I was watching Return of the Jedi just now, and the part where Luke turns himself in and tells his daddy that there’s still good in him our Sith master, Darth Vader replies, “Obi-Wan once thought as you do.” And then I remembered that in A New Hope, where the two former allied fought I didn’t get that vibe at all.
Remember what robotic Anakin said? “When I left you I was but the learner, now I am the master!” Vader tells Obi Wan, pretty much, Last time we meant you were the master I was the learner. And in Revenge of the Sith, Obi is sent to kill the newly unleashed villain responsible for the end of the Clone Wars. And almost has every intention to do so but can’t, because they were like brothers. Which apparently didn’t stop him from leaving his kind of sibling to burn to death.
But in that fight between heroes he does not say that there’s “still good in him,” meaning when Darth Vader tells Luke, “Obi-Wan once thought as you do.” It can’t reference any duel between the two of them featured in the movies! Or it’s a mammoth plot hole. But come on it’s more fun to think they met each other between episodes.
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