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She knew it would really hit Vader sooo hard to kill the son he doesn't know he has.

But yes this was a plan B when her "get Vader all alone, sneak up behind and stab him with a saber then blame someone else" plan didn't work.

She later realized through personal experience that having a lightsaber thrust right through you is very survivable and minor wound, so plan A wouldn't have worked anyway.
Kinda weird how qui gon died instantly from it but she healed.
 

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I don't understand how you would neutralize Vader without killing him. If you could give me an example, then I could at least understand what you mean. You mentioned in an earlier post that Kenobi should've taken Vader prisoner. I don't get how an Imperial fugitive could safely imprison a Force-powered, high-ranking Imperial authority without resorting to crudely burying him somewhere without access to sustenance. And since doing that would effectively be the same as killing him directly, it shouldn't be an option. Not for a Jedi.

Sure, he could've taken the lightsaber like he did in ROTS, but the odds of it ever becoming a costly mistake down the road are long. Sith shouldn't multiply like gremlins. Kenobi accomplished his mission of buying the escapees time to get to safety. That was his function as a Jedi. In so doing, he kept himself alive and was able to incapacitate Vader without resorting to murdering him. So fine, I give him an "A-" on the Jedi grading scale with points only taken away for leaving the lightsaber there. :lol

I just don't know what more Kenobi could do to neutralize Vader. He crushed Vader's chest box, which is his life support system. He left him kneeling on the ground gasping for breath. Anything more would be killing him, either directly or indirectly.
Obi-Wan is not the Punisher, and Jedi aren't vigilantes. Add to that the complicating factor that this is still the same guy who was like a brother to him. This show established Kenobi's torment for ten years having thought he'd killed Anakin on Mustafar. What logic would there be in establishing all of that just to have him go through the whole ordeal again?

Luke Skywalker was a heroic Jedi for not breaking their values by going through with killing his defenseless/beaten father. Obi-Wan basically made the same choice. The only difference is that Vader couldn't stand watching his son get roasted and doomed to the same tragic path he was put on 20 years earlier. But that's nothing more than Luke being rewarded for doing the right thing. Kenobi did the right thing and didn't need to be rewarded for it.

And again, when I say "doing the right thing," I mean that strictly within the context of established Jedi values, and not as a general moral/ethical question. And when I defend this aspect of the story, I'm not defending the entire series which I felt was mostly terrible prior to the finale. But in the instances (rarer as they are becoming) when I feel lore has been maintained and treated properly, especially when it comes to defining Jedi virtue/actions, I'll defend it.
Your arguments hold up in isolation, but these are the same Jedi that led armies in a war and killed people all the time. I think it's a very thin excuse that pitched battle is different from one-on-one combat, given that the Jedi -- thanks to their wishy washy, very wiggly 'code' -- should not have been there in the first place.

So to my mind, there are two choices: the people who write Star Wars, starting with Lucas himself, are sloppy (this is the real reason of course) -- or Obi Wan is a big fat hypocrite who gets people killed due to his lack of decisive action. :LOL:
 
Obi-Wan doesn’t want to kill Anakin, he wants to save him. He can’t save him and he can’t kill him so his only choice is to walk away.

Obi-Wan believes Luke to be the chosen one rather than Anakin, he says as much in Rebels, so if Vader is to die it’s not Obi-Wan’s place to do so but he still couldn’t even if he wanted to.

He had no issue going all out on Vader… until he saw his face… that’s when it hits him hard and he realises that it’s still his friend and brother in that suit rather than it being some faceless monster.
 
In TPM little Annie was already a killer remember the Neimoidians on their donut ship all the humans even cheered when Annie killed those filthy Neimoidians lol

Then of course AOTC (pre Vader) with the Sandpeople.

Fans complaining that he should’ve killed Reva sure but he didn’t even hurt no less kill Wato who sold his mother.

His mother was better off with Wato then being sent out to her new husband which lead to her kidnapping.

He never even killed Cleigg Lars for not protecting his mother.

Wato and Cliegg were still alive after he became Vader, no?
 
In TPM little Annie was already a killer remember the Neimoidians on their donut ship all the humans even cheered when Annie killed those filthy Neimoidians lol

Then of course AOTC (pre Vader) with the Sandpeople.

Fans complaining that he should’ve killed Reva sure but he didn’t even hurt no less kill Wato who sold his mother.

His mother was better off with Wato then being sent out to her new husband which lead to her kidnapping.

He never even killed Cleigg Lars for not protecting his mother.

Wato and Cliegg were still alive after he became Vader, no?
Cliegg was dead before the end of Revenge of the Sith.

Watto hasn't really been mentioned much in the current canon.
 
In TPM little Annie was already a killer remember the Neimoidians on their donut ship all the humans even cheered when Annie killed those filthy Neimoidians lol
Little (orphan :monkey3 ) Annie and Michael Myers never seen in the same room together? :unsure:

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I wish I had the energy to write an essay on this show, but it really was my last go at giving Disney SW a chance to get something right. Major major fail for so many reasons already very well articulated here.

My head canon is finally settled on six films and they remain very important to me. My Luke ROTJ won’t be going anywhere from my office. But this stuff, good lord above save us all.
 
"You're ten years old.......but you won't always be."

Damn Obi Wan stealing my best pick-up line OH MY GOD I'M JOKING DON'T ARREST ME!!!
The Top Gun thread is that way where you can similarly question the age of Penny Benjamin in 1986. Welcome to the Danger Zone Otomofan! :)
 
Obi-Wan doesn’t want to kill Anakin, he wants to save him. He can’t save him and he can’t kill him so his only choice is to walk away.
But it doesn't just stop there. "...to walk away and let him torture and kill many, many good people as a result of his refusal to act."

As seen on-screen, the Jedi are not pacifists. Obi Wan is guilty of gross negligence. His wishy-washy reasons don't matter, the outcome does.
 
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