yotsuya said:
skyjedi2005 said:
Obi Wan says he was trained by Yoda in Empire Strikes back. We then learn this is not the case in the phantom menace, there is some Qui Gon guy who was never mentioned in the original trilogy but was his real master.
Obi Wan claims Anakin was a good friend who was slowly seduced by evil, nowhere shown in the prequels.
The so called great jedi purge is handled in a pathetic and anti climatic way in episode III, this is not Vader betraying the jedi and hunting them down.
Obi-wan treats Yoda as more of a master than Qui-gon (I get the impression that Obi-wan is with Qui-gon for field training before becoming a knight. Qui-gon is there and gone in a brief period while Yoda remains. Besides, with the creative history (with how the movies turned out) that Obi-wan had admitted to, why would this be any different.
Obi-wan and Anakin show a clear friendship and Anakin's fall is not abrupt, nearly every conversation with Palpatine is leading to his fall. Remember, Palpatine has had years of contact with Anakin that we don't see.
The Jedi Purge is not over when Episode III ends. Those were just the Jedi with clone troops. What about how Anakin went to the temple and slaughtered the Jedi there, even the young ones. How many other Jedi escaped the clones and need to be hunted down by Darth Vader (once the black armor goes on).
We can make all kinds of guesses to try to make things make more sense...but it was clear that Qui Gon was Obi Wan's master. Just as Yoda was Dooku's master. Star Wars wikia supports the obvious interpretation of what we saw and was said in the PT. Yoda was not presented as Obi Wan's teacher, except maybe when he was in a class as a youngling.
Obi Wan and Anakin do not show a clear friendship. Moments of exposition insist upon it but it never feels authentic. I agree Anakin's fall in the PT wasn't abrupt (not does skyjedi say so). Anakin was constantly upset and moody. In Attack of the Clones he murders women and children. So whatever Palpatine did took root early and played out over and over again. Becoming a Sith was a mere formality. The movies suffered for not showing Anakin's fall, his seduction...instead we are left guessing what Palpatine might have been doing 'between the movies.' As presented, it was in Anakin's character to be angry and psychotic. Later on Palpatine tricks him. But he was not seduced.
You are on slightly firmer ground about the jedi purge. I completely agree with skyjedi that it was handled in a pathetic and anti climatic way....but that doesn't make it an inconsistency.