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“It was Obi-Wan and Anakin again from the good old days” OBI WAN KENOBI: A JEDI’S RETURN

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505, Rockwave [05-06-2016]

2012 & 2016

So, I bought some cool replica shit off of Etsy-

And after DAYS of work, I have constructed the coolest thing I now own.

Presenting the Saw Wall™️:

Euripides, tr. by Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

Why is star wars full of war hardened men who have to take care of a child 💀

Darth Vader in: Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022) Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (2005) Star Wars Rebels (2014-2018) Thrawn: Alliances (2018) Star Wars: Darth Vader (2015) #24 Star Wars: Darth Vader (2020) #22 Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983)

You don't understand how happy this makes me 😭 Like ... I never thought I would see hayden as anakin again 😭🥺😭🥺❤️

Here’s the thing of it: when the prequels came out, an older, largely male audience wanted to see Darth Vader as evil, masculine, the embodiment of power, etc. They didn’t want to see Anakin Skywalker as a vulnerable, emotional kid who was corrupted by outside influences and struggling with his feelings. The story George wanted to tell (and the story that Hayden pulled off so spectacularly) was just something that viewership was never going to like. They didn’t want the villain of their childhoods, the emblem of masculinity, to be a real human with feelings. They were never going to like a movie about Anakin as a multidimensional person—one who cried, missed his mother, simped after a strong-willed woman, and struggled with his internal life. No matter the actor, they were never going to be willing to contend with that story. They wanted Darth Vader to be scary and manly. That’s it.

But the younger audience watching the prequels—the one that had grown up with Vader to an extent, but not to the same degree—learned from these movies that good people can be corrupted by those who want power and don’t value the lives of inferiors. We learned that men in power struggle with their emotions. We learned that boys can cry too, and that they can become overcome with emotion while the women around them can be practical, logical, and successful. We watched these movies and got to know Anakin as Anakin—an endearing anti-hero who took risks and loved the people around him. We got to see what happens when someone is overcome by their fears and anxieties. We learned how fear-tactics and rhetoric can bring about fascism. The values in these movies are strong, yes, but at their heart they are just a really good story. Regardless of awkward dialogue, direction, and CGI, George Lucas told us a really good story about family, love, loss, and our collective existence. Kids like good stories. Hayden, Ewan, Natalie, and all of the other actors did a really good job telling us that story. The prequels add so much depth to the original trilogy. They are what makes the Skywalker story a space opera. It’s shakespearean. It’s just a really, really spectacular story, one that most of the older generation didn’t want to be told.

anakin's real voice mixed with the modulator

obi-wan saying 'anakin' and begging for forgiveness

anakin telling obi-wan he was not his failure but his own and that he killed himself

vader calling obi-wan his master

obi-wan finally letting anakin go and acknowledging he was 'dead' and killed by darth vader

obi-wan unable to deliver the killing blow when he cracked his mask and saw anakin's face, his true self under the mask, and was reduced to tears

anakin screaming obi-wan's name as he walked away from him again

You drive, I shoot! 😌✊

I don’t know if it can be properly conveyed how much shit was thrown Hayden’s way when his prequel movies came out. Just a metric fuckton of crap. After AOTC (and only in his very early 20s) he was swiftly made the Star Wars pariah, and ROTS did little to assuage that. A lot of the dissatisfaction with the prequels somehow fell on him, both his turns as Anakin got Razzie “Awards”, his name became synonymous with bad, wooden acting.

Over the years the opinion of his performance shifted to Hayden being an unfortunate victim of George Lucas' writing and directing, saddled with lines no actor could make work. But even that opinion still largely discounted Hayden's acting ability.

For him to come back after 17 years to the role he got so much flack for, have his big scene show not even half of his face (and have that face caked in makeup and prosthetic), have his voice distorted, and still deliver the way he did? Still convey all the rage and evil and arrogance but also pain and sadness within Vader? Show everyone this is why he landed the role two decades ago, because he can be frightening and vulnerable and devastating even with just one eye and the corner of his mouth visible? Show everyone he is Anakin/Vader, and make everyone consider he was good all along? Incredible, amazing, the chosen one indeed. Thanks Deborah Chow and Ewan for making this show, thank you Hayden for coming back.

The agony and devastation on Obi-Wan’s face as he looks on Anakin Skywalker’s face. The broken-hearted defeat and acceptance that even now,after all this time he cannot kill the man he once considered his everything. And the oscillation in Anakin’s voice,the war between the modulator and the flashes of the dark side in his eyes with the gut wrenching,soft toned entreaties of Anakin’s voice. We see here Obi-Wan and Anakin warring with themselves,with their own utter and tantamount internal agonies. The pleas in their eyes as they stare at one another in agony,I cannot imagine anything more gut wrenching than Obi-Wan deciding here he cannot kill him when Anakin is already dead. And so the Circle breaks. 

i’m sorry but the way obi-wan and anakin are obsessed with each other is crazy to me. it’s been 10 years and vader is still crawling into every space dump to find obi-wan. it’s been 10 years and obi-wan is still dreaming about what happened. it’s been 10 years and still every inquisitor knows that vader really only cares about kenobi. it’s been 10 years and someone just mentions anakin and obi-wan goes into fight or flight mode. IT’S BEEN 10 YEARS and those f*ckers can still feel each other across the galaxy. that’s not normal, that’s just…. them.