OBI-WAN KENOBI's Finale Topped THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT For Most-Viewed Of Any STAR WARS Final Episode

OBI-WAN KENOBI's Finale Topped THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT For Most-Viewed Of Any STAR WARS Final Episode

It's been a little over a week since Obi-Wan Kenobi's finale arrived on Disney+, but viewing figures reveal that it topped The Book of Boba Fett as the most viewed final episode of any Star Wars series.

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By JoshWilding - Jun 30, 2022 09:06 AM EST
Filed Under: Obi-Wan Kenobi
Source: Deadline (via SFFGazette.com)

Deadline (via SFFGazette.com) reports that the Obi-Wan Kenobi finale drew a five-day (Wednesday to Sunday) audience of 1.8 million U.S. households, a 20% rise from The Book of Boba Fett's 1.5 million U.S. households earlier this year. This data comes from Samba TV, so is only based on 3 million U.S. households and is not representative of the full viewing figures. 

However, the numbers still make for interesting reading and give Obi-Wan Kenobi the honour of having the most-viewed finale of any Star Wars TV series on Disney+. 

The show's first two episodes dropped on the Friday of the four-day Memorial Day weekend last month, and brought in a total 2.14 million viewers during that period. It's typical to see a dip between a premiere and finale, but Obi-Wan Kenobi did a solid job of maintaining its audience and remains the most-viewed original series on the streaming service.

The finale also faced very strong competition last Wednesday as Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness made its streaming debut. The Marvel Studios sequel drew 2.1 million viewers over five days, matching Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, but beating Eternals' 2 million viewers. 

"Obi-Wan Kenobi is a showcase for the immense talents of Ewan McGregor and Vivien Lyra Blair, and after just two episodes, it's already on a par with The Mandalorian as the best Star Wars TV series yet," we said in our review of the show's premiere last month. 

The response from fans to all six episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi has been extremely positive, and despite some nitpicks, it's clearly a hit. There's still no official word on a season 2, but you don't have to look far online to find rumblings that Lucasfilm already has plans to tell more Ben Kenobi stories. 

For the latest on a potential second season, you'll want to keep a close eye on SFFGazette.com!

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Origame
Origame - 6/30/2022, 9:03 AM
So the episode giving us the battle between the two most popular characters in this franchise is the most viewed in this franchise? Shocking!
Fogs
Fogs - 6/30/2022, 2:59 PM
@Origame - I missed the Luke battling part. Gotta rewatch.
mastakilla39
mastakilla39 - 6/30/2022, 4:23 PM
@Fogs - I think Yoda and Vader are the most popular characters thats why their merch is everywhere. This is before Baby Yoda too.
Fogs
Fogs - 6/30/2022, 6:16 PM
@mastakilla39 - I have no idea. Just messing around.
BlackStar25
BlackStar25 - 6/30/2022, 9:06 AM
SpaceParanoids
SpaceParanoids - 6/30/2022, 9:18 AM
So, Save the Vader/Obi Wan rematch for the last episode and people will watch it?
Color me shocked.

But compare the reaction to the finale of season 2 of the Mandalorian when Luke showed up.

If they wrote this show well it could have been epic. Instead it was mediocre,
Origame
Origame - 6/30/2022, 9:37 AM
@SpaceParanoids - I think the mandalorian should be gold standard for how disney makes star wars properties from now on. Make entirely original stories with new characters, then throw in a legacy character to be bada$$ for a scene here or there.
MeAreLegend
MeAreLegend - 6/30/2022, 10:02 AM
@Origame - I also really enjoyed the episodic nature of the series; every episode being about Mando completing a mission like side quests in a video game, without the series being a stretched out movie. I was kinda hoping that the Marvel series would follow the same structure, but whatever I guess
SpaceParanoids
SpaceParanoids - 6/30/2022, 10:52 AM
@Origame - I agree, and if left solely in the hands of Favreau and Filoni without Kennedy interfering we coulda actually have that.
OmegaDaGrodd
OmegaDaGrodd - 6/30/2022, 9:25 AM
I was under the impression going woke was supposed to make them go broke

