Obi-Wan Kenobi's Worst Scene Continues A Bad Star Wars Trend

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WARNING: Contains spoilers for Obi-Wan Kenobi episodes 1 & 2.

Set in the period between Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, Obi-Wan Kenobi’s first two episodes provide more information on the Jedi Master’s story, but this did not prevent the series from continuing one of the franchise’s worst trends. Obi-Wan Kenobi follows The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett as the next in a series of live-action Star Wars shows airing exclusively on Disney+. While, for the most part, these shows have been successful in expanding the universe to a broader audience, there have been some episodes that have failed to live up to the otherwise high bar set by Disney+'s new series.

Only at the beginning of its six-episode run, Obi-Wan Kenobi is nonetheless proving to be one of the franchise’s more successful projects: achieving the refreshing tone of The Mandalorian while avoiding the narrative problems of The Book of Boba Fett to date. Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 2 moved the action away from Tattooine, with Obi-Wan attempting to smuggle the kidnapped Princess Leia away from her captors while avoiding detection by the Inquisitors. While the episode provided a good level of interaction between the in-hiding Jedi Master and Leia, some of its action sequences continued a mistake that has recently troubled the franchise.

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This off-putting trend fundamentally comes down to how the Disney+ series have handled chase sequences to date. From Leia’s two sprints in Obi-Wan Kenobi to the Mods’ pursuit of Mok Shaiz’s Majordomo in Boba Fett, these Disney+ Star Wars series are fast-demonstrating that they have an issue with creating frenetic and dynamic action sequences. Apart