Obi-Wan Kenobi Is Missing Lucas' Secret Weapon
The Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi is set in between George Lucas' two Star Wars trilogies, and features many of the same iconic characters, but lacks the epic sense of scale of these movies. Obi-Wan Kenobi is an expensive series that features the latest technology, but its action feels constrained, with most of its fights taking place in hallways and alleys. The answer lies in a simple filmmaking tool Lucas used so well: the establishing shot.
The establishing shot is typically a long shot at the beginning of a film or scene that helps to create a sense of location as well as the time of day and the space the characters have to move around in. A New Hope begins with one of the franchise's most memorable establishing shots—the long pan along the bottom of Darth Vader's Star Destroyer, which helps to demonstrate the Empire's immense power. Other establishing shots include the iconic shot of Tattooine's two suns and ones establishing the icy world of Hoth and the forests of Endor, creating instantly memorable locations.
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Obi-Wan Kenobi does include some establishing shots, but they are few and far between, and don't really feel like the same space the characters are moving around in. For instance, there's a striking shot of the Fortress Inquisitorious where Reva takes Leia for interrogation, but all of the action takes place within a series of anonymous triangular hallways. The fight between Obi-Wan and Anakin in Revenge of the Sith is one of the highlights of the prequel trilogy in large part because of the striking setting of the lava planet of Mustafar, while their rematch in Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 3 takes place in a fairly dull quarry. Without a well-established setting,
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