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Fan service

is making a series

just to please

the fans of its characters and its universe.

Fan service is placating a child with more and more sweets even knowing that the adult he will become will end up blaming you for his weight problems.

Fanservice is

Obi-Wan Kenobi

.

However, many

Star Wars

fans have rebelled against the new Disney+ series.

that has had a fairly decent critical reception but also a trickle of comments that are more derogatory.

Your managers will be baffled.

Or no, it's not about you adoring

Obi-Wan Kenobi,

it

's about you seeing her

.

Back in the days of the original galactic trilogy, the magic ingredient of the saga was surprise.

George Lucas and his ilk showcasing the imagination, whether in the form of the planet Bespin and its cloud-city (how wonderful) or the moon of Endor and its gang of knick knacks.

Then the saga chose to continue expanding and, in its second trilogy,

fell prey to the mirage

of the ugly digital effects of the early twenty-first century.

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, computer simulations replaced models and the magic was lost along the way.

Then we lost Carrie Fisher.

It is precisely the character of Fisher, the mythical princess Leia, one of the most important of

Obi-Wan Kenobi

.

She in 10-year-old girl format.

If in

The Mandalorian

the Mandalorian had to protect Baby Yoda, in

Obi-Wan Kenobi

, the knight played again by Ewan McGregor, he has to protect Baby Leia.

Star Wars

expanded and now decides to contract.

There isn't much else.

But there was never much more.

Beyond the

cheap mysticism of The Force

, Star Wars is nothing more than pure family entertainment.

His depth, when he has tried to have it, is faked and unnecessary.

Looking for her is as absurd as getting pissed off because

Obi-Wan Kenobi

's plot almost flaunts its script holes.

Something, on the other hand, house brand.

Isn't Rogue One an expensive patch for one of those gaps in the first trilogy?

In other things, Star Wars fanatics are right.

That chase sequence for the girl Leia that is being talked about so much is one of the

most embarrassing ever filmed

.

It hurts to see her.

It is not that it is inappropriate for a blockbuster like Obi-Wan Kenobi, it is that it would spoil even a school short film.

The escape of the girl Leia through the forest of her planet seems to be taken from an episode of

Stranger Things

: this would be the amateur movie on VHS that the children of the Netflix series would present to their pre-technology teacher.

Many Star Wars fans are old enough to remember that word: pre-tech.

We also remember when we didn't ask George Lucas for anything because we knew he would give us everything.

Perhaps when the time came to produce Obi-Wan Kenobi there was nothing left to give.

Or it was decided to go to the dark side of the series: the fan service.

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