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S3 E3: Star Wars Podcast Day 2026 is Here! What if Anakin had told Obi-Wan, instead of Mace, that Palpatine was a Sith? · Most Things Kenobi - A Star Wars Podcast

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It's most things Kenobi, an elegant podcast for a more
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civilized fandom. Hello everyone, welcome to
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for like the next 70 episodes, regular episodes.
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It's true, yeah, yeah. If you're new here, we are
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obsessed with Obi Wan Kenobi and.
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And that's just the central point of the show, and this
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episode is no different. Yes it's very true.
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We we knew we had to do something at least Obi Wan
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related. I mean cause truth be told not
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every single one of our episodes is about Obi Wan.
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It always ends up we always end up speaking about them.
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Because most of the time, yeah. Most things Kenobi, you know the
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territory. But for this particular episode
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we are actually going to try and answer the question.
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What would have happened if Anakin Skywalker would have told
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Obi Wan instead of Mace that Palpatine was a Sith and was
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behind all of this nonsense all along?
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What would have happened? What can we surmise?
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It's a big what if because Obi Wan was somewhere else in the
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Galaxy, but are we assuming that he would have been on Coruscant
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or just assuming that things are the way they were in the movies
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where he was on Udupao and. The reason we have to at least
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agree that he was on you to Pal. Because Palpatine needed him to
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be away. He needed him like Obi Wan being
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anywhere near him, Padme being anywhere near him.
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He had to be isolated, which was Palpatine's entire plan anyway.
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Isolate Anakin and draw him away from the Jedi, the Council, the
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Republic, etcetera. So I guess the assumption would
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have to be he'd be at least on Coruscant for this to work.
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Obi Wan it would be. Obi Wan Yeah, yeah, a lot of
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things that have to go right for this what if to happen, but it's
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worth pondering. Yeah, that's the fun of the what
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if. So I feel like because they had
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made kind of quote, UN quote, made-up right before Obi Wan
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leaves, you know, they have that conversation as he's getting on
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his Starship and he it's the last time he says, you know, may
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the force be with you, my friend.
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And he says he's very proud of Anakin and, and.
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It hurts. To this day, I know God.
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I feel like if that conversation had still happened then there
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would be the possibility of a positive outcome from this.
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If that had not happened, there would have been a lot of tension
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between them. If Anakin had decided to come to
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Obi Wan, he still would have probably not felt fully that he
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trusted Obi Wan. Well, think of the things that
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have happened leading up to this, all the things that are
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considerations, whether or not Anakin told Mace or he told Obi
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Wan, there's still Rico Hardeen looming.
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That wasn't too far in the past. Yeah, from Revenge of the Sith.
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And Ahsoka has left at this point.
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And there's that whole section of Revenge of the Sith where
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Anakin gets asked to spy on the Chancellor and he hates being
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put in that position. And even if Obi Wan doesn't
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agree with the duplicity, he does not trust Palpatine.
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Right. So I do feel like if Anakin had
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told him he would have, Obi Wan would have believed Anakin
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because he didn't trust Palpatine already.
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Which is another reason why Palpatine needed him to be out
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of the picture. Get him out of here, go distract
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him on another planet. And it worked.
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The the problem is, I don't think it would have mattered.
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I've I've sat and thought about this and I've tried to come at
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it from different angles. Let's not forget the wills, OK?
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There's always the. Wills.
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Looming somewhere in the distance.
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If you want to hear more about our opinion and our thoughts on
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the wills, go back in our old episodes.
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We have one. We have a whole episode trying
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to dissect that. That being said, whether it's
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fate or not, let's just leave that out, OK?
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Yeah. Just don't know if if it would
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have worked because all Palpatine had to do was execute
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Order 66 and we'd have been right there.
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Now Anakin would have been on what I presume if Obi Wan would
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have taken his side and Palpatine didn't have like a
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moment alone with Anakin to talk him out of this.
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I would assume that Anakin would be on the fighting side with the
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rest of the Jedi that were taken aback by this, and I don't know
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that it would have done any good.
