Review of Kenobi Show on Mickey+. PT1

Episode 1 8.5/10

If you haven’t watched all six episodes by now then go here & enjoy streaming. After that down below is spoiler free content.

Pros:
Ewan McGregor, Rubert Friend & Joel Edgerton. This opening a.k.a pilot episode is a fantasticoo start to the series when remove some of the bad parts like darth tantrum inquisitor messing around in the town & few others that is written below. Its well-paced (second one not so much) & gives semi well created sceneries in the planet that’s most known in this galaxy. Torn up strong & wise Jedi who isn’t much of a Jedi at this stage is working on some carcass ripping yard. Staying low to not get into Empire’s radar. Beautiful execution when these daily life steps are repeated few times.

Cons:
Reva comes across as an unnecessary “insert” a side character with paper thin development shoved further onto centre stage than is merited. Already on this pilot episode some scenes would’ve had more impact without her Darth Tantrum attitude messing up things. She scarcely has any depth like Ventress, Melisandre & even Serleena from MIB2 to name few. She’s a plank character just like Rey ‘Mary Sue’ Palpatine from 80% horrid Sequel Trilogy. Her attempt of showing threat doesn’t go far & on this opening episode it felt cringey & forced. Obi should’ve had more empathy with reply to lost young Jedi named ‘Nari‘ when asked for guidance. Obi offers no help other than to run & hide. Shame on ya.. Even he was avoiding Force connection to stay out of Dark Side’s touch, he should’ve helped Nari.

The chase scene where adults are clumsier than semi toddler is a disgrace telly work on this show that’s meant to set into rough era in the Galaxy. Short, but effective fix by Zebra3Girl is gold. On the one what we got, how can they trip over obstacles that are no problemo for youngling & why didn’t these bh’s have stun gun for contracts like this. Yes it can be used to younglings. I bet that Joby was the one who wrote this & unintentionally it comes as laughter scene. All it needs is cartoon ost ^^ Lets not forget the silly fact of treating sandy planet as joke no matter what universe it’s in. Obi-Wan went to dig up his Lightsabe presumably after 10 years. It was just Half meter or so under the sand surface 🙃 Most likely written by Joby or there’s another dumbo with same profession on that crew who don’t deserve to work with adult series. Those people forget that Tatooine’s constant sandstorms would’ve buried it wayy below the surface after a decade 💨🤔

Obi-Wan Kenobi ponders the next move on a remote good ol Tatooine.

Episode 2 7/10

Pros:
Ewan McGregor & Kumail Nanjiani. This gets lil bigger score than it should cause of well built background and props for the city in Planet Daiyu where Obi-Wan moves around. Planet that’s introduced for the first time. It brings me joy cause of more in depth sw & cp feels. Multicultural life in sw galaxy far away is always great to see & let eyes feast on it. Kumail is one of the highlights & he delivers bag of goodies as usual.

Cons:
Plot Armored semi pointless character thinks of takedown plan & again speaks alone behind the back of person who just gave orders in front of her. It showed that Reva is slightly whacko. Grand Inquisitor that i liked right after his first scene at EP01 got removed cause of dumb reasons.. 😦 GI would’ve seen that betrayal coming & prepare for it if written properly. Sadly Mickey Corporation’s crew for Kenobi came with bad excuse to sideline him so Missy Darth Tantrum a.k.a plot armored character can take the center stage from all Inquisitors 😦 Yes, at the end of the S01E06 (season finale if we get S02) it’s clear that Inquisitors could’ve been shown better way if done with passion. Instead we got identity politics shoved into our eyes 🤯

Grand Inquisitor showed his strength already at ep01 when was able to stop lightsaber strike with the ‘Force’. I would love all episodes 100x more if Grand Inquisitor had been part of them & it would increase rewatch value big time. EP02 has bad pacing at midway. Reva’s weird parkour scene is slow, bonkers & unnecessary. That’s also where bad pacing comes into picture. It’s a copy of introductory scene in the firstMatrix” where Trinity does same. Not much else bad to say about this mostly beautiful episode that’s set into nice scenery.

