Re: OT - Star Wars Ep III
 

Obi-wan said that Anakin was like a brother to him. Could you kill your own brother? It doesn't matter what he has done, it just isn't possible, if he has any time to think about it, to kill Anakin.

When they're fighting, it's all reflex. And after the leap, Obi-wan takes the easy strikes at the legs and arm. But after, he has a moment to stop and think about it, and can't bring himself to kill the man who he has trained for years, since Anakin was a small boy.

After watching the movie, I thought of how the following films would have been different if Yoda went after Anakin, while Obi-wan went after Palpatine/Sidious. Or what would have happened if both confronted Palpatine/Sidious first, then confronted Anakin later. But, from the story, it was inevitable that things happened the way they did in the movie, so that is how it is.

Re: OT - Star Wars Ep III
 

But is forcing his own brother to suffer a horribly painful death any better than killing him?

Re: OT - Star Wars Ep III
 

Ah, but he didn't die http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

Re: OT - Star Wars Ep III
 

Good point, but he had every reason to believe he would. And, at the end of episode III, he believes Anakin is dead.

Re: OT - Star Wars Ep III
 

I thought Obi-Wan's response to Anakin's (really it's Vader) demise was brutal. Just watching the man you loved like a brother just get consumed by flames and not do a thing to stop it, and actually walking away without a backward glance, was almost as bad as some of the things Anakin did when he turned. As Renegade13 stated, this was a very dark movie. I don't know how old he is, but I remember going to see The Empire Strikes Back. That was a dark movie also, but not to the scale of Ep. III.


I had a horrible thought today while I was reading the Cestus Deception. We know Lucas likes to tinker with his movies. What if in a couple of years, he releases the new revised special edition of SW:IV A New Hope? I was thinking of some of the continuity errors that still exists when Luke meets Obi-Was in the desert. Things like how Obi-Wan didn't go by his original name since before Luke was born. Little things like that. What if he digitalizes the movie to where he corrects some of those errors? Can you imagine someone else's voice being used for Obi-wan. Or God forbid, he recasts Ewan McGregor to play the older Obi-Wan so the voices more closely match. BRRRRR!!! I shudder at the thought.