Kenobi - Finale (Spoilers)

@LordDirt

You tell me not to go there but the next post you go there. Please dont be a hypocrite.

I am not a hypocrite. Did you even read the message you quoted?

HarvestMouse brought up politics as limiting their enjoyment of the Kenobi show. This discussion is about politics only to the extent that it's necessary to understand the critique raised by Harvestmouse and determine whether others should be persuaded by that critique and/or endorse it.

Your swipe at "Dems" had literally nothing to do with StarWars or the Kenobi show. Not even tangentially. Please, keep things remotely on topic. Gratuitous political swipes are not that.

What does that have to do with star wars?

"ShaggyB;c-2369399" wrote:
What does that have to do with star wars?

If you look up Dexter Jettsters cafe, you’ll see it was bought out by Victoria’s Secret.

He used the old and now considered offensive term "pigstinker" instead of the modern term "Ugnaught" and got cancelled within a month.

@MrRandyWatson

That's a disingenuous request because corporations the size you're talking about dont close overnight and never will.

I'm sorry, but we have a conference call from Enron & Arthur Anderson for you. Toys R Us is requesting to join, and there are messages here from... Blockbuster, Tower Records, Pan Am Airlines, Compaq Computers, WorldCom, and Delorean Motor Company have left messages.

We're talking about what corporations fear, and whether Disney fears such things enough to base the casting of the Kenobi show on such fears.

While there has been significant backlash against specific actors who engaged in sexual assault or rape or other infamous crimes (going back long before OJ and Wesley Snipes became uncastable), and there have also been backlashes against famous existing characters being portrayed by an actor of a different race (or even **presumably** different race, such as in the case of Idris Elba's glorious but criticized-by-racists portrayal of Heimdall in the Thor movies), there has never been a case of serious backlash against a particular studio or a specific show merely because a brand new character was portrayed by a white man. Never.

The idea that there are things corporations are afraid of, even large corporations, is far more valid than you credit.

The idea that Disney was afraid that if they cast a white man in the role now named 3rd Sister it would impact their bottom line is unsubstantiated.

There simply was and is no reason for Disney to be afraid that any specific role must (or must not) be portrayed by an actor of a specific race or gender UNLESS the character has already existed in other movies/shows and was recognizably a human of a specific race or gender (no one is going to care if the actor playing one of the hammerheads or Gamorrean Guards changes, even if it involves a radical race/gender swap).

Unless/until someone involved in the casting says that they decided in advance the role would best be portrayed by a person of a specific race or gender, there's no reason to assume that some nebulous fear of a cash hit for casting white men even exists, much less that it dictated who played 3rd Sis. And even then the director's motivation might be something other than a woke agenda.

There simply is no reason to believe that anything other than making the most money possible ever affected any casting decisions for Kenobi.

What can i say....

Recap of previous episode is spot on.

Credits sure do give credit to those people that were on the project.

What more could you want?

It was a click-bait. You expected the great Obi-Wan Kenobi but in the end he was just average

Rick is NOT the father. The Punisher is!!!! Duh Duh Duhhhhhhh!

Overall the episode was solid, except 3rd sister part.
A. how did she get to tatooine so quickly
B. how and where did she get a ship from, empire left her to die (which was dumb)
C. how is she even moving with a hole in her gut

Luke and 3rd sister.... going to need to rewatch this and see if he ever sees 3rd sister and her saber. If he did, he knows what light sabers are and shouldnt be as mistified to see one in A New Hope. (Nor would he have pointed it at his own face while off). More on that after a rewatch.

Vader vs kenobi was great. Enjoyed that.

On to the bad choices done for feel good reasons:

Kenobi reconnects with Leia at the end??? Wow. So he knows the empire used leia to draw him out, he knows he beat vader and vader will be angry and looking for him still, so he goes to the one place the empire should be looking for him to be?

Then they try to give a reason Leia must not mention kenobi to anyone, but in the same breath tell her if she ever needs ben she need only ask... which further breaks "help me obi wan kenobi" recording from A New Hope.

Now we have Ben telling Leia to call him if she needs him, so why mention her father's interactions with kenobi at all in that message?

Moving on to the next.
Ben and Luke, ok this was done well enough to get a pass. Luke would still know him as the old hermit ben who lives out past the dune sea. Its plausible, however.......

Ben getting to meet Luke because Owen softens... this doesnt work well with the Owen of A New Hope. He says:

"Owen" wrote:
That wizard's just a crazy old man. You stay away from him, you hear me? He's dangerous. Now, tomorrow I want you to take that R2 unit to Anchorhead and have its memory erased. That'll be the end of it. It belongs to us now.

Doesnt sound like a guy hes friendly with.... perhaps more to come?

"Kelarn;c-2368485" wrote:
Didn't finish Vader off once again... costs X amount of lives in the future.. but at least he'll sleep well now!

My biggest gripe is teasing Duel of the Fates in the trailers and never using it ?

Enjoyed the episode though

Yeah really

What is odd vader did not kill Anakin it was due to the emperors during and what made anikin to vadee