Talented & great on stage person Temuera Morrison played abandoned Clone Trooper.

Episode 3 7.5/10

Pros:
Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen & Indira Varma. Leia & Obi traveling at back of hovering work transport vehicle has good moments like when Obi tells Leia that wish he would be her father. Nice acting by Ewan & Vivien. Loader droid holding the wrench (or hammer, don’t recall now), while enemy troopers inside is genius addition ❤ Also those many markings on wall left by jedis & other people of high value. I like them even half dumb to add into building that’s deep in zone controlled by enemy faction. Vader’s throne room in the wide shot, actually resembles his mask. Pretty nice detail added by someone ✍️

Cons:
Few Stormtroopers ask a ride from the driver to their outpost. They hop in to back of the vehicle where Obi & Leia are sitting. Obi & Leia survive the background questions. They replied to Obi-Wan that they have long way to go, but just about minute later they stop cause of the Empire outpost is nearby.. 😀 Better way would’ve been to let them go all the way to sec checkpoint where Obi had a blaster fight. There to use his Lightsaber for the first time on Kenobi show. Then force pull that Stormtrooper who he shot with blaster on the version that we got. He felt down to lazeer gate & was split in half.

So yeah bodies cut in half & limbs being cut means that Star Wars definitely not meant ‘only‘ for kids as still many weird people say. Darth Vader making illogical civ kills on his way towards the tunnel building. No that wasn’t logical way to pull Jedi (Obi-Wan) into the open even knowing what GI said at EP01. That first arrival of Darth Vader on the show would’ve been BUENO moment to use some golden Legacy OST. Didn’t happen 😦 How did Tala get out of the tunnel system without passing Reva? How did Reva get to the end of the tunnel to meet Leia without passing Leia who was already in the tunnel & on her way to the end? How did the loader droid know to suddenly leave the scrap shop and go save Kenobi? Dumb refugees & Jedis for writing recognisable things to walls at building that leads to tunnel. It’s set in Empire controlled planet. Small fire stopped Vader & didn’t clear it at second time. Maybe Vader ran out of Force energy level so soon 😮

Obi-Wan’s first encounter with Darth Vader after disconnected from the ‘Force’ for ten years.

Panicked once at home. The weight dropped on same day.

Uhh on this monday 30.5.6022 (2022 for many who follow wrong timeline set by oldest storybook) i returned home after couple days travels. Moments after i got scared cause of my dear desktop rig’s behavior. Powah didn’t turn on as it normally does & that made me think of fried momma board or it’s battery. Gpu had it’s bright light on so i knew that Psu was still in okey condition. Naturally battery would’ve been almost hundred times cheaper & easier problem than buying new motherboard. Luckily rig turned on with press & hold powah button for five scs. Decided to try it after pondering on what to do next. I imagine that my dear rig had it’s powah turned on like this, came to be cause of lil charge had gathered into Psu.. Thought of long time to upgrade my desktop rig & eary this spring i set the date for it to july so can fulfill some long time plans.

Don’t know why it happened after i shutdown on saturday lil after noon, unplugged from extension cord and went to travels for two days. Glad i didn’t go check the battery before tried the press button for longer as must be done in some cases. With that mean bsod, some random freezes etc. That check up would’ve been a waste of time. First time for this to happen for me in eighteen years of being in pc camp ⏳ After got that solved i went for a groceries trip. Had to do it even felt very knackered from today’s early wake up & travels 🥴 On last two days i watched two Hockey World Championship games that was held in Finland. Many of em were played in new Arena built in Tampere City. It even has small hotel room with a nice view down to hockey ring. I can imagine that it can be rented also at other times. I watched the final Fin-Can with mom as she likes to watch hockey when Suomi team plays 🙂 Nice win by Finland & winning goal was scored in overtime. OT was played with twenty mins period on 3vs3.