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I kind of agree with you too because even if instead of Mace
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Windu and all the Jedi who went with Anakin back to the
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Chancellor's office, if it had been Obi Wan, I don't know if
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that would have played out any differently.
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Because the whole reason Anakin gets pushed over the edge of
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that moment and cuts off Mace Windu's hand and everything is
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because of his love of Padme or his obsession with Padme, as
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we've talked. There's like a fine line there.
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And Palpatine is saying I can save your wife.
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And do you think Anakin would have behaved any differently if
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it had been Obi Wan? He might have even acted more
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emotionally in that moment because he and Obi Wan had more
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of a tie than he did with Mace Windu.
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You would have, I guess he was playing off his anger, maybe
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with Mace Windu more, but I think it could have laid the
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foundation for an even more brutal interaction if everyone
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had been there. That's a consideration if we're
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talking about the room where he, Mace and Palpatine have their,
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you know, and Mace goes flying out the window.
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Now, I've given shit. I've given Mace a lot of shit
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over the years, but he is. Yeah.
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I don't know if I'd say level headed, but he's not bias, OK,
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There's no biases there. Maybe, maybe, maybe a slight
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anti Anakin bias because he never believed that Anakin
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should become a Jedi in the 1st place, right?
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He had, he had qualms about it, we'll say, but here we are.
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OK. And Mace is a pretty good
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fighter. Mice.
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Mace is a pretty good diplomat when it comes to that sort of
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thing. Now Obi Wan has emotional ties
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to both Padme and Anakin and I do wonder if Obi Wan would have
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pleaded in that moment more than Mace.
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Like pleaded for him to see the light.
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Don't don't fall to this like you've been through this.
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Maybe naming off instances to bring Anakin back?
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But when did? When did Anakin ever listen to
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That's the? Fucking thing.
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That's the thing. Though Lindsay, why would he
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listen now? Yeah, why now of all times?
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Because he's never done it before.
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I mean, no, Anakin. Wait, isn't that this the joke
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summary of the prequel? Yes, yes.
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You want to sum it up in one sentence?
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That's pretty much it. I wonder if we switch out Obi
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Wan for Ahsoka would she have had any pull?
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That's that Might be another episode maybe of of.
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All people she might have because even Padme was not
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successful in bringing Anakin. Back I mean true fact.
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So is anyone capable other than Anakin himself and Luke
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Skywalker? I'm saving Anakin.
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I don't think so. And possibly because of the
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wills is you want to leave them at it's a destiny.
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I don't want to talk to them right now.
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I'm done with them professionally in this episode.
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But the point stands, like the question of destiny is a the
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fate of it all. You know, it's always there.
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We have to consider it all. I know.
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Is this the only way that I think Obi Wan would have had any
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sway with Anakin is if they were out of that room away from
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Palpatine and Obi Wan had time to talk to Anakin to listen to
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him. But if the problem with this,
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with all of this, is that Anakin at this point would not listen
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to anyone. Yeah, I was thinking the same
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thing. He's so far gone at this point,
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even though he's maybe doing OK on the surface, deep down he has
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so many doubts and so much pain. And a lot of that is displayed
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in Clone Wars, but a lot of it is in Revenge of the Sith.
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Right there, You know, he's telling Padme how conflicted he
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is and he's crying and he's so emotional and.
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He talks to Yoda. And of course, Yoda gives that
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roundabout no help at all kind of advice.
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Like give the boy something practical.
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Practical for the love of God. Now is not the time for riddles.
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Spell it out. This boy needs it spelled out.
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Yeah. I know I wish that there was a
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straight talker in the Jedi who weren't just talking in fluffy
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riddles all the time. But what fun would that be?
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What would we have to talk about?
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One person that you can go to at least to get a straight answer
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once in a while, but. Yeah.
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It's true even Obi Wan is not that person.
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No, we see that in the original trilogy with his, his from a
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certain point of view, business, I mean.
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And I always think of in Attack of the Clones, where he's aware
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that Anakin is having nightmares and he says dreams passing time.
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It's like that's not tangibly helpful.
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No, you can't help someone in the moment.
