We tend to look at the Star Wars creations of George Lucas as gold…untouchable.
And in many ways, we’re right.
George Lucas’ Star Wars was groundbreaking.
So much that A New Hope won 11 Oscars in 1978.
That was when it was just called “Star Wars.”
But as amazing as these first six stories were…and still are…they aren’t without
issue.
Nothing big, just enough to make us scratch our heads and say…why?
If you’ve seen ANY of my videos, you’ll know my favorite trilogy is the original Star
Wars trilogy.
With the Empire Strikes Back being at the top of that list.
But my biggest issue with George Lucas’ creations comes from that very same movie
in the form of Luke and Leia share some tongue.
I mean, why not just make Luke’s sister an entirely new character?
One whose mouth Luke’s tongue wasn’t in.
Okay, you get the point.
But this video isn’t about that incestual make out session.
It’s just something I like to bring up from time to time…okay…a lot.
Another issue we saw was that the Death Star was built with a thermal exhaust port that
connected to the nuclear reactor at the deep center of the moon size space station (that’s
no moon).
But it seems in recent years some of those issues have been fixed.
The exhaust port, for instance (that’s no moon).
You can shut up now Obi-Wan.
You have your own show, this is mine.
Anyways…where was I?
Oh…fixing issues with the original Star Wars movies.
They aren’t bad issues, but they are definitely head scratchers.
But George Lucas laid a pretty solid foundation for these stories to be continued and built
upon.
And with the purchase of Lucasfilm by Disney, it seems these issues are being clarified,
slowly but surely.
I don’t really want to say they are being fixed, because the new explanations keep the
original stories in place while giving a valid reason for it in the first place.
For instance, the exhaust port in the Death Star leading to the nuclear power cell of
the entire space station.
(that’s no moon).
This is the last time I’m going to tell you Obi-Wan…stop.
Eh hem hem…the exhaust port issue was resolved with a simple story called Rogue One: A Star
Wars Story.
Okay maybe the whole story wasn’t simple but the explanation for the design flaw of
the Death Star was.
The lead engineer working on the project put the flaw in on purpose because he saw it being
used as a weapon of mass destruction.
(Saddam Hussain).
Okay, that guy has nothing on Sheev Palpatine, when it comes to mass destruction (Alderaan
exploding).
But this video isn’t about that either.
I mean, why make a video about a resolved issue?
Kind of pointless.
Not really pointless.
The Death Star issue was clarified and we all said…oh!
Okay!
Boom problem solved!
That brings me to my second biggest issue I have had with A New Hope.
The issue is when Obi-Wan Kenobi told Luke about his father, he said (A Young Jedi…).
Not a big deal, right?
Wrong!
It’s always been a huge deal to me, and it was always one of those things, along with
the kiss (show kiss in slow motion) (you made out with your sister!).
Okay, enough of the sibling affection.
The other thing that has made me realize, as an adult, that the original trilogy had
no plan was that Obi-Wan Kenobi lied to Luke Skywalker.
Not like a little white lie, but he made Darth Vader out to be this whole other person from
Anakin Skywalker.
A young JEDI named DARTH VADER!
Darth Vader was never a Jedi.
Anakin Skywalker was.
Anakin turned to the dark side and became Darth Vader once he became a Sith.
But you all know this.
For at least 30 years I have been asking…”Why did he outright lie?”
Aren’t the Jedi supposed to be all good?
All wise?
I never once considered a possibility that could be staring me in the face the whole
time.
Sure, Return of the Jedi brought Obi-Wan Kenobi out and he kind of explained part of the lie.
But not the fact that he made Darth Vader a physically separate person.
Not just metaphorically.
I have made other videos on this topic, so I won’t go in to deep about why I questioned
it.
Instead, I’ll link it below, in the description.
Because my reiteration of this topic is like beating a dead horse.
No!
Instead, I want to talk about how the Obi-Wan Kenobi series has explained that moment in
a New Hope where it all makes sense to me now.
