I had many brothers and sisters. And fathers and mothers. And even a strange little green uncle. I don’t have that home now. I don’t have that family. Almost every friend I’ve ever had is dead. I… I’ve never thought about it in exactly those terms, before. It nearly took my breath away, just now.Almost every friend I’ve ever had is dead. Most killed by Sith evil. And I’ve never lived without the Jedi Order to fall back on, to help me when things went badly. What does it mean to be a Jedi alone?
i was looking up tea in the sw universe for my rp but instead i got to find out that obi-wan brought qui-gon sapir tea every morning as a way to console him after tahl’s death
this is v true. qui gon kept his manipulations to manipulating the council and the people around him, not his family
(b/c really: qui gon and obi wan are totally family and it breaks my heart)
(hell yeah)
It’s weird because he really skirts the line of being a manipulative jerk at times. Just not to Obi-Wan. Not to any child under his care. In Jedi Apprentice grief sometimes leads him to shut Obi-Wan out, but he’s never more than honest and apologetic about it afterwards. And I don’t think he ever, ever lies to him.
(Honestly, at this point Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan probably take the crown for Most Healthy Father-Son Relationship in the entire Star Wars saga.)
However, Star Wars does not have a Christmas! Or any kind of holiday season, I gather. That did not stop me from writing this spoiler-laden, slightly Clone Wars-borrowing-from take on A Christmas Carol. Luke is about to be visited by three spirits! Ooh yes.
[I wasn’t kidding when I said ‘spoiler-laden’! This will ruin the movie for you if you haven’t seen it!]
No, you weren’t hearing things: Those were the voices of Ewan MacGregor, Frank Oz and Alec Guinness that we heard during Rey’s vision in The Force Awakens, J.J. Abrams confirmed to Entertainment Weekly.
Ewan McGregor came in to record his part (after cartoon counterpart James Arnold Taylor took a shot at it,) as did Frank Oz. Guinness’ “Rey” was isolated from existing audio:
As they worked on editing the dream sequence, Bryan Burk, a longtime Bad Robot collaborator and one of the producers of the film, surprised Abrams one day with the gift of a single word: Obi-Wan Kenobi’s voice saying the name “Rey …”
“I said, ‘That’s cool, is that the thing from Ewan McGregor?’” Abrams recalled. “He said ‘No, we took a line from Alec Guinness saying ‘Afraid.’”
Not only that, but the lilt in his voice from that truncated word happened to fit exactly what Abrams had in mind. “They cut it, and you hear the performance – he’s saying it the way I would have begged Alec Guinness to have said it. It is so crazy perfect,” Abrams says. “So when you hear Obi-Wan talk to Rey it is both Alec Guinness and Ewan McGregor doing the voice.”
Taylor and several other familiar voices can still be heard in various parts around the film – but I’ll leave the specific IDing to those more well-versed in the cartoons than I.
I have a lot of feelings about obi wan and qui gon and most of them involve how mad i was at qui gon for dying and leaving obi wan to figure all this shit out.
