Obi-Wan is a dick.
Oct. 12th, 2014 09:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
colt_steeleThis subject is nothing new. However, I personally haven't actually revisited it since Episode I came out and conflicting details surfaced. Reflecting now on events of the second and third prequels I can say now that not only is Obi-Wan a liar, he(and also Yoda)is actually quite a dick.
The first time he mentions Anakin to Luke, he says that Vader murdered Anakin. This is beyond mumbo jumbo about viewpoints, this is a clear statement that Anakin ceased to exist, the only qualifier I'd accept is if Anakin was schizo, which he wasn't. He also makes Vader out to be a separate person, but since Vader didn't exist until Anakin's turn then Vader was never OB1's apprentice. Not to mention the bogus stuff about Anakin wanting Luke to have his lightsaber. That was total bullshit, especially with the business about his Uncle Owen not allowing Luke his inheritance. If the training of Luke to defeat the Sith was so damned important to the galaxy I don't think a dust farmer in the galaxy's backside would be able to supersede the judgment of a pair of Jedi Masters. I'll also nitpick that OB1 lied about not having been known by his proper name since before Luke's birth, since that was also demonstrated false in E3.
Later in RotJ, he backpedals and tries to retcon his lies as simply his way of viewing things, when the idea of Anakin being replaced by Vader actually came from Yoda. He says that he was amazed by Anakin's strength in the Force, when he was really admonishing Qui-Gon for bringing him along and telling him that the kid's problems were none of their business. He only consented to training Anakin because it was his master's dying wish, not because of any interest he had in the boy or thought he was a better teacher than Yoda. And speaking of Yoda....
He goes on about how Luke was too old and unfit for training when the entire point of hiding him away for almost twenty years was so he could be molded into what his destiny needed him to be. If training him at an early age was actually important why wasn't OB1 or Yoda himself the one actually raising the kid in the first place? During Luke's training he stresses how Jedi never use the Force to be aggressors, when his response to the Sith overthrow of the Republic Senate was to conduct attempted assassination of the Sith Master and ordering OB1 to do the same to Vader. Some pacifist...
The first time he mentions Anakin to Luke, he says that Vader murdered Anakin. This is beyond mumbo jumbo about viewpoints, this is a clear statement that Anakin ceased to exist, the only qualifier I'd accept is if Anakin was schizo, which he wasn't. He also makes Vader out to be a separate person, but since Vader didn't exist until Anakin's turn then Vader was never OB1's apprentice. Not to mention the bogus stuff about Anakin wanting Luke to have his lightsaber. That was total bullshit, especially with the business about his Uncle Owen not allowing Luke his inheritance. If the training of Luke to defeat the Sith was so damned important to the galaxy I don't think a dust farmer in the galaxy's backside would be able to supersede the judgment of a pair of Jedi Masters. I'll also nitpick that OB1 lied about not having been known by his proper name since before Luke's birth, since that was also demonstrated false in E3.
Later in RotJ, he backpedals and tries to retcon his lies as simply his way of viewing things, when the idea of Anakin being replaced by Vader actually came from Yoda. He says that he was amazed by Anakin's strength in the Force, when he was really admonishing Qui-Gon for bringing him along and telling him that the kid's problems were none of their business. He only consented to training Anakin because it was his master's dying wish, not because of any interest he had in the boy or thought he was a better teacher than Yoda. And speaking of Yoda....
He goes on about how Luke was too old and unfit for training when the entire point of hiding him away for almost twenty years was so he could be molded into what his destiny needed him to be. If training him at an early age was actually important why wasn't OB1 or Yoda himself the one actually raising the kid in the first place? During Luke's training he stresses how Jedi never use the Force to be aggressors, when his response to the Sith overthrow of the Republic Senate was to conduct attempted assassination of the Sith Master and ordering OB1 to do the same to Vader. Some pacifist...
