#kenobi press tour

[ventressism]

what’s his problem!?!

the hair, the eyes, the clothes 😩

[allthingskenobi]

Just a bunch of our favorite moments from the 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' press tour to celebrate Hayden's 43rd birthday 🎂 🥳

[hayden-christensen]

HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' Press Tour (May - June 2022)

[intermundia]

one thing that kind of makes me sad seeing all of the (extremely deserved) love that hayden christensen is getting since the kenobi show press tour, and ahmed best getting that (wonderful, extremely deserved) jedi role in the mandalorian, is the conspicuous absence of jake lloyd, who has not returned to the public eye in a similar way. mr lloyd also did not deserve the harassment that he got back when the movie came out, he was a literal child who did an amazing job with his role. the bullying and negativity must have been so difficult for him to manage growing up. as a bipolar person myself, i have so much empathy for the difficulty in managing schizophrenia. i just hope that somehow, somewhere he knows that prequels fans have so much love for him and appreciation for his work too

[showstopper35]

tbb band au

a/n: spontaneously decided I had to make this or I would die, so you’re welcome?

Hunter - Lead guitar, but he doesn’t sing. No, he’s just there to look pretty. The fangirls are utterly obsessed with him. He flings his sweaty headband into the crowd at the end of shows. Sometimes he plays so aggressively that his fingers start to bleed on his guitar. Most pro photos are of him, and he has the most tumblr fan blogs.

Wrecker - I think we all know he is the drummer. And he loves it. Has accidentally broken many a snare during practices and shows. He arrives on the stage first and loves to hype up the crowds. When the Bad Batch (the band name, I’m so creative) aren’t touring, he often volunteers to drum for other bands.

Echo - The Batch once opened for a band called the Dominos, who were more popular. After they broke up, Echo joined the Bad Batch as a keyboardist. He also provides backup vocals from time to time. He is usually the voice of reason if there is tension between the members.

Tech - I bet you thought he was going to be on keyboard, right? No. He plays the bass. I mean, have you seen his hands? He is terrible with the press and awkward with the fans, but when he gets on the stage and plays the bass lines, the crowd lives for him. He has a very dedicated cult following, and possibly the most fan edits on TikTok.

Crosshair - The lead singer and rhythm guitarist. His mysterious, bad-boy aura is why he was chosen as the singer. All of the boys can sing, but Cross was really the only one who put in the extra effort. With countless voice lessons and perfect pitch, he has a raw, anguished wail similar to Bono from U2. Outside of the stage, nobody knows anything about him. It’s intriguing, and attractive.

Omega - Omega started as their #1 groupie, and now she travels as a stagehand. Occasionally she is allowed onstage to play the most random of instruments. She has a Twitter account with a fake name that posts surprisingly accurate facts about the band and awful candid photos of the members. She also runs their TikTok.

Extras:

-fans of Bad Batch are known as “batchers”

-Cody is their manager under Kenobi Chords Records

-Howzer has a solo act and he has opened for them a couple times

-They once did a “Bad Batch reads thirst tweets” video

[obi-wkenobi]

i think my favourite part about being online this year has to be that first week of the kenobi press tour where we were constantly being fed new content of ewan and hayden together again after seventeen years and you couldn’t go on tumblr without it being a continuous stream of the same interviews or photos being reblogged by a pack of rabid fans all having an equally memorable melt down over this momentous occasion. truly, we all lost a bit of our dignities, but at least we did it together

[haydenscloset]

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | June 24, 2022 | New York City

Craig Green 'Men's Laced Jacket in Black/Cream' – $1.039 (unavailable)

The details on this jacket are so cool. I like to think that the lace-up detailing is a little nod to Vader being stitched back together after his injuries on Mustafar. One of my favourite looks that Hayden wore during the Kenobi press tour for sure!

Photo by Todd Owyoung.

[bylightofdawn]

WIP Sunday

Posting a snippet from my WedgeLuke 5+1 fic. Context, this takes place post battle of Yavin, Luke sneaked away to mourn for Biggs aka cry his eyes out and Wedge accidentally realizes he's intruding on a very personal moment.

Sadly, he did a critical failure on his stealth check. :P

His first instinct was to back out and leave the other man to his mourning. Skywalker wanted some privacy, but Wedge felt slightly unsettled by accidentally spying on him.

Unfortunately, his attempt at a stealthy exit was ruined when he backed up into a hydrospanner, sending the metal tool clattering across the deck loudly.

“Who’s there?” Skywalker’s voice demanded, and Wedge bit back a curse.  

For a moment, he was tempted to back out without a word, but Skywalker’s quick response shot that idea down, and Wedge found himself pinned down by those suspicious blue eyes.

