Bingowings said:
By making him a pilot on a spice freighter it turns a lie into not the whole truth,
"That's just what your uncle told you."
The implication being that there was much more to the story that Owen didn't tell Luke (something Ben would continue to do).
What sort of mentors are these guys?
Ah, okay. I'll have to watch the scene again. It's interesting that you can watch a scene a million times and have a different interpretation that someone else whose watched it as many. I think if Obi-Wan meant that that was only part of it he would have said it in a different way. I always interpreted it as "nah, that was just your uncle not wanting to tell you he was a jedi knight." Because I thought afterwards he goes on to say he was a great pilot and a jedi knight and I just assumed he was this bad ass "fighter pilot" not someone who made shipments of spice. It seems that's an unnatural way to say what you think he means. But, I'll watch it again. =)