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==Obi-Wan Kenobi==

{{topquote|Goodbye...Darth.|Obi-Wan after his rematch with Vader [[what|and leaving him alive to kill more people.]] (also somewhat meta, given that this is the last time James Earl Jones will ever voice Darth Vader)}}

Live-action series featuring the return of Ewan McGregor as the titular character set 10 years after Revenge of the Sith. Hayden Christensen also has returned with voice over work from [[Awesome|James Earl Jones]], [https://comicbookmovie.com/tv/star_wars/obi-wan_kenobi/obi-wan-kenobi-how-much-of-james-earl-jones-voice-as-darth-vader-are-we-hearing-in-the-series-a194372#gs.6ecgy0 albeit with possible digital voice de-aging assistance like Mark Hamill received]. Released May 27th 2022 (around the time of the 45th anniversary of the franchise) and ran as a six-episode mini-series. Went for sort of a "Logan" style tone according to the director, having [[Skub|a 10 year old child serve as a foil to a reluctant hero forced out of hiding]]. 

Unfortunately, where Logan was/is universally adored, Obi-Wan Kenobi...less so. To be clear, this mini-series nearly rivals the Sequel Trilogy in terms of pure [[Skub]], Flame-Wars, and [[Rage]] generated which resulted in this page’s creation. In this case, largely due to a mix of plot holes fixed vs ones that were caused, with jarringly bad/mediocre writing for a franchise older than people today.

The highlight would be the performances from the actors, and especially the relationship between Obi-Wan and Anakin. Its ideas, in a conceptual vacuum, are popular ideas on most fans' wishlists of material to adapt: More time spent in the Prequel Era, role reprisals by actors like Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christiansen, and Liam Neeson, Obi Wan Kenobi protecting Luke Skywalker as the last of his order, being a wanted man hunted by the rest of the Galaxy, more fleshing out for the Inquisitors, and so on. But, y'know...''execution''. 

Its biggest source of skub ''by far'' is the Third Sister, Inquisitor Reva. As a survivor of Order 66, she vowed revenge against Anakin by joining the Inquisition and attempting to get close enough to stick a saber into him.  Unfortunately, the writing for her character is too hammy to take seriously, and her actions are far too inconsistent and insubordinate for the audience to immerse properly, especially when her violent actions speak louder than her true motives. This isn't helped by the fact that  Jedi: Fallen Order featured a very similar, but much less skubtastic, character of Trilla Suduri aka the Second Sister, and a few other concepts such as the Fortress Inquisitorius that are also present in the series. [[/pol/|While there are toxic individuals who become hateful against the actor]], the [[SJW|response by Disney and Stans]] tarring all critics with the same brush and using the same buzzwords to dismiss legitimate criticisms and hatred didn't go over well. Naturally, this made having a civilized discussion about the character almost impossible, even on this wiki.

In the end, this show wasn’t well received by its main audience, who proceeded to talk down and nitpick it into oblivion. It got a rather tepid response from critics as well. The most pointed flaws were the previously mentioned Reva, as well as Young Leia, on account of various super-slow chase scenes throughout the show, and a lot of folks not buying her overly-precocious characterization.

[[FAIL| Then there's things like the frequent lack of lighting in many of the fights along with the use of a shaky camera, constant failures in basic common sense (like not going around a motionless fence or not using the Star Destroyer’s many plethora of tools in Episode 6), several times when Obi Wan wanted to give up for no reason, solutions or conflicts which appear at the last moment (“I found a link in the archives”), and the infamous trenchcoat moment…]] 

Still, it promised us "the rematch of the century", and it ''did'' give that. But general consensus is that the show never quite explains why it needed to exist apart from that one idea. Ultimately, Kenobi had the chance to end Vader’s life by the 6th episode, but [[what|walks away, causing him to continue being a Sith Lord that will eventually kill him and many more like him.]] Though, [[Just As Planned|it also lets Vader live long enough to redeem himself, save his son, and <s>kill Palpatine.</s>]] [[Not As Planned|Somehow Palpatine Returned.]] 

Notably, unlike with a lot of these other ones, earlier drafts of the story were leaked, so we have a sense of ideas that were considered before being dropped. These included an actual plot involving Luke Skywalker, Reva's death, and Obi-Wan having a vision of fighting a grown-up Dark Side Luke on Mustafar. Darth Maul's inclusion was also considered at one point, but the writers felt it would be too much to have Vader ''and'' Maul. It also seems that the mini-series had been intended more as a movie than a mini-series, and given the amount of fat that could have been trimmed from the final product, this may have been the better way to go.