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Maybe the most devastating element of the prequels

EWAN MCGREGOR | Vanity Fair | 2024

You’ve heard of one shots, now get ready for none shots! It’s when you think of an idea for a fic and then don’t write it

The first thing about Obi-Wan Kenobi is that he’s not about sticking to the rules for their own sake, but because he believes in the benefits of overall structure and guidance. This is why he’s willing, at more than one point, to entirely leave the Jedi Order, because it’s not about the letter of the law for him, but about the spirit of it. He’s perfectly willing to step away from the “rules” if he believes there is a greater good.  Most of the time he does believe in the structure of the Order and their rules, he upholds them because they work. The second thing about Obi-Wan Kenobi is that he has a massive blind spot by the name of Anakin Skywalker. Obi-Wan is a smart guy, we see this over and over in the various canon installments, yet he entirely misses the things that are going wrong with Anakin–why?  How in the GALAXY can someone even reasonably intelligent miss that Anakin has all these problems?  Because Obi-Wan sort of does and sort of doesn’t.  He knows that Anakin has feelings for Padme, is probably having an affair with her, he’d have to be entirely dim not to notice! But he doesn’t say anything because he believes that the Jedi Order is still the best place for Anakin, the best structure for someone who desperately needs that in his life. He doesn’t say anything because it makes Anakin happy and Obi-Wan loves Anakin and wants him to be happy. He doesn’t say anything because Obi-Wan is not beholden to the letter of the law, when the spirit of the law is more important. He doesn’t say anything because the entire reason that Obi-Wan misses Anakin’s flaws is because he loves Anakin and is entirely biased about him, he cannot see that Anakin is falling further than Obi-Wan thinks he is because Obi-Wan believes in him, because Obi-Wan cares so much about him that he can’t be objective about him. So much of what’s obvious to the audience about Anakin’s fall entirely passes Obi-Wan by (despite that he is a smart character) because Anakin is Obi-Wan’s weakness, he’s the one person that Obi-Wan lets his feelings (his hopes, his wants, his love) get the better of him over.  Anakin is the one that Obi-Wan always made allowances for because Anakin was special. And that’s the tragedy of it, that Obi-Wan loved Anakin too much to be objective about him.

Anger issues.

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Okokok, this is based on a dialogue from a fanfic I read a year or so ago but I cannot find the fanfic or the author anymore. (edit: we found the fic!!) I just remember this scene which i really liked and wanted to draw it :(