Thread by @filmobjective

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Regardless of anything else, Obi-Wan Kenobi has an astonishing lack of attention to the logic of its action.

People teleport constantly for convenience, bad guys "lose" good guys even though they're RIGHT THERE, Leia outruns adults constantly. It's so distracting.

As an example of the exact opposite, Part 3 of Clone Wars (2003) is an immaculately attentive presentation of space and POV. The action never loses the audience for a SECOND.

Obi-Wan's creators seriously need to take notes. You couldn't pass a film class w/ what they're doing.

You know "out of sight, out of mind?" This is "out of frame, out of mind." Like that roof chase in Part 2. HOW did Reva lose them? The director just snapped their fingers and teleported everyone to the next scene w/ no connecting visual logic.

It's aggressively incoherent.

I want to be fair though, so it's worth acknowledging a scene for which this does NOT apply. The Order 66 recreation at the beginning was great! There was no lost time or space in the editing and it was exciting as a result.

All the action should be directed like this scene.

Buster Keaton had a saying: "We do it in one take or we cut the gag."

His premise was that showing the logic of action in space is how you make audiences believe it.

If the camera covers up logic rather than accentuates it, the scene doesn't feel real. So it'll never be tense.