TheBoost said:

xhonzi said:

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?

So we never see Vader in this scenario? Hmmm... could work, although we Obi-Wan still has to know Anakin=Vader.

"We last we met I was but a learner now-"

"What? We've never met!"

I think you just have to assume that they met "in the gap" as I like to call it. That is, if you don't show a non Anakin Vader in the PT. Anakin becoming Vader is also in the gap in this scenario.

I also assume there is a 20 year gap with things happening. Maybe that's an assumption we need to talk about.