8 Most Puzzling Moments In The Obi-Wan Kenobi Premiere
5. The Shooting Stops
This one had us rewatching the scene to make sure we hadn't missed something, because this was inexcusably shoddy work.
The second episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi sees the eponymous Jedi trying to rescue the kidnapped Leia, and in the process he gets involved in a rooftop shoot-out that sees the young princess fall to her almost-doom. Fortunately, Obi-Wan uses the Force to intervene and save her life.
Even more fortunately, the shooting stops completely to give him the time to do so.
This was just bizarre. Yes, we know that Haja Estree (more on him later) shows up to take on the pair of bounty hunters gunning after Kenobi. But after he blasts the first one, the shooting just... stops. There's no establishing scene of the other hunter turning their blaster on Haja, or chasing after him. Instead, everything goes silent with no on-screen explanation.
It's a really weird choice for the scene, and distracts from the first time we see Obi-Wan using the Force in the series. We get that the director probably didn't want the sound of blaster-fire intruding on the scene, but without it the implication is that everyone off-screen agreed to a gentleman's truce to let Obi-Wan do his thing.