Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi Should Have Been A Movie
The business plan of Disney's Star Wars has a lot of good ideas and a lot of bad ones, often put out simultaneously. One of the most interesting questions concerns which stories get sent to Disney+ to become series, and which ones get a full-length feature film.
Obi-Wan Kenobi is here, and like every modern feature of the franchise, the fanbase is divided on its quality. Clips from the show, often back to back, will show up in social media posts as a method of praise or of criticism. Whether one is a fan of the show or not, it's entirely possible that a lot of the show's writing and pacing problems would have been addressed by a simple change of the medium.
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There's an old adage that suggests that any work of art could be improved by forcing its creator to cut out a significant chunk. Taking the editor's scissors to a text is difficult, but it demands its author to reassess the necessity of every piece of the puzzle. With four episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi released to the public so far, the series is currently about 180 minutes long. That's the runtime of a very long movie, and the series will likely nearly double in length by its ending. Editing down the story of the series into the runtime of a movie would require taking off around half of its content. That's drastic, but it would also likely excise all the show's worst excesses.
The journey of Obi-Wan evading the deadly force of The Third Sister as he contends with the guilt of his past actions is a powerful one. Star Wars has always had a fascination with Campbell's Monomyth and The Hero's Journey, and the show has followed the typical structure so far. Comparing the series to other
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