The show was a sequel to the prequels and not a prequel to the originals and thats how i'll choose to look at it.
very true that the whole thing is twisted into a pretzel already so its just my bickering that is narrowing in on a couple of cracks in an already broken piece of glass/art.
The thing about that message in new hope to obiwan is they actually did shoe horn in that final conversation where he tells her basically "pretend like you don't know me". Which almost was worse than not even acknowledging it at all. To me that means the writers had this predetermined agenda to make sure the line in new hope gets explained but rather than creatively coming up with a way to do that, or JUST NOT MAKE A STORY ABOUT LEIA(!!!?) they threw that in there in the end so everyone can be like OHHH there you go, nice job star wars writers fitting it in. Like i said before I would have rather them do a men-in-black memory wipe stick than that.
I can get past cannon issues but when the writing gives us a situation like Vader weak and battered with Obiwan just a mere swing away from ending the whole thing and he leaves Vader alive ....that is the coup-de-grace for me, no pun intended.
Vader literally walks through the streets snapping innocent people's necks with a flick of the wrist just a couple episodes ago...so yea lets just leave him alive. It defeats the whole purpose of why Obiwan wants to face him, all the motivations of him constantly abandoning the rebels and leia to "hold him off" the whole thing is just so stupid cause Vader obviously cant be dead. then just write a different story where you dont write yourself into a corner with all these dumb inconsistencies.
And then to use Liam N. for a "now you can see me, yay!" line only was just a slap in the face. Can we not get one freakin conversation??? Nope! tune in for season 2 to watch how we try to fit more stories into this tiny gap of time!
awful.
I don't think it was really that inconsistent with the canon. Sure, you can nitpick Leia's message in ANH where it sounds like she doesn't really know Obi-Wan, but I think that's about it. I know everybody was worried about Vader's "when last we met I was the learner, now I am the master" line, but I think we saw in the finale why that was. As for needing the small cute thing to save, doesn't that apply to pretty much every movie or show where the hero needs to protect/save/rescue an innocent? Plus there needed to be a reason for Obi-Wan to go off planet, and some random person wasn't going to be it. Now, you can argue that Obi-Wan shouldn't have left, but that's not a very interesting story. Plus, it's through rescuing Leia that Obi-Wan gets out of wallowing in self doubt and reconnects with the Force, and ultimately his purpose.
I will agree that they didn't do a great job of weaving all the storylines together though. Honestly, it kind of felt like they tried to do a little too much in just 6 episodes. The Grand Inquisitor thing was unnecessary and they could have streamlined the whole Reva storyline. I said it before, I don't think her character's story was executed all that well. And I don't think it's the actor's fault, it just felt like the writing for her wasn't as good.
It was a little like Boba Fett where the first few episodes were kind of hit or miss and then once Dinn showed up for the last few episodes it was really good. With this I think once it got down to more of just Obi-Wan vs Vader the show was very good. Their lightsaber duel in the finale to me is maybe top 4 or 5 in all of Star Wars. I still love Obi-Wan/Qui-Gonn/Darth Maul the most, with Luke vs Vader in ROTJ, and maybe Obi-Wan vs Anakin from ROTS ahead of it.
Reva's storyline was unfortunately really bad. she gets stabbed and still has the ability to chase after Luke? atleast the grand inquisitor was away for a couple episodes "healing" his wounds.
I did like the actress though, I wish she had been used better. But I hope she never returns because again now we have another loose end that won't be tied up. PRETZEL time
The motivations were extremely confusing...why is she chasing after luke? that voicemail from Bail didn't really give away anything, you'd make some serious conclusions that he is talking about Vader's kids from what he says. So she says "Yea let me kill this kid?" cause??? revenge?
I digress....I am a major proponent of connected universes and they consistently let me down.
