And Christians who happen to be Star Wars fans (and manage to stay awake through the whole affair) might find in the core emotional story beats a worthwhile meditation on the nature of guilt and forgiveness.įrom General to Hermit. The story would have been tighter, the characters more consistent, and we would likely never have had to watch Uncle Owen (Joel Edgerton) and Aunt Beru (Bonnie Piesse) go toe-to-toe with a dark Jedi who had all the personality of a wet paper bag.īut all things being what they are, this six-episode miniseries is what Disney flaunted and delivered. This should have been a two-hour movie or three-hour miniseries, at most. But there are also a lot of ham-fisted and downright bizarre storytelling decisions that feel tacked onto the central narrative, and perhaps no other Star Wars artifact since The Force Awakens (2015) has felt so worked and reworked and filtered through the hands of too many writers and executives than this one. 1 There are strokes of brilliance contained within what was clearly, at one point, the core storyline, even if some of those scenes we have already witnessed played out in other Star Wars media. The record-breaking Obi-Wan Kenobi series streaming on Disney+ is an overhyped snooze fest that barrels ahead when it should linger and lingers when it should barrel ahead.

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