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[superstaff]

Lando is awesome. Even as a kid, I used to really like him, much more than the other kids who'd mostly care about Luke and Han. I was more the type that liked Leia and Lando. I also had a weird obsession with Yoda, and that was before they began, like, really pushing him in the merch department. I remember in the mid-90s until maybe a few years before the ST came out, the main characters they'd market were Vader, Yoda, generic Storm Trooper, and Chewie. There was other stuff with Luke, and the EU (specifically some of the figures based on the book arcs), but the general stuff geared to normies was mostly those four.

[Sumac]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

The black actress in this was advised she would probably be getting a lot of racist blowback about being in the show:

https://fanfest.com/lucasfilm-advise...LXGrtrOWGfHaok

Let me guess, they are pre-emptively preparing to deflect all criticism about her "brave and stunning" character, huh? Is show gonna be THAT bad?

[Autbot_Benz]

Kenobi will be up on Disney + at 9pm PT tonight.

[Shark_Blade]

Here we go.

[Andrew NDB]

Huh.

Spoiler:

I never expected for a moment we would also get Little Leia stuff on Alderaan, but here it is.

[Autbot_Benz]

ya that was cool to finally see

Spoiler:

Alderaan and Little Leia too

. Good first episode. Will watch Ep 2 on Friday

[Andrew NDB]

Spoiler:

I think a little bit too much time is spent on stuff they don't need to, and maybe they have too many villains (do we really need ALL these inquisitors?) and should've focused their plot a little more... but not bad at all. If I had to guess, I'm thinking the black inquisitor chick will become a sympathetic character and will possibly even be a romantic interest for Obi-Wan. They're pushing her pretty hard as ruthless so there's got to be a whiplash on that coming.

Also, obviously at some point soon we will get Liam Neeson talking to Obi-Wan. That's absolutely going to happen.

[Last Ronin]

Going by some plot leaks it seems this show is more focused on the black actress, as to probably why they expect a blow up of her character.

[Autbot_Benz]

Ending of Episode 2 was cool. seeing

Spoiler:

anakin in is bacta tank

[CyberCubed]

How do you guys feel about the acting of kid Leia so far? She's fine in some scenes but others a little off. I imagine people's enjoyment of this series will depend how Leia is handled in the next few episodes. The scenes of her running in the forest and the two henchmen falling over each other and into tree branches was hilariously bad.

Obi-Wan himself is handled well so far and his acting feels like no time has passed since 2005. I am surprised he did not know Anakin was still alive.

Not sure how I feel about, "The angry black woman" being the main villain in this. She feels like she'd trying too hard. Also if this her debut in the franchise of did she appear in any cartoons or comics before this? I don't know why she hates Obi-Wan so much.

[Andrew NDB]

Some bits of Lil Leia outrunning the guys in the forest (like, this is early F13 movies bad) and running across the rooftops was a bit bad. Like, if a couple of those takes were the best they had they shouldn't have used them. I'm OK with the rest.

Yeah, I was surprised Anakin being alive was news to him.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

The black actress in this was advised she would probably be getting a lot of racist blowback about being in the show:

https://fanfest.com/lucasfilm-advise...LXGrtrOWGfHaok

And wow, look, here is the Star Wars channels preemptively responding to the racist blowback that doesn't even exist for the actress:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/31/enter...cec/index.html

It's like they want to will the racist blowback into existence.

[superstaff]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

And wow, look, here is the Star Wars channels preemptively responding to the racist blowback that doesn't even exist for the actress:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/31/enter...cec/index.html

It's like they want to will the racist blowback into existence.

I've seen way more hate for kid Leia than for Reva.

Though I think the fans blaming the actresses/characters for the show's failings are being incredibly shortsighted.

Blame Lucasfilm.

[Sumac]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

It's like they want to will the racist blowback into existence.

Of course, they do. They need to justify their whining about racists everywhere, otherwise how their narrative survive?

[Vegita-San]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

And wow, look, here is the Star Wars channels preemptively responding to the racist blowback that doesn't even exist for the actress:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/31/enter...cec/index.html

It's like they want to will the racist blowback into existence.

that much should be obvious. if they didn't have a discord, they wouldn't have a reason to be. their entire existence is based on fixing something that got fixed long before they where born.

as for the actual show, I got through episode one with only5 minutes or so left. So far? I don't hate it. Lea is pretty spot on. the Organa's are ok. I don't like the older cousin knowing Lea's supposed adoption secret. I don't like the fact that somehow jedi younglings escaped simply by running through the middle, in wide open space, of all the fighting. seems impossible. I don't like Reeva's NYC accent. I don't like the accent of the jedi on the run. seems like he came off the street from NJ.

but so far, VERY small nitpicks. the pacing is good, characters are mostly good. I just hope the leaked ending was reshot.

[Andrew NDB]

Yeah, I hope the implication is not that some of those Younglings survived by just running out the front door. We saw from the prequels there's really just the one way in or out of the temple (that long walkway over nothing) and I'm pretty sure the armies of Clonetroopers would notice.

Also, there has to be some kind of mind-wipey thing for Leia, right? She's 10, not like 2 or 3. I'm pretty sure she's going to remember the first Jedi who she ever met who made her hover in their first meeting when she meets him again 10 years later. She even remembers her mom and that was when she was a newborn.

[Andrew NDB]

Jesus... now they got Ewan McGregor responding to these imagined (or possibly concocted) racist backlash to the black Inquisitor lady:



Skip just a few seconds into it to hear it. Ugh!!!

[Leo656]

Literally the only thing I've seen or read about this show at all was "How dare they open it with a school shooting in the middle of everything going on?" And how they should have postponed or reshot it.

Otherwise I haven't seen anything.

[ZariusTwo]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Skip just a few seconds into it to hear it. Ugh!!!

What's wrong with it? he's right on the money and there is an evident racist backlash, only the usual scum excuse it as 'criticism'

[superstaff]

Originally Posted by Leo656

Literally the only thing I've seen or read about this show at all was "How dare they open it with a school shooting in the middle of everything going on?" And how they should have postponed or reshot it.

I thought it was hilariously tone deaf given recent events. Usually they'll postpone something like after a school shooting or whatever, for 'sensitivity' reasons. I guess Disney didn't care this time.