For me it was a few things. I felt like it broke cannon pretty severely as Leia is likely to remember for years the Jedi she had all those high adventures with. Seems pretty clear in Episode 4 that she had no idea who Obi-Wan was.
Not made clear, but certainly suggested by the tone / context of her message. When I reach out to an old buddy who I had some adventures with, I don't normally do so in a formal and sterile way.
Possibly, just seems like a bit a stretch to me.
This is your interpretation of her tone. Until Leia herself confirms it, it is simply an interpretation.
There was a very good chance that her message could have been intercepted by the Empire first and had no guarantee it was ever going to be seen by Kenobi so she’s not going to be like “Hey, buddy! Old pal! Remember that time you saved me at the request of my father who’s a key memeber of the Rebel Alliance after I was kidnapped and we took on the Empire together? Fun times!” It was by complete chance that R2 ended up in the Lars’ possession and Luke knew who “Ben” was.
So how does her formal message, with no mention of their former relationship, make the message less risky? I mean she says they need help / protection from the Empire. The same empire that was born at the end of the clone wars which she says Obi-Wan and her father fought in ...........Against the entity that preceded the empire. How does this not incriminate them as is?
I liked Andor a lot. Haven't seen Obi-Wan. Boba Fett was okay until they went all "fan service," not only bringing in characters who didn't need to be in that show, but having things happen to those characters that should have occurred in another show. I'm positive there were people who didn't watch Boba and were confused as hell when the other show started up again, since they had missed a major plot point. (They didn't miss it through any inaction of their own; it was hidden from them in a different show.)
I do see your point about Vader and Palpatine already knowing about Bail’s affiliation with the Jedi Order/Kenobi due to his assistance in secretly running supplies to the inhabitants of planets under siege and to the clones fighting there during TCW and her not needing to play coy about that but at this point in the story Alderaan is “a loyal” part of the Galactic Empire (formerly the Republic) and a member of the Imperial Senate so in the Empire’s eyes it seems like Alderaan and Bail are firmly under their boot as far as they know and Bail’s obviously been playing nice to avoid suspicions and to keep things under wraps so that his people remain safe until he couldn’t anymore and was returning back to Alderaan from Yavin 4 to have his people start gearing up for war with and openly rebel against the Empire and so he sent Leia to get the plans and Kenobi on his behalf. I guess at the time of recording the message Leia thinks she can still lie her way out of it even though she’s been blatantly caught in the act but she still wants to be vague about revealing what info they actually have and her family’s continued affiliations with Obi-Wan outside of what happened during The Clone Wars in case the Empire does track down the droids and retrieve the data from R2 and it exposes them even more than they have been before they’re ready to strike.
Explain Top Gun Maverick then? Massive financial and critical success. When Original characters are respected properly, no one has an issue with the new generation of stars getting the baton passed to them., it’s what a giant chunk of the media market is designed around now, nostalgia sells. It’s never as good as you remember, but sometimes a taste of it does the trick.
Who would have ever thought an original thought would be such a novel concept
I don't know much about the new Ghostbusters, and i don't know many who saw it, so i'll take your word for it.
Maverick isn’t original. It’s a Star Wars trench run training montage where the end of the day the Old Dog is the one who has to save the day where the newcomers serve as assistants. It’s also filled with nostalgia and Easter eggs from the original as fan service.
