By Chris Snellgrove | Published
What do you think is the biggest pitfall of Star Wars? You might think that the Emperor is mysteriously still alive Return of the Jedithus making all the “choice” stuff from the prequels pointless. Or maybe Tatooine is at once a small background planet and the featured location in five franchise films and three television shows. For many of us, however, the biggest plot hole goes back to the beginning, when Obi-Wan Kenobi tells Luke Skywalker that Darth Vader killed the young man’s father. In fact, Luke’s father it was Vader, and his new mentor are simply lying.
Or, as Obi-Wan explained lamely later, he was telling the truth…in a sense. The real reason for this plot development is that George Lucas was still trying to figure everything out. In space, it’s still a you are crazy a lie, the one Luke was destined to find. However, the canceled Star Wars project would have explained this plot hole while adding depth to one of the franchise’s favorite characters. That project was Obi-Wan Kenobithe film was banned in favor of the production of Obi-Wan Kenobi television show. In the canceled film, Obi-Wan would have found the dangers of transferring his case to a young Luke Skywalker, possibly explaining his abandonment of the truth later.
The Movie That Never Was
I Obi-Wan Kenobi The TV show turned out to be great, not great. It was nice to see Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen again, but the whole main story (searching for the weird side of Princess Leia) was completely irrelevant. In retrospect, it was cancelled Obi-Wan Kenobi the movie was very, very interesting. Writer Stuart Beattie had a story where the guilty Commander Cody, who is twice as old as other people, gave his life to protect Obi-Wan Kenobi. In turn, Kenobi devoted his life to protecting young Luke Skywalker, the Force-sensitive child of Anakin Skywalker.
However, things take an unexpected turn. In his zeal to protect Skywalker, Obi-Wan revealed his will to the child, with unexpected consequences. He severely loses his connection to the Force, leaving him vulnerable, the Man of Steel in Superman II. Eventually, he goes to the temple of the goddess and ends up back in Mustafar, fighting an aging version of Mark Hamill as the evil Luke Skywalker. Obi-Wan almost loses the fight before he wakes up with a revelation: that blaming his failure on Anakin and the rest of the Jedi will condemn Luke to the Dark Side. He learns to be free, to regain his connection with the Force.
Trauma, Drama, and Lightsabers
So, what does this have to do with Obi-Wan lying to Luke about who his father really was A New Hope? Simple: By this time, the Jedi Master would have spent almost a decade trying to keep his guilt from touching Luke. But actually sitting down with a child, discussing the worst days of your life, and explaining his legacy and setting up a rescue mission? That is a a lot so that the crippled hermit in spirit can take one day. Actually explaining the fall of Anakin Skywalker and the rise of Darth Vader would have been too much, so Kenobi took the easy way out and lied.
It’s not a perfect explanation, of course, and it doesn’t change the fact that Luke always got the truth. But this has been cancelled Obi-Wan Kenobi the movie doesn’t give a simple, emotionally satisfying reason for the old Jedi Master to lie. Basically, she was trying to get over her trauma and be the mentor Luke needed her to be. Sadly, this Obi-Wan Kenobi movie has been canceled, so we’ll never have a Jedi-themed adventure with Commander Cody. But we do now they have a simple head list that explains the truth of Kenobi’s actions. The truth told in pure Star Wars fashion: from a certain point of view.
