That was ....okish
Ewan is still great in the role and I like his take on a depressed and traumatized Obi Wan. The rest has been rather underwhelming though.
I really disliked Leia, have always hated smartass bratty kid characters in shows/movies and this is no different. IMDB tells me she will be in every episode which has instantly made me less excited to see the rest of the season.
Reva is a also pretty bland so far, zero charisma.
Both chase sequences were unbelievably bad. The girl playing Leia doesn't even look like she is trying to run at full speed and yet she is outrunning a Jedi and a bunch of bounty hunters? What? And it would have been so easy to make it less ridiculous by at least having her squeeze through thigh places or something instead of having her literally outrun a bunch of grown men in a straight line. Reva and her rooftop parkour looked ridiculous too, the group I was watching this with literally starting laughing out loud during that part.
I just dont understand how some of these scenes make it to the final product. Why is SW in general so loved but so bad at the same time? It deserves so much love and care. The potential to do really great things and we get some of the most cringiest shit. Obi is a god tier character, the production, writing, directing, etc. needs to reflect that. This isnt Boba tier bad, but holy shit some of the scenes come from the same school of filming. Treat this shit like gold ffs.
I think it's loved because at least it used to feel unique and inventive. When the OG trilogy came out there wasn't anything quite like it and the sheer spectacle as well as this interesting world with interesting concepts like the Jedi, the force, lightsabers, etc made it easy to overlook the issues (not to mention the god tier music). Even the prequels, while gaining more criticism, retained some appeal by showing awesome new concepts and locations like Naboo, the droids, pod racing, more dynamic and over the top fights, etc. Like when Darth Maul shows up, takes out a freaking dual lightsaber and duel of fates starts playing it's just easy to forget the bland writing.
The Disney era of Star Wars is just a bunch of recycled tropes, characters, concepts and locations. So the issues stand out more.