“Just me, pal.” He held up his hands in a non-threatening manner. “I didn’t mean to intrude.” Hells, he could see the tears still clinging to the tips of the man’s ridiculously long eyelashes, and his eyes were red-rimmed. It didn’t take a genius to figure out what he’d been doing, even if Wedge hadn’t seen his shoulders shake with silent sobs.

That previous guilt came sweeping in again, along with a healthy helping of pity.

“It feels wrong, doesn’t it? Everyone is celebrating when we have lost so many good people up there. Almost disrespectful, right?” Wedge couldn’t say for sure what prompted him to say that, but he could see by the way Skywalker’s pretty blue eyes brightened with unshed tears that he’d hit the nail on the head.

“I get it, I didn’t know Darklighter all too well but I understand losing friends. I’ve lost too many during this shitshow.” Wedge stepped forward and clapped a hand on Luke’s shoulder. “You’re entitled to mourn your friend, but just remember, you’re not alone. And just because the others are celebrating doesn’t mean they’ve forgotten the sacrifices that happened today and all the months before to get us to where we’re now.”

There was the barest tremor of the younger man’s mouth as he visibly struggled with processing what Wedge was saying.

“Will it get any better? This pain?” Unfortunately for Wedge, he didn’t understand how much this young man had lost in the past few days. Not just Biggs but the only family he’d known, Obi-Wan Kenobi, who had positioned himself as a mentor figure when the blond was unmoored and at a loss in his grief for his murdered aunt and uncle.

“It doesn’t go away completely, but the emotional wounds heal somewhat with time. If you keep him in your heart, Darklighter will always be alive in your memory.” He said with a light press of his fingers against the blond’s chest. “Now, if you want some privacy to mourn him in peace, I’ll leave you to it, but if you want some company, I can take you on a tour of the pilot’s territory; I’m sure some of the others will inevitably retire there for some trading of tall tales and games of chance.”

The dark-haired pilot offered with a crooked smile, and after a moment’s hesitation, Skywalker’s mouth twitched up in the briefest of answering smiles.

“That would be nice. What did you say your name was? I’m sorry, all the introductions from before happened so quickly.”

That earned him a laugh from the Corellian. “I get it; it’s always like that when you get to a new place. It’s Wedge. Wedge Antilles.”

“I’m Luke Skywalker.”

“Nice to meet you, Luke.” Wedge held out his hand, and the blond shook it surprisingly firmly, considering his slight frame.

“Come on, I’ll introduce you to the others.” He offered, and with a guiding hand against Luke’s back, he led him out of the docking bay.

[trashquisitor-shirozora]

Full-on disclaimer for anyone who's never seen the disclaimers on my Star Wars fics - I never saw ROTS (I've tried, I've fucking tried, but retaining knowledge of TPM and AOTC to understand ROTS is impossible when my mind just wanders the fuck away during every attempt at a marathon PT watch), I only saw a handful of TCW episodes to study Satine and Mandalore, I never saw Rebels, I haven't seen TOTJ, and my non-OT/ST/Mandoverse/Andorverse/Kenobi/TBOBF/Solo knowledge comes from getting lost in the Wookeepedia, fandom osmosis, and several years playing SW Galaxy of Heroes.

The point is, I have half-baked knowledge and I am trying really hard and I can see the little kernels of interest and intrigue and "A ha! that's a Star Wars!" and my concluding thought for the 3rd episode of Ahsoka is, "FUCK YEAH, SPACE WHALES!!!"

Can someone just.... please explain the fuck to me what Dave is doing here with Ahsoka and Sabine? I don't know if it's the "Sabine thinks the best way to honor and also find Ezra is to become like him" or the whole "everyone has the Force Actually but you need talent, training, and some other fucking thing that sounds exactly like all the times I've been scolded for not trying hard enough thanks to my ADHD brain so that's fucking cool" bit. I don't know if it's that interview press tour thingy where Daisy told Domhnall that even Hux has the Force! Everyone has the Force! The Force is in all of us! We can all become the Jedi! I don't know if it's George's original idea that everyone can use the Force but not everyone does that eventually got changed to "a certain number of midichlorians in your blood gets you into the Jedi Temple". Or is it the whole "the Force is female" campaign? Is it Disney saying, "You can be a Jedi, too!" Are we Spider-man-ing the Jedi? Is that's what's going on? What the fuck is going on? Someone please tell me how we got from "the Force is in all living things and some people are able to sense and use the Force" to "the Force is in all living things and also everyone is capable of sensing and using the Force with the right amount of discipline and training and desire/'can do' attitude" because it feels like I'm being lied to. I'm being fucking bamboozled about what I know about Star Wars.

I don't even know what to say about the spacesuit. Just a lot of hysterical laughter maybe. Cool idea and I bet the concept designs were real fun but still. Hysterical laughter.

