Obi-Wan Kenobi is the latest Star Wars television series–like The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett–to stream on Disney+. It is part of the Star Wars franchise, beginning ten years after the events of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005), and stars Ewan McGregor as the title character, reprising his role from the Star Wars prequel trilogy.
Ten years after the events of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith—in which the Jedi were destroyed by Order 66 and Obi-Wan Kenobi‘s apprentice, Anakin Skywalker, became the Sith Lord Darth Vader—Kenobi is in hiding on the planet Tatooine. He’s watching over Anakin’s son Luke, when he is called on a mission to rescue Anakin’s daughter, Leia, after she is kidnapped by the Galactic Empire’s Jedi-hunting Inquisitors in a plot to draw Obi-Wan Kenobi out of hiding and capture him.
I watched the two episodes available–there will be six in all–and after a slow start Ewan McGregor starts to shed the meek manner he cultivated on Tattooine to hide from the Inquisitors who hunt Jedi. After tracking the kidnappers to the corrupt planet Daiyu, Obi-Wan Kenobi discovers that there’s something more trying that the sinister Inquisitors…the stubborn little girl named Princess Leia. So far, so good. GRADE: Incomplete
Maybe but dread the countless characters I would have to learn. Haven’t seen any of the recent movies.
Patti, the storyline in OBI-WAN KENOBI is pretty straightforward: rescue little Princess Leia…and stay alive!
I don’t have Disney Plus so will have to miss it. I’ve only been seeing the movies, missing all the tv shows about the star wars world. Sigh
Sunday went to my first baseball game in DECADES. The padres beat the PA team (phillies, pirates?). Went with my friend who coaches little league and it was little league day there. After we went for ice cream at Cali Creamery, which has the same model as Creole Creamery in NOLA. yummy
Maggie, Disney+ offers plenty of “free” trials. Ice Cream is always yummy to me!
All I can think of when I hear the title is the great SNL parody with Carrie Fisher as the host and Princess Leia, doing a “Beach Party” takeoff with Gilda as Annette and Bill Murray as Frankie Avalon and Dan Aykroyd as Vincent Price. It ends with them singing, “Obi-Won Kenobi, Obi-Won Kenobi…”.
No DIsney + here.
Jeff, yes, I remember that SNL sketch! I also remember the Princess Leia episode of FRIENDS.
Carrie Fisher loved telling the story about how she met one guy who told that since seeing her in her metal bikini in Return of the Jedi, he thought about her every day. Oh, that’s nice, thank you, she said. Actually, he continued, it’s about four times a day.
Jeff, and some Star Wars fans think about Jabba the Hutt each day, too!
It’s a toss up as to which set of tossers is more problematic…
After the first movies I lost interest in Star Wars, the following ones seemed too childish for me, not real SF.
What really angers me:
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/jun/01/disney-and-ewan-mcgregor-condemn-horrendous-racism-sent-to-obi-wan-kenobi-star-moses-ingram
Will people never learn?
Wolf, some things never change.
wolf thanks for posting this. I hadn’t seen it. disgusting hatred
Jackasses will bray.
Now I’m insulting donkeys.
And, Wolfe, I wasn’t thrilled enough with the first one to become a fan, though what I take to be what survived of Leigh Bracket’s script improved the second…never saw the third, and was dragged by Alice, younger than I am and a fan, to the fourth and fifth ones…she found someone else to see the sixth one with, and then called it quits herself. The newer offshoots haven’t enticed me.
Todd, it’s more of a habit with me.