TheBoost said:
xhonzi said:
As long as he knows that Anakin had turned bad and that he's trying to protect his memory, why would Obi-Wan have to know Vader's actual identity?
Perhaps I'm confused.
In ROTJ Obi knows Anakin=Vader.
If Obi knows Anakin turned bad, he's still lying to Luke in ANH. Why replace the currently understood lie lie (Anakin=Vader) with another plot twist that ammounts to the same thing (Anakin=killed by someone who was Vader=but was still bad anyway)
Let me see if I can clear my end of this confusion up.
I'm proposing at the end of Episode 3 that Anakin is not Vader yet. That Episode 3 ends with his death- therefore before his rebirth as Vader. So- Obi-Wan does not know that Anakin is Vader because it hasn't even happened yet. Somepoint in time before A New Hope, he figures this out. However, he starts the lie right away that someone else killed Anakin to protect the good memory of Anakin. If people know someone good (Obi-Wan) killed Anakin, that reveals that Anakin was bad. If Obi-Wan says someone bad killed Anakin (Vader or Notvader (Frink's Dad)) then that perpetuates the myth that Anakin died a good Jedi.
Any better?