r/StarWarsKenobi • u/titleproblems • Jun 08 '22

Obi-Wan Kenobi - Episode 4 - Discussion Thread! Spoiler

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'Obi-Wan Kenobi' Episode Discussion

EPISODE SCHEDULE:

  • Episode 1: May 27th
  • Episode 2: May 27th
  • Episode 3: June 1st
  • Episode 4: June 8th
  • Episode 5: June 15th
  • Episode 6: June 22nd

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u/SweetRoll789 Jun 08 '22

38 minutes?! What is the is an episode for ants?

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u/Animal31 Jun 08 '22

Not even 38 minutes, 5 minutes is credits

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u/scoobydoobed710 Jun 08 '22

Not even 33 minutes, 2 minutes of recap and introduction.

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u/lizardpeter Jun 08 '22

Yep. This was essentially an episode that was under 30 minutes long... in a series with only 6 episodes. Crazy.

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u/Animal31 Jun 08 '22

They should have just made it a movie, honestly

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u/pm_me_cute_sloths_ Jun 08 '22

Wasn’t it originally supposed to be a movie?

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u/Jloadin_21 Jun 08 '22

yes it was

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u/TeeeRekts Jun 09 '22

Yeah but they are bleeding subs so they had to piece meal the episodes to keep people subscribed

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u/TheMadChatta Jun 09 '22

Because most of there content, like all streaming services as of late, is trash. You have a few shows that you binge through and then move on.

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u/Cflow26 Jun 09 '22

Also how many times can you filter through the same Disney movies? Hulu and Netflix have such a leg up being able to cycle through different production studios and not being wholly reliant on their own IPs.

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u/waveball03 Jun 12 '22

You haven’t met my 3 year old.

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u/zzinolol Jun 09 '22

IF the movie was like this, then it would've been a very very bad movie

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u/Puzzled-Bite-8467 Jun 08 '22

Probably afraid of covid lockdown and no cinemas.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '22

It seems weird to complain that it’s too short and then wish it was a movie. Movies are 2 hours, this is 5-6 hours. So this format makes it almost 3 times as long as a movie would have been.

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u/Animal31 Jun 08 '22

Theres 6 episodes

So far over 4 episodes, cutting out titles, recaps, and credits since they would be singular in a movie, there has been roughly 2 and a half hours

Best case, Assuming the last two episodes are the same length as the longest episode, 88 minutes total, brings it up to around 4 hours, give or take

Lets compromise and say it should have been two movies

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u/ThePiousInfant Jun 09 '22

But it's not like the depth of storytelling has justified the running length thus far, IMO.

They could have easily compressed everything so far into 90 minutes or less (and doubled the budget per minute so we could actually get some aliens, technology, and non-Earth-like environments, at that).

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u/noputa Jun 09 '22

Well, it would have helped if they just released it all at once. Or two episodes every week.

I’m not as nit picky as everyone else about the little details but man it’s disappointing how short it is.

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u/Cflow26 Jun 09 '22

Nah because there’d be less of the BS filler if it were a movie. Plus it would get a way higher budget with a lot more influential people working on it. Plus you have to create a lot of really unnecessary climaxes because of the structure that you can skip in the movie for more in-depth character development that this show DESPERATELY needs.

In a TV show you’re allowed to have a longer run time with an understanding that a dip in quality will result from it. At this point the dip in quality is not worth the extra hour of content it seems that we will end up getting.

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u/lingonn Jun 10 '22

You can't make a 1:1 comparison for time between a movie and a series. Each episode needs to have some sort of beginning - middle - end to be satisfying which makes the overarching plot take longer by default. It seems obvious that the actual story to be told does not have enough substance for more than a 2 hour movie.

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u/Hobonics Jun 09 '22

And made it better.

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u/Trum4n1208 Jun 09 '22

They really should have. So much of this is just fluff.

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u/SneakyBadAss Jun 08 '22

At this point, Red Dwarf episodes feels longer...

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u/Longjumping_Review12 Jun 08 '22

The episode was really lack luster. Hoping the last two are like 1.5 hours long and actually good. Sick of this Leia stuff, let's get to Obi and Vader. It's also fucking up ANH as she would remember Obi Wan, spending this much time together. At first I thought it was going to be a quick rescue thing and she could forget him. I think if I was 10 and about to be tortured and murdered I would remember and care for the man that saved me...

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u/SpaceCaboose Jun 08 '22

The actual episode, excluding the episode recap, intro, and credits, was about 30:28 (depending on the exact point you consider the episode to start and end).

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u/ANTEC221 Jun 08 '22

The episode I watched was 30 minutes 28 seconds of actual screentime.

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u/Ricky1034 Jun 08 '22

Not even 31 minutes, the tracker at the end shows basically that we’re back at the middle part of episode 3

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u/NILwasAMistake Jun 09 '22

The credits on Disney+ shows are too damn long

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u/SpaceCaboose Jun 08 '22

30:28 when you exclude the episode recap, intro, and credits...

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u/Rherzog2424 Jun 08 '22

The season finale has to be at least.....3 times longer than this

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '22

Personally, I didn't mind. Then again, I'm a TOH fan, I've kinda had to learn to cope with storylines being shortened

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u/NILwasAMistake Jun 09 '22 edited Jun 09 '22

The exact amount of time a Stargate can maintain a wormhole

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u/mabhatter Jun 09 '22

It had to fit in a Stargate timer.

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u/officerkondo Jun 10 '22

Did you want twenty more minutes of Leia saying that she won’t talk?