I think is crazy to set overtime by using 20mins length for today’s three vs three rule. Overtime in whc should be played with four vs four and ten mins length. Very talented MikaelAirwave goal back in the daysGranlund made beautiful 2-1 score during normie playtime. Mentioned that cause it was the prettiest in the match. I wanted to go & keep company to mom so she wouldn’t have to watch it alone. She also likes to watch some winter sports like skiing & ski jumping. Track & Field during summer & her fav. from track & field is javelin throw. Here’s some other ways that you can try if run into similar problem with your Desktop Pc. Desktop Pc because of Gpu’s light is mentioned on first section. ‘How to repair a Computer that won’t turn on‘ I wish good week & launch of June to everyone 🍀🌮🍵🙋‍♂️ Pst: Remember to recycle, use Fabric Bags instead of plastic & avoid using single plastic always when possible.

Day when remember our creator as in dear Mom.

Today 8.5.6022 is the day that’s dedicated to your creator known as ‘Mother‘. 👨‍👩‍👦 I brought her ‘Rose Begonia‘ flower & good ol veganized domino cookies. Sure there are also normie dominos for sale & now two or three that are veganized & flavors are pear, raspberry & orange. Yeah i think too much waste piling again cause of so many diff. packs & that means more plastic to harm nature & sentient beings. Still, it’s nice to have good ol products that now have cruelty free option which i’ll happily support 🙂 I wish healthy and joyful mom’s day to every woman who has given birth to sentient being. 🤰🤱🙋
Hey Mom, you know.
I’m proud to be your son.
I’d like to thank you for
the loving support through the decades
.”

13y+ dream didn’t happen. Still can with this if devs respect author.

Dune: Spice Wars is a 4x Genre Pc game set into beautiful world created by late talented Frank Herbert. It was released to shameful Early Access (some are fine for Early Access release) 26.4.6022 (2022) on Steam platform. Many gamers have done excellent decision: Stopped buying product in early access a.k.a ‘consumers used as beta & bug testers‘ 👌 Personally i see good exception when Early Access used for literally indie company game that seems legit in many ways. Also when their product is based on known franchise & it follows the source material 110%. On this case doesn’t follow 110% & current price is 10€ too high cause of it’s content 🤖 I’ll buy once even small part of campaign is added & all characters mentioned on the book(s) match 110%. Is said by one snarky ‘Northgard‘: Spice Wars community manager that ‘beta & bugs testing phase’ is set to last 1x year.

Also said (or he quoted someone from dev team) by same weird Community Manager: “Modernising the messenger only makes the message more powerful.” <– *Picard Facepalm*  Why is gender-swapping considered “modernising a character“? Are men not “modern” enough for Shiro Games company? How does Kynes as female & leader of Fremen (not in Frank’s Book), fit in with the conservative & patriarchal nature of Fremen culture? Isn’t that cultural revisionism/erasure? Isn’t that sexism? Since one iconic character is already shown with wrong gender in Dune: Spice Wars steam page, in game should be a customization option for that character. That way keep the ability to being true to the book & really match that ‘iconic character’ that’s mentioned at one of Dune: Spice Wars news updates. Shiro Games is lying atm. when they added his name to list & it’s not “his” on their semi Dune franchise game 😦

About Gameplay week after of shameful ‘Early Access model’

Atm. Dune: Spice Wars lacks many important things like even small piece of campaign (would be ok for it to come out in parts), at least 1x more unit (tank maybe) & bigger map. Not to forget less cartoon network unicorn graphics. Faction leaders don’t really talk (same as in Civilization. Why ‘Shiro Games’ took this cheap route ?) I expected them to have at least some voiced content.. Combat is too simplified, I think they should add more variety to it. Such as unique skill for some units & weapon systems. Currently its all based on close quarters infantry, which is basically just making a task force of different buffs & destroying everything on its path with supply drops. Sadly Shai-Huluds are trash right now as they’re not a threat at all. Harvesters have ‘auto’ evasion for them 😀 😦 They should be more randomized & give them purpose of hunt, then they wouldn’t be so predictable & easy to avoid.

