I understand why people love Obi Wan, but I also struggle to really see what the point of his stand-alone story is.

We've already seen all the interesting portions of his life, from being a padawan, to a full-fledged Jedi, though the Clone Wars and the fall of the Republic.

Who really wants to see him hang out and do nothing on Tatooine for 18 or so years? That's the only unexplored timeframe of Kenobi's adult life. And while it might be interesting to find out how he went from 40 to 80 in half the time (and no, I'm not serious, that's not actually interesting), what can he possibly do? Trying to shoehorn in Kenobi as Rey's father is a terrible idea. I hope it's not true, but even if it is, it should stay like Luke and Leia's parentage in the prequels. Something we never saw, lol.

Seriously. Some mystery is a good thing. The Clone Wars were ten times cooler when in the original film Obi Wan just said he fought with Anakin Skywalker during them. "What were the Clones? Why was there a war? Wow, that sounds awesome!" The answer? "Well, the Clone Wars wasn't really about the Clones at all. They were just the principle military asset for one side of a civil war, and the fact that they were clones was actually kind of irrelevant to the greater reasoning for why the war happened, nor did they really factor into what happened at the end aside from being used to kill the Jedi. Seems kind of weird to highlight the clones when the result of the war was the dissolution of the Galactic Republic and the installment of the Galactic Empire. In fact, we're not really even sure why Yoda called it The Clone Wars in advance, like he'd already read about it in a history book or something. You know, kinda like how nobody called World War One World War One while it was happening. You'd also think it would have a more descriptive or propagandic name, depending on whose side of it you were on."

In short, to adapt a popular meme: "Leave Obi Wan Aloooone!"

28 minutes ago, VaeVictis said:

Seriously. Some mystery is a good thing. The Clone Wars were ten times cooler when in the original film Obi Wan just said he fought with Anakin Skywalker during them. "What were the Clones? Why was there a war? Wow, that sounds awesome!"

I was convinced that the clone wars somehow involved clones of Jedi and that something had "gone wrong" which caused a schism and a power struggle as Jedi clones succumbed to the Dark Side. I was also positive that Obi-Wan Kenobi was going to turn out to be a clone of Ben Kenobi and clones were given a droid-like designation before the name of the Jedi that they were cloned from, so the name Obi-Wan actually derived from O-B1 Kenobi.

Max Rebo, a Star Wars Story.

Lets not forget the Original A Star Wars stories.

3 hours ago, WWHSD said:

I was convinced that the clone wars somehow involved clones of Jedi and that something had "gone wrong" which caused a schism and a power struggle as Jedi clones succumbed to the Dark Side. I was also positive that Obi-Wan Kenobi was going to turn out to be a clone of Ben Kenobi and clones were given a droid-like designation before the name of the Jedi that they were cloned from, so the name Obi-Wan actually derived from O-B1 Kenobi.

I think that this is HIGHLY unlikely, as that would sort of mess, like, everything up.

I don't like the funny pictures of Sir Alec he does not deserve this it is not his fault that George went senile and crazy !

6 hours ago, VaeVictis said:

I understand why people love Obi Wan, but I also struggle to really see what the point of his stand-alone story is.

We've already seen all the interesting portions of his life, from being a padawan, to a full-fledged Jedi, though the Clone Wars and the fall of the Republic.

Who really wants to see him hang out and do nothing on Tatooine for 18 or so years? That's the only unexplored timeframe of Kenobi's adult life. And while it might be interesting to find out how he went from 40 to 80 in half the time (and no, I'm not serious, that's not actually interesting), what can he possibly do? Trying to shoehorn in Kenobi as Rey's father is a terrible idea. I hope it's not true, but even if it is, it should stay like Luke and Leia's parentage in the prequels. Something we never saw, lol.

Seriously. Some mystery is a good thing. The Clone Wars were ten times cooler when in the original film Obi Wan just said he fought with Anakin Skywalker during them. "What were the Clones? Why was there a war? Wow, that sounds awesome!" The answer? "Well, the Clone Wars wasn't really about the Clones at all. They were just the principle military asset for one side of a civil war, and the fact that they were clones was actually kind of irrelevant to the greater reasoning for why the war happened, nor did they really factor into what happened at the end aside from being used to kill the Jedi. Seems kind of weird to highlight the clones when the result of the war was the dissolution of the Galactic Republic and the installment of the Galactic Empire. In fact, we're not really even sure why Yoda called it The Clone Wars in advance, like he'd already read about it in a history book or something. You know, kinda like how nobody called World War One World War One while it was happening. You'd also think it would have a more descriptive or propagandic name, depending on whose side of it you were on."

In short, to adapt a popular meme: "Leave Obi Wan Aloooone!"

Yea i agree with you.

In retrospect that war would be known in the galaxy as the either the Civil War, the Separtist War or the Droid War. They werent at war with the clones, I dont see how it would be called the Clone Wars. The Clones were the good guys to a point.

6 hours ago, WWHSD said:

I was convinced that the clone wars somehow involved clones of Jedi and that something had "gone wrong" which caused a schism and a power struggle as Jedi clones succumbed to the Dark Side. I was also positive that Obi-Wan Kenobi was going to turn out to be a clone of Ben Kenobi and clones were given a droid-like designation before the name of the Jedi that they were cloned from, so the name Obi-Wan actually derived from O-B1 Kenobi.

Sounds better than what we got for sure!

Yeah, they could have done much better with the Clone Wars backstory, timing, and ObiWan and Anakin's part in it.

The animated series was fine, but the basic concept I thought did not mesh well with the original movies. Twenty years in the past is recent memory; in the original movies the Jedi, Republic, and Clone Wars were treated as history much further removed.

7 hours ago, Tappiocca said:

Lets see:

2017: Star Wars: The Last Jedi

2018: Star Wars: Han Solo story

2019: Star Wars: Episode IX, Indiana Jones <-- I would take a Kenobi film over Jones

2020: Star War Anthology Film (I would say this is 90% Boba Fett story)

Bounty Hunter Trilogy

Boba Fett: A Fistful of Credits.

Followed by: Dengar: For a Few Credits More.

Finally: The Jedi, the Sith, and the Hutts.

You forgot Jedi Academy Musical

11 hours ago, gryffindorhouse said:

I think that this is HIGHLY unlikely, as that would sort of mess, like, everything up.

It's unlikely now, but it was the backstory I imagined would exist during the 80s and 90s.

Honestly? I would be there on opening night for a film about Obi-Wan trying to fight back against the oppression and corruption of the Hutts without blowing his cover. It's a classic superhero flick - the hero with hidden powers and a secret identity against an all-powerful crime lord. Thwarting crime and pulling heists, being cracked down on by local enforcers paid off by Jabba and criminalized by local Imperial security patrols, while everybody holds up the true villain as a law abiding citizen beyond reproach. He could be Star Wars's Daredevil, against the Kingpin Jabba.

Inevitably, a bounty hunter gets brought in (Maybe Cad Bane - he specialised in fighting Jedi, and it would give his story a good ending to be brought down by Obi-Wan) as a proper escalation of antagonists, and Obi-Wan is put on the precipice of losing everything and revealing his identity to take him on.

But he can never quite get his hands on Jabba or end his evil empire. That's a story for a different film.