It appears I was misinformed
dagenspear
dagenspear - 6/30/2022, 9:51 AM
@OmegaDaGrodd - Wokeness/brokeness, I think isn't a meaningful phrase for everything. However, I didn't see much woke here. More, to me, not well written.
OmegaDaGrodd
OmegaDaGrodd - 6/30/2022, 10:09 AM
@dagenspear - I'm finding that the formula seems to be:

Option A - If something is successful, it was never really all that woke, even if people said it was woke before finding out it was going to be successful
Option B - If something isn't super successful, it's because it was woke

And in either option, 'Woke' is whatever the crackpot needs it to be to fit the situation. I'm still fine tuning that hypothesis tho.
SpaceParanoids
SpaceParanoids - 6/30/2022, 10:58 AM
@OmegaDaGrodd - You could also say the opposite.

- When a show is woke and doesn’t go broke then the other side automatically uses it as the litmus test for every other woke show/movie,
However, from my observations, the broke far exceed the successful.

- Then the other argument is that if a woke show does poorly the other side blames racism, sexism and homophobia.

The common denominator is that the shows are written poorly,
OmegaDaGrodd
OmegaDaGrodd - 6/30/2022, 11:22 AM
@SpaceParanoids -

"You could also say the opposite"

You'd be an idiot if you said the "opposite", because there is no opposite to "Go Woke, Go Broke". Movies that people consider "woke" have been succeeding and failing for years, just like movies that people don't consider "woke" have been succeeding and failing for years. There are more shows that get cancelled than last 10 seasons, and more movies that flop than those that do blockbuster numbers. That dumbasses that came up with "Go Woke Go Broke" get proven wrong every year, because audiences have been clamoring for good "woke" movies just as much as they've been clamoring for good movies that don't concern themselves with being "woke"

"Wokeness" isn't a term with any value, it's just a bogeyman idiots and closeted bigots came up with to complain about anything that values diversity. If they knew what they were talking about we'd be reading about Kenobi having awful finale numbers because it became "the Reva show" but instead it's the biggest finale on Disney+ because there is zero correlation between "going woke" and "going broke"
TheUnworthyThor
TheUnworthyThor - 6/30/2022, 11:22 AM
@OmegaDaGrodd - My favorite part is we are talking about huge publicly shared corporations where we see the kinds of profits they are making year after year so they are clearly not going broke after all the many many times they have gone “woke”.
OmegaDaGrodd
OmegaDaGrodd - 6/30/2022, 11:27 AM
@TheUnworthyThor -

People were saying Star Wars is dead in 2018 and are now saying Star Wars is dead in 2022 on articles about the 3rd hit new Star Wars show and the last Star Wars movie made a billion dollars. Unless these guys are monetizing a Youtube channel for gullible angry nerds, I have no idea why they'd say such stupid stuff on the internet when we all see the numbers
IronMan616
IronMan616 - 6/30/2022, 11:44 AM
@OmegaDaGrodd - Well the ratings for that last episode were all because of Obi-Wan and Vader, not because of Reva.
OmegaDaGrodd
OmegaDaGrodd - 6/30/2022, 11:50 AM
@IronMan616 - The ratings for the last episode were because people wanted to watch the show, so they did, and last I checked, Reva is a part of the show. Neither you nor I know any further details beyond that, so need to pretend to. The entire point of my post is that no significant number of people declined watching the show because of Reva's presence, which is the exact opposite of the sort of thing people claimed would happen
IronMan616
IronMan616 - 6/30/2022, 12:37 PM
@OmegaDaGrodd - From what I've seen and read, people want to see more Obi-Wan and Vader, people online liked the last fight, the ridiculous part with Reva at the Lars homestead, not so much. A Reva solo show will not get near the rating that Obi-Wan's last episode will.
OmegaDaGrodd
OmegaDaGrodd - 6/30/2022, 12:43 PM
@IronMan616 -

"From what I've seen and read...."

