ray_afraid said:
Yuck. And it still doesn't explain why Annikin's body didn't disappear.
And in any case, I'm still for chopping the shot. It's just silly. Like Vader is standing there goin' "Woah! What happened? Is there a trap door? Can he shrink? Is he invisible and running naked through my new super-weapon?" And then he just totally shrugs it off altogether, and proclaims that this is the day that saw the end of Kenobi. But if he isn't sure what happened with the disappearing body, how can he be sure Obi-Wan is really dead?
He isn't. Vader assumed he was dead because the uncomfortable alternative is that Obi-Wan wasn't lying and that he really DID become more powerful then Vader could imagine when he was struck down.
In the words of the great Tommy Wiseau, "Ray don't tink so mawch. Eet may nawt come awt rite."