# Obi Wan Kenobi series to start filming in March, {Now showing as of June 2022} **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, disney-hulu\ **Created:** [October 11, 2020, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748 "2020-10-11T22:53:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748/381 "2022-07-20T03:49:04Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > How was that going to work for much longer though? It wasn’t going to, and Beru even points that out in the original film. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748/382 "2022-07-20T05:34:12Z")
You are right. Wonder what the plan was., ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748/383 "2022-07-20T06:06:15Z")
Sell Fixer to the Hutts and hook him up with Camie. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2022, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748/384 "2022-07-22T02:00:40Z")
prequels are now liked? Not around here ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2022, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748/385 "2022-07-22T03:09:16Z")
Well this place does tend to be older than the median age. 😀 The answer is, yes actually. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2022, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748/386 "2022-07-22T03:10:45Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > The answer is, yes actually. Agreed. In my experience, Star Wars fans who were kids when the Prequels came out tend to like them, certainly more than most of us who grew up with the original trilogy. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2022, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748/387 "2022-07-22T04:04:43Z")
Well I was 14 when the Phantom Menace came out and I have always liked them. Less then the OT, but I never really got the hate, I mean I wasn’t blind to their faults as [this thread from a decade](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-rewatched-ep-iii-last-night/628494) ( 🤯) ago shows. But I thought they were good. Besides the younger generation growing up, the Prequels got vindicated. They did some very extensive world building which spawned a lot of great expanded material. And of course the Sequel trilogy very deliberately tried to avoid the “mistakes” of the prequels and ended up inadvertently making them look better. No boring politics, no world building, so what the hell happened to the Republic and just WTF are the First Order and the Knights of Ren? Don’t explain whats supposed to be mysterious led to “somehow Palpatine returned”. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2022, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748/388 "2022-07-22T12:03:42Z")
Likewise, from what I’ve observed, people who never watched any of the Star Wars movies before, who come to them now (maybe because of Baby Yoda memes, or they’re easily available on Disney+, or for whatever reason), tend to see the original and prequel trilogies as all of a piece. If they enjoy them, they enjoy them all about the same. This seems to be true even if they watch them in “proper” order, that is, originals first, then prequels. New people just don’t perceive as big a difference as us old school fans. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2022, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748/389 "2022-07-22T20:09:25Z")
FWIW My Wife had never watched Star Wars but we watched them because he was going to come with me to The Last Jedi back when it came out. I chose to do it in release order but she understood that the second three were prequels. She thought the original trilogy was just okay but she felt the story was too simplistic (I argued it’s more a fairy tale/Fantasy story so that was by design). She HATED the prequels. The bad acting was just too much for her. Whenever Hayden Christenson showed up in Obi Wan she rolled her eyes from the memories of the bad acting here. She liked The Force Awakens well enough. She ended up liking the Last Jedi when we saw it too. I never bothered to show her the Rise of Skywalker since even I disliked that one. To round out the other titles: she loves The Mandalorian, liked Obi Wan, thought Book of BF was blah, liked Rogue One but didn’t like the main character and loved Solo. Solo is actually her favorite Star Wars movie of all of them and the only one she wanted to watch again. So that’s at least one person’s opinion who went into all of them cold. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2022, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748/390 "2022-07-23T02:40:03Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > Solo is actually her favorite Star Wars movie of all of them and the only one she wanted to watch again. I never quite got the hate for Solo. Okay, sure, they had to cram in a lot of fan service to explain all the origins of Han’s iconic features, but if you’re not at least _tolerant_ of fan service, what the hell are you doing watching Solo in the first place? We all knew what it was going to be going into it. 😠 ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2022, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748/391 "2022-07-23T03:02:14Z")
As I posted back in January when I re-watched _Solo_, it deserves a second look. It’s really not all that bad, and is actually pretty good. > [@Solo: A Star Wars Story seen it thread. (Open spoilers)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/solo-a-star-wars-story-seen-it-thread-open-spoilers/814746/281): > > I watched this movie again today for the first time since I saw it in theaters, and I think the film gets a bum rap. It’s considered one of the weakest of the Star Wars films, but I actually really liked it. I dug L3-37 and Lando’s crush on her, and the droid’s status as a social justice warrior. I loved the Kessel Run scene. I enjoyed all the double-crosses, and Dryden’s lightsaber brass knuckles. I loved the scene in which Han and Chewie first met and “fake-fought” to escape their captivi… ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2022, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748/392 "2022-07-23T08:49:46Z")
Yeah, I enjoyed Solo. I never got the hate for it, either. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2022, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748/393 "2022-07-23T14:30:30Z")
I love that movie, too. My recollection is that at least part of the “hatred” for it was a backlash from toxic SW fans, as it came out just a few months after the polarizing Episode VIII. Fans who were angry about Episode VIII (some of whom even started petitions to get that film remade, to better fit their views of what that movie should have been) then set out to make their point with Disney, by slamming and boycotting Solo. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2022, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748/394 "2022-07-23T19:22:25Z")
I was really miffed that they cut out most of his Imperial career, which is something that comes straight from George Lucas’s background notes on the character. I wanted to see Han Solo: Imperial Officer, for at least one Act. Otherwise, I agree, the movie wasn’t bad and it had fun moments. > [@Quimby](#): > > She thought the original trilogy was just okay but she felt the story was too simplistic (I argued it’s more a fairy tale/Fantasy story so that was by design). She HATED the prequels. The bad acting was just too much for her. My BIL and I managed to make my sister, who wasn’t a fan do a SW marathon during the lockdown (watching movies together over Zoom is surprisingly fun) and she actually liked the wooden dialogue, since she felt it was exactly how two emotionally stunted people with little experience with relationships would interact. ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2022, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748/395 "2022-07-24T03:51:52Z")
No surprise nostalgia gets the prequels love (I genuinely liked the last one)…its the same for ROTJ. Its STILL a shit film, but its become so iconic that it gets passes for that. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2022, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748/396 "2022-07-28T01:43:57Z")
New SW book out makes some think Obi Wan is bi. > **[Did Star Wars Canon Just Confirm Obi-Wan Kenobi as Bisexual?](https://news.yahoo.com/did-star-wars-canon-just-160237449.html)** > > Here's what fans are saying, and why. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2022, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748/397 "2022-07-28T03:14:49Z")
Oh, bi one! ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2022, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748/398 "2022-07-28T04:53:00Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > … she actually liked the wooden dialogue, since she felt it was exactly how two emotionally stunted people with little experience with relationships would interact. Three, if you count George. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2022, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748/399 "2022-07-28T13:16:03Z")
I liked Solo but pretty much everyone knows they fired the original directors and Ron Howard took over. That made people wonder about the quality. Also there were rumors lead actor Alden Ehrenreich got sent for more training as an actor. Don’t know if that was confirmed [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748.md?page=19)