Have you never been excited for something? Anything?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a huge Star Wars fan, but I get why someone would be excited to see something they're into as soon as possible, especially in the internet age where spoilers are more or less unavoidable. Or it lets them participate in the excitement.

If you want an explanation of why you should care about Star Wars - that would be an exercise in futility. Like what you like and move on if you don't.

Tatooine is great. I stayed in Luke Skywalker's house for around $7 USD some years back.

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Just sayin', the internet is a big place and a group of folks scanned multiple original theatrical prints, had them edited and cleaned up, and have shared both HD and 4K versions. Ya know, if you'd like to give your CED player a nice retirement.

check out project 4k77.

The despecialized versions are recreations combining all sorts of random sources (blu ray, laserdisc, etc), while the 4k77 version comes directly from film scans, which were cleaned up. There are also some grindhouse versions of the original sequels out there, complete with cigarette burns and all.

We've already seen awnings stop Inquisitors, small branches stop kidnappers, in Obi-Wan, the most minor inconveniences are enough to stop a bad guy.

Sometimes watching a show is fun, sometimes picking apart a show is fun. I prefer the former, but not above taking part in the latter.

... maybe?

Like others have said, there's a whole universe out there to explore and somehow the show still had to loop in kid Leia.

Your comment reminded me of this ol' trope, when the Inquisitor said "Destroy them!" instead of "stop them!" or "Kill them!"
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NeverSayDie

Reminded me of Saturday morning cartoons.

Yeah, not really a fan of the MCU either. I figure with so many movies, there will eventually be one I like start to finish but, eh? I've found a few of the shows fun though. Obi-Wan feels really uninspired.

It's not a great watch. I've said it before, any media can be interesting independent of the plot if performed, shot, and paced well. This show is full of stupid moments that pull me out of the story. Turncoat imperial lady awkwardly fighting/escaping stormtroopers as they're just like "oh no we're being defeated", scenes dedicated to how to disable a force field gate that they could have simply walked around - just moments that leave me wondering if the producers assume the audience is stupid, or if they really can't come up with anything better.

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Why so defensive over a TV show?

How so?

Yeah, there's some fun to be had in that show. Only one episode in, but there seems to be a lot of love from the content producers on what they put to screen. I'm not sure I'm the target demographic for it, but appreciate what they're going for.

There's a lot of good TV content out there right now. I'm not a trekkie in the slightest, but Star Trek Strange New Worlds is also some quality content.

You're right, and it's unfortunate how far-reaching this approach is. Marvel Films, another Disney property, feels much the same. And then every other studio learning the wrong lesson and trying their own hand at a "cinematic universe" with pretty middling to terrible results.

I still feel robbed in regards to Edgar Wright - just imagining how fun Ant Man could have been if they were comfortable letting him do his thing. And hey, I have no idea if it would have been good, but I think Lord & Miller's Han Solo film could have been at least interesting.

Funny that it echoes exactly what Lord & Miller had to say: https://www.avclub.com/chris-miller-and-phil-lord-talk-solo-a-star-wars-story-1848504533

"“You can’t play scared,” Miller added. “So, I don’t really relate to some fear of a fanbase. We don’t think about it that way. There are people out there, I suppose, that are trying to game the marketplace and follow a formula. They’re trying to serve the quarterly earnings of a big company, but a company doesn’t make a movie or write a song, these things are made by human beings, and we’re always trying to serve the human beings making the movie and the human beings witnessing the movie, always remembering, what you’re putting out there, that’s only half of it. The other half is, there’s a person in a movie theater and you’re beaming sound and light into their face and they make the movie in their brain. So you have to understand that as a relationship and a conversation, put yourselves into the shoes of that person.”"

Really wish the folks at Disney would cough up the money to use the Imperial theme at least once for Vader.

Who knows. I would guess John Williams would still need to be paid for new renditions.

Return of the Jedi isn't a great film either. No argument there

And yes, Empire is fantastic.