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Post #1489817

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Emre1601
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The Kenobi Movie Show (Spoilers)
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22-Jun-2022, 5:02 PM

Vladius said:

Emre1601 said:

adywan said:

They really should have got rid of all the useless fluff from the other episodes and developed this finale more into 2 eps. It felt rushed. Sadly they strengthened the bond between Ben & Leia which makes her reaction to his death in ANH even more cold. But this ep did seem to be a bit of a box ticker, which was a shame.

I did think Obi-Wan telling Leia their connection must be kept a secret, to protect both of them, was a good bypass of the hologram message from Leia in the OT.

It’s not. All the same problems are still there. By the time she’s contacting him, if the message is intercepted then both of their covers are blown anyway, so it doesn’t matter if she uses weird cagey language to suggest they don’t know each other.

This is a good point. I was thinking the end speech between them in the last episode as more of keeping their adventure and knowledge of each a secret to protect both from danger. But as you say, their covers would be blown anyway. And, as Leia says in the hologram message, it is her “most desperate hour”, with a plea directly to Obi-Wan in that he is her “only hope”.
 

Bridger12 said:

I think it’s weird how people bring up that Leia should have reacted harder to Obi-Wan’s sacrifice, just because we now know they share a history together. It’s because we all know that she had just watched her planet (and family) get destroyed, and she’s still leading the charge to escape the Death Star. She knows how to keep her emotions in check when it’s called for. Much more so than Luke can.

Why weird? This is just me asking a rhetorical question, thinking aloud.

Leia reacted with high emotion and excitement when Luke mentioned he was with Obi-Wan (Ben) Kenobi when he broke her out of the detention cell and told he was there to rescue her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aJJuNB58eA

That happened after seeing her home planet of Alderaan destroyed.

Watch this video from 1 minute and 40 seconds onwards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kpHK4YIwY4 Leia doesn’t even acknowledge Obi-Wan, it is like him being there doesn’t even register with her. And seeing Leia doesn’t register with Obi-Wan either. Considering they were on a highly dangerous adventure together in which Obi-Wan saved her life on multiple occasions, her first off-world experience, and a big and memorable experience for her, surely it would be weird if it didn’t.

On the Falcon, when Luke is down about Obi-Wan being “struck down” by Vader, Leia tries to console him, yet doesn’t share her memories of Obi-Wan to cheer Luke up. Or displays emotion herself for Obi-Wan. That is indeed weird, given what we know now. How could it not be.