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Yeah, with. The troubles that Anakin see the
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problem is all of this is because Anakin felt like no one
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I was listening to him in the 1st place besides the Chancellor
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who always had time to listen to Anakin who always had a little
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bit of, you know, helpful advice to see through all the the fog
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Anakin at what the Jedi and the Republic are doing.
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Yeah. They don't listen to you,
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Anakin. They don't respect you.
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They don't respect you enough to even make you a master, you
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know. Yeah, I know.
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It's constantly whispering in his ear.
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Yeah, and that was his plan and it worked.
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And I think deep down, no matter how good or how close Obi Wan
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was with Anakin, I don't think it would have worked.
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That's the saddest thing. I would have enjoyed watching
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that. What if because it has the
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potential to be really heartbreaking.
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Yeah, like very deep and distressing, but also could have
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been, I mean the kind of place out I guess in the Kenobi series
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in a similar way at the end, but.
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Brings up a question I'd like to ask is what preceding all of
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this could have changed it so that if Obi Wan would have been
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the one he told it would have worked out?
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Rico Hardeen would not have, could not have happened.
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I know, I keep thinking of it too.
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It's such a deep betrayal, and it doesn't matter if it's for
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the greater good. That's the kind of thing where a
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friendship might survive on the surface, but I think it would be
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so ruptured deep down that you would never fully trust that
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person again. Well, think of who they called
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in. They called in Satine to make it
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believable. I know, I know.
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They've really abused a lot of trust, Yeah, in that episode.
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In many ways and through many lines of people and and and
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their relationship with Obi Wan. That is such an important arc in
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the Clone Wars that plays into this.
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You know, and what bothers me about Rachel Hardeen even more
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is there there should have been a much longer and deeper
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conversation between Obi Wan and Anakin after that was over.
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That's not a just one or two sentences and huff and huff away
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in anger. No, you sit down, you talk about
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it, and you talk about it multiple times.
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I feel that is possibly the only weak spot in Clone Wars is that
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they, and this is because it's a lighthearted kid show.
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And so you go monster of the week or you know, event of the
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week, and they never, they never follow up.
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But they could have because the show was so long and it was
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already tying into pre-existing material that they could have,
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like after Zygiria, after Mortis, after Raika Hardeen.
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These are all things that are kind of laying a foundation for
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what happens in Revenge of the Sith.
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But we don't talk about it. No, nobody talks about it.
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It's there, it happens, and we'd never discuss it again.
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And it even if it's not like the character sitting down, having a
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heart to heart because let's be honest, they would never do
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that. They're not that kind of person.
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None of them right, Anakin, Ahsoka and Obi Wan, none would
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sit down and be like, you know what, I need to talk to
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somebody. Well, the one time Anakin does
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he he goes to Yoda, the last person to form a a fucking
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sentence. You know what I mean?
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Yeah, but there should have been like little Easter eggs or
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references inside, references that you can see are like that.
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These experiences are creating the fabric of the character
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down, you know, later down the path.
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That's the, that's the only place in Clone Wars where I
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really wished they had done that.
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It's still like a, you know, as we've said, an amazing show.
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Well, yes. I, I don't have any complaints
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except that that would have been cool to see if they had
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peppered, peppered that in there.
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But I don't know. I, I don't, I don't know 'cause
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we have talked about this before too, 'cause we, I think we did
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an episode in one of our earliest episodes of if Yoda had
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sent Obi Wan to fight the Emperor, right when he said,
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please don't send me to kill Anakin.
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Like I can't do it. This kind of is like that
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scenario to me 'cause I wonder there's so much conflict in the
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way they portray Obi Wan and Anakin in Revenge of the Sith.
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You know in the beginning Obi Wan is like Sith Lords are our
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specialty and immediately gets knocked unconscious and falls on
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the ground for 45 minutes. I hate that so much.
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I know I hate it too. I hate it so much so.
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Bad. And actually they they do kind
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of the same thing in Attack of the Clones, though we wouldn't
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is fighting Dooku and immediately gets hurt in the leg
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and then is able to stand up no problem. 15 minutes later, he's
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fine. Don't forget, this is the same
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Kenobi that we see at the end of the Kenobi series, with the
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rocks and the fighting style and the I mean.
