The way you mentioned Obi-Wan being his mentor and friend I couldn’t help but remember Anakin’s line from ROTS admonishing Obi-Wan for wanting to spy on his mentor and friend Palpatine.
I agree though, I think part of Obi-Wan died that day on Mustafar, because how could he not? He lost so much, his best friend, the order, the republic and all over the space of a day or so. I think all that kept him going was the need to look out for Luke.
I don’t think he could bring himself to kill Anakin, no matter what. I watch ROTS a few days ago and I wonder how things would have gone if he’d gone after Sidious instead of Yoda, or if they’d took him together.
As for Anakin, I think part of him being a mess is down to the Jedi. The Jedi take kids to be trained, and that means that they can mould them and, essentially, get rid of their emotions or train them out of them. (Which, let’s be honest, is pretty creepy)
In walks Anakin. He’s the chosen one, so they can’t ignore that, but he’s also lived. He has emotions, and he’s too old to lose them in the same way as the other Jedi. So I think there’s a lack of support network in the Jedi to help him deal with emotions. He probably feels like he’s looked down on for that too, which doesn’t help.
If he told Obi-Wan about his feelings would he have listened? I’m sure Obi-Wan would but as think Anakin was afraid of what he would think or do.
And like you say, you have Palpatine there, putting things in his mind like that. He did it in the Anakin and Obi-Wan comic too and who knows how often he did that too.
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The way you mentioned Obi-Wan being his mentor and friend I couldn’t help but remember Anakin’s line from ROTS admonishing Obi-Wan for wanting to spy on his mentor and friend Palpatine.
I agree though, I think part of Obi-Wan died that day on Mustafar, because how could he not? He lost so much, his best friend, the order, the republic and all over the space of a day or so. I think all that kept him going was the need to look out for Luke.
I don’t think he could bring himself to kill Anakin, no matter what. I watch ROTS a few days ago and I wonder how things would have gone if he’d gone after Sidious instead of Yoda, or if they’d took him together.
As for Anakin, I think part of him being a mess is down to the Jedi. The Jedi take kids to be trained, and that means that they can mould them and, essentially, get rid of their emotions or train them out of them. (Which, let’s be honest, is pretty creepy)
In walks Anakin. He’s the chosen one, so they can’t ignore that, but he’s also lived. He has emotions, and he’s too old to lose them in the same way as the other Jedi. So I think there’s a lack of support network in the Jedi to help him deal with emotions. He probably feels like he’s looked down on for that too, which doesn’t help.
If he told Obi-Wan about his feelings would he have listened? I’m sure Obi-Wan would but as think Anakin was afraid of what he would think or do.
And like you say, you have Palpatine there, putting things in his mind like that. He did it in the Anakin and Obi-Wan comic too and who knows how often he did that too.