Episode 4-6 is Star Wars as far as I'm concerned. The prequel trilogy had some good moments, but they were counterbalanced by a lot of misfires.
With Obi Wan and Boba Fett, the good moments are so far and few between.
They need to stop strangling the ideas in the original films and come up with something new.
It's not easy to create iconic characters like Han Solo and Darth Vader. If it was easy, everybody would do it all the time.
That kind of magic comes along once in a blue moon. George Lucas had it when he made the original films but he'd pretty much lost it by the time he made the prequels.
One of the big problems with Phantom Menace was Anakin being a little kid.
I don't want to see Don Corleone as an infant.
This franchise is claustrophobic which is incredible considering the size of the universe. There are countless planets, yet we keep seeing the same planets and the same species.
I have had enough of Tatooine. I've had enough of Leia. I've had enough of Darth Vader. I don't want to see another Wookie or another Hutt. Show me something new.
There are some good parts, mainly in the last two episodes. I liked seeing pre-Vader Anakin again and they redeemed Reeva somewhat by adding back story. The final fight was decent... but the whole thing just ended up feeling unnecessary. Everything since the original trilogy has been a let down.
The original trilogy was a bit over 6 hours.
The prequel trilogy was nearly 7 hours.
The sequel trilogy = 7.5 hours.
They keep getting worse and longer.
Now (with the TV shows) it's become unbearable.
The Mandalorian is almost 11.5 hours already, with another season on the way. Add to that the length of Boba Fett & Obi Wan. It's too much. Plus the Han Solo prequel and Rogue One.
Now we're getting a Rogue One spin-off and an Ashoka TV show... and a Lando show. Plus there's A Droid Story which is yet another show, this time about R2D2 and C3PO.
Oh, and a bunch more movies of course.
They should focus on quality over quantity.
Disney is going to kill this franchise.
It needs to die, honestly.
I look forward to a time without Star Wars or Marvel. They aren't infinite wells of entertainment. It's all marketing. That is all they care about.
Obi Wan is sloppy. Disney is focusing too much on the selling factor of these iconic characters and too little on creating an engrossing film. The quality control needs to be higher. I don't have the time to list the problems I have with Obi Wan.
I'm sure others have said this, but why doesn't Leia remember her dramatic experiences with Obi Wan when she meets him in the original trilogy?
Leia comforts Luke when Kenobi dies. She doesn't act like somebody who has an emotional connection to him, which is weird. She says (in her message) something like "You fought with my father in the clone wars" and that she's "passing on her father's message". I don't know. It doesn't fit together for me.
Also, how does Obi Wan lose his powers again?
They have him start off jaded, then become a Jedi again... now he has to turn into Alec Guinness.
In the fight between Obi Wan and Vader, they both are much more powerful in the prequel trilogy than they are in the OT - which is what? - ten years later? What happens to both of them? Is it old age?
The force was much better when it had limits. In the original trilogy, the powers weren't crazy. Then, you have Anakin diving into traffic. Then Luke and Leia and Kylo Ren, etc all have much more advanced powers than any Jedi in the original films. People keep coming back to life. Darth Maul. The Emperor. Yet, others suffer relatively minor wounds - by comparison - and everyone gasps because we know they're dead. People can project themselves across the galaxy. You can blow up the death star by flying into it at light speed and nobody thought of it for some reason.
There were three great films in the late 70s / early 80s.
Everything else is nostalgia.
The original films weren't even that great. I mean: I don't want to see endless sequels to ANYTHING. The Skywalker story doesn't deserve a million spin-offs. We don't need a Chewbacca film or a Jabba mini-series. Let it die along with The Simpsons and all the superheroes. How many Batman films do we need?
People are weirdly obssessed with stuff that has very little substance. I don't think we actually like these things. We're pretending because we're zombies. You have to be interested in something. Marvel is filler. People obsess about it because they're so out of touch with what they actually want that it doesn't matter. They know they are not going to miraculously stumble upon exactly what they truly desire, while completely unaware of what it is. But something needs to go in the box.
I don't expect to enjoy The Simpsons any more, so why do I still watch it?
Hollywood has the world hypnotized.
I'm addicted to watching trash that I don't like.
You can't trust franchises. Sequels and spin-offs rarely work and when they do they are almost never better than the original.
You can't trust actors, either. Everybody has sold their soul to big corporations. Either that or they've been cancelled.
You can't trust critics or box office.
Aquaman broke a million dollars.
Every Marvel movie gets at least 4 stars.
Streaming services are full of mediocre cash grabs.
Trying to find quality stuff has become an exhausting chore.
There is too much crap.
There are numerous moments in Obi Wan Kenobi that rely on us not having seen the original films.
We know what happens to everyone. Owen. His wife. Luke. Leia. Obi Wan. Vader. The Emporer. We know how all of them die. Reeva is the only character whose fate we don't know and I couldn't give a rat's ass about that.
The character made sense in the end, but the acting let it down. Her performance would be more at home in an episode of Orange is the New Black. She doesn't fit into Star Wars. I don't like any of the inquisitors. I didn't like Darth Maul, either. They're all generic and one dimensional. Reeva actually had serious potential as a character, but the actress just isn't convincing in the role... which is a failure of cast and crew.
That episode of Bubba Fett that Robert Rodriguez directed - the one with the brightly coloured flying motorbikes - was abysmal. I stopped watching Fett after that. I didn't like one minute of the show. It is (IMO) the worst Star Wars entry so far. I honestly prefer the Christmas Special and Battle for Endor / Caravan of Courage. Fett is a stupid character to base a show around, particularly after Mandalorian. Two tough guys - one after another - both with limited social skills and both who wear the same masks?
The prequels were full of boring characters. Now we have two consecutive shows about "silent" heroes?
Fuck this shit.
