This spring saw the arrival of new streaming series from both franchises — 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' and 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.' Which prequel show did a better job of maneuvering around famous points of continuity?
from the prequels reprising the title role. It appears to repeatedly contradict lines of dialogue and other events of the 1977 film. In the movie, Darth Vader implies he hasn’t seen Obi-Wan in a very long time, since he was a student and Obi-Wan was the master; yet here we see them having a fight only 10 years after Obi-Wan left his former pupil Anakin Skywalker for dead at the end of.
TV show, mixing younger versions of famous characters like Spock and Uhura with a mix of figures who are either brand-new to the franchise or only appeared briefly, the latter including Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike. As with, there are moments where what happens on the new series doesn’t quite mesh with what we know from earlier adventures.
From left: Celia Rose Gooding as Uhura, Ethan Peck as Spock, and Christina Chong as La’an in ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.’Now, both series also allow you to hand-wave away some or all of these apparent discrepancies, and at times go out of their way to make it possible. In thefinale, Anakin/Darth refers to Obi-Wan as “Master,” and Obi-Wan is once again able to best him as if Darth is still the learner.
The issue, though, isn’t whether you can reconcile this stuff, but whether either show is getting enough dramatic value out of the changes to make them worth the bother. And it’s here thatis the exception, not the rule, and even that show periodically finds itself hemmed in by viewers’ knowledge of what’s to come on.
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