8 Most Puzzling Moments In The Obi-Wan Kenobi Premiere
7. Three Blind (Or Stupid) Handmaidens
Bow your heads in shame, handmaidens, because all three of you are ???????? at your job.
Obi Wan introduces the young Leia with a scene where a young girl - who we assume to be the princess - is being dressed by her handmaidens for an important gathering. But when Leia's mother comes to pick her up, it's revealed that the handmaidens haven't been dressing Leia, but an alien stand-in.
OK, let's do what the writers clearly didn't and think about this for more than a second. For this prank to have worked, we need to assume one of two things. Either:
a) All three handmaidens went along with a prank they knew would actively piss off the Queen (you know, one of the two people on the planet who outranks the Princess), or:
b) None of the handmaidens realised that the girl they were dressing was not only not the same person they'd dedicated their lives to serving, but that she wasn't even the same species.
We get that the writers just wanted to show off young Leia's precocious nature, but surely there was a way to do so that didn't imply the average Alderaanian has the IQ of a brussel sprout.