#gabesreeisms

[masterkeynobi]

gabesree gabesreeing

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sree: i mean this as objectively as possible but brennan is really good at playing like. Women

gabey: JSKSBDKDBKFNFJFBF

sree: with complexity/interiority

gabe: sorry knee jerk reaction there

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#sree.txt #gabesreeisms

[masterkeynobi]

part iii

the tl;dr of my brain on this ep is just. SO. DARTH VADER, HUH.

i say this every episode but god it is deeply compelling how miserable and pathetic obi-wan is i'm sorry. jaded and hopeless and stumbling over his own lies — this was the Negotiator, this was The General Kenobi, this was a hero to millions and now he can't do anything but tremble and run

leia who is clever and bright but still so very young... so perceptive but so naive... i am thinking of anakin (who isn't thinking of anakin here, really) and of how at age ten he had seen and felt too much cruelty to wear this kind of innocence

(i'm sorry but they really dont make darksiders like they used to none of the little inquisitorial squad have remotely any kind of intimidation factor and i cant tell if this is a function of clunky acting (unfortunate) or clunky costume design + effects. in a similar vein i do kind of feel like a lot of the minor chars/extras are breaking my suspension of disbelief? idk the bland american accents + overly modern dialogue + heavy-handed empire loyalist narrative aren't doing much for me)

you know me you know i love a good metaphor. using the force, obi-wan says, is like turning on a light when you're scared of the dark, the feeling of safety that comes with that. thinking about how hesitant he was to use it to save leia last episode. he hasn't felt safe in a decade he's just been sitting here scared of the dark and wallowing in it.

deeply horrific and really funny (a combination continued through this ep) that vader's lair of doom & gloom is on fucking mustafar. something awful about both him and obi-wan spending a decade reliving their worst moments over and over, something awful about neither of them wanting to be where they are, something awful about neither of them being able to die ("you should have killed me when you had the chance")

this is vader at his peak, though. my god. it is so good and right that they don't defang him for this he IS a monster he IS a nightmare made flesh and the sound of his breathing should & does kick your heart rate up a notch

this is so fucking excellent im exulting in it in an awful way OF COURSE HE CAME HIMSELF. OF COURSE HE'S SNAPPING RANDOM PEOPLE'S NECKS TO LURE HIM OUT THIS IS PERSONAL THIS IS THE MOST PERSONAL AND HE KNOWS OBI-WAN INSIDE OUT (of course obi-wan almost collapsed the minute he stepped planetside)

of course obi-wan can't watch other people suffer for him but my god is it incredible to watch him almost shake apart . what have you become / i am what you made me IS ANYONE ELSE INSANE ABOUT THIS... I PERSONALLY AM INSANE ABOUT THIS...

obi-wan is — i cannot emphasize this enough — extremely pathetic this is not mustafar 2.0 this isn't a fight he can win. vader at his peak vs obi-wan who hasn't touched his saber in a decade, whose hand shakes igniting it, who turns tail and runs because he's fucking terrified

obi-wan has spent ten years mourning his brother. vader has spent the same ten years planning, meticulously, how exactly hes going to tear him apart. this is well-thought-out and cold this is slow revenge and the only reason obi-wan isn't fucking dead is because anakin isn't kind enough to make it quick

HE SET HIM ON FIRE. HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO GET OVER THE FACT THAT HE SET HIM. ON FIRE. ANAKIN SKYWALKER LADIES AND GENTLEMEN THE GALAXY'S PETTIEST MOST DRAMATIC SON OF A BITCH . THIS IS SO FUCKED UP AND AWFUL AND ALSO REALLY FUCKING FUNNY TO ME I'M SORRY. HE SET HIM ON FIRE

i will say i am a little... [raised eyebrow emoji]... about how when tala set fires vader did nothing about it even though literally two minutes ago he put out his own fires with nothing but a wave of his hand. but i'm assuming, for now, that it's something like the thrill of the chase, that obi-wan has nowhere to run and knows he's being hunted, that anakin will get him again inevitably and it'll be worse. yum. delicious. i love star wars and have no feelings about it at all

final note i have been too vader-tunnel-vision to think too hard about the Path but quinlan vos my dearest i am glad to hear you're alive and theres something so . So. about him (& others! but especially him, who survived the purge) doing what jedi do, about him saving children. obi-wan you are not nearly as alone as you think.

wait i lied about that being the final note everyone look at live slug reaction to vader lightsaber ignition and everything that followed

#sree.txt #star wars #watching #kenobi 2022 #rotating the path in my brain like a microwave rest assured it's really something #good god though obi-wan and vader. good fucking god #this recap post ended up being more personal and less eloquent htan my prev ones but such is life i don't feel up to eloquence right now #post-vader brainrot is real #obi-wan kenobi #anakin skywalker #gabesreeisms

[masterkeynobi]

part i

THE JEDI CANNOT HELP WHAT THEY ARE THEIR COMPASSION LEAVES A TRAIL THE JEDI CODE IS LIKE AN ITCH JESUS FUCKING CHRIST. THE JEDI CANNOT HELP WHAT THEY ARE!!!!!!!!!! THE JEDI AS MYTH AS HOPE PERSONIFIED AS UNERRINGLY GOOD AND LIGHT AND THEY WILL HUNT THEMSELVES DOWN

hell of a fucking opening good GOD like. grand sweeping prequels montage and then immediate reminder that these were children dying these were CHILDREN shot down with cold deliberate intent

ewan mcgregor absolutely phenomenal here theres so much despair and fucking. misery and hopelessness in every line on his face his fucking eyes. god. obi-wan my broken heart

his miserable inelegant job the fact that he smells bad the effort to keep his voice steady at news of the jedi

the man calls him master and begs for his help and he refuses and there's another death on his hands

stealing meat for his eopie and making a midnight trip — his kindnesses need to be hidden, now, and he'll deny them being kindnesses if/when asked. there is no room for justice anymore it's been wiped out like the rest of the jedi, like anakin

