I would have liked to see more of Obi-Wan and Anakin’s relationship to get an insight into what Ben said in Star Wars to Luke in conversation. I don’t like how it’s just Obi-Wan is a liar. But now that is my accepted belief with A certain point of view.
I understand he built up the idea of the Jedi as guardians of the peace and great warriors to get a young man like Luke interested. He wasn’t exactly going to say your father was a butcher, who used this very lightsaber to slaughter younglings. Please come with me to Aldaraan, by the way the girl in the image projected by Artoo is your sister.
Darth Vader the right hand of the Emperor and fascist overlord is your father. Murderous psychopath and half robot because I sliced and diced him and he fell into lava.
Your father was not a good pilot, he accidentally destroyed the trade federation ship when he was 9 years old. He was always whining and never followed my lead. The older Anakin got, the more insistent he was on breaking the rules, and we Jedi built him up as the chosen one so he could do no wrong. We denied him love and companionship because it is attachment. took him from the only family and mother he ever knew. and told him not to fall in love with a woman, driving him to betray our order.
Yeah, all valid points mate. Especially disappointing for me was the portrayal of the Obi-Wan and Anakin relationship - or rather the lack of it - amongst the countless other discrepancy-type issues. I think even the lift scene in AOTC (with the awkward ‘tell - don’t show’ dialogue) between the two was a last-minute addition / re-shoot / pickup?
The hype for the both trilogies is also another factor - both had some serious hype and marketing… though the TPM has some serious over-exposure when it came to marketing the films - it would have been difficult for even a decent film to be accepted given the wall-to-wall hype and coverage at the time. I think they rolled it back for AOTC somewhat - yet by then many people were thinking would that be the film ‘to put things right’? Was TPM was just a blip? Surely AOTC would be far better? Oh dear…