Obi-Wan Kenobi’s latest episode is the most popular in the Star Wars universe within Disney+, and that’s bad news for the franchise for a few reasons we’ll see now. Although it is good news for merchandising.
According to Samba TV, a website dedicated to audience analysis, the finale of the first season of Obi-Wan drew 1.8 million viewers between Wednesday, June 22 (day one) and Sunday, June 27.
This number may not sound crazy or tell you little, but it is far beyond what has been achieved in previous Star Wars series published on the platform.
contextualize, Obi-Wan’s season one finale drew 20% more viewers than The Book of Boba Fett. The last episode garnered an audience of 1.5 million within five days of its first broadcast.
On your own behalf The Mandalorian season two finale only reached 1.1 million viewers in a similar five-day period.a surprisingly low number considering how popular Mando’s adventures with Baby Yoda are.
The Obi-Wan premiere also attracted a larger audience than the second season of The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett. 2.08 million versus 1.5 million by the iconic duo, making Jedi Master’s solo series the most popular Star Wars show ever.
However, this will not surprise many fans. Obi-Wan is an immensely popular character in Lucasfilm’s legendary series.Ewan McGregor’s portrayal of Kenobi is loved as much as anyone. Probably the star character of the Star Wars universe.
But no matter how good Obi-Wan’s tracking numbers are, The popularity of the series shows that Star Wars hasn’t been able to get over a big criticism directed at it for years.
It’s about bringing new characters to its expanding universe, rather than recycling its old ones. Although new characters have been introduced in recent years (Ahsoka, Mandalorian, Grogu…) Star Wars is a series that continues to feed on nostalgia.
Because of this reason, The franchise regularly returns to what it does best, centering projects around characters from the original legacy. to please his huge and huge fan base.
That’s not necessarily a bad thing. Lucasfilm and Disney know that any movie or TV series featuring these characters will be successful: they’re fan favorites for a reason, so studios have to build projects around these characters.
But doing so is a double-edged sword. The future of the franchise will be neither original nor interesting if the writers are not able to create new worlds and new characters, as the films they adhere to the original canon content and making up the saga’s most epic and pivotal moments.
Source: Computer Hoy
