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Spartan wrote:Then again Jedi are not all that sane anyway, remember Obi-wans dove out of Padames window in AOTC? What the hell was he thinking. No wonder the PT Jedi get smoked with such regularity. "You are reckless!"

Puts a new meaning behind Obi-Wan's response to that comment by Yoda. "So was I, if you remember." Basically saying "Hey, Yoda? Remember when I dove out that penthouse window in order to take a joyride on a flying droid? How's that for reckless?"

Obi: It's over! I have the high ground!

Ani: *floats fifty feet downstream on the hover-thingy, and jumps off safely*

Obi: Never mind.

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Isolder74 wrote:I felt up to the the 'you are lost' line Obi Wan was trying to find the good in Anakin. After that the duel gets serious. Obi Wan is critisized for not killing Vader after his three in one slice and dice but then that is after all a Dark Side act and is not the way of the Jedi. A Jedi does not kill an unarmed opponent.

In the Dooku duel if Obi Wan had been awake Palps wouldn't have been able to get Anakin to kill Dooku., Obi Wan would have prevented it.

HOWEVER, Obi-wan left thinking he had left Anakin to die slowly in the fire. Which would be more Jedi-like, giving an opponent too dangerous to be left alive a quick death, or letting him burn slowly while screaming in pain?

In the novel, Obi-wan rationalizes his decision by thinking that if Anakin burns to death, then it's the will of the Force, and not any fault of his.

LordShaithis wrote:Obi: It's over! I have the high ground!

Ani: *floats fifty feet downstream on the hover-thingy, and jumps off safely*

Obi: Never mind.

If only.

I don't think Obi-Wan was really goading Anakin with the "you are lost!" remark....he probably was revealing the depth of his own commitment to the ways of the Jedi Order. Anakin betrayed everything Obi-Wan was devoted to and believed in when he attacked the Jedi, and Obi-Wan was reacting out of shock, disgust, and perhaps a little arrogance. Obi