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Obi-Wan Interpretation

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Here's some stuff I'd like to throw out for public comsumption...

In ANH, the conversation between Obi-Wan and Luke goes as such...

Luke: No, my father didn't fight in the wars. He was a navigator on a spice freighter.
Obi-Wan: That's what your uncle told you. He didn't hold with your father's ideals and thought he should stay here and not gotten involved.

Later in ROTJ...
Obi-Wan: When I first met your father, he was already a great pilot, but I was amazed at how strong the force was with him. I took it upon myself to train him as a Jedi.

Here's my interpretations on what possibly should have happened in the prequels then...

Obi-Wan met an adult Anakin and seeing that he was a great pilot and strong with the force, trains him against the wishes of the Jedi, possibly even in secret without the Jedi knowing. Obviously Owen didn't think the same as Anakin. Anakin must have had some ideals about making the universe a better place by winning the war (probably the Clone Wars) and left to join the fight. Owen, of course, didn't agree with this and told Anakin to stay out of it. The part about the navigator on the spice freighter is some lie Owen told Luke to cover up Anakin's past so that Luke wouldn't run off either.

Do any of you agree with this line of thinking? Now that the prequels are over, I find myself thinking about the OT more and more and what clues it gave us all these years as to what happened in the earlier episodes. I keep trying to reconstuct what the OT hints at about what happened in the prequels.

And I find those hints to be superior and ultimately more fascinating than the story Lucas told in the prequels....
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Yeah that's probably might have happened but Lucas writes this stuff as he goes along.
"A Jedi can feel the force flow through him".
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and then lies about it and says that he wrote them all long ago before he did the first movie.
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Originally posted by: Switch Radic
and then lies about it and says that he wrote them all long ago before he did the first movie.


I believe that he had a basic storyline at the beginning and he used one part of it for ANH. But it was changed and altered. Then each subsequent film was written and underwent lots of changes and alterations. That is probably why the OT in itself, does not gel perfectly either.

All in all though, I agree. Lucas was making this up as he went. And that storyline that he initially wrote went through more changes than any of us can imagine, making everything very convoluted and impossible to piece together in a cohesive and logical way.

See!!! This why you never start your story in the middle!!! And dammit.....a little planning goes a long way.
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There are hints in the PT that prove your point. No REALLY important stuff to begin with in TPM, Jar-Jar's subtle "disappearance" after the heavy critics (compensated by the many links to the OT in AOTC - to please the angry fans?), etc. Doesn't feel right somehow.
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Originally posted by: Cable-X1


Here's my interpretations on what possibly should have happened in the prequels then...

Obi-Wan met an adult Anakin and seeing that he was a great pilot and strong with the force, trains him against the wishes of the Jedi, possibly even in secret without the Jedi knowing. Obviously Owen didn't think the same as Anakin. Anakin must have had some ideals about making the universe a better place by winning the war (probably the Clone Wars) and left to join the fight. Owen, of course, didn't agree with this and told Anakin to stay out of it. The part about the navigator on the spice freighter is some lie Owen told Luke to cover up Anakin's past so that Luke wouldn't run off either.

Do any of you agree with this line of thinking?


that was exactly what my interpretation was of the events of the PT had been since I first saw Jedi. And would certainly be more believable than what Lucas did with the PT. Obiwan would have to train Anakin in secret. Why in the name of god would the Jedi council appoint Obiwan, a person who just became a Jedi Knight himself, the job of training anyone? But not just anyone, but someone who might be "the chosen one". That is like giving somone who just graduated highschool, a teaching position in a highschool. I would think that someone would have to obtain the level of Jedi Master before he would legally be allowed to train jedi.
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You know, I'd almost be willing to sit down and rewrite the prequel trilogy in novel form. I'm a pretty decent writer, and given the right motivation and subject matter, I believe I could write a decent novel. Heck...might be the novel equivalent of The Phantom Edit. Imagine seeing my book in conventions in twenty years...
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