"like you trained his father?" / "send someone else. she'll be better off." punch to the fucking gut

owen lars is a good man luke is so loved

LEIA!!! LEIAAAAA brightest little girl in the world!! feisty and perceptive and with the same clear-cut sense of justice as both her fathers baby girl i adore youuu

everyone in the galaxy having faith in obi-wan, down to his enemies — he'll come. he can't help it — but he doesn't trust himself

"this weapon is your life" and obi-wan's and anakin's buried side by side in the dirt because anakin is dead and so obi-wan kenobi is dead too and he will never be anything more than just old ben now

he's not who he used to be he can't be who he used to be because anakin is dead and it's his fault

jesus fucking christ

#sree.txt #watching #kenobi 2022 #only one ep in i think ewan mcgregor's FUCKING eyes and a couple excellent lines of dialogue are carrying so far but #there is simply so much to think about im rotating this sad old man in my brain like hes a cd in a cd player #obi-wan kenobi #gabesreeisms #this is just mostly my real time reactions compiled but yknow

[masterkeynobi]

cannot overstate how disgruntled i am about this -_-

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sree: i did not expect to like sabé as much as i did but like. gestures

gabey: also this is funny bc i 1000% expected you to like sabé as much as you do

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#sree.txt #gabesreeisms #yes i'm the most predictable person on earth but that doesnt mean you have to PREDICT ME about it #testimonials

[masterkeynobi]

it has been ZERO days since our last new gabesree star wars au

#sree.txt #gabesreeisms #this is so fun there is something wrong with us #[counting on fingers] rako au duke kenobi au qui-gon lives au padmé lives au #the smaller rako/mustafar scenario #milfwan and the organas LMAO but i dont know if that counts or if its just us going LET KENOBI FUCK #& now [NEW] anakin stays on tatooine au

[masterkeynobi]

part ii

ewan's eyes once again hard carrying like. i'm sorry but there is genuinely simply a skill gap here mr mcgregor is playing 4d chess to the rest of the cast's (so far) checkers... a masterclass in microexpressions my god

also again the suffering and tiredness that hes made Default in his face. god my poor dear obi-wan

there is something so fucking compelling about the juxtaposition of his depression mode and the massive amounts of skill and cunning we KNOW he's capable of like. he hasn't ignited his lightsaber yet and he hasn't had to hes just kicked ass but also? he's fucking scared and he's genuinely just running for his life and that's not something we as an audience are used to with obi-wan i think

BABY LEIA I ADORE YOUUUUU she's SO clever and quick and perceptive but she's also just a baby... obi-wan is immediately so fond of her it's such a good dynamic and she reminds him of padmé

the clone vet in 501st armor. the first impersonal selflessness we see from him. god

"he is no ordinary jedi he is the last ember of a dying age" DAMN FUCKIN RIGHT DAMNNNNN FUCKING RIGHT and he used to eat sithlings like you for breakfast actually!

there hasnt been a single cool lightsaber variant since darth maul i'm sorry the inquisitors' spinny ones are stupid

they should not have cast a black woman to play reva. she is an interesting character and i'm sure her arc will reveal more depth but they should not have made one of sw's first black women someone constantly subjected to onscreen verbal abuse + someone violent and impulsive

again with the jedi as myth, as hope personified, as figures that make the world around them (want to be) better... ough......

THE VADER BREATHING REALLY FUCKS UP YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM HUH. MY MONSTER IS HERE MY MONSTER IS AWAKE

anticipatory for obi-wan's inevitable nervous breakdown next ep because anakin's alive... achilles heel activation...

#sree.txt #watching #kenobi 2022 #once again this is just a compilation of my live reactions #gabesreeisms

[masterkeynobi]

#sree.txt #star wars #duke kenobi au #reference #thank you wookieepedia for my life lol duke kenobi diverges early enough that i can hopefully just #wholesale ignore most of this LMFAO #pretty slayful of bo-katan to end up being a relatively important historical figure though props to disney for the continuity i suppose #gabesreeisms

[masterkeynobi]

the vastly detailed duke kenobi of mandalore au that spans decades has a plot and lives only in my dms with gabe vs the fact that neither of us cares enough to get into the mandalorian/tbobf or learn what canonical mando culture is... if i ever write this its not at all going to align w like. Anything. but i am so lazy and if sw media isnt abt the skywalkers & co i dont give a fuck unfortunately

#sree.txt #gabesreeism #duke kenobi au #girl wtf the fuck is a mand'alor #i dont know a god damn thing #need you (the imaginary girl (gn) reading this) to understand how severely this au FUCKS though we are so smart #obi-wan i love you obitine i love you #okay i say 'decades' its like. a decade. maybe one and a half

[masterkeynobi]

#made myself sad thinking about a throwaway backstory moment in gabe's and my #duke kenobi au #obitine early-20s divorce arc... oughhhh #i know this is an elaborate web of events that only exists in my dms w gabe but you guys (the imaginary girls (gn) reading this) #they are in love #gabesreeism #music #sree.txt