Drifter

Hey, I work for a major defense contractor, I wouldn't be surprised if my company had proactive web security. So, just saying.

With the prequels it seemed like Owen and Anakin barely knew each other at all. Anakin certainly didn't spend hardly any time with them. Padme spent more time with Anakin's family than he did when he immediately took off to rescue Shmi, leaving Padme at the Lars farm. After order 66 and the rise of the Empire, Jedi were persona non grata in the galaxy and were so feared and spoken of with hushed tones (or one would assume Imperial propaganda was quite effective) that in only 19 years after the fact, the Jedi were little more than a myth. Owen feared the Jedi or what the Empire would do to those harboring Jedi, was either told or figured Kenobi was one, and feared Luke becoming one; that seems to be the end all, be all. And Anakin being Vader didn't seem to be common knowledge either. Obi-wan apparently found out after the fact (there could be a story there in explaining that plot hole) and maybe Owen also knew, but nobody was talking about it... then again, who'd think to ask. Picture some stuffy Moff with his British accent: "So Mr. Vader, can I call you Darth? Darth, interesting name, is it a title of some sort? Were you born a Vader or did you marry into the family? You know, I knew a Chad Vader back in the day, worked at a supermarket, good man. Any relation?"

This issue isn't because of me logging in from my job, is it? Web security is kind of insane here.

Er, Yes, something like that... let's say that's the reason... and nothing else... anyways, is it ironic that you need actual paper nowadays to avoid a paper trail?

Um... yeah, I'm a little old-school... I'm thinking check or money order maybe... yeah, um... yeah...

I would like to contribute to the perpetuation of this board, to whom do I send money to?

Ever catch the deleted scene with Biggs saying goodbye to Luke at the local teen hang-out? I know that at least one of the extended editions had Biggs talking up Luke to red leader, calling Luke the 'best bush pilot in the outer rim' or some such.

To be fair, Luke was a minor celebrity in his community, like that overachieving kid in the neighborhood that all other kids are judged against by their parents; and all the kids know it. I'd wager Luke gets that kind of attention a lot to the the point he wasn't really surprised that even old man McGruder had know; probably figured he heard it from all the old biddies at the anchorhead hair salon gushing about Luke's latest piloting exploits... he seemed more embarrassed that here was another adult heaping praise on his mad skills, and that the other kids were going to beat him up over it again out behind tashi station after all the other kids were done with nerf herding for the day.

It looks like the new universe, doesn't feel like Trek. We'll see I guess... on a side note, it's kinda sad that the new MacFarlane series feels more like Roddenberry's Trek than the official Star Trek property.

I might be remembering differently but I'd swear Luke and Co. only knew Kenobi as well as you or I would be familiar with Old Man McGruder at the end of the road with the creepy house that no one ever sees.

Rebels Season 3 takes place about 4-5 years before ANH and the episodes just had Kenobi in the desert around a campfire at night. It took a holocron induced shared force vision of both a jedi padawan and sith marauder to get a hint at where he was. Ezra caught Maul's obsession and went looking, getting lost in the desert, Obi-wan found him, Maul had followed and ended up getting owned in a hell of a cool, if short, lightsaber duel. Kenobi is indeed a badass. It ends with him checking up on a pre-teen Luke starting his dawn chores at the farm from quite a far distance away, then moving on before he is spotted. Which makes sense, as it was clear in ANH that Luke had never met him before, and only knew about 'Old Ben' as a rumor of a hermit in the desert. Kenobi is good as a cameo character in a film, not as the center of his own adventure, because it wouldn't work, he's laying too low when you meet him in the canon material. Any feature film worthy adventure focused on him would not work in the established setting.

I'd say it's totally stacked against them, but we'll see.

It's a feature film, not an episode of Seinfeld, it can't be about nothing, something has to happen... And the Solo film sounds like it's going to be another dumpster fire from all the press it's been getting.

I doubt it's going to be anything less than a complete hot mess. The only way that Rogue One was better than it had any right to be is that they went hard-core with a bunch of unknowns all to kick off an opening car chase for the first movie. This Kenobi movie is going to have even less impact in the universe setting than that, it will have to leave NOTHING changed, no one who knows what he is can survive the film, no waves can be made in whatever passes for a society on Tatooine, and Kenobi can't go riding off into the sunset afterwards because he's stuck there looking after the newest chosen one.

No force powers or lightsabers and possible cold-blooded murder... then why make it about Kenobi in the first place? The ending of this film has to wrap up in a nice little bow to align with the fight with maul and his saving Luke in A New Hope. That's going to be hard enough to do in a non-contrived fashion for just a cameo, but to make Kenobi the focus of the film as well is going to be down right impossible to do well.

In the canon movies and tv shows It takes just one enemy survivor or just one overheard conversation to get an inquisitor on your ass

That makes no sense, if he did anything worthy of a movie it'd need a bigger cast than just him and the Lars family, and that would have brought the empire right on top of him. He was a crazy old harmless hermit, not some beloved frontier town gunfighter on the run from the marshals with the entire population of Anchorhead keeping his secret. As far as we know, after dropping off Luke with his Uncle and Aunt, Kenobi screwed off in the desert for a decade, then for the last five years before A New Hope, it was just Kenobi and Maul's corpse hanging out in the desert... I can see where you can fit a good movie in there, but nothing they make worth it's own feature film would survive the simple fact that the empire would be on Tatooine looking for a Jedi in hiding the next day.

What the fuck could they do with Kenobi; re-enact Castaway in a desert hut on Tatooine?

good, then I wasn't the only one who heard that

Wait... was that Japlish saying Mighty Thor: Battle Royal?

Eh, it still gives me a chuckle or two

tease

huh I looked it up at work, recognized O'Connell, but... Yep, that's Eddie Izzard... huh. Interesting.