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Star Wars III

eloisel

eloisel

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Near the end of the movie when Obi-wan mutilates Anakin just before Anakin catches on fire, I think Obi-wan should have killed Anakin - put him out of his misery. I think that was awful to leave Anakin suffering that way. It isn't like Obi-wan didn't have the means to kill Anakin.

Oh well.
 
eloisel said:
Near the end of the movie when Obi-wan mutilates Anakin just before Anakin catches on fire, I think Obi-wan should have killed Anakin - put him out of his misery. I think that was awful to leave Anakin suffering that way. It isn't like Obi-wan didn't have the means to kill Anakin.

Oh well.
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Perhaps the Force was Weak with him :eek:
 
It was a flaw in Obi due to Qui-Gon's teaching, the same flaw produced Anakin's susceptibility to Palpy's temptation to the Dark Side. Qui-Gon was flawed himself in many ways being a truly horrible Jedi...
 
Who was it that made the decision to train Anakin even though Yoda and the rest of the leadership determined that Anakin was not a good Jedi candidate? I think it was Obi-wan alone. Ultimately, though, it is Anakin who is responsible for what he became. He had opportunities, education, training and mentoring that could have helped him overcome his developmental years as a child that caused his insecurities and character flaws. While he may have been manipulated, there had to have been at least one action that made him question doing what Palpatine told him to do - like killing the younglings.
 
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I know this is kind of old, but it bears a reset in this circumstance. I wonder if the guy who did this ever amounted to anything?
 
Well Obi-Wan did say to Yoda that would never kill Anakin. And he probably thought Anakin would be dead within minutes (and he would have been if Palpatine hadn't arrived.)

Though I think I read once that the official explanation is that he left Anakin "in the hands of the Force" but that just sounds stupid.
 
Perhaps Obi-Wan's decision to let him live was meant as a repudiation of the "he's too dangerous to be left alive" sentiment that pushed Anakin to kill Dooku, and Mace Windu voiced when he was about to kill Palpatine.

I never bought the whole transition-to-the-dark-side scene. It was going great right up until Anakin swore allegiance to Palpatine and agreed to hack a bunch of kids to death, and yet still seemed so conflicted & unconvinced that the Jedi as a whole were evil, in spite of what he just went through with Windu (and of course that should have sent up a red flag, since he himself went through the same thing with Dooku.) I know he was supposed to be all besotted with Padme and the thought of saving her through Palpatine's dark teachings & shit...but honestly, I felt it should take a little more than that.

I'd have believed it more if they played up his more fascist personality traits so that Palpatine's course of action actually seemed to him like a good idea, rather than as a means to an end. They really should have made him more of a flat-out asshole, rather than just a whiny bitch (of course, you could probably blame Christensen's acting for that.) I just don't accept that he was wholly pushed into it by the Emperor's promises of power or led into it with Padme holding his dick. Nobody that wishy-washy gets to be Darth Fucking Vader.
 
Ya gotta wonder if Kenobi caught Skywalker's junk when he cut off his legs.

Is Vader a eunuch?
 
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