The time has come to address the really important issue of the day! I refer, of course, to my review of the "Obi-Wan Kenobi" series. There will, obviously, be spoilers. Those who dare complain will be turned over to the Grand Inquisitor, for interrogation!
Here goes:
I wanted to like this series, but I just simply couldn't. The basic idea of doing a series about what Kenobi did during the first decade after Order 66 is fine. The actors also did a good job. But the material they had to work with just sucked. I can't go over all the ways it did so. But here are a few lowlights:
Reva starts out as an interesting character, who supports the Empire because it is bringing order, and overthrew the badly flawed Jedi. Had the screenwriters stuck with this, it might have been a great plotline, one that ties the Empire to the Roman precedent that inspired it. Many Romans supported Augustus' dictatorship because he put an end to some twenty years of bloody civil war and civil unrest. But it eventually becomes clear that she has a completely nonsensical plan to kill Vader. When the plan predictably fails, she shifts to an even more nonsensical plan to get revenge on Vader by killing his son, who Vader doesn't even know about. This might be understandable if the character was stupid and/or deranged. But she is presented as smart and competent.
Both Obi-Wan and Vader flub obvious opportunities to finish off the other. Here, too, the effect is to make the characters seem stupid and incompetent, even though they're not supposed to be. Obi-Wan's error is particularly reprehensible, because letting Vader live sets the stage for all his later atrocities, including the destruction of Alderaan. But perhaps Obi-Wan could defend himself by arguing that keeping the incompetent Vader in a high position in the Empire is good for the Rebel Alliance!
The Grand Inquisitor, Reva, and Obi-Wan all swiftly recover from deep lightsaber wounds, none the worse for wear! Reva's light-speed recovery is particularly ridiculous. Either these three have incredible powers of regeneration we've never heard of before, or lightsabers aren't nearly as effective as we have been led to think.
The series tries to retconn an excuse for Obi-Wan's statement to Luke (in Episode 4), that Vader killed Luke's father. But the effect is just to make Obi-Wan look even more like a sleazy liar. Despite Vader's statement to the contrary, it's pretty obvious that he IS Anakin, and that the latter's emotional baggage, combined with the awful policies of the Jedi, is what led him to become Vader.
Was Obi-Wan really the only person the Organas could call to rescue Leia? They rule an entire planet! Surely they had other competent options that would be less likely to reveal who Leia really is (because unlike Obi-Wan, they wouldn't know).
Obi-Wan takes all kinds of risks, and yet the Empire still fails miserably in its efforts to catch him. This suggests he could have done still more to help the Rebellion, without too much additional risk - especially if he does it in places AWAY from where Vader is.
Obi-Wan's successful forays also highlight the question of why Yoda is sitting around, doing nothing. Surely there is much one of the most powerful Force users in the Galaxy could have done to help fight the Empire! And, unlike Obi-Wan, he doesn't even have the excuse that he has to lie low to watch over Luke and Leia.
In this series, Obi-Wan looks like he is at the peak of his powers, in middle age. Just 10 years later, in Episode IV, he is a withered old man. Perhaps people age especially fast on Tatooine. But otherwise this is deeply at odds with the dogma that Jedi actually age SLOWER than normal humans. And, yes, I know the real-world reason for this! But within the world of the Star Wars Universe, it looks silly.
The imperial military is remarkably incompetent in this series, though in fairness, that's consistent with much of their behavior in Episodes IV-VI, as well. Also in the Mandalorian, though there they actually raise the issue.
If Obi-Wan's main task is to watch over Luke and Leia, and he can take the kinds of risks he does in this series, it's remarkable he does nothing to train either of them in the use of the Force. We know that effective Force users require extensive training. Surely, giving them an early start would be worth the extra risk, especially if the Empire is as incompetent in its efforts to catch Obi-Wan as it is in this series. He could probably give Luke and Leia regular Force tutoring sessions, without getting detected. As it is, neither of them gets anything even remotely resembling proper training, which in turn nearly leads to disaster later. This very obvious issue would surely occur to great Jedi masters like Obi-Wan and Yoda. But remarkably they ignore it.
The series once again highlights how remarkably stupid it was to place Vader's son with the former's only living relatives, and then have him openly live under the name "Skywalker." Vader is even more stupid for failing to figure it out (though Reva apparently does). In fairness, this is a problem the series was stuck with, thanks to prior decisions by George Lucas.
In sum, the series (unintentionally) makes Obi-Wan seem like a bumbling dingbat, who succeeds only because Vader is an even bigger dingbat. Other than that, it was great!
I can only hope that other fans will not be as forgiving as I am, and the resulting outcry will lead Disney to do a better job with their next series. Otherwise, there will be a great disturbance in the Force.