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Post #788598

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Akton
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Would you want to see Anakin or Obi Wan in the new trilogy, portrayed by their PT actors?
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11-Sep-2015, 12:43 AM

I'm for not having any Force Ghosts at all in the ST. I like to think that Luke only ever spoke to Ben, and that the final scene of ROTJ is the last he sees of any of them (and, it should go without saying, the last he saw of his father was the ghost of the old man who died saving his son, not the young, mushmouthed, child-killing dunderhead he purportedly once was according to certain spurious, non-OOT sources). 

Luke is the Ben Kenobi of the ST. He has to play that role now. To have him still conferring with a spectral Obi-Wan who by now would look to be the same age (or younger) than Luke would be a thematic mess. Likewise, the long shadow cast by Darth Vader is certainly going to be central to the plot of TFA - if not the entire ST - and a primary motivation for Kylo Ren's character arc. Vader's presence will be most keenly felt in these films paradoxically by his absence. His presence as a Force Ghost bobbing impotently about at the periphery of the film would grossly undercut all of that, most especially if he's being played by this guy.