Obi-Wan Kenobi's Action Scenes Are Baffling
Spoilers for the first three episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi below.
In the first episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi, one action scene was so puzzlingly staged that a friend of mine began reaching for a lore explanation to try and make sense of it.
"Are they just not used to the planet's gravity or something?" he wondered.
The scene in question occurs toward the episode’s conclusion when 10-year-old Princess Leia runs into the forest behind her family's skyscraping Alderaan home. Almost immediately after arriving in the woods, Leia is confronted by a menacing stranger with a buzzcut played by Red Hot Chili Peppers' bassist, Flea.
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"Why are you here?" Leia asks.
"Just waitin'." He responds.
"For what?" Leia asks.
Flea snarls, "For you." Leia looks to escape but quickly realizes she is surrounded. She runs anyway. Flea's teammates immediately give chase, but he watches her run for a solid beat as if giving her a head start. We then see Leia running about as fast as you would expect a kid with stubby child legs to run, but the grown adults behind her can't keep up. The one on the right even looks like they're running slowly on purpose, legs in a waddle like Ellen Degeneres dancing over a coffee table.
When Leia slides under a small, waist-level branch, one of the henchmen decides to go around instead of following her despite it seeming, to this viewer at least, like it would be easy to step over it. Leia then ducks under another branch, which a henchman, despite having plenty of time to react, runs straight into Looney Tunes-style. As she scrambles up a hill, one of her pursuers falls flat on their face. Then, when Leia makes it to the top of the hill and catches sight
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