Why not both?

Wounds. She had a whole in her front and also a hole in her back where a lightning hot light saber drilled right through her. She shouldn’t have even been able to apply a bandage.

I mean, why would a military facility have large, panoramic windows underwater to begin with

I thought when Obi got covered by boulders that’s how their confrontation would end. The show had to contrive some way in which they both survive, so I thought that was going to be, the admittedly chintzy, way they were going to do it. Vader would, inexplicably given his force sense of Obi Wan, just assume Obi was…

Shhh, don’t give Disney any ideas.

I agree with everything you said and had that complaint from the first episode. The entire concept of a character we know survives rescuing a child we know survives while clashing with an old villain we know survives is so boring. There may be good scenes within that boring story, like Obi-Wan fighting Vader, but…

This particular issue isn’t one of pacing or not bothering to show the journey a character took. This episode picked up right where the last one left off. Vader is following the Path ship that had just taken off. Obi Wan decides to take off on the shuttle, he fights Vader, and as soon as he gets back in his ship he…

continuity is a huge problem here

This show was Star Wars’s last chance at getting me to watch one of their live-action TV shows as it aired, rather than waiting to binge it later or just avoiding it entirely. And it failed. The trailer for Andor looked pretty good but I’ll be fine waiting a few weeks to binge it (or just ignore it, if it turns out to…

“people shrug and move on”

I have an idea: Let’s cast the delightful comic actor Maya Erskine in this and then give her almost no dialogue or anything else to do.

It is conventional to say that the audience knowing the outcome is a problem to work around, but it really isn’t. There are entire genres where the audience knows the outcome from looking at the poster. The guy will get the girl. The heist will succeed. Bond will stop the villain. Movies where the ending is intended…

It would have made better sense to have Kenobi use an escape pod, the Star destroyer tracks it to the planet, then Vader arrives on his Lambda-class shuttle, yada yada yada Kenobi steals hyperdrive-equipped shuttle to escape. I can buy Vader getting off that planet by other, unseen means.

The transport had a diesel hyperdrive, while the shuttle’s hyperdrive ran on gasoline. 

Speak for yourself, I didn’t watch it!

“Your father’s lightsaber. An elegant weap . . .”

Exactly! This would’ve worked perfectly fine as a movie, and in counter-point, Solo would have made much more sense as a series. I’d definitely be behind several episodes of young Han’s escapades and hijinks and it would have given us ample time to watch him build the relationships with Chewie and Lando which are a…

This started off with some promise, but there’s no way I can say its anything more than a disappointment. The writing is just flat out weak.

I mean, why would a military facility have large, panoramic windows underwater to begin with, let alone a lack of watertight bulkheads (“this won’t hold long”) in the event of flooding?

I don’t blame Hayden for his portrayal in the prequels. George Lucas made a lot of actors look awful in those movies. The only actors who put in decent performances are Ewan McGregor and Ian McDiarmid. It’s great that he get redemption as an actor here because he does deserve it.