Obi-Wan Kenobi Would Have Been Better as a Movie
Now that all six episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi are out on Disney+, it's clear the series would have been much better as a movie as originally planned. Disney+ has seen a lot of success with its shows like Star Wars and Marvel shows, and while Obi-Wan Kenobi reportedly earned the platform big streaming numbers, the decision to make it a series instead of a movie was a big missed opportunity.
After years of teases from Ewan McGregor, it wasinitially reported Obi-Wan Kenobi would be produced as a movie, directed by Stephen Daldry, but as Disney and Lucasfilm abandoned their big-screen plans and turned their attention to Disney+, the decision was made to re-engineer Obi-Wan Kenobi as a limited series. Streaming content is a hot ticket item, and a number of big IP shows have proven the potential for big sci-fi and fantasy stories being told on the small screen, but that didn't end up being the case with Obi-Wan Kenobi.
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With the return of Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen and big battles teased between Vader and Obi-Wan, the show certainly had potential, but the constraints of an episodic streaming show ultimately prevented it from being as good as a movie version could have been. The basic plot of Obi-Wan being called off Tatooine to save Leia, meeting a group protecting fugitive Jedi, getting hunted down by the Empire, and Obi-Wan confronting Vader so the rebels could escape works as a traditional movie structure, but the process of expanding to six episodes often resulted in characters having nothing to do or repeating the same arcs each episode. For example, in five of the show's six episodes, Obi-Wan faces off against an enemy in order to
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