The largest map is still smaller than absolute most of RTS or turn-based strategy games I have played 😦 There’s only 5 unit types. No armoured & no flying machines. Scouts that are useless once the map is explored. The 4x part is done well & everyone who says this game has too much things to do, is used to playing those with lil focus & playfield. Good that it’s not possible to dominate on every field as otherwise several houses added would be pointless. Currently at 1.5.6022 the average game session lasts about ~2-3h depending on playstyle. Shameful work by devs 😦 Why so many games in these days look like they’re made for children 😦 I dislike this nickelodeon art style esp. in my favorite Fantasy Franchise / Universe.

World where Planet Arrakis is located isn’t meant to be shown as morning show where kids adventure into Arrakis & see bright unicorn theme 😦 I prefer a darker & more realistic look. As of now ‘Dune: Spice Wars’ has hard time beating Dune 1 or 2 in immersion & the cartoony art style doesn’t help here.. If ‘Shiro Games’ developers not gonna change graphics to better then hope that workshop is opened before 1x year long crap E.Access phase ends 🙂 Many talented modders who are waiting to give us that certain matching iconic character who isn’t one in Dune: Spice Wars even Shiro Games claims opposite. Here can see their false claim: Shameful lie from Shiro Games company Then darker visuals, but keep balance with light & dark areas.

Positives & Negatives week after E.Access launch

Pros: Overall Arrakis feeling cause of nice ambience. Sense of space, atmosphere.
Cons: This is more like ‘unoptimized copy of Northgard‘ & not what you expect for 30€. Esp. when released as Early Access sale model. Lack of interesting Diplomacy. No weight on battles & often many encounters can’t be called as one. Lack of Units & one out of 5x units loses value (Scout) after map is fully explored 😦 Shai-Hulud is a joke when comes to their threat now at ‘consumers used for bugs testing‘ phase. Hope their behavior is changed to more dangerous later on the roadmap. Lack of roadmap for consumers, hope it comes within next three months. Harkonnen advisor has female voice & that’s against the lore. Harvesting automation: This entire mechanic feels odd as they auto dodge worms. So them being attacked by worms has 0 effect on progress & sadly they don’t auto redeploy. This also feeds into the Spice feeling like a dull resource. AI can be won by clicking their ranged units with your melee. You won’t lose a fight. If you pull back damaged units & send them back in, you won’t even lose a unit 😦

Ending Thoughts & something

Hopefully many important changes & additions arrive. before this year’s september. As of now this game isn’t made by Arrakis Fans & not for Arrakis fans. it’s merely derived product that cheaply & with no shame surfs on the Dune IP wave 😦 Is mindboggling & sad to know that there’s prop. zero story & voice overed content made so far. If that’s the case then most likely we’ll see some of it only early 6023 (2023) 😦 I totally adore this Universe with avid heart created by Frank Herbert. That means love the books, telly mini-series, boardgame, Pc Game & movies that have come out so far. Happy to support new Dune Movie via HBO Max where i keep Subscription forever ❤ Hope that HBO Max’s Dune: Sisterhood series production that’s about to launch on this year goes well.

“Playing with the Fremen faction means doing the same colonial design systems as House Atreides & House Harkonnen. Working to pay Imperial taxes & voting in the Landsraad, even in a limited cap, just doesn’t make sense. It’s opposite of immersion & misunderstanding of why the Fremen exist.”

I’ve bought books since -90’s & in recent years as ebooks via Amazon.de & Uk website. Seeing how Dune name is used without shame just to try & get easy cash in with less work as possible is sad 😦 I’m fine with buying new Arrakis Pc game even when it’s not not like Dune 2k / Emperor: Battle for Dune RTS 🙂 Dune: Spice Wars on it’s current state just isn’t worth of 30eur price tag & being shallow as it is 😦 I’ll update this or make new review (with vid or without) once (if) proper changes & additions come to ‘Northgard’: Spice Wars 🤞 Not buying it is very sad cause of 15+ years waiting for new Dune game.

I give 7/10 now when at August 6022 & Early Access 😦

Balance on this Planet. ‘Earth Day’.

