Obi-Wan Kenobi

A good idea for a story, which was honestly the biggest hurdle in tackling this project. It’s filled with great moments and was enjoyable to watch overall. That said, it’s stiff, forced, and poorly directed to the point of near-ruin. I don’t know how they managed to make the Mandalorian so cinematic and seem to be completely unable to replicate their success with each new attempt. This show SHOULD be great. Again, all the hard work is done for them by simply coming up with a compelling reason for all these characters to interact once again. But it’s staged like a Mortal Kombat story mode, in which characters can only occupy a small room lest they fall off the map, and after each fight they can only grimace at each other because it’s not their turn to die in the grander story. I can accept characters surviving these encounters, but the direction truly gives no reason for it beyond Character A has decided to let Character B live…THIS TIME! I’m still in the pocket for most Star Wars stuff because it is truly my jam, but this recent tv output has been depressing, on top of not having a good movie since 2017 (or a halfway decent one since 2018). I’m excited for Mando Season 3 and Andor looks promising, but I was really hoping they’d step it up for this one. Oh well, at least it’s better than The Book of Boba Fett.