Obi-Wan Kenobi is as Good as Advertised

This is the show we were looking for.

Ten years in the desert would leave anyone a shell of who they once were. All aboard for his journey to reawaken the force lying dormant within.

Warning. Episodes one & two Spoilers ahead!

Going into the Obi-Wan Kenobi series we already knew what the main plot was going to be. Obi-Wan brought out of hiding and being hunted down as per Order 66.

The opening scene did not disappoint.

The Younglings!

It does feel like a setup for one of those younglings to be someone Obi-Wan meets somewhere during the show. Not probable but it would be interesting. Maybe the ultra-aggressive Reva knows him from when she was younger. She sure does seem to hate him. However, that could also be just her ambition talking.

Like most stories involving the dark side the Grand Inquisitor walked, talked, and was betrayed. Stabbed through the stomach as we reached the end of most of his shots from the trailer. Will we see him again in this series? I’d say so. If not his appearance was very lackluster.

Kumail Nanjiani makes an appearance as a fraud and swindler. A fake Jedi to be precise. Obi-Wan sniffs his ploy out immediately but is helped by him later in the episode.

Then there’s Leia Organa.

First and foremost. The casting was perfect. Vivien Lyra Blair does a great job portraying a ten-year-old Leia. She’s curious, brave, and smart. A little too smart for a ten-year-old in a certain spot. The scene with her cousin was a bit too much.

I felt the writers standing in front of her with cue cards feeding her lines.

Shades of the complaints people had about Juno and a character acting unrealistically of their age. To be fair she completely acts her age later when she runs away from Obi-Wan leading to the rooftop chase.

Speaking of which Obi-Wan himself is grounded, defeated, and ragged. That all checks out for a man who spent ten years on Tatooine stewing in a past life where his greatest failure haunts him almost every night.

I have to say it would be pretty easy to spot Obi-Wan as a Jedi once he went and dug up his lightsaber. He immediately donned his Jedi Robe and wore it in exact Jedi fashion. Lightsaber swinging from the hip and everything.

“Yeah, that’s him right there. He’s not even trying to hide.”

Anyone in that town could have said that within seconds of seeing him.

It was great to see but man you’re still rusty. Ease your way back into it.

We did know once little Leia mentioned Obi-Wan making her float it was going to happen. There I was anyway loving seeing it. Atrophy had set in and he had to really muster up the force to save her before she went splat. Probably my favorite sequence so far.

All in all, this was a very satisfying first two episodes. I do hope to see more lightsaber fights. Particularly Obi-Wan himself in lightsaber fights. Not just once in the finale.

This show feels like Star Wars to me. I love the world-building of places we haven’t really been to before or experienced a lot of. I hope we don’t spend any more time on Tatooine but we probably will. I’m pretty tired of Tatooine. It’s not the only planet in the galaxy.

That said I have high hopes for this show going forward. I’m in so far. Let’s hope it stays that way.

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