obi-wan kenobi naming his eopie “akkani” while on anakin’s home planet watching over anakin’s kids after almost killing anakin on mustafar is really “never getting over my ex” energy
If you weren’t crying already, apparently Hayden said in the Q&A that the “I am not your failure” line was the little bit of Anakin left in Vader trying to absolve Obi-Wan of guilt.
All the main villains of the prequels movies were reflections of the villain that Anakin Skywalker was to become.
Darth Maul was the Sith apprentice, one that was never valued by the Sith and always had to prove his place with them, the one who was so steeped in the dark side that he couldn’t see any of the paths out of there back to the light. He is replaced by Sidious as soon as a new, younger apprentice comes along. He is the one who hates himself as much as he hates those around him, suffering in the dark all alone.
Count Dooku was the fallen Jedi, the one who believed he had power greater than any other Jedi, just as Anakin believed that he would find a way to be the most powerful Jedi ever. He is a reflection of Vader staring up at his Master directly in the face, unable to truly comprehend that his end has come this way, he is the choice that Anakin makes to destroy him, while Luke chooses mercy when in the same situation.
Grievous is the one who uses his artificial limbs and body to push away his humanity (/alien equivalent thereof), that both Grievous and Vader use mechanical parts, but so too does Luke Skywalker, and that’s not the issue, the issue is that they use this to separate themselves from compassion for others, one who never cares for the people or droids that work under him.
Each of these villains was designed to echo and rhyme with an aspect of Darth Vader and the prequels do not get enough credit for it!
#ABSOLUTELY CANNOT BELIEVE THEY NOT ONLY GAVE US ANAKIN FLASHBACKS #BUT THEY HAD HIM SMILE LIKE THAT WITH OBI-WAN #THEY CARED ABOUT EACH OTHER AND LIKED EACH OTHER AND LOVED EACH OTHER #THERE WAS SO MUCH GOOD AND LIGHT IN ANAKIN ONCE UPON A TIME #YOU CONTRAST IT WITH VADER IN THIS EPISODE AND IT’S SUCH A STARK BRUTAL DIFFERENCE #BUT DARTH VADER IS STILL ANAKIN SKYWALKER #AND OF COURSE OBI-WAN CAN’T REALLY WANT ANAKIN DEAD #BECAUSE THIS IS ALSO THE ANAKIN THAT OBI-WAN REMEMBERS #THE ONE WHO SMILED LIKE THIS AT HIM #EVEN WHEN HE WAS IN NEED OF LEARNING A LESSON STILL #THERE WAS SUCH A SWEETNESS THERE TOO #I’M GONNA GO THROW MYSELF INTO THE SUN BECAUSE I CAN’T HANDLE HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN’S SMILE
I’m going absolutely feral at the imagery here, that Obi-Wan buried his lightsaber together with Anakin’s, these two people buried in the sand, they were both supposed to be dead and buried.
“This lightsaber is your life.”
And when they died, their lives were buried in the same box in the same sand.
Obi-Wan buries them together because they died together, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker died at the same time and they were laid to rest together in the sand.
He buries them together because they loved each other and these were pieces that belonged to another age, because Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker were a love story and they were brothers, they should be buried together.
But also that neither of them will stay buried.
Obi-Wan is digging himself back up, he can’t just be Ben anymore, he has to be Obi-Wan Kenobi, and he has no idea that he’s not the only one who’s going to be dug up out of the sand, that Anakin’s presence in his life will also be dug up out of that sand.
These lightsabers were their lives and I am absolutely FERAL at the imagery of them being dug up again and what that means for where Obi-Wan has to go next and who exactly is waiting for him.
