sosnowcomesafterfire:

gay-jesus-probably:

So if an Obi-Wan Kenobi movie does get made, there’s three different settings it could have, each with its own pros and cons

Option one: Pre-Phantom Menace, during Obi-Wan’s apprenticeship

Pros:

• Would be Obi-Wan’s least stressful canon apperance
• Qui-Gon
• Mace Windu
• Could move Xanatos from the EU into canon
• Squishy baby face teenager Jedi
• No Jar-Jar
• Palpatine’s dickishness is all firmly backstage; if it’s even involved at all

Cons:

• Ewan Mcgregor can’t play teenage Obi-Wan
• No Anakin
• No Ahsoka
• No Padme
• No R2-D2 or C3-PO

Option two: During Anakin’s apprenticeship, in the ten year timeskip between TPM and AOTC

Pros:

• Ewan can and would play Obi-Wan
• Anakin’s wonderous adventures in the early/mid teen years
• Parenting hijinks
• Mace Windu
• Perfect opportunity to give some canon elaboration on normal Jedi life, as that has literally never happened beyond tidbits here and there
• Plot could be Obi-Wan obliviously fucking over Palpatine’s repeated attempts to assassinate him, and almost pushing Palpatine into a stress aneurysm because how the hell does Obi-Wan not even notice the assassination attempts what the fuck

Cons:

• Qui-Gon is dead
• It’s all downhill from here
• Still no Padme, considering she’s specifically stated to not interact with the other two until AOTC
• Still no Ahsoka
• We have to look at Palpatine being trusted and respected by the Republic and know that there won’t be a happy resolution for a good 20-30 years and I mean even then oh my god

Option three: Set it during the time skip between ROTS and ANH

Pros:

• Still Ewan Mcgregor
• It makes perfect sense for Ahsoka to be involved
• It makes perfect sense for Bail to show up as well
• We might actually get to see Breha Organa
• Small child Luke! Small child Leia! Both viable cameos!
• Rebellion era, meaning the overall tone of the movie would be ‘fuck the establishment, fuck the government, fuck fascism’ which are very positive messages that should be sent these days
• Qui-Gon’s ghostly hijinks
• Darth Vader

Cons:

• This is the saddest possible Kenobi
• Oh my god it’s so sad
• STILL NO PADME
• LETS JUST GIVE PADME HER OWN MOVIE THIS IS RIDICULOUS
• The Jedi are dead and everything is painful
• …Darth Vader
• Oh my god it would be so sad
• The title would probably have to be ‘Obi-Wan’s Adventures in Crushing Depression and Toppling Governments: A Star Wars Story
• Seriously it would be like Rogue One but worse because we already know how fucked Obi-Wan is and oh my god
• Star Wars is a family franchise but the setting would just feel wrong if Obi-Wan didn’t yell fuck at some point. lets face it he’s earned it.

Conclusion: Make an Obi-Wan trilogy. Don’t let George Lucas write the dialogue.

“how the hell does Obi-Wan not even notice the assassination attempts what the fuck”

Nailed it.