Still on my SW bullshit
The Obi-Wan Kenobi show has eaten my brain. This is where Tumblr as a format kind of sucks. There's no real community to speak of, only a string of blogs. Also it's not a great place for large blocks of texts. So I thought I'd ramble here a bit. BUT FIRST. I've done more fic. :D
Title: Cautiously Un-Pessimistic
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/39623058
Fandom: Obi-Wan Kenobi - Star Wars
Relationships: Obi-Wan & Leia, Leia & Vader, Obi-Wan & Vader
Category: Gen - Humor/Angst/Fluff
Rating: General Audiences
Words: 3447
Obi-Wan is captured at the end of Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 3, and while Obi-Wan and Vader dial up the angst, Leia is not impressed with the monologuing Sith.
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Anyway, about the show:
[Spoilers for Obi-Wan Kenobi through Ep 5]
Going into this show I already knew that it was never going to be enough for me. And now there's only one ep left and IT'S NOT GOING TO BE ENOUGH. Honestly it seems like there's so much to it yet that I'm not sure how they're going to wrap it all up in one episode.
I'm slightly disappointed that we've not seen Ahsoka or Cody. MAYBE SEASON 2? lol no I doubt there will be a season 2. This sounds like a one and done situation. This series has been very specifically focused on Obi-Wan and Anakin/Vader's relationship, and if you start throwing other preexisting characters in it starts becoming something else. Leia is a preexisting character, but she highlights the whole Good Father/Bad Father thing that Obi-Wan and Vader have, so she fits in nicely. Luke would have fit as well, but I'm glad we got Leia. The franchise is very Luke-focused and we deserve more Leia content, damnit!
God, Vader takes Bad Father to the extreme. Vader's forever killing children over and over and over. There have been many things he's done wrong, but it's like his original sin. (Think back to the Tuskens in Attack of the Clones and how he killed the children.) And then he stabs Reva even after saying he knew she was one of the younglings and he can't stop killing children. Of course it all finally stops with Luke when he saves the child.
This show has definitely demonstrated just how tangled up in each other Obi-Wan and Vader/Anakin are. Everything in their lives are about each other. Even after everything Obi-Wan doesn't want to kill Vader, and I'm convinced that Vader doesn't actually want to kill Obi-Wan either. I'd have to watch all the eps again, but I don't think Vader has ever said words like "you're going to die now." It's always about pain. He rolls Obi-Wan around in fire, but then basically lets him go. In Revenge of the Sith, their battle was like "I have to try and kill you now because you have to try and kill me now." Obi-Wan would definitely yank Anakin back to the light if he could, and I'm pretttttty convinced that Vader would happily pull Obi-Wan to the dark. They are "complementary halves of a single warrior" that were torn in half and wishing they were whole.
Well, one more ep and it's likely to be a gut punch. We know none of the OT characters die here and everyone will go back to their reset positions for A New Hope, but somehow Obi-Wan needs to get to the mindset that nothing of Anakin is left. Like I said, gut punch.
Well at least they get to be Force Ghosts together eventually.
Title: Cautiously Un-Pessimistic
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/39623058
Fandom: Obi-Wan Kenobi - Star Wars
Relationships: Obi-Wan & Leia, Leia & Vader, Obi-Wan & Vader
Category: Gen - Humor/Angst/Fluff
Rating: General Audiences
Words: 3447
Obi-Wan is captured at the end of Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 3, and while Obi-Wan and Vader dial up the angst, Leia is not impressed with the monologuing Sith.
*
Anyway, about the show:
[Spoilers for Obi-Wan Kenobi through Ep 5]
Going into this show I already knew that it was never going to be enough for me. And now there's only one ep left and IT'S NOT GOING TO BE ENOUGH. Honestly it seems like there's so much to it yet that I'm not sure how they're going to wrap it all up in one episode.
I'm slightly disappointed that we've not seen Ahsoka or Cody. MAYBE SEASON 2? lol no I doubt there will be a season 2. This sounds like a one and done situation. This series has been very specifically focused on Obi-Wan and Anakin/Vader's relationship, and if you start throwing other preexisting characters in it starts becoming something else. Leia is a preexisting character, but she highlights the whole Good Father/Bad Father thing that Obi-Wan and Vader have, so she fits in nicely. Luke would have fit as well, but I'm glad we got Leia. The franchise is very Luke-focused and we deserve more Leia content, damnit!
God, Vader takes Bad Father to the extreme. Vader's forever killing children over and over and over. There have been many things he's done wrong, but it's like his original sin. (Think back to the Tuskens in Attack of the Clones and how he killed the children.) And then he stabs Reva even after saying he knew she was one of the younglings and he can't stop killing children. Of course it all finally stops with Luke when he saves the child.
This show has definitely demonstrated just how tangled up in each other Obi-Wan and Vader/Anakin are. Everything in their lives are about each other. Even after everything Obi-Wan doesn't want to kill Vader, and I'm convinced that Vader doesn't actually want to kill Obi-Wan either. I'd have to watch all the eps again, but I don't think Vader has ever said words like "you're going to die now." It's always about pain. He rolls Obi-Wan around in fire, but then basically lets him go. In Revenge of the Sith, their battle was like "I have to try and kill you now because you have to try and kill me now." Obi-Wan would definitely yank Anakin back to the light if he could, and I'm pretttttty convinced that Vader would happily pull Obi-Wan to the dark. They are "complementary halves of a single warrior" that were torn in half and wishing they were whole.
Well, one more ep and it's likely to be a gut punch. We know none of the OT characters die here and everyone will go back to their reset positions for A New Hope, but somehow Obi-Wan needs to get to the mindset that nothing of Anakin is left. Like I said, gut punch.
Well at least they get to be Force Ghosts together eventually.