I mean, she's obviously a diversity hire. I watched the show, and she is so talentless that it looks like someone dropped a random cosplayer into a serious TV production.
She's surrounded by A list talent like McGregor or the guy playing Bail Organa (can't remember his name, but damn he's good at playing the doting father).
I totally understand people being pissed. I think if she was good at acting, people wouldn't mind as much. I don't recall there being any hatred of Finn's character or casting, for example. The issue with Finn is that they didn't know where to go with him after the first movie since they kinda completed his arc there.
The only thing I disliked about Finn is the trope of interracial relationship between a dark man and white woman that Hollywood is so obsessed with. Outside of that, he was an interesting character, at least at the beginning.
Jimmy Smits. Definitely an actor with history, though the only other thing I recall from him was that attorney character in the third season of Dexter.
Halfway through the 3rd episode I’m starting to notice there’s a lot more wrong with the show. The camera work, the attention to detail on Leia compared to everyone else, the mixture of child-like fun with something that should be serious, no clear direction with the movie (is it a movie about Leia or Kenobi). The list goes on. I’m surprised that no one is talking about the director.
Excellent point. You've put into words something that has been bothering me for a while. Kenobi is, in my view, supposed to be a dark story. The Jedi were defeated, the Empire owns the galaxy, Vader is in his prime, and Kenobi is still grappling with his failure along with the new responsibility he has to Luke... it's not supposed to be a fun adventure story. It wasn't portrayed that way in the trailer either. I remember vividly that it looked like Obi-Wan was struggling with living the life of a hunted man.
Yet here comes the show, and now it looks like "Adventure Time with Leia"! You have cute robots, little jokes, etc. I'm not saying you can't have jokes but damn, it's supposed to be a bleak atmosphere and that is not conveyed well in the show. Some of the blame is due to the inquisitors not coming across as threatening, which of course is partly due to Reva playing "angry black woman" and partly because they killed off the grand inquisitor in the second episode (whose idea was that?). They barely introduce the inquisitors and they are already a footnote.
The scene where Leia is being chased through the forest by three full grown adult males and somehow eludes them is one of the most ridiculous things I've seen on TV. It's straight out of a cartoon Disney show. There are lots of logical errors that make it hard to take it seriously. In the latest episode, there is a completely unexplained situation involving a tunnel and one character appearing to show up at the end of it before another, despite the latter entering the tunnel first and having a huge head start. My head hurts trying to follow stuff like this.
I thought they were positioning Finn to be the next Luke. I liked the character so I was fine with it. Then a feminist white woman put her boot on his head and Mary Sue’d her way to the top.
With the black chick in this one, I felt the same as you when I saw her next to McGregor, who is a top tier film actor. She doesn’t fit the role, she’s not a good actor here, and they intentionally made her look not fit her rank because if they had made her look like the other guys she wouldn’t show off her blackness. People liked all the other black characters in the fucking franchise. They don’t dislike her because she’s black. They dislike that she was clearly hired and forced into this because she’s black. Anyone else doing what she’s doing on screen would have been cut.
I’d have rather them break the story and bring Samuel L Jackson back than have her. She’s objectively bad in the role. I’m not saying she’s a bad actress because I haven’t seen her do anything else, but she’s doing a bad job here. Even the Paki comedian guy was good here.
I thought they were positioning Finn to be the next Luke. I liked the character so I was fine with it. Then a feminist white woman put her boot on his head and Mary Sue’d her way to the top.
I know lol! At the end of the movie, too. I was in disbelief at that point. Somehow she is going toe to toe with the guy trained by Luke, even though she has never held a lightsaber before. She should have been no better off than Finn, but of course, woman.
Even the Paki comedian guy was good here.
That's what I said. That character was well played, and I thought he added value to the story. Like for example, I am curious as to his motivations for wanting to help the Jedi. Clearly he idealizes them somewhat even though what they believe is totally at odds with his life as a criminal. That's a great setup for a character. The only reason I care at all about that is because I found his performance convincing.
What's worse is that Reva actually has a great backstory, being one of the Jedi Padawans that survived Anakin's temple massacre. I liked the little quips from her about Owen "protecting his family" (the way the Jedi and Obi-Wan failed to do for her), and so on, it's just that her delivery was crap. All I get from her is "angry black woman" vibes. What the hell was that parkour stuff on the rooftops about? She was only several rooftops away and did all that running and jumping for nothing because she never got there despite Kenobi having the time to kill the lizard and rescue Leia.
