Star Wars: Obi Wan didn't have to be a liar
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I feel the real answer is more practical and more cruel. First, Obi-Wan didn't know if Anakin could be saved. Luke needed to destroy the Sith, that included Vader. Second, Luke had an idealized, almost mythic, view of his father. If he had known from the beginning, he might have approached Vader with the truth before he (Luke) had the strength to resist the Dark Side. Vader could have turned him easily. As Yoda said, he was unprepared for the burden.
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I'm not sure believing his Father was a navigator on a spice freighter classifies as mythic but I get your point.Khaliban wrote:Second, Luke had an idealized, almost mythic, view of his father.
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Cagliostro wrote:I get your point, Tom, as I felt terribly betrayed by Obi-Wan as well. And then I just found it dumb that Leia was Luke's sister. But I felt like Obi-Wan lied, same as you. It made me angry at Ben at the time.
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Excerpt from "The Secret History of Star Wars" by Michael Kaminski
Gosh it feels good to find people, other than myself, that agree with me....Later on, as more and more sequels were made, new meaning was retroactively inserted into existing scenes. When Vader was revealed as Luke's father in Empire Strikes Back, it raises a lot of questions, namely who as lying, Vader or Kenobi? I turns out the bad guys tell the truth, and now when looking at the scene where Luke asks Ben of his father the scene plays totally different--the pause Alec Guinness took to deliver Luke the heartbreaking news that his farther was murdered by Vader, Kenobi's own student, now reads as him pausing to make up a lie."
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Kenobi was using "alternative facts".
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