Earth Care: What we design today impacts how we live tomorrow. For better or for worse, it impacts far into upcoming generations.” – L.L.Barkat –

Greetings to Earthlings living on this Planet Terra & to all outer world travelers if any around here o/ Now 22.4.6022 (2022 in Earth’s oldest storybook’s) is ‘Earth a.k.a Terra Day‘ here on this third rock from the sun where Human Species lives & still heavily polluting it’s environment. I’ve done my Earth Day contribution for thirty mins. Was about unpluging all electric devices except fridge & freezer below it. Also gonna send small donation on early May to one good Foundation that helps to Plant Trees. I’ve been it’s member for a while & few times a year i send donation that plants a tree on chosen continent.

Firstly here’s message to Brazil’s filthy half blind president Jair Bolsonaro when comes to treating their unique & beautiful ‘Earth Lungs‘: Stop the Amazon Rainforest’s destruction & turning it into crappy agriculture land! *For the Earth Day we do what’s right* Meat Industry a.k.a ‘Murder On Planet’ Giants linked to Deforestation. ‘Murder on Plate’ so called food industry giant ‘JBS’ is now bigger polluter than Italy. JBS company is bigger Polluter than Italy. Few people know that – similar to cattle grazing in the Amazon – fishing drives climate change by destroying coastal ecosystems 😦 We need to restore the world’s coastlines to tackle the Climate Crisis. I think that most if not all environmentalists who don’t follow cruelty free-eating path are frauds & lost between the curtains of imaginary world & real-life. Here’s a touching set of images & description below. Human made disasters, Human made cruelty in images.

”Our disrespectful treatment of other animals & the earth has consequences. When they are harmed, ultimately, so are we. All life on this planet is connected & is in our interest to act accordingly before it’s too late”

Yes, the Cruelty Free-Eating path is brought in hand in hand with Earth Day cause they’re heavily connected. Killing animals a.k.a sentient beings to have that moment of illogicalpleasure on plate‘ is linked to deadly diseases. Ammonia, which is emitted by cow, chicken & pig farms, is a deadly air pollutant that is a threat to human health & can cause premature death. It’s estimated that 3000 deaths could be prevented annually if ammonia emissions were halved. By following cruelty Free-Eating path a.k.a Veganism, you’ll help to prevent future pandemics like Covid-19, Campylobacter & more. If humans insist upon eating animals at the current rate, then life will take over & ensure that there are less humans on this planet. Billions of people didn’t listen after the bird flu, swine flu, mad cow disease SARS or MERS. Coronavirus was & is another attempt to get across the message: it is not safe or sustainable or humane or at all okay for close to eight billion humans to eat these well known sentient beings.

Horrid Agriculture accounts for about 70% of freshwater use, making it “the world’s largest water-consuming sector.” Meat & dairy products lead the way in agricultural water use. Producing just one pound of beef requires 1,800 gallons of water. Equivalent of about 100 showers for the avg US Citizen).
Here’s few other good ways that you can add to help Earth & at same time you’re helping current & future generation:
1. Use sustainable products: Take a note of great Grunbag that i’ve supported & will again in future.
2. Go Plogging: While jogging you to pick up litter to reduce plastic pollution & protect the environment.
3. Travel by bicycle or on foot: Exercise your body, zero fuel & place no burden on the environment.
4. Help Nature even after ‘Earth Day‘: Close the Running Water while spread Shampoo & Body Soap.
5. Sign up & Share my Petition about Reducing E-Waste: Go Digital & Save Lives

10 Climate Solutions that can help I wish good Earth a.k.a Terra Day to everyone. If you can’t make 30mins – 1hour unplugging today then do it during this weekend. Together we have the power to make the change & affect what big greedy half blind corporations do as they keep hurting the planet, sentient beings including humans & future generation. Not to count out millions of individuals who keep behaving without brain. Singapore is known to have toughest law on this planet when comes to littering. I’d love to have fourty percent close to that in Finland & to every country on this third rock from the sun. Here’s good ol ‘Earthsong‘. It’s from good ‘History’ album that i bought back in the days & later digitally.