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SW: Revenge of the Sith (Did Obi-Wan know?)

Obi-Wan knew, I'm pretty sure it's kept vague on purpose though so you can't blame the directing or the acting. In fact, Ewen was so awesome as an actor he defied have the direction and put tons of low key innuendo and subtleties in the character.

Yes the directing was very stale and the human interaction was extremely sterile, but Ewen's fantastic acting broke through.
 
In fact, Ewen was so awesome as an actor he defied have the direction and put tons of low key innuendo and subtleties in the character.

Yes the directing was very stale and the human interaction was extremely sterile, but Ewen's fantastic acting broke through.
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QFT.

It's a darn shame that the script didn't put the focus on Anakin and Obiwan's relationship. Bromance always carries the day.
 
Dorian Thompson said:
In fact, Ewen was so awesome as an actor he defied have the direction and put tons of low key innuendo and subtleties in the character.

Yes the directing was very stale and the human interaction was extremely sterile, but Ewen's fantastic acting broke through.
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QFT.

It's a darn shame that the script didn't put the focus on Anakin and Obiwan's relationship. Bromance always carries the day.
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Heheh. True.

This was a problem in the movies. Anakin and Obi-Wan interact for about ten seconds in TPM and Anakin's just a kid. They spend more than half of AOTC seperated and when they're together, they're bickering with each other. In ROTS, you see a little more of that friendship and comradery but by that point, it's too late. That's the good thing about The Clone Wars comics. You really get to see that friendship there.
 
In the original script, Palpatine tells Anakin he has "great friends in the Naboo civil clergy." One thing Anakin never seemed to consider is that it's Palpatine's fault that Padme's life has been put in danger so many times, starting with the Naboo invasion years earlier.
 
Anakin's not the sharpest knife in the drawer. He was probably so wrapped up in grief and PO'ed that he never bothered thinking that deeply about it. And he tried to distance himself from thoughts of Padme in the intervening 20 years.
 
I believe it was in the comic series Obsession that Obi-Wan stumbled on Anakin and Padme together on Naboo.
 
I remember that comic. It was a good one. Obi-Wan tells Aayla Secura in the previous comic that he has a pretty good idea where Anakin is.
 
I was watching The Clone Wars today and there were a couple of times that I got the impression that Obi-Wan knew.
 
Obi-wan knew, there are some things in life that have a "don't ask, don't tell" self policed policy, I think this applied to the Jedi too.

A better question is, did Yoda know?
 
Yoda knew. Years later in the OT it's why Yoda changes things with Luke and they change the way the New Jedi Order work.

Yoda and Obi-Wan both know what's going on and I get the impression that both of them want Anakin to come to them during ROTS for help but they won't come to him.

Yoda especially during the meditation scene.
 
Obi-wan knew... Yoda knew... Probably most of the Jedi knew, but they needed Anakin... Well, they thought they needed Anakin...

"Told you, we did. Listen, you did not. Now screwed we are."
 
What bugs me is why can't Jedi take mates? Depending on just finding random children with the force is crazy when they could be mating among themselves in addition to bringing in "new blood". I wonder if Anakin had a child with another Jedi how powerful the child would be?
 
timelord1010 said:
What bugs me is why can't Jedi take mates? Depending on just finding random children with the force is crazy when they could be mating among themselves in addition to bringing in "new blood". I wonder if Anakin had a child with another Jedi how powerful the child would be?
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They believed that personal attachment led to the dark side. I suppose in Anakin's case that was true.

Ki-Adi Mundi was married and had children, but this was authorized because his race was dying.
 
timelord1010 said:
What bugs me is why can't Jedi take mates? Depending on just finding random children with the force is crazy when they could be mating among themselves in addition to bringing in "new blood". I wonder if Anakin had a child with another Jedi how powerful the child would be?
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We saw how powerful his son was just with a regular human mother. I agree with you, they should be encouraged to have children together.

It seems very odd to me that the Jedi, who are supposed to be about compassion and caring, are prevented from expressing those emotions.

Anakin's problem had nothing to do with being married to Padme. It was because he was found too late to begin proper training. He had all that power but lacked the maturity to use it wisely.
 
nx1701g said:
They believed that personal attachment led to the dark side. I suppose in Anakin's case that was true.
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They believed that and they were wrong. That's the whole point of the two trilogies, in my opinion. In the prequels, Anakin is living among emotionally-repressed Jedi, he's not allowed to express his feelings, and he ends up getting lost, bitter, and angry. In the original trilogy, Luke is living with his family and friends, and personal attachment is ultimately what saves him and his father. The Jedi were tragically wrong, that's the point.
 
^Well, if I remember what I read on Wookieepedia correctly, didn't Luke go a bit Dark Side when Mara Jade died ?
 
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