Spoilers...beware. Two episodes have come out. There will be 6 in the end, they come out on Wednesdays.
Quibbles first. I don't like the scrubbed violence. Third Sister cuts off a woman's hand and you don't hear her screaming in the background, like I imagine you would if you hand was chopped off. I get it that Star Wars has to have a limb flying off at some point. I've decided it means that life cuts off pieces of you, but you can still find wholeness through the trials of life. The hanged man isn't hung by his neck, he's strung up and it doesn't really show how he died or a wound.
Quibble, I didn't like how Leia's father says, "one more fight," because there is no last fight. It's almost like American liberals who find themselves fighting for abortion rights. It's perennial, it's never going to go away. There is no one last fight. Little Leia is pretty cool, she's sassy, she has the energy. The younger generation brings the energy.
The Inquisitors say that Obi-wan will turn himself in. They use his caring for others to expose himself. Like the low conscientious conservatives who enjoy drinking liberal tears. There is no scot-free path.
I love it that Ewan McGregor's daughter sells him drugs in the second episode. Esther-Rose McGregor is a drug dealer. I think about how Ewan McGregor breakout movie was Trainspotting, where he was a drug addict.
The inquisitors are sinister, I like that, and their anger has them turn on each other. Live by the sword and die by the sword.
A friend who stayed up to midnight to watch, said that Reva was a padawan in Jedi training. She wants to revenge Darth Vader for making her a street urchin of Coruscant. Seems a potential idea.
I really like these series. Mandalorian, Boba Fett and now Obi-wan Kenobi. I'm rewatching the movies. I took a break after 7 of them, too much pew pew.
There has been some negative stuff, racist stuff, said online to the actress of Reva Sevander. Moses Ingram is not to be attacked for portraying a character. I've seen more people denouncing it, including Ewan McGregor, than actual negative stuff. Even so, it's to be condemned. Ingram has an MFA from Yale, impressive.
Episode 3
Starts out with Kenobi meditating, trying to evoke his former master, but instead he's just getting traumatic flashbacks. Ends with Reva confronting Leia, after having killed the pilot that was going to take her away from Mapuzo.
Leia doesn't follow directions, she's got a mind of her own, and she wants to be in charge. She's sarcastic, challenging. Leia is good at improvising. She's pretty perceptive, intuitive, precocious.
Where was episode 3 shot on location, the planet called Mapuzo? El Segundo, California? They mine Vitrium. They want to get to Jobiim. Carlos Jobim the great bossa nova musician?
I love Frek, great character. Indeed, the dinosaur characters, the big furry monsters Leia walked under the legs. I can't help but think Farscape pushed the exotic nature of aliens in space.
More introductions and re-introduction:
Ned-B
We learn her little flying thing is L0-LA59 "Lola"
Tala
Frek
I can't help but think of the underground railroad. We're half way, 3 more come out. Thousands of responses on r/StarWarsKenoboi.
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