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Phantom Menace How many times did he fight Maul?
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In. Clone Wars, He's and like how?
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Well, I was gonna say. I can't stand it.
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Grievous. Yeah, but he shoots Grievous to
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kill him, which we've also discussed.
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But yes. So if he and Anakin had gone to
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confront Sidious together, yeah, I'm not sure it would have
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worked. I don't think his.
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I don't. He might have gotten knocked
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unconscious immediately. Are we talking about George
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Lucas or we talk about the spirit of these characters?
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Because I know two different things.
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But we've also talked about Obi Wan is the only one to
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consistently defeat, yes, a Sith.
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Very true. Yep, Maul is a Padawan.
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Vader multiple times and Maul again later.
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Yeah, and Ventress multiple times.
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I guess he never really fully defeated Dooku, but he held his
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own fairly well a few times. But of all of the characters we
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see, Obi Wan is the only one we see who actually defeats Sith
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Lords. Yeah.
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And so he would probably be the only one who stood a chance,
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although I I guess maybe Yoda did.
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He's been alive 900 years. Maybe he's fought some Sith in
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the past. But let's let's.
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Not let's not half ass Yoda's attempt with with cities because
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it was brilliant and well done and he knew when to get the hell
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out of there. Too.
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Yeah, it was a real shame the way it turned.
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Out. Yeah, yeah.
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But like so if Anakin and Obi Wan had gone to face Sidious
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together in his office in that little scenario, what do you
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think would have? Happened, I don't think because
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Anakin doesn't believe anything, he's not going to fight when
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he's when he is truly, truly believing, convicted, he's
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feeling it. He fights the best he's ever
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fought. There's no stopping Anakin when
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he believes in his cause and he goes for it.
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But when he's, if there's any confidence, shaken at all
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because he's, he's doubtful, he's mistrusting.
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He's, you know, you see him waver.
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He has no conviction. He doesn't know who to trust.
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He doesn't trust himself. He's not emotionally mature
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enough to listen to to anyone really.
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That's such a good point because he he thought he could trust
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Sidius Palpatine. Turns out he's a Sith Lord.
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He's really conflicted about how he feels about the Jedi, but he
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goes and he tells them what he knows anyway, hoping that it
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will be the right thing. They tell him to stay there
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because they know he's conflicted.
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Exactly. And they go to deal with Sidius,
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and while he's waiting he starts to question it again and can't
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stay there and goes back to Sidius's office and it's just
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like every move he makes. My poor boy heart.
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Heartbreaking. Yeah.
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And just gets him deeper and deeper into exactly what Sidious
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had planned for him. And it's just Greek tragedy.
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It, it, it really I, I mean, I guess it was meant to be that
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way because. Yeah.
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That one time he ponders and makes the right choice is with
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Luke. He finally frees himself of
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these chains from Sidious and does it out of love for his son.
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Brilliant. Love it.
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We love Luke. Yeah, we need more Luke, but he
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he's he's second guesses and thinks about.
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I mean, I don't think he believed for a second if Luke
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joined him, they could take Sidious.
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That's just old dialogue in his invaders mind, right.
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Kind of like the old regime. Still kind of.
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He's going through the But no, he, he, he, you know, he was
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doubting that whole time. Every time Sidious would talk to
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him about all this stuff and everything.
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He's still thinking about Luke. He loved him.
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Padme, Luke. Ah, and there's another one.
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I have a daughter, you know all this stuff.
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I'm in a glass case of emotion. He is in a glass case of emotion
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and goo because he has to be there every night.
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The tank of. Goo.
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Yes, it's true. But he makes the right decision
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in the end, thank God. But.
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Yeah. If he did, what would have
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happened if he'd have just stayed where he was?
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And didn't go. When Mace told him the whole.
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The whole Galaxy could have been a lot happier.
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But then maybe all Sidious had to do was execute Order 66 and
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they would have all been caught off guard anyway.
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The chip was still in the clone's brain.
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You're right. Yeah, I kind of keep forgetting
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about that part. Well.
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The IT was the kingpin it was or the linchpin.
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What is it? What's it?
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Called Linchpin. Thank you.
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Linchpin, linchpin pin pin pin pin.
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So the whole thing was for naughty anyway.
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Because. Yeah, there's going to be
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hundreds and thousands of clones just killing Jedi left and
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right, regardless of how this went.
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Where in the timeline does he say execute order 66?
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Is it? It's after.
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He's disfigured or before that. Because he gets on with Cody and
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Anakin is already deemed Darth Vader.
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Remember, he kneels and does the whole thing.
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Yeah, I don't, I don't remember. I mean, yes, I do.
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I remember that. I just like don't remember the
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precise timeline because I'm wondering like is there a window
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where if they had killed him before, would he not have gotten
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around to even giving the trigger?
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It's immediately after Anakin turns to the dark side and Mace
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window is killed. OK, so it might have been
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avoided if Anakin hadn't followed Mace to Sidious's
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office, if Sidious had been successful.
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But do you think? That really.
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Mace stood a chance. It's so obvious to me that
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Sidious is messing with him. He's like toying with him while
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they're. Fighting.
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Oh yeah, Mace could have stood a chance.
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He had him down. He had the high ground,
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technically. I mean, he was.
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Standing in that moment while the, you know, the electrical
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bolts are coming back at city of cities being disfigured and he's
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like, I can't hold on. I've always felt like he was
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just full of shit I think. He's full of shit.
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Totally fine with becoming disfigured if it meant that his
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plan would still work. It's like he's, he's so
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committed to. The idea he had conviction,
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yeah. I felt like he was always just
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using like appearing piteous so that Anakin would.
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Oh, for sure, for sure. Yeah, I don't know.
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That's always the vibe I got. I've never seen like, read
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anywhere to confirm if that's what's really happening.
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I have read The Revenge of the Sith but I don't remember that
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scene from the book. Like off the top of my head but.
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There is the old film thing where good guy has bad guy in
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his clutches, but he wants to talk to him first for about 5 to
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10 minutes before ending his life and bad guy gets away
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because good guy wants to talk to him for a minute.
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You know what I'm saying? Just cut his head off.
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Be done with it. You don't have to stand there
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and preach. You don't have to stand there
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and say how could you do this? I'm not saying that Mace did or
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was going to or anything. No, that's what Mace was trying
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to kill him. And Anakin is the one who's
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like, he must stand trial. It's like now you're being a
24:50
diplomat. Like now you believe in
24:53
democracy. Anakin, Since when?
24:55
Throw that whole thing out because Ahsoka's trial was such
24:59
bullshit and Anakin knew it. So knowing that Ahsoka's trial
25:03
was a bunch of bullshit, Anakin should have been like, you know
25:06
what? We're not taking this man to
25:08
trial. Kill him.
25:09
Like if we, if we would, if I'm getting excited, my hands are
25:15
going. Nobody can see, but I'm my hands
25:17
are going if we rewind. And perhaps if Revenge of the
25:22
Sith was written after Ahsoka's trial, there would have been a
25:27
little more Hemming and Han, because Anakin would have that
25:29
to consider as well. He may have made the right
25:31
choice and said fuck it, kill him.
25:34
Yeah, maybe. Because who?
25:36
Who put Ahsoka through all that? Palpatine, the Jedi, all of
25:42
them. You know, it was all kind of
25:43
orchestrated. Yeah, it was.
25:47
And I mean, obviously in the in Attack of the Clones, right,
25:52
that's when Anakin starts to talk to Padme about how stupid
25:55
democracy is. But Clone Wars is where you see
25:59
him take matters into his own hands over and over.
26:05
So I kind of wonder because obviously Clone Wars was, you
26:08
know, George Lucas's last Star Wars project, so he would have
26:11
known. So what is it that is happening
26:14
with Anakin in that moment where he suddenly is like, no, we
26:17
should stand trial? Is he trying to do the right
26:20
thing again? Is he just so conflicted and
26:23
confused that he's no longer himself?
26:26
I just, it's so out of character for him.
26:29
It's a great question. It's always been a weird moment
26:32
to me, but. It's a great question because
26:34
wouldn't don't the Jedi say that they have to stand trial and
26:38
Mace is actively going against the Jedi?
26:41
That's the whole. Problem.
26:42
The extrajudicial killing, basically, yeah.
26:46
No second thoughts about it. But Anakin says it when when he
26:51
first meets Tarkin in the Clone Wars, when they're coming out of
26:53
the Citadel, right? Yeah, he says, I don't think the
26:58
Jedi do enough. We should just go in there.
27:01
And I don't remember the exact quote, but he basically implies
27:04
like we need to make decisions that sometimes.
27:06
Don't. Yeah, they don't.
27:07
They don't go far enough. Yeah.
27:08
That's it. So where's this Anakin when
27:12
we're moments away from ending Palpatine?
27:14
He liked Palpatine, that's the problem.
27:18
He had a relationship with him and Palpatine.
27:23
Sidious, whatever, managed to whittle away at the trust that
27:29
Anakin had, what little trust he had, and he got him isolated
27:35
from Obi Wan. Ahsoka's gone.
27:40
Anyone that mattered to him, there's doubts about.
27:43
Padme could die and all this. No wonder he was so damn
27:47
confused. Let's give Anakin a little bit
27:49
of a little bit of credit. He's still very young.
27:54
Yeah, he didn't stand a chance. No, he.
27:56
Never did. He never did, and that's the
27:58
saddest part. And that's why I find him one of
28:01
the most more interesting and fascinating characters, because
28:04
he's such a puppet. And while every decision made is
28:08
his own, the influences through it all, from the slavery through
28:16
the to the wills to all the brainwashing and shit and the
28:20
and the misleading and the puppet strings and the and
28:23
everything. Yeah.
28:25
Never stood chance. No.
28:29
And I that's why I also don't think Obi Wan, even though that
28:32
it would have been very interesting to see that play out
28:34
and I would like to see it play out, I don't think the end
28:38
result would be any different. And then they just, they
28:43
wouldn't even have a chance to like digest it because order 66
28:47
would happen and then they'd have to immediately go on the
28:49
defense. Yeah.
28:52
OK so final word, if Anakin had talked to Obi Wan instead of
28:57
Mace, would it have changed anything?
28:59
My answer no. I agree.
29:02
Too many pre-existing conditions.
29:04
Yeah, yeah, exactly. It might have even made things
29:07
worse between Obi Wan and Anakin to be honest.
29:10
And ended in a bloodbath, let's be honest.
29:12
Truly. And maybe, maybe we wouldn't
29:15
have had Obi Wan to help save Luke and Leia.
29:19
Yeah, later on. So in in a strange twist of fate
29:25
perhaps of the wills, Obi Wan went to Utah POW and essentially
29:30
saved the the Galaxy instead by saving the children.
29:34
I love that this is the last thought I'm having when we're
29:36
trying to close out, but the thing that would have been
29:38
different is that Vader would not have been dismembered.
29:43
What fun would that be? He would have been full powers
29:50
that Lord and I think things would have been a lot.
29:52
Worse than he, actually. That would be pretty fun now
29:55
that I think. About it shit, no, the whole the
29:58
whole thing on Moussafar would not have happened if Obi Wan had
30:01
been there with him. So that would have set a whole
30:04
different trajectory. And then this is my and now for
30:06
my final thoughts. I love this, Prager would say.
30:13
But I think that would be another episode.
30:15
We could talk about it if Vader had never been maimed.
30:20
Oh that would be a fun one. I'm going to add that to our
30:22
list. Add it to the list.
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Leanne had the idea of talking about all the different hallway
31:11
scenes where Obi Wan fights his way out of a hallway.
31:15
And I am so ready to. Listen, I can name like 5 off
31:19
the top my head and that's without doing research.
31:21
You know there's more. So the man loves a good hallway
31:26
fight. It's going to be violent.
31:30
Yes, which we love Obi Wan when he's being violent.
31:36
He's got the most severed limb, like the highest tally, I think
31:42
in Ellis Star Wars, but and some of that I'm sure occurred in
31:45
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