Mini Series Official "Obi-Wan Kenobi" Series Discussion Thread (Spoilers Allowed)

yeah i know Geoerge loved his legends source material so mutch fans demanded his head on a platter. what KK does with Star wars is not so different.

 

It's quite different. Lucas had his own unique creative vision, and he also allowed a great number of EU stories to be part of canon.

Kennedy has no creative vision and also seems ignorant of the great wealth of stories that Lucas allowed to exist as part of his world.

 

Depends which one, maybe? I'd assume some other "known" Jedi survived, and there does seem to be a little bit of re-introducing Legends characters.

So I'd say "yes, good idea" to Jedi like Quinlan Vos, K'krukh.

I'd say "no" to well known (in the general public's eyes) Jedi.

A big massive "no" to Mace Windu or Jedi Council members.

 

I never said SW couldnt be complex or compelling. I believe the opposite. hence Kirshner's ESB. But with Trek you have to have political and ideological subtext in almost every episode. SW has political subtext in a completely different way. I love both lol.

 

And then he steamrolled them when they became inconvenient for them. Not only that, but you seem to be glossing over the downside of the "great wealth of stories that Lucas allowed to exist as part of his world", being the huge disparity between the best and worst stories in Legends. For every TTT, you had a Glove of Darth Vader or a Crystal Star. I agree that the current novels we've been getting aren't as varied as the old Legends stuff, but it's all of a very similar level of quality, and we can be reasonably certain that nothing's going to just be bulldozed over because the guy with sole control decided to do something different.

 

There’s also reports which are not confirmed that Kevin Feige might take over for Lucasfilm.

I don’t trust we got this covered but there are reports coming from other sites.

Anyways, I hope the new script for the Obi Wan tv show is worth it.

 

George Lucas pulled a bunch of stuff from the EU...including his original villain for episode 7, Darth Talon.

 

Because he liked the design, not because he was incredibly enamored by her rich backstory. He also wanted to shoehorn Talon into a Darth Maul game despite the era differences. And have we all forgotten the whole Korriban / Morriban thing?

 

I think the appearance of Tusken Jedi A’Sharad Hett would be essential

 

Filoni is producer on Resistance and Favreau has producer experience aplenty. Both of them completely replacing Kennedy I dunno about, but having them run the show side of things entirely is fine by me.

Was that actually a thing? From what I can tell, Lucas' treatment for EP 7 had a 'Jedi Killer' who eventually morphed into Kylo Ren and some vague 'Uber' dark side head honcho.

 

Hmm... I could actually see that. Although, I guess my main issue there would be that I really enjoy both of them in the director's / showrunner's chair, and wouldn't want them creatively limited.

 

I don't think a producer should have a creative vision, Lucas was a unique situation.

I find the sequel trilogy whatever the faults more interesting creatively than anything Feige has put out, the MCU flicks are all forgotten two month after release but you still have people debating Last Jedi.

 

Yeah, I still read the Legends novels and will take them any given day over the new EU.
Also, the Legends DID get bulldozed over, because the company that the guy with sole control sold the rights to, decided to do something different.
So, can't get worse than that really.

Star Wars fandom may have forgotten the MCU flicks but there is an MCU fandom that has forgotten TLJ probably a day after it was released, and they still talk about the entire MCU catalog. That's not really an argument in favor of the ST, and quite frankly I don't even see how the total story of the ST is even remotely close in quality to the MCU in terms of story telling, planning, cohesion and consistency.

(more) On topic, I can't even express how disappointed I am with the whole Kenobi situation. I find it amazing that this is apparently a project that has been in the works for years, even at a very early stage, and somehow they managed to put it on the shelf for the time being. It has only been a couple of months since the announcement, I mean wow. This looks so bad.

I hope the Filoni rumor is true. His Mandalorian episode was among my favorites and I also love his work from the animated shows. That will make me even more excited about Kenobi in the long run, as disappointed as I am now.

 

The point is that Star Wars has a ton of source material that can be used as much as LFL likes. And instead of using it as a resource, Kennedy says there is no source material to pull from.

Even the bad Legends could be improved and revised for TV and film. For example, Triclops "morphed" lol into Palpatine's son for RoS.

 

The report (the Variety article linked in that reddit post) makes no mention that either Feloni or Yost are being "looked at". It simply threw their names out as suggested potentials. It was pure editorial flare.

 

But... you just...

 

That is never going to happen.

 

Follow up question, if another Jedi pays Kenobi a visit doesn't that mean that Jedi will have to die?

 

I'd be cool with Filoni in a writing capacity. An Obi-Wan thing by definition's probably going to be more lore-heavy, spiritual, yadda yadda, and Dave has a real handle on that type of thing. Along with the authority factor, probably the single biggest voice in Star Wars bar George, that's a nice thing to factor in for something as big a deal as Obi-Wan.

 

This is not addressed to anyone, I just thought it is very fitting xD

When we should expect news for the Kenobi show? Are they actively searching for new writers?

 

I think you won't hear a thing until Making Star Wars takes spy shots of the sets.

They will be tight lipped.

 

I'm sure McGregor is going to be peppered with questions throughout the promo tour for Birds of Prey, he may have a more refined response by the end as opposed to the "Gotcha journalism!" of being asked on the red carpet right after he landed in town.

 

Hmmm... If what Tarkin says to Vader in ANH is true (you're the last), I guess so. In fact, I'd like what he says to be true rather than the audience going "nah, he knows nothing".

So yeah, I think they have to die. Old age is fine. This might present a dramatic, sad moment for Obi-Wan, realising he/Luke/Leia are the only ones left. But positively, his distress call diversion in ROTS was met with some success.