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Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2016 12:18 am
by Khaliban
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.
Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2016 3:05 pm
by Avatar
Nice interpretation.
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Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2016 12:14 pm
by aTOMiC
Khaliban wrote:Second, Luke had an idealized, almost mythic, view of his father.
I'm not sure believing his Father was a navigator on a spice freighter classifies as
mythic but I get your point.
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2017 4:57 pm
by aTOMiC
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.
God love you for that, Cags. Thank you.
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2017 2:03 pm
by aTOMiC
Excerpt from "The Secret History of Star Wars" by Michael Kaminski
...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."
Gosh it feels good to find people, other than myself, that agree with me.
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2017 4:13 pm
by Cail
Kenobi was using "alternative facts".
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2017 4:33 am
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