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Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers show I'm your host Paul and this video we're breaking down
the Obi Wan trailer.
First fact, Obi Wan is short for Obi Wan Kenobi, R2 is short for R2-D2 and Luke Skywalker is
short for a Stormtrooper.
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With that out the way, thanks for clicking this now let's get into the Obi-Wan Kenobi
Trailer.
Ok so Kenobi has a lot going on with it and personally I think it's gonna be the biggest
Star Wars Disney plus show.
We've had The Mandalorian which was a completely unknown character and this was then followed
by Book Of Boba Fett.
Though he's got a strong following and I love the guy, he wasn't one of the major major
characters whereas Obi Wan was a pretty big part of the Prequel and Original Trilogy.
This is the first massive character we've ever had a show for and to build upon this
Hayden Christensen will be returning as Darth Vader.
Though it somewhat contradicts the line about when they last met in a New Hope, I'm sure
they can work around it and the Kenobi show is gonna fill in a lot of the blanks between
Revenge Of The Sith and that film.
Now Obi-Wan will begin on Tattooine, a handful of years after he dropped Luke off at his
Aunt and Uncles.
Amongst the Dunes he watched over Young Skywalker and this has been explored in some of the
comics which may inspire some of the episodes.
We've know for some time now due to the concept are that he'll be riding an Eopie (ee-oh-pie)
and if you cast your mind back to the ending of Revenge you'll remember rode on one then
too.
Now we cut to him very much having to live a lowly life and whereas he was once reveered
by many, he's down on his luck.
We can see a line of people queuing up and this is very reminicent of the great depression
when people used to have to line up for work and food. he says the fight is done and that
they lost and from here we cut to him overlooking Owen Lars Farm where we can catch Aunt Beru
and also a Young Luke.
With the goggles on he very much looks like how anakin did in the prequel trilogu when
he went podracing and it's some awesome iconography.
This actually feels like it was ripped right from the comics in a moment in which Obi Wan
looked over Luke.
Now one of the major aspects in the comics that will likely get fleshed out in the series
is that Obi-Wan basically put survival above being a Jedi.
What I mean by this is that the character would see injustices in Mos Eisley and on
the planet but he wouldn't be able to intervene.
In the comic From The Journals Of Obi Wan Kenobi, Luke came across his diaries and these
expanded on his life on the planet after the fall of the order.
He very much had to lie low and hide who he was because as we know there are Inquisitors
on the hunt for him.
We also know that Joel Edgerton will be reprising the role of Owen Lars in the series and if
we look at the comics we can kinda speculate what kind of role his character will play.
In the books Obi Wan knew that he should really be training Luke and though this could put
him in danger, it would better prepare him for if his father ever managed to find him.
Obi Wan knew that the temptation of the Sith was very powerful and that if he hadn't been
trained in the ways of the Jedi first that he would instantly give into it.
Now on the other side of this was Owen who didn't want Luke getting involved in any of
it.
After Obi Wan sent Luke a gift, Owen angrily returned it and told him to stay out of Luke's
life.
However Owen did somewhat come to appreciate him after Obi-Wan saved the pair from Black
Krrsantan.
You'll likely recognise him from the Book Of Boba Fett and I think that they purposely
introduced the character there so that it's way more impactful when he shows up in this
series.
Now Jabba had started running an extortionate Water Tax on Moisture Farmers in the area.
Obi Wan put a stop to this and Krrsantan was sent out by Jabba to find the man who'd cut
off some of his income.
Krrsantan took Owen hostage to draw Obi Wan out and the pair ended up fighting each other.
Obi Wan won and Krrsantan ended up fleeing the planet for some time which I think would
be an awesome storyline to drop into the series.
Next we cut to the lucasfilm logo and you can catch some sand drifiting in over the
top of it which is of course representative of Tatooine.
Now from here we cut to the Grand Inquisitor, the leader of the Jedi hunting group that
has appeared in several aspects of the expanded lore.
He's not alone and if you look in the corner you can also catch another member of the group
accompanying him.
I'm not 100% on who this is but I believe it's fifth brother, one of the many inquisitors
we get a look at.
Later on we're introduced to Inquisitor Reva and initially when the sizzle reel first dropped
a lot of people thought that this might be the Second Sister from Fallen Order.
Reva is a Sith inquisitor which are basically force sensitive people that were enlisted
by Vader and Palpatine to hunt down the Jedi.
Throughout the Galaxy they're constnatly on the hunt and they'll do whatever they can
to make sure that order 66 is carried out to completion.
She's clearly stalking tattooine and there have been several images of her released through
Entertainment weekly that show her talking to Owen Lars.
We know very little about her and it's possible that Seventh sister may appear too.