So, if you haven’t seen the Episode 6 finale of this season of the Obi-Wan Kenobi series,
please go away until you have.
Save this video in your watch later playlist, then come back to seen what the Hell I’m
on about.
For those of you still here, let’s move forward!
That moment in A New Hope is now explained in a way that I say…WTF?!
Why didn’t I just think of that?!
I mean, it was so obvious that I question my own love of the Star Wars franchise.
Not that I would never love it…just you know what I mean.
I’m disappointed in myself for not figuring it out sooner.
It makes freaking sense…Jeez!
I’m going to explain it as it’s laid out in the Obi-Wan Kenobi series.
Because hopefully all of you have seen it.
During the final battle between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader, Obi-Wan cracks the mask of
his former bestie.
Beneath we see a small portion of Anakin Skywalker’s face.
Similar to the final duel between Darth Vader and Ahsoka Tano in Star Wars Rebels, but I’ll
get into that in another video.
But we see Anakin’s face, with the yellow Sith eyes.
Obi-Wan apologizes to ANAKIN for everything.
He even says his name a couple of times.
Then you see Anakin’s face as he looks at Obi-Wan from beneath his brow, “You didn’t
kill Anakin Skywalker.
I did.”
In other words, “Apology Accepted but unnecessary.
He’s telling Obi-Wan that he didn’t cause this.
The dark side in him was responsible.
Then Obi-Wan responds, “then my friend is truly dead!”
Pretty simple stuff.
Darth Vader killed Anakin and now Obi-Wan has come to terms with that.
But that’s not all.
There’s still the face that Obi-Wan Kenobi physically separated Anakin Skywalker from
Darth Vader.
Not just metaphorically.
Meaning, he made Darth Vader into an entirely separate person.
He even recalled him as being a Jedi.
Why?
Well, that explanation is a little trickier.
From the beginning of the Obi-Wan Kenobi series, we see a broken man.
Exactly what Ewan McGregor explained him as, even before the show aired.
He has lost touch with the Force and holds onto a lot of regret.
The biggest is what transpired between him and Anakin Skywalker when they were younger.
It shows that even though Jedi weren’t supposed to have attachments, Obi-Wan Kenobi had his
own.
His love for his Padawan who was more like a brother than a student.
Anakin Skywalker was Obi-Wan Kenobi’s attachment.
When he learned that Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker lived, a race of emotions flooded the once
proud Jedi master.
There may have even been a little hope that he could bring Anakin Skywalker back from
the dark place that was holding him down.
That is, until he saw him.
The first time Obi-Wan Kenobi saw Anakin, there was nothing resembling his best friend.
Instead he was covered head to toe in armor and life support.
Not only his appearance was different, but Darth Vader showed he wasn’t the little
boy that Obi-Wan trained by walking through the streets and killing innocent people.
Not just the men, but the women and children too.
A little poetic, don’t you think?
Now Obi-Wan Kenobi was in fear.
He felt that fear fully when they met for the first time and Darth Vader tortured his
old Jedi master.
He had no remorse nor regret for Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Yet…Obi-Wan held onto hope.
Afterall, that’s a huge theme in Star Wars from the beginning.
Hope…when there seems to be none.
As he prepared for their second confrontation, Obi-Wan spoke aloud, “whether he dies, or
I die, this ends today.”
As he was saying to an invisible Qui-Gon Jinn.
But deep down, he held onto that hope that he could restore his former friend and brother.
But when they met, that hope was destroyed.
He wanted to save Anakin Skywalker but Darth Vader had no problem with eliminating Obi-Wan
Kenobi.
When Obi-Wan said, “then my friend is truly dead…the hope was gone.
In Obi-Wan Kenobi’s mind, Darth Vader and Anakin Skywalker had become two physically
separate people.
As if they could stand side by side if Anakin Skywalker were alive.
The half masked, more machine than man that stood beaten before him was only Darth Vader.
The pupil of Obi-Wan Kenobi’s who turned to evil.
Darth Vader had betrayed and murdered Anakin Skywalker.