What you have seen and read represents less than 0.0001% of the people who've watched this show. None of us have any idea about how any significant number of people feel about Reva, the show, the weather, or any topic for that matter. It is hilariously pointless to try and frame discussions about this show around anything other than what we personally liked or dislike about it. The numbers say that a show where Reva was one of the main characters was a huge success. We don't have many facts beyond that, and we don't need to try and make up any in their absence
SpaceParanoids
SpaceParanoids - 6/30/2022, 1:11 PM
@OmegaDaGrodd - Upon lengthy observation I have noticed that when a studio intentionally forced an agenda in its product and makes it a point to highlight that agenda…that product loses money.
When they make a film or show for mere entertainment without some agenda that movie earns big dollars.
- Spider-Man No Way Home made big money (no agenda)
- Maverick: no agenda, big money.
Just two more recent examples.

I do however notice that you selectively ignored my second point of observation where the other side casts racist, sexist and homophobic accusations toward those who choose to negatively receive said movies/programs.

Why are you so angry?
SpaceParanoids
SpaceParanoids - 6/30/2022, 1:12 PM
@OmegaDaGrodd - “ represents less than 0.0001% of the people who've watched this show.”

I must ask, where is your statistic proof for that number?
OmegaDaGrodd
OmegaDaGrodd - 6/30/2022, 1:30 PM
@SpaceParanoids -

"I must ask, where is your statistic proof for that number?"

The Obi Wan finale is roughly 36 hours old was watched by several million people. IronMan616 has not read several hundred people express the exact same thought in that timespan. You can ask him if he thinks otherwise.
TheUnworthyThor
TheUnworthyThor - 6/30/2022, 1:32 PM
@SpaceParanoids - “ Maverick: no agenda, big money.” What? Now this is not a value judgment but the movie is seriously hardcore military propaganda. The support the movie received from the DoD wasn’t just for shits and giggles. And I believe those a-holes in China believe that Top Gun had a lot of agendas they didn’t agree with. Whether a movie has an agenda or not depends entirely upon a person’s own point of view. A pacifist might be appalled at the agenda of any pro-military movie.
OmegaDaGrodd
OmegaDaGrodd - 6/30/2022, 1:41 PM
@SpaceParanoids -

"Upon lengthy observation I have noticed that when a studio intentionally forced an agenda in its product and makes it a point to highlight that agenda…that product loses money."

Your observation isn't very lengthy then, because Black Panther, Captain Marvel, The Last Jedi, and many more movies that value diversity (and which idiots regularly refer to as having "agendas") are some of the highest grossing films of all time. Likewise, countless movies that focus on "mere entertainment" flop every year, because audiences enjoy good and entertaining movies with and without "agendas"

- Spider-Man No Way Home made big money and race swapped Mary Jane as well as giving Uncle Ben's iconic line to Aunt May. A lot of idiots consider that an "agenda" but I understand why some would try and avoid that label here
- "Maverick: no agenda, big money." Top Gun had a MASSIVELY pro military agenda, so you may want to re-educate yourself on what an agenda is, and it is still going to make less money than Black Panther and Captain Marvel, movies that were able to be even more successful despite having "agendas"
- None of the movies mentioned here made as much as Star Wars The Force Awakens, a movie that a bunch of losers screamed for years about having "agendas", and yet the audience ate it up because it was a good movie, agendas and all

"I do however notice that you selectively ignored my second point"

I ignored your second point because it's pointless. I don't need to dedicate time to every random, crazy and pointless thing a stranger says on the internet. It's not breaking news that large swaths of American audiences are racist, sexist or homophobic, and are less likely to tune into diverse media. That has nothing to do with how provably false "Go Woke, Go Broke" has always been.
SpaceParanoids
SpaceParanoids - 6/30/2022, 8:35 PM
@OmegaDaGrodd - I wasn’t paying attention to his comment, but with the internet it’s plausible that someone can see several hundred comments.
SpaceParanoids
SpaceParanoids - 6/30/2022, 8:39 PM
@TheUnworthyThor - “military propaganda”?

Just because a movie is set in the military world does not necessarily make it military propaganda.

And in order to use the jets and pilots and bases they wanted to use they absolutely needed cooperation from the department of defense.

