A/V Obi-Wan TV show happened, Ewan McGregor returned

I hope not. As a huge Maul fan I hate the idea old him surviving his death.

The way Filoni bought him back was ridiculous and his camera in Solo was a joke.

 

I heard some interesting rumblings about the plot from this Star Wars Explained video

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So again....take with MASSIVE grains of salt, but apparently that the story is adapted from the concepts of the movie and apparently it's gonna be based on a line from Return of the Jedi of all things when Vader said "Obi-Wan once thought as you did" regarding Vader/Anakin's turning back to the light. So maybe the plot if Obi-Wan finds out Vader/Anakin is alive and tries to get him back to the light??? I mean again rumblings and massive grains of salt.

 

That seems more like he’s repeating Harloff’s fan theory that he’s been going on about for ages.

 

fan theorys are fun but then reality sets in. No vader or Maul as the villain. If anything Jabba is.

 

That's where he heard it from.

 

You know what would have been really interesting for this show? Asajj Ventress. As a bitter bounty hunter who occasionally gets gigs to work on Tatooine, so she isn't a regular on the show but occasionally shows up. And then have an episode where Obi-Wan busts out his Rako Hardeen persona to work with her on a particularly tricky assignment and yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh that would be totally badass.

 

read dark disciple.

 

I said "what would have been".

I get the sense on this forum that people are increasingly jumping to correct one another about minor, unrelated, or incorrect points, more than just paying attention to what someone else is actually saying. But I guess that's the internet in general. A lot of skimming and immediate reactions without reading to reflect.

I'll put my old lady cane down, but it's been nagging me a lot lately.

 

You couldn't be more wrong, that's not what's happening at all. Are people even reading what they're replying to anymore?



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This. Everything about this would be a great foil for Obi-Wan (and great range for Ewan to explore) but because of that dumb book it can't happen.

 

I think Alex is confused, because Harloff has never said that he had heard from any source that it was going to definitely include Vader. It’s just his personal hope/theory.

What he and Ken Napzok and the like had heard is that the scripts for this series is the story from the film iteration adapted for television.

 

That's a safe guess since Disney again and again went for the Economy Class of preproduction. Starting with lots of previously discarded designs in Rebels and TFA up to falling back on existing elements/designs for the "new" Mandalorian.

Yes, there's also a possible factor of giving the fans extremely recognizeable stuff, but combining high "marketability" with low cost is even better for a company.

They previously only lost their money once filming has started and somebody's changing their mind. So in this case, it's very plausible that the scripts are still working with concepts that have been around ever since someone said "What about McGregor?", and, hypothetically, stuff only gets altered once filming has started and someone doubts the marketability of the "cheap, easily greenlighted script" ("Not enough Vader! Not enough Maul! Too much Tatooine, we need to tie it into Ep9 planets. He has to get involved with the rebellion in the first episode! Ice zombies are trending hard, can we have those? Where's Ehrenreich, I want him to be part of this.") Or is at odds with the original creator or something like that.

 

I think that sail barge has rocketed past the Sarlacc.

 

Filoni AND Lucas.

Also im unsure if they will actually bring back Maul for this. On one hand it they would have to do some story hand waiving but on the other it would be awesome to see them together again in live action.

 

the only way Maul works for Kenobi is if he does not appear but is hinted at... first via crimson dawn henchmen on Tatooine, then more and more rumors about him but never him personally. until the series end with a flashforward to the final duel maybe. But without Rebels or Rebels lore its a lot to ask for. So I doubt Maul plays any part in it at all.

What if... Kenobi stays on Tatooine but trains another apprentice while there? or stumbles upon an Order 66 survivor Padawan and finishes his training. He then can send that one off on missions to cover up his trail and any hint at Luke or Leia the Inquisitors and Vader are chasing. Akin to Ferus Olin in Last of the Jedi young reader book series

 

My personal hope is that the Obi-Wan show and the Mandalorian are linked together in some way. Whether because of the returning Mandalorian cast from TCW being in both, or some new unseen connection, I think it would be cool if one served as a prequel/sequel to the other.

I've seen some support for the idea that Cody appears as an antagonist in the Obi-Wan show; makes sense given the timeline precludes an adaptation of Twin Suns, and Vader just doesn't sound right. Cody would be biologically 40 by the time of the show; younger than Temuera Morrison, but not unbelievable. Having Cody appear on the Obi-Wan show and then somehow his legacy leading into The Mandalorian... maybe a young Mandalorian shows up too?

 

I'm not a Darth Maul fan. I think he should have stayed dead. Another member of his species should have just come back instead of him. Maul will always be the quintessential disposable sith apprentice to me.

 

His brother savage showed up but didn't last long

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Yep, Savage Opress

 

I mean that's what I respect about the Maul thing, if your gonna do then go all out and they took it with every ounce of seriousness they could

 

I'm kind of sad because I really liked Savage a lot more than I've ever liked Maul.

 

Savage was a perfect Frankenstein's monster-type quasi-villain. They had set him up perfectly. Some of us, myself included, first made fun of the idea of him as a Darth Maul rip-off, but he very quickly became his own character. Like the Captain America experiment gone wrong, and the poor guy is just confused and being manipulated all the time. I wish they had kept him around longer. I didn't get the sense his story really ended so much as fizzled out after Maul showed up.

 

Personally I really dug Maul’s revitalisation in TCW and the added depth they gave him. I liked how they really leaned (in-universe) into the fact that he was the proto-Vader and a genuine apprentice to Palpatine raised from childhood with all the baggage that would come with that. Across that series and Rebels I felt like they did a good job of keeping him a villainous darksider, whilst also having some level of humanity.

I don’t know that he would necessarily fit in with this particular series given where he’s at in the timeline, but if he does and they do it in a way that makes sense I’d be all for it.

 

I mean if Obi and Maul encounter each other it will definitely have to be off of Tatooine

 

I don’t know what you people are all on about. Obviously the villain is going to be Elian Sleazebaggano, out for revenge after Obi-Wan violated his mind and ruined his thriving death stick business.