I’d like to take a moment and appreciate Bail Organa – a man who without thought to his own safety rushes towards the burning Jedi temple to try to help, then takes it upon himself to try and find Yoda and/or any other survivors because he KNOWS the Jedi wouldn’t betray the Republic.
He then without any hesitation adopts Leia, despite all the danger it would bring him and Breha (and Breha agrees to it), he loves and raises her as his own.
Despite the continued dangers of being a known Jedi sympathizer he remains in the Imperial Senate, secretly helping organize the Rebellion and introduces the Fulcrum program.
Then while his daughter is god knows where he immediately offers to rush to Tatooine to protect Luke since Obi-Wan isn’t there. Even though this likely means Leia is hurt or dead.
Bail Organa is a hero, and I think one of the first true Jedi-stans!!!
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.
The Road goes ever on and on Down from the dune where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say.
“Master? I have never heard of this song.”
“Oh yes, I learnt it from the uh – the planet Middle Earth.”
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!
I would like to thank the Kenobi writers for acknowledging that not only Anakin but Padme, Bail, Breha, Owen, and Beru are the parents of the sunshine twins
This kind of reads like a joke but I’m serious. It would have been really easy to lean into the drama of only Anakin or the angst of Anakin and Padme but they really honored the risks the Organa and the Lars families took and the love they showed. They acknowledged the importance and value of adoptive families. They showed the parents being incredible parents in how they’re raising these kids.
I mean the series opened establishing the twins as truly belonging to their respective families and then the series stuck with it.
It’s really important and I’m really glad that the writers chose to go that route
i don’t have anything to say about the finale of obi wan kenobi except that i’m certain beru had to die in a new hope, else she would’ve taken on the empire alone and won
One of the things that I think is so great about the Obi-Wan Kenobi show is how you see seemingly ordinary people in the galaxy doing things that have a big impact. It would be understandable for people to just try to survive under this fascist Empire, look the other way when bad things happen. And some of them do, but some of them don’t. Just in the first two episodes, you have:
A group of ordinary cantina folks on Tatooine (Anchorhead?) refuse to give up the Jedi who is living among them
Owen Lars resists giving up Obi-Wan to an Inquisitor who directly threatens his family and sticks a lightsaber up to his neck
Owen tries to protect Luke by trying to keep Obi-Wan away from him AND indirectly is trying to get Obi-Wan to let go of the past that he’s clinging to
Haja is helping a mother and her Force-sensitive child escape to Corellia (the fact that it’s for credits doesn’t erase the fact that he’s risking himself and his companion to do this)
Haja stands up to an Inquisitor and actively claims to be a Jedi in order to help Obi-Wan and Leia get away, even though he knows Obi-Wan is being hunted and he could probably make a huge reward by turning him in
Haja gives Obi-Wan and Leia a way to get off-planet despite the lockdown
The girl selling spice gives Obi-Wan some to try to help him forget (it’s the wrong idea, but it comes in handy later)
And the people who start to help Obi-Wan get back in touch with the Force, with hope, who start to help him emerge from his depression and reconnect with who he is, are largely non-Force-sensitive people:
Bail Organa risks himself and his wife (and his daughter) not only to ask for Obi-Wan’s help but to come directly to Tatooine and tell him in no uncertain terms to let go of this regret and grief that is killing Obi-Wan and get his shit together, because someone needs him.
Haja tells Obi-Wan, “you’re not alone” and uses his real name, not his made up in-hiding name.
One of the moments where Leia really gets through to him is when she is doing something that directly reminds him of his friend Padmé and how Leia has inherited her fearlessness and willingness to accept help and reach out to friends. Someone who was not Force-sensitive, who was up against incredible odds, and who did what she thought was right regardless.
