people who hate on the remastered version of rotj adding hayden christensen’s anakin at the end as a force ghost completely miss the point that lucas was trying to make. throughout the entirety of of the trilogy obi-wan keeps saying that darth vader ‘killed’ anakin skywalker, and obi wan tells luke that his father was a great jedi (even tho obi knows that anakin IS darth vader.)
like, in rotj when obi wan says ‘well from a different perspective, darth vader killed the man i knew [as your father]’. when the redemption happens at the end, when darth vader saves luke from palpatine and returns to the light side, he is effectively returning to the man he was before he became darth vader.
that’s why his force ghost is hayden christensen. because it is a visual representation of the man he was before he became darth vader, and the man anakin returned to by saving luke before he died.
After the first complete take, Lucas and McGregor discuss where he should say each line. ‘As you watch Anakin slide down, how about if you take one step forward,’ Lucas suggests. ‘For a moment, you think about it. Your first impulse is to save him – but then you realize you can’t.’
I will never get over the way Vader was checking if Obi Wan is really dead
“what the fu-what is this? How, what, this is not ok! So what, when I do it, he gets to fade out of thin air but when HE does it to me, I have to wear a walking iron lung for the rest of my life? I can’t pee without going through 5 layers of painful decontamination, and this motherfucker is just GONE???“
when you’ve waited decades for the most unsatisfying revenge in the galaxy
After all the shit obi wan has put up with anakin, he wouldn’t let him have the satisfaction.
Just to rub extra salt into the wound, Obi-wan even managed to drop his robe one last time.
#obi wan is so mentally and physically exhausted he doesn’t even care anymore#he’s like kiss each other idgaf#fuck each other on the floor#i’ve seen so many horrors today i don’t even care#i’ve been imprisoned sentenced to death by execution gladiator style#a shit ton of jedi died today#you guys wanna kiss each other i ain’t gonna stop you i don’t have the mental energy anymore#i try to tell anakin what to do but he does it anyway#anakin slow down#don’t go through the power couplings on coruscant#anakin goes through the power couplings and they get electrocuted#anakin chill out bro#anakin jumps out the speeder#obi wan’s like there’s no use anymore#i’m done#anidala (via @padmaynaberrie)
Look at that..
And so many people are like “how did Obi-Wan find out?” ummm…because he was right there. He knew but he let it go, the whole galaxy was changing, the clone wars started, Anakin was knighted, Obi-Wan had bigger things to worry about then Anakin’s attachment to Padme. Which honestly he had warned the council about when they first assigned Anakin to protect Padme but no one listened to him then.
