pretty absolutist in the beginning, to being a little more open minded and forgiving. It's a good juxtaposition on his dogmatic Jedi ways of looking at the world - which btw failed him.
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I am very down with both of these things. Best yet would be if he became all nine Alec Guinnesses from Kind Hearts and CoronetsWhat if... and hear me, out he became a Guinness?
I think this show has some writing and direction problems but I am mostly enjoying it. I'm not a kid expert but Leia looks pretty small for 10, no?
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Every kid is different but she looks about right, especially considering the actor is currently 9.
So she was probably 8 when it started filming and I'm correct that she looks small for her supposed age.
She looks a little small, but I've seen ten-year-olds about that size, and Carrie Fisher was a small woman.
The internet tells me the average height of 10 y.o. girls is ~4'5". My professional work with kids anecdotally says about the same; I almost never come across 10 year olds that short. She is very much shorter than average. She's closer to representing a 5yo than a 10yo in height. Are there 10 year old girls that height IRL? Obviously. But I'm pretty sure this has more to do with creating an image of a precocious little kid acting more mature than their appearance/trying to recapture some Baby Yoda vibes, than trying to accurately represent youth in media. Which doesn't jive with reality when these 10yo 'little kids' are actually very close to being full grown adults in height, and many can talk circles around their elders who grew up eating paint chips and huffing leaded gasoline exhaust. It honestly feels like the show is talking down to kids, but I doubt kids are its intended audience. It's not the end of the world or anything, but it's weird. Feels like a throwback to the Diff'rent Strokes school of TV casting where they're selecting the smallest kid to appeal to the adults in the room and to also avoid the kid hitting puberty and suddenly going all Jake Sisko on you mid-show. Which is just bizarre, infantilization to me. Kids grow up! It's normal!
Like the show was written such that she is able to run away from adults and avoid capture for at least a few moments, and this little girl with her little legs cannot believably do that on camera
lol my friend and I had a good laugh at that while watching. "She's force sensitive! She's like, using the force to move faster than we think she is!" The thing that stuck in my craw though, was that one Sith who we'd just seen a few minutes prior doing crazy Force-parkour, stands helplessly next to a ship slowly taking off right besides her and she just impotently gives up because it's taking off? But she's right next to it? If she held her hand out she would touch the ship, she's right there. Like, you've got a lightsaber girl. Hop on and start slicing. What are you doin?
That is just super low on my list of suspension-of-disbelief priorities I guess.
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Also, this one is a younger version of well-known colossus Carrie Fisher
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This, and I also assumed he was keenly aware of the situation and trying his best not to draw much attention to himself or her.
Episode 3 of Obi-Wan felt like nothing happened, until it did. I’m sure bad people on the internet will whine about retcons with this episode. Those people need to go touch grass.
Without spoilers, this week's episode was 
Wait so does it hit Fridays or Wednesdays?
Wednesdays, last week was a one-time thing.
Stayed up and watched episode 3. I liked it for the most part, but it was a little less fun than the first two. While I thought the parkour and other action of the last two episodes were fine, the beatdown duel here seemed a little flat, I think in part because Vader works best as a movie monster in corridors where he can pop out of a side passage and you can't get past him, rather than outside among piles of mining tailings where it seems like it would be easy to get away but nevertheless, there he is somehow.
But I suspect this was only their first encounter, the one Obi-Wan loses and has to be rescued from, like Luke was. The next one will likely end in a draw, or Vader losing a mechanical limb. It was brutal how Vader tried to draw Obi-Wan out; effective in its horribleness. No bluster or declaration. Just silently hurting and killing people because he knows Obi-Wan is there and watching. And dragging him into the fire; of course he would.
-"The Grand Inquisitor is nothing." And what do you think that makes you, Reva, when you're GI? There's no future for any of them.
-Grand Inquisitor actually dead, or just offscreen and assumed dead/lied about by Reva? We'll see. Feels odd for the show to kill off a major character from a show Dave Filoni directly oversaw, so I suspect we haven't seen the last of him. Apparently the Inquisitors showing up in OBW was his own idea.
-I predicted almost every line Vader spoke, to the specific wording, during the Obi-Wan encounter. Because they were all the most obvious lines. I hope he gets a little more to say. Nice to hear James Earl Jones again. No one does it the same.
-Vader's suit seems incredibly uncomfortable; no padding underneath, just armor on skin and his mockery of Jedi robes over that. Yikes.
-"Quinlan was here!" I assume it said "Quinlan wuz here" on the wall itself. I liked the little touch of hope for Kenobi there on what is about to be a very bad night.
But I suspect this was only their first encounter, the one Obi-Wan loses and has to be rescued from, like Luke was. The next one will likely end in a draw, or Vader losing a mechanical limb. It was brutal how Vader tried to draw Obi-Wan out; effective in its horribleness. No bluster or declaration. Just silently hurting and killing people because he knows Obi-Wan is there and watching. And dragging him into the fire; of course he would.
-"The Grand Inquisitor is nothing." And what do you think that makes you, Reva, when you're GI? There's no future for any of them.
-Grand Inquisitor actually dead, or just offscreen and assumed dead/lied about by Reva? We'll see. Feels odd for the show to kill off a major character from a show Dave Filoni directly oversaw, so I suspect we haven't seen the last of him. Apparently the Inquisitors showing up in OBW was his own idea.
-I predicted almost every line Vader spoke, to the specific wording, during the Obi-Wan encounter. Because they were all the most obvious lines. I hope he gets a little more to say. Nice to hear James Earl Jones again. No one does it the same.
-Vader's suit seems incredibly uncomfortable; no padding underneath, just armor on skin and his mockery of Jedi robes over that. Yikes.
-"Quinlan was here!" I assume it said "Quinlan wuz here" on the wall itself. I liked the little touch of hope for Kenobi there on what is about to be a very bad night.
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I feel like that was kind of the point? Vader had spent ten years thinking about nothing but revenge and what this moment was going to be like. He's very careful and methodical about how he acts and moves in this fight and leading up to it. He underestimated Obi-Wan before and it nearly cost him everything. And when the moment finally comes for him to prove his worth and defeat his white whale, Obi-Wan runs away and is a pathetic shell of his former self. It's flat because it's supposed to feel anticlimactic for Vader. And I highly suspect the reason why he just stands there and lets him go is because he's so disappointed in the moment and in Obi-Wan.
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That episode was pretty great about laying on the line how far up shit creek Obi-wan and Leia are. The Empire are casually monstrous and omnipresent and Vader is genuinely frightening. I'm still not overly up for multiple Vader duels with Obi-wan; the Clone Wars managed to never have Grievous and Anakin meet because of two lines of dialogue and I'm not sure they're being half as careful here.
That said, so far it's been really well done outside of villains running straight into branches for no reason, so I'll accept it.
That said, so far it's been really well done outside of villains running straight into branches for no reason, so I'll accept it.
Honestly, Clone Wars was too careful about that.
Another thing I liked: the pressure of Vader's presence on Obi-Wan, and how he sends normal people into near panic just by being there. Dark Paladin Aura of Fear.
Another thing I liked: the pressure of Vader's presence on Obi-Wan, and how he sends normal people into near panic just by being there. Dark Paladin Aura of Fear.