Obi-Wan Kenobi Part IV Review: 4 Ups & 6 Downs
6. The Dull New Characters
Linking with the pacing issues and convenient storytelling, Part IV's new characters are almost uncomfortably dull and forgettable.
Newcomer Roken, for example (played by an underused O'Shea Jackson Jr), enters the episode with inconsistency to spare, alternating between hostility toward Obi-Wan to siding with him for a suicide mission in literally one line of dialogue.
Elsewhere, Roken's rebel friends Wade and Sully are introduced to give the episode its clunky exposition a vessel, and are so underdeveloped and inconsequential that when Wade dies in the final act, it fails to leave any kind of impression.
Admittedly, it looks like Roken and Sully are going to stick around, so we could get more depth going forward, but so far their foundation leaves disappointingly little to be desired.