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Wait what…was Reva’s plan in ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’?

I didn’t much enjoy Disney’s Obi-Wan Kenobi, alas.  I thought there was some good stuff in it…I liked pretty much all the actors and their performances.  I especially thought the interplay between Ewan MacGregor and Hayden Christiansen worked well and both actors really added to the show, and actually really liked Vivien Lyra Blair’s performance as Leia (though the writing for her character was super uneven), and thought that the concept of her and Obi-Wan having shared a prequel adventure together actually held up well. I didn’t think it was terribly distinctive or striking visually, though.  The score was, I…

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Wait what…was Grindelwald doing in the American Ministry for Magic?

Wait what?…is an ongoing series on this blog that asks the little and niggling questions that draw you out of a sub-created world. Whether it’s a plot hole, a logical inconsistency, or simply a character acting completely out of turn, if it makes you ask wait, what?…then it’s fair game for this series. This is the ‘wait what?’…moment that inspired this new blog series, and that (despite only having seen the film once, and years ago) still rattles around in my brain, appearing at inconvenient moments to distract me from more pressing matters, just because it’s so damn incongruous to…

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Wait what?…is this new blog post series?

You know those moments in a story that look like they make sense? Maybe it’s a moment that’s swiftly passed over, maybe a character explicitly draws attention to it and offers a half-sensible excuse that doesn’t really stand up to scrutiny, or maybe (and often worst of all) it becomes a crucial point of the story, that everything hinges upon…despite really not making any sort of logical sense. The internet’s favourite rabbit hole, TV Tropes, calls these moments Fridge Logic. Reddit might consider them to be a type of shower thought. But however you think of them, you’ve probably experienced…

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