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So even though Obi-Wan is a stealthy guy and can use his mind tricks to get himself out of jam, I don't think he would ever leave the planet. The risk of detection is too great. And he certainly wouldn't be having any lightsaber duels with Darth Vader. With that being said, I would be willing to overlook certain things if the series is entertaining enough. After all, we're talking about the guy who changed his name to Ben Kenobi and didn't think anyone would find anything suspicious about it. Maybe Kenobi is a common last name?
In all seriousness though, I really do hope this is good. Would love to see a cameo from Liam Neeson as well.
Has he ever done anything for tv before? I can t think of anything.
I also believe I am sick to the back teeth of tattooine. For a quiet out of the way planet everything seems to happen here.
EDIT : And he was also the composer for that infamous Heidi TV movie of 1968.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Game
Same here! I’m just so sick of Tatooine and similar looking desert planets in the Disney Star Wars era!
The spice must flow.
Not so much as the Disney era.Lucas gave us unique worlds in each of his films and especially let his imagination fly in the prequels ( We got a water planet,a volcano planet,a city planet,and other great environments ).
With Fett I don’t think they needed to set the show in Tatooine beyond an appearance of escaping the pit. With Obi-Wan, yeah, he’s pretty much a resident for his final 20 years.
There was less of an excuse for the prequels returning to Tattoooine. Why did Anakin have to have been born there, made 3PO? Why is Jabba hosting a race?
Lucas brought a lot of new elements in the prequels, so it’s odd that he indulged in what felt like fanboy crap like having Boba Fett be the son of a bounty hunter that also served as the basis of the clone army. Chewbacca fighting alongside Yoda.
Disney no doubt pandered, but it’s funny how fans sort of forget Lucas not only did the same thing in his films but was even called out on it. But no, only Disney is guilty and apparently the prequels were always “good” according to millenials.
I agree, the prequels (as much as I like the 3rd one) are full of retconning nonsense & re-visiting BS. If you want to enjoy anything Star Wars (outside of the near perfect Rogue One & first two Mandalorian seasons) you need to relax quite a bit.... ;)
Yeah I think it’s just that if you’re going to complain about too much Tattooine then the Obi Wan series isn’t the point at which to do that, because there’s not much option for that to be based anywhere else.
With Boba Fett, I do think him losing his armour and being effectively stranded is a decent and reasonable starting point- having your hero on the back foot is a valid way to open a story. A bigger question perhaps is why Lucas set the opening of Return of the Jedi there. There’s probably much less reason. The only real link is probably Han owing Jabba money in the first one, but even then I don’t think there’s any reason that Jabba has to be based there.
Jabba was one-planet lowlife with a bank account.
It’s funny that the first two films (ANH/TESB) are universally (or at least nearly) embraced by fandom. Starting with ROTJ, contemporarily speaking, it’s like fans have been divided ever since. Even THE MANDALORIAN has its detractors.
This is why you always hear the phrase “best since EMPIRE”, because that’s an admission that not everyone has been pleased with what’s come out since that first sequel.
I loved Empire as much as Jedi. Don't like teddy bears? Don't watch. Empire had them breathing through flimsy masks in a near vacuum.
It's all good in space fantasy.
Except Jar Jar....
Well not really: he had a bounty on Han which reached out as far as Bespin. So the opening of RotJ could have been set anywhere.
I actually don’t mind Tattooine being revisited in ROTJ because it sort of works as a nice symmetry for Luke’s arc in the trilogy. When he left the planet in ANH, he was only a farm boy that hadn’t even had his first lesson. So when we see him back on Tattooine in ROTJ, it shows us how far he’s come since he left the planet years before. He’s on the verge of becoming a Jedi.
If Lucas had left it at that as far as reusing locations, I think that’s fine. However, he did not have to rehash the Death Star all over again. That’s the ding I’ll give ROTJ for feeling the least original. It didn’t even need to be a Death Star, since it never blows up any planets. It could have just been Coruscant with the rebels storming the capitol, with Luke fighting Vader at the Emperor’s palace.
Interestingly, we almost got something like that for TROS! But then JJ Abrams got hired and scrapped the entire thing.
I don't mind it either, but then I don't mind the TV shows being set there.
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 6
Episode 9 (although jakku is tattooine rebooted in episode 7)
The Mandolorian
Book of boba fett
Kenobi
Think that’s it…
To be fair, it was Luke that made that comment, and I wouldn’t take his word given how biased he was. The dork didn’t even know who his father was.
Yeah I'd put most of the prequels below it, but it commits the worst possible sin for a SW movie for my money: it's quite boring.
Plus it turns all of those characters you liked in the first one into selfish, charmless idiots.
I gave all the prequels a 1.5/5, except for AOTC, which got a 2 (as did TLJ). It's bizarre because TLJ has some of the cooler moments in the series but a TON of poor fan service, plot armor, and glaring issues and situations that made no sense (there's a bit with Finn and Rose and the "near decapitation" scene with Captain Phasma that was so hilariously bad, I couldn't believe the gaps of logic in it).
The weird thing is, if Knives Out had come out before TLJ with its rather sparkling, light wit and charismatic, charming characters, I'd have been really excited for that director to do a Star Wars film. But they feel like the work of different people to me.