Would you say that a movie with a lot of gun violence has a pro gun agenda even if the actor shooting the guns is anti-gun in his/her personal life.

Sometimes a movie is just a movie, but when Disney actually has a diversity checklist and they require a specific percentage of representation that absolutely is an agenda.
SpaceParanoids
SpaceParanoids - 6/30/2022, 8:42 PM
@OmegaDaGrodd - “ I don't need to dedicate time to every random, crazy and pointless thing a stranger says on the internet.”

and now you have just explained precisely how I feel about addressing your entire response.
But I give you points for reaching for minutia.
OmegaDaGrodd
OmegaDaGrodd - 6/30/2022, 9:08 PM
@SpaceParanoids -

"I wasn’t paying attention to his comment,"

Weird mistake for you to make when asking me for proof lol. Pay better attention next time and you'll waste less of both of our time
OmegaDaGrodd
OmegaDaGrodd - 6/30/2022, 9:14 PM
@SpaceParanoids -

"and now you have just explained precisely how I feel about addressing your entire response."

Very dumb to try and play this card in a conversation you yourself started. It's blatantly dishonest, but also just a strange way to try and save face when there's no one else here lol

I can tell you don't believe the stuff you're saying but it's even weirder to try and save face over stuff you don't even believe. What a weird way of working through your own insecurities lol
TheUnworthyThor
TheUnworthyThor - 6/30/2022, 10:54 PM
@SpaceParanoids - Well, yes, a movie can be set in the world of the military and have an anti-military agenda so they are not necessarily military propaganda but Top Gun is. The DoD has guidelines and checklists, they absolutely have an agenda when making these agreements, and they get to review a rough cut of the films to see if anything needs to be changed. Do you think it was Tom Cruise and Joseph Kosinski’s goal to make these US pilots look bad? Or did they take a very pro-US Navy Pilot stance in the making in this movie? And can you see how some people in this world might not like that agenda?
SpaceParanoids
SpaceParanoids - 7/1/2022, 2:26 PM
@TheUnworthyThor - Guess what, I don’t give a good damn what the rest of the world likes. Does China care about the rest of the world when they make their movies? Does Bollywood care about the rest of the world when telling their stories.

Americans should be proud of their country and their military. You don’t compromise product by trying to please every culture and every country. When you do that you damage the product.
TheUnworthyThor
TheUnworthyThor - 7/1/2022, 6:41 PM
@SpaceParanoids - Again I didn’t make a value judgment. I don’t have a problem with people making a movie with a pro-US military agenda. It’s just obvious hypocrisy when it’s movies with agendas they like they get a pass and then complain about movies having agendas.

And guess what, I don’t give a good damn what a bunch of sexists, racists and homophobes think. Americans should be proud of their diversity. You don’t compromise product by trying to please everyone who refuses to enter the 21st century and realize what this world actually looks like.
SpaceParanoids
SpaceParanoids - 7/1/2022, 6:57 PM
@TheUnworthyThor - Oh and you were doing so well until that second paragraph. What a shame.
TheUnworthyThor
TheUnworthyThor - 7/1/2022, 10:27 PM
@SpaceParanoids - And any bristling at that second paragraph just shows one’s own agenda.
SpaceParanoids
SpaceParanoids - 7/1/2022, 10:43 PM
@TheUnworthyThor - No young man. We were discussing Maverick and you fell into stereotyping and name calling.
That’s wholly inappropriate no matter on which side of an agenda you stand.
TheUnworthyThor
TheUnworthyThor - 7/1/2022, 11:00 PM
@SpaceParanoids - I called no one names, not anyone one specifically. I just aped what you had already said. No one who is not in fact a sexist, racist or a homophobe should take any offense to saying I don’t care about the opinions of sexists, racists, and homophobes.
SpaceParanoids
SpaceParanoids - 7/1/2022, 11:19 PM
@TheUnworthyThor - You just generalized anybody who did not agree with your point of view. The fact that you can’t see that baffles me.
TheUnworthyThor
TheUnworthyThor - 6/30/2022, 9:27 AM
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