They are clearly setting her up for a redemption arc, which would be fine and good except now we are forced to sit through a terrible acting performance for longer because she is evidently the main focus of this story.
I mean, she's obviously a diversity hire. I watched the show, and she is so talentless that it looks like someone dropped a random cosplayer into a serious TV production.
She's surrounded by A list talent like McGregor or the guy playing Bail Organa (can't remember his name, but damn he's good at playing the doting father).
I totally understand people being pissed. I think if she was good at acting, people wouldn't mind as much. I don't recall there being any hatred of Finn's character or casting, for example. The issue with Finn is that they didn't know where to go with him after the first movie since they kinda completed his arc there.
The only thing I disliked about Finn is the trope of interracial relationship between a dark man and white woman that Hollywood is so obsessed with. Outside of that, he was an interesting character, at least at the beginning.
Jimmy Smits. Definitely an actor with history, though the only other thing I recall from him was that attorney character in the third season of Dexter.
He played Discount Obama in West Wing.
He's Amy's father in Brooklyn 99.
L.A. Law, back in '86-'92, the role that put him on the map for most of his career.
He was on NYPD Blue you losers.
That was a funny, are we suppose to ignore that she is obviously a diversity hire?
If being called a diversity hire is insulting doesn't that mean that implementing diversity hiring practices is bad?
Excellent point. You've put into words something that has been bothering me for a while. Kenobi is, in my view, supposed to be a dark story. The Jedi were defeated, the Empire owns the galaxy, Vader is in his prime, and Kenobi is still grappling with his failure along with the new responsibility he has to Luke... it's not supposed to be a fun adventure story. It wasn't portrayed that way in the trailer either. I remember vividly that it looked like Obi-Wan was struggling with living the life of a hunted man.
Yet here comes the show, and now it looks like "Adventure Time with Leia"! You have cute robots, little jokes, etc. I'm not saying you can't have jokes but damn, it's supposed to be a bleak atmosphere and that is not conveyed well in the show. Some of the blame is due to the inquisitors not coming across as threatening, which of course is partly due to Reva playing "angry black woman" and partly because they killed off the grand inquisitor in the second episode (whose idea was that?). They barely introduce the inquisitors and they are already a footnote.
The scene where Leia is being chased through the forest by three full grown adult males and somehow eludes them is one of the most ridiculous things I've seen on TV. It's straight out of a cartoon Disney show. There are lots of logical errors that make it hard to take it seriously. In the latest episode, there is a completely unexplained situation involving a tunnel and one character appearing to show up at the end of it before another, despite the latter entering the tunnel first and having a huge head start. My head hurts trying to follow stuff like this.
I thought they were positioning Finn to be the next Luke. I liked the character so I was fine with it. Then a feminist white woman put her boot on his head and Mary Sue’d her way to the top.
With the black chick in this one, I felt the same as you when I saw her next to McGregor, who is a top tier film actor. She doesn’t fit the role, she’s not a good actor here, and they intentionally made her look not fit her rank because if they had made her look like the other guys she wouldn’t show off her blackness. People liked all the other black characters in the fucking franchise. They don’t dislike her because she’s black. They dislike that she was clearly hired and forced into this because she’s black. Anyone else doing what she’s doing on screen would have been cut.
I’d have rather them break the story and bring Samuel L Jackson back than have her. She’s objectively bad in the role. I’m not saying she’s a bad actress because I haven’t seen her do anything else, but she’s doing a bad job here. Even the Paki comedian guy was good here.
I know lol! At the end of the movie, too. I was in disbelief at that point. Somehow she is going toe to toe with the guy trained by Luke, even though she has never held a lightsaber before. She should have been no better off than Finn, but of course, woman.
That's what I said. That character was well played, and I thought he added value to the story. Like for example, I am curious as to his motivations for wanting to help the Jedi. Clearly he idealizes them somewhat even though what they believe is totally at odds with his life as a criminal. That's a great setup for a character. The only reason I care at all about that is because I found his performance convincing.
What's worse is that Reva actually has a great backstory, being one of the Jedi Padawans that survived Anakin's temple massacre. I liked the little quips from her about Owen "protecting his family" (the way the Jedi and Obi-Wan failed to do for her), and so on, it's just that her delivery was crap. All I get from her is "angry black woman" vibes. What the hell was that parkour stuff on the rooftops about? She was only several rooftops away and did all that running and jumping for nothing because she never got there despite Kenobi having the time to kill the lizard and rescue Leia.
They are clearly setting her up for a redemption arc, which would be fine and good except now we are forced to sit through a terrible acting performance for longer because she is evidently the main focus of this story.