Slap some green hair on a kiddo and call him half-Twi'lek. OKAY THEN. Brilliant character design y'all got going. I guess you'd rather invest in the Volume than practical FX and makeup and shit?????

You know that feeling where you have all these thoughts and feelings and WORDS at the tip of your tongue but you lack the vocabulary or the fucking memory to hold that vocabulary and use it well? That's what I'm experiencing after watching Hera argue poorly with Mon and the Senators (they just formed the band and it's not going well, or so they say). This characterizing of bureaucracy, politicians, government is useless, clunky, stubborn, foolish, naive, soft, obstinate for no reason other than to hinder the rogueish hero, is such a tired, cheap trope. Haven't we learned enough from American copaganda shows? Haven't we learned from watching our hero cops and detectives bending and breaking rules to catch the bad guys while the Internal Affairs people are antagonists, rule-abiding busybodies who don't see that they're only getting in the way of our intrepid heroes catching the real bad guys?! Politics is messy and it is complicated and it is hard and it does have people who did sit on the sidelines during the war but to villainize them just because they didn't fight in the war, they didn't lose friends and family and Kanan, they won't give our general what she wants? Or do these senators already have history in the GFFA that I would've already known if I already watched some other TV shows or read the 'pedia religiously?

I thought the first 2 seasons of the Mando Show explored the post-OT galaxy pretty well. I liked how Din and Greef called the New Republic "a joke" and insinuated that they were unreliable and can't be counted upon to protect little Outer Rim worlds like Nevarro from Imperial remnants. It gave the impression of a baby Republic that is trying hard but struggling and their patrols are stretched so thin because of Mon's decision to demilitarize the Republic, and that's why they're such a non-presence out here in the Outer Rim. That's why Carson went out of his way to recruit Cara. She's been out here, she's done shit, she knows shit, she knows the lay of the land, she can be the eyes and ears that Carson and the New Republic can't be. You can build so fucking much out of these little interactions and conversations... but Dave & Jon chose to make things easy for themselves by characterizing the New Republic as incompetent, feckless, nonsensible, cruel, decadent, apathetic, uncaring, utterly useless to our very active rogueish heroes. They fast-tracked the New Republic's downfall to make it so much easier to prop up our heroes, and for what? To remind us that in the end it all doesn't fucking matter because Starkiller Base blows it all up anyway?

At least, at least, make it look like our heroes fucking tried to rebuild the galaxy after the Empire fell. At least make the New Republic fumbling and earnest but ultimately weighed down by so many voices demanding that they be prioritized in the rebuilding. Mon's government inherited a really fucking bad situation but at least have them reach halfway to something that she and Leia can be proud of before the infighting started and political factions started ripping down all that hard-fought and hard-won progress. Talk about the fucking whiplash from the despair and hope of Andor to whatever the fuck Mandalorian Season 3 showed us and whatever the fuck Ahsoka is continuing to show us.

Anyway.

I get that having a droid sidekick is the Cool Star Wars Thing To Do, but should Huyang really be treated as a sidekick and an expodumper? He really fucking should have gone to Ossus with Luke but nah, leave that fucking loser to his own business ignoring Ahsoka and Hera trying to stop a new war that nobody believes is actually going to happen. I mean, if you really think about it, did Hera really sell anything to these senators? It seems to me that all they see is a general who has only known war and will only ever see war around every corner, in every nook and cranny, under every bed. Of course they're going to be fucking skeptical and of course they're going to question her request for even more resources to find Ezra and maybe stop Thrawn, and the fucking answer, Hera Syndulla, is to not question if these people ever fought in the Rebellion and shame them for the sacrifices they did not make. This is such fucking cheapsass writing and it really sucks all the fun out of the episode.

Speaking of fun, how about them space whales! Bring them back, Felony. I want space whales and I want space cats. Give me purrgils and lothcats all day, every day.

I can't stop thinking about Disney's decision to give Ahsoka a primetime slot. I can't stop thinking about why that show got a primetime slot and not any of the other ones. Is it the numbers? Are they trying to catch a particular kind of crowd? What are the numbers, Disney? Why won't you show us the numbers? Where the fuck are the numbers, Disney? What are you afraid of? What are you hiding? What won't you tell your writers and your actors, Disney? What aren't you saying?

Anyway, space whales rule and I got other goddamn shit to do like keep writing my own ideas on a post-OT galaxy through fic.

P.S. The way Ray just fucking oozes charisma even if he was only there for like 2 minutes. And Diana remains fantastic. I love her brand of villainy even if I'm still baffled by her being a human Witch. What the fuck.

