I Warned Disney What Would Happen if They Ruined the Kenobi Series, and I Was Right – Opinion

Let me begin this article by saying that I was inspired by an article in the past.

This article was published before Disney+ launched the Obi Wan Kenobi series. As they brought back Ewan MacGregor and Hayden Christensen, I felt cautiously optimistic. The commercials looked like a return to Star Wars form.

However, we live in an age where the woke have taken over almost every mainstream creative outlet including Disney, and I knew that it was highly possible, even likely, that Disney would pull a fast one and inject “This message” into the show. So I sent a warning to Disney that Star Wars would be dead if they make a mistake here.

Attraction is not a guarantee of success. This show’s handling of Kenobi will be a disaster. He will become a secondary character on his show and will continue to lose to lesser characters. The goodwill of fans will evaporate faster than water in the desert. If the show leans into social justice, injects feminism, or gets political in any way, it will drive fans from Star Wars and they won’t come back until it changes hands.

Sadly, Disney did exactly what I was hoping they wouldn’t do.

Obi-Wan Kenobi is a character that looks and sounds like Obi-Wan Kenobi but isn’t Obi-Wan Kenobi. He’s consistently being saved and outsmarted by the women around him, including what we’re being told is the child version of Leia Organa. He has lost his calm demeanor, and ability to use the force with skill.

Other characters aren’t much better. The main villain isn’t Darth Vader but a character named “Reva,” who is more powerful and cunning than Obi-Wan, a Jedi Master, in every way. Uncle Owen, who is very reminiscent the OG character of the original trilogy is the only character that acts in the way he should. Vader still looks terrifying, but he seems to make odd combat choices.

Nerdrotic provides a detailed breakdown of what the tragedy that is the series.

Sure enough, the show’s failure to keep modernity out of it has resulted in the fans turning on the show. At the moment, Star Wars’ Kenobi series has the lowest rating on Disney+. The series began strong but the fourth episode received a 6.5 from IMDb.

#ObiWanKenobiIMDb rates E4 at 6.5

This is the lowest-rated episode to date pic.twitter.com/ZRrSSMnBdW

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Fans are leaving an unpleasant taste in their mouths and the show is quickly losing its steam.

Keep in mind that this is after Disney painted Star Wars fans as racist for alleged racist comments toward Reva’s actress, Moses Ingram, of which they could only produce three. McGregor also posted a clip lamenting racism directed at Ingram. However, there’s not much evidence. It was predicted that Disney was conducting this “anti-racism” campaign to prepare for the fact that it had a stinker on its hands, and it seems these predictions aren’t far off.

The data hasn’t yet been released on the viewership numbers per episode but judging by the reactions by fans, I’m willing to bet there’s a good decline happening.

Star Wars fans don’t have an excuse to stick around at this point. The show fails not only to meet the high standards expected of Star Wars but also to be a good television series. Moreover, Star Wars fans can’t trust Disney to treat this beloved franchise with any kind of respect.

Personally, I’ve lost any interest in the Star Wars brand at this point and have little desire to see what Disney is offering. If Disney fires Kathleen Kennedy (the woman who has unrelentingly instilled politics into Star Wars), then maybe my interest will be restored. Or, if Disney sold Star Wars to a company that actually cares about it, but that’s far less likely to happen.

Until either one of these things happens, I’ll probably not care too much about any Star Wars product in the future. There is no way I could. This will mean that any series after this series is finished, which could have attracted any interest (e.g. the Ashoka series), will be dropped. I can’t trust Disney to do right by the series, and I’m willing to bet many others can’t either.