Director Deborah Chow
Starring Ewan McGregor, Vivien Lyra Blair & Moses Ingram
Rated M
Score 3/6
Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi watches over young Luke Skywalker and evades the Empire’s elite Jedi hunters during his exile on the desert planet Tatooine.
The sixth episode of Obi Wan Kenobi has finally dropped and it would seem that some of the plot leaks given out by some of those YouTube pop culture talking heads seemed to be fairly accurate, though perhaps the series as a whole wasn’t as bad as they were making it out to be, though it wasn’t that good either. Judging by all too familiar level of outrage marketing the series was just average, though I’m not going to sit here and write this claiming that Moses Ingram didn’t receive any racist messages because as we know as much as we would like that they didn’t but racists do exist. I just believe that Disney and by extension Lucasfilm need to come up with better marketing techniques. If the executives really want to fix the Star Wars franchise, they are going to have to look to their marketing because there was time when the Star Wars Franchise was a license to print money but with the insulting of the fans Disney took that license and set it on fire. With the right kind of intelligence behind the marketing of Star Wars they can restore the franchise. I enjoyed Vivien Lyra Blair’s performance as Leia. Though Kumail Nanjiani was an odd casting choice I’ve always seen him as a more comedic actor but by the final episode of the series Nanjiani had won me over with his portrayal of as Haja Estree. It was good to see that ingram’s character Reva had a character arc. My biggest complaint about the entire series was the visual style of the entire series. Some of the effects used in the other series for some of the characters such as Cade Bane and Ashoka have been visually striking and well let’s face it kind of cool. So, Lucasfilm has some talent when it comes to computer effects. However, when it came to Obi Wan somebody dropped the ball when it came to the relationship between the actors and the background with the whole thing coming across looking like a hybrid of the 2008 series Sanctuary and the 1993 FMV light gun shooter Crime Patrol.