There's a lot of theories that Seventh Sister is Barriss Offee who was potentially teased
in the grogu flashback of Order 66.
I'm a bit unsure whether that's the case but with it being a popular fan theory I thought
it was worth bringing up.
Due to the architecture here this seems like it's tattooine and we see Reva on the planet
so ey, makes sense.
We also get a shot of several of them together and on the back of one you can see the lightsabers
they typically tend to use which has a circular handle.
Now at this point we see some Stormtroopers and you'll notice that they're now in the
fully classic uniform as opposed to the clone one.
In the Bad Batch we watched as the Empire ended up phasing out the Kaminoans and at
the end of the series they destroyed Tipoca City.
It's much much cheaper for them to just invade a planet and force the people there into conscription
but with this comes a lack of skill which is why Stormtroopers couldn't even hit that
like button if the worlds worst youtube channel told them to.
From here we cut to the inquisitors happily publicly executing all those that harbour
Jedi.
Lars is clearly worried by this as he of course knows Luke is the child of a powerful Jedi
and I can't wait to see the showdowns that they have.
#Now at this point we catch them and Obi-Wan on the planet, Daiyu.
In the interview with Entertainment Weekly, writer Joby Harold said it's got a sort of
Hong Kong feel to it.
The planet is grafitti laiden, full of neon signs and it's very captivating to look at,
offering a great switch up from Tatooine.
There's a chase across the sky and Obi-Wan even uses a blaster at one point which he
of course said in Revenge was a primitive weapon.
He releases some birds to cause a distraction and then we get the words hope survive which
is of course playing on a new hope.
Now the trailer ends with vaders breathing and though he's not in the first look he will
be in the show.
It's gonna be intesting to see how they play this as we know from the established Canon
that he wasn't aware of Luke or Leia at this point.
It was only after the destruction of the death star that he learned Luke was his son.
This of course p**sed the guy off massively as Palps told him Padme died because he killer
her in his anger.
However she actually died of a...of a broken heart....after she gave birth to the twins.
This was something that Palpatine didn't tell him as he suspected that his children
could lead him away from being his minion and also because he was probably embarassed
by how bad the writing of dying of a broken heart was.
Now both the Jedi and Sith realise that if people have attachments to others that it
can end up clouding their judgement and much like how Ahsoka didn't want Mando to see Grogu,
Palps didn't want Vader to learn about his children.
This is also why he didn't return to Tattooine to look for his kids as he simply didn't know
they existed.
Also yeah side tangent, I love that Obi Wan had anywhere in the galaxy to hide Luke and
he left him with his Uncle.
I know there's actual reasons behind it but I just always find it funny and yeah, let
me laugh, I haven't slept more than an hour at a time since my own Twins were born.
Now Vader not knowign about them is something I don't think they will retcon becasue this
lie was a major factor in why Vader wanted to overthrow the Emporer with Luke.
His palace on Mustafar will also be appearing in the series which we saw in Rogue One.
Vader built this here because he was somewhat born there and I think we'll stop by it at
several points in the season.
Hopefully get lots of scenes where he's in the Bacta tank.
Now the series is all gonna build towards a massive showdown between Vader and Obi Wan
which was first teased at in the concept art.
This is basically what everyone wants to see and I'm so hyped to watch this play out.
We kinda already know that Vader has to lose it and then that still keeps things inline
with the bit about him still being a learner in a New Hope.
Now a big character I've not really seen mentioned in any of the leaks, reports or info on the
show is Palpatine.
If Darth Vader is showing up then it makes sense that Palps would too.
I don't really like The Rise Of Skywalker that much but you know what Star Wars is like,
they tend to do something terrible and then spend the next 10 years explaining it so that
you actually grow to love it.
I didn't like the prequel trilogy all that much when it first came out but thanks to
the Clone Wars I enjoy it way more and I think they could do something like this with the
Palpatine clone story.
We did get a tease towards this in The Mandalorian Season 2 and if they expanded on it in this
one I think it would at least help with some of the criticisms that I have with the last
Star Wars movie.
It would offer a Rey...of hope...at the FINN-ish.
What a Poe pun that was ey.
Now as for my thoughts on the trailer, it's got me really hyped for what's to come and
it seems like this is the series where they're bringing out all the big guns.
As I mentioned earlier, all the prior series were centred around characters that were either
brand new or ones that only really got expanded on in the clone wars and rebels.
Here we have a major character from the prequels and original trilogy and there is also of
course Darth Vader.
Hayden coming back is a massive get for the series and I can't wait to see how the new
show fleshes out not only Obi Wan's life but also Vaders.
Gonna make for a really interesting show in my opinion and I'm really hyped for it's release
in May.
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