[anakinskywalkerog]

soo obviously strike and all ig we aren’t expecting much press at all… but i jus need to voice how that HURTS MEE bc the obi wan press junket was like endless free serotonin and i rewatch interviews alll the time like actually everyday of my life 😄 my question is, do you think we will get any sufficient interviews with hayden for ahsoka, do we know if he’s anticipated for any podcasts or anything like that? even if he doesn’t talk abt SW i jus need to hear something, ANYTHING abt my man’s life these days. also my level of delulu is watching every ep of broad ideas all the way thru on like 1.5x speed listening out for crumbs of info lmao

not even in a privacy-invading way. like i literally jus wanna know abt pond construction 🫠😪

anyway i have never sent an ask in to u before but luvv reading all ur posts sm!! ty for ur service 💗💗

(omg sidenote have u heard the comparisons between hayden and vinnie hacker and if so, do you have an opinion 😅)

I am fully behind the strike and I think it’s ridiculous that streaming services won’t pay writers BUT ALSO I am so sad we aren’t going to get much press for Ahsoka 😭 the Kenobi press tour literally gave me life

I do hope eventually we get Hayden and Rosario sitting together giving an interview 🥲 I am also very much missing Hayden content in my life. I also started listening to Broad Ideas for that same reason 😂 I don’t know of any upcoming interviews or podcasts but if anyone on here does, please let us know in my ask box?? tysm

you’re welcome I’m glad you’re here!! I have not heard the vinnie hacker, I don’t really think they look alike? or was it a comparison about something other than looks?

[florisbaratheons]

It's manipulative marketing. Disney did the same thing with Hayden Christensen when he returned as Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader in the Kenobi show. They put Hayden on the press tour, they marketed him as the third lead of the show, made Hayden talk over and over about what it was like wearing the suit again and being back in the role, etc etc. And he had a total of about twelve minutes of screentime over 4 and 1/2 hours. AND he wasn't even in the suit thru most of the Vader scenes. They used AI James Earl Jones to voice Vader, and stunt doubles, Hayden was in the suit about two minutes. Disney recognized how excited fans were to see Hayden back so they did all of this to get the ratings on the show. Due to the backlash, when the Ahsoka show brought him in, his role was majorly expanded when I believe he was only supposed to appear briefly in one episode.

HBO recognized what a draw Ewan had become and put him front and center to get the ratings. And also, it's quite possible that Ewan filmed a lot more that ended up being cut. They put just enough of him in each episode, but not too much or else he will overshadow their faves.

For kicks and giggles (and because HotD season two has been really getting on my nerves), I went through episodes 1-5 to see just how much screen time Aemond has gotten so far. You know, since he's a "main character" this season.

And, with only three episodes left, surely it's been a fair chunk of time. Surely he's had more screen time in five episodes than he did in three episodes last season?

Get ready because it's pretty diabolical.

Let me preface this with the fact that I was EXTREMELY generous when it came to counting Aemond's screen time. I included shots of the back of his head, shots where he's blurry and in the background, and shots where he's blurry, in the background, AND it's the back of his head. Even Ewan's hands and boots made it into the total count. Tiny CGI Aemond on the back of Vhagar is also in the mix.

Episode 1 158 seconds / 2.63 minutes (64 minutes total run time)

Episode 2 123 seconds / 2.05 minutes (72 minutes total run time)

Episode 3 96 seconds / 1.6 minutes (70 minutes total run time)

Episode 4 159 seconds / 2.65 minutes (56 minutes total run time)

Episode 5 168 seconds / 2.8 minutes (67 minutes total run time)

704 seconds = 11.73 minutes

For fun, let's compare this total to season one:

Ewan as Aemond had 13.50 minutes of screen time / 3 episodes Aemond altogether had 26.45 minutes of screen time / 6 episodes

I've seen more of Ewan doing press for this season than I have of Aemond in the actual show. And, as someone who was excited to see Ewan become part of the "main cast" and to see more of Aemond, I'm not happy.

Is "main character" Aemond in the room with us????

To be honest, I'm feeling pretty pissed off by the likes of Ryan Condal and whoever has been responsible for HotD press for pitching season two to Aemond/Ewan fans as a chance to see so much more of him. It seems, to me, like they've used Ewan's growing popularity to keep his fans watching only to deliver... this.

Ewan has, of course, been eating up every single second of the screen time he's been given. Talented king, this is no fault of yours <3

And... who knows... maybe episodes 6-8 will give us... oodles more Aemond screen time. She says through gritted teeth.

[hayden-christensen]

guess who just found three kenobi press tour videos that I have not seen before and now I want to gif one of them 😁

[go-see-a-starwar]

Congrats to whoever dressed Hayden during Kenobi press for winning the star war.

[ahsokryze]

please i love them so much

[imsosry-sir]

i’ve reached the point where i’m just twitching on the floor from all of the content

folks we’re at the very beginning of the press tour i won’t be able to do this-

[calkestis]

🐶 Ewan McGregor plays with puppies while answering questions (x)