Things aren’t getting any easier for embattled actor Ezra Miller (“ The Flash “), seemingly embroiled in one new scandal after another every day. Next: Obi-Wan Kenobi Season 1 Ending Explained (In Detail) While it might make business sense, the impact on the show’s story structure and budget distribution made Obi-Wan Kenobi a less climactic and cheaper-looking Star Wars story than it could have been as a movie. The only clear benefit from the movie becoming a streaming series is to the streaming platform itself, setting Disney+ viewership records and giving the platform six weeks of high-value IP to keep its subscribers engaged over the course of two billing cycles whereas with a movie subscribers could have simply signed up for one month and then canceled. The Mandalorian is a good example of how to utilize a more serialized story structure that still culminates in an exciting finale (albeit still smaller scale than a movie would have been), but the series structure simply doesn’t make as much sense with the story Obi-Wan Kenobi set out to tell. Of course, these limitations holding Obi-Wan Kenobi back from its full potential doesn’t mean a Star Wars show would always be better as a movie. A more typical movie structure would instead build the tension through more narrow escapes building to Kenobi’s final decision to face Vader so the rebels can escape in the finale, creating more dramatic and thematic significance since it’s the moment he realizes he can let go and trust the rebels to protect Leia (so she can eventually save the galaxy) while he goes to seek closure for his past as galaxy’s protector (which happens to also be his character arc in Star Wars: A New Hope). For example, in five of the show’s six episodes, Obi-Wan faces off against an enemy in order to buy Leia and the Rebels time to escape. The basic plot of Obi-Wan being called off Tatooine to save Leia, meeting a group protecting fugitive Jedi, getting hunted down by the Empire, and Obi-Wan confronting Vader so the rebels could escape works as a traditional movie structure, but the process of expanding to six episodes often resulted in characters having nothing to do or repeating the same arcs each episode. With the return of Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen and big battles teased between Vader and Obi-Wan, the show certainly had potential, but the constraints of an episodic streaming show ultimately prevented it from being as good as a movie version could have been. Related: Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Rotten Tomatoes Score Compared to Other Star Wars Shows
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