Originally posted by: C3PX
Sorry about this, but at the risk of continuing the flogging of this poor dead horse (and I promise just one more woopah of the whip and I'm done).
...Now he has a choice, tell Luke his father was a good man and a hero like the galaxy remembers (probably it is throught that Anakin was kill in the purge along with all the other Jedi). Or tell hims his dad is the second most evil man in the universe.
...Perhaps it is even common practice among the Jedi to consider somebody dead when they have turned to the dark side. It could be rather than old Ben lying through his teeth, that he couldn't bear the though of letting Luke know the truth. He probably also never imagined Vader would try to convert Luke and turn him rather than just try to kill him.
Okay, the horse his dead, the whip is broken, and the horse is buried as far as I am concerned, I will not clutter the board with any more of my comments.
Sorry about this, but at the risk of continuing the flogging of this poor dead horse (and I promise just one more woopah of the whip and I'm done).
...Now he has a choice, tell Luke his father was a good man and a hero like the galaxy remembers (probably it is throught that Anakin was kill in the purge along with all the other Jedi). Or tell hims his dad is the second most evil man in the universe.
...Perhaps it is even common practice among the Jedi to consider somebody dead when they have turned to the dark side. It could be rather than old Ben lying through his teeth, that he couldn't bear the though of letting Luke know the truth. He probably also never imagined Vader would try to convert Luke and turn him rather than just try to kill him.
Okay, the horse his dead, the whip is broken, and the horse is buried as far as I am concerned, I will not clutter the board with any more of my comments.
First-- don't go away-- stay and comment on Episode I ;-)
But this issue is already laid to bed and YOU WIN! The lie will be there in the end-- I just can't see any of your justifications as anything but... justifications. I would point out that the two choices you give Obi Wan are hardly fair because he can choose both and tell the truth at the same time; "Your father was an honorable and brilliant Jedi, a man who saved my life dozens of times and loved the republic more than life. But he fell under the sway of a horrible greedy creature who seduced your father down a path he did not realize led to destruction until it was too late. Everything good about your father died and what was left was transformed into an agent of fear called Darth Vader." etc.
But instead we're left arguing and making up stuff to justify a lie that wasn't a lie when it was written and which serves some convenient purposes, but undermines the honorable character of Obi Wan. I will agitate for a little justification in ROTS to clear this all up because the movies play out a lot of things to support the notion that telling Luke might endanger him of being discovered by the Sith-- because Jedi can sense emotional distress from across the galaxy during their meditations. This is seen in Episodes II, III, V and VI in various forms. But it isn't ever expressed as the reason they didn't tell Luke the truth. So it's odd, like they played by a rule they never wrote. And they did it in retrospect, by accident, after changing Obi Wan into a mealy mouthed liar. ;-)