How I realized I was over Star Wars completely

[jjreason]

I have heard that Hayden would be in the suit for Obi Wan, but it would make sense to show him as pre-suit Anakin as well.... he still looks young enough (even though they can de-age obviously as needed).

[Tom Foolery]

Couldn't figure out what to watch when I got home last night, so we collectively decided to start rewatching Clone Wars, but in chronological order instead of episodic order. Started with ‘Cat and Mouse’ and ‘Hidden Enemy’.

Hopefully we can get through the entire thing this time.

[anarky]

So, anyone see any absolutely fucking amazing trailers in the last day?

[jjreason]

I haven't seen them yet. I'll get to watching them so I can comment here. In seeing some captured stills I guess I'll go ahead & say I would have preferred they left the cartoon inquisitors to the cartoons & gone with some different looking ones for the live action... but that might not be a properly informed opinion. Let me have a look.

[Ran]

Between the Mandalorian, Boba Fett, and the trailer, I'm more excited about the show now than I originally thought I would be. Looks like it will tie the prequels/Clone Wars in with the OT nicely. The spinning lightsaber thing is still kind of stupid, and I really hope they don't show anyone using it to fly in live action. Also, the guy holding it looks a bit like the Grim Reaper from Bill and Ted. I really hope he gets Melvened.

That one black ship flying over the water looks like the POTF2 concept Snowspeeder.

[Tom Foolery]

Two episodes came out, but I only watched the first one. Because I work.
I disliked the Third Sister and her atrocious, hammy, cartoony performance. Like, the director was okay with not doing another take?

Everything else was great.
Okay, not entirely everything. The kidnapping chase thru the forest was comedically inept. Like “ohmigod, this tree branch is in our way! Curses!” Once would’ve been forgivable, but there’s four or five moments in that sequence like that. And I was like “Is that Flea??” and it was Flea.

Will watch the second episode tomorrow.

[Ran]

I watched both episodes.

Episode 1. The recap goes over all 3 prequels. It was funny how they edited it so that you didn't hear Anakin speak until The ATOC scenes. I agree with Tom Foolery on the rest. The scene in the saloon is supposedly a tip of the hat to a scene from Inglorious Bastards.

Episode 2: There was a point where I expected the Techni-color biker gang from the Book of Boba Fett to show up. Tom Foolery's comments from the first episode apply here as well. I thought that was 4-LOM, but by the end of the scene, I thought it may have been "1-LOM" or "3-LOM".

Oh, and Hardcore Parkour!

[jjreason]

I really enjoyed part 1 of Obi Wan. The villains were over the top as noted by EP, but in my mind it was an intentional homage to this trio:



Also, seeing life on Alderaan actually happening blew my fucking mind, just like seeing Luke teaching Grogu & the ants building the Jedi temple did.

Anyone else feel immediate stress during the opening? That temple sequence put me right back in the same agitated state I felt during my first viewing of ROTS. I'm still trying to figure out the purpose of that scene, I'm sure they'll tie in its relevance at some point.

[Diabolical]

I'm petty sure that opening scene is Reva's origin.
One of the younglings is a black girl.

[jjreason]

I haven't watched part 2 yet. Is that the second sister?

[Diabolical]

Third sister, fourth sister, whatever.

[Tom Foolery]

I'm petty sure that opening scene is Reva's origin.
One of the younglings is a black girl.

We were thinking that also, but my brain can’t make the math work with how old the younglings were vs how old Reva is.

Also, her unnecessary parkour bullshit on the rooftops…I’m developing a dislike for this character. I…detest her. As a benchmark for unlikable Star Wars characters, I find JarJar to merely be mildly annoying. She is way past him already.

[Diabolical]

She's ridiculously overacting. She feels like she belongs on Star Trek or something.

[Ran]

Anyone else feel immediate stress during the opening? That temple sequence put me right back in the same agitated state I felt during my first viewing of ROTS. I'm still trying to figure out the purpose of that scene, I'm sure they'll tie in its relevance at some point.

Yes. Maybe because of all the school shootings?

All of the Inquisitors are annoying. Things that work in cartoons don't always work in live action.

[vynsane]

i'm an easy mark, i guess. i love it.

good call on Reva's origin - makes sense, and would be a reason why she hates Kenobi as much as she does (abandoning the younglings/order). i missed that.

and, of course, i need an animatronic LOLA: https://www.starwarsnewsnet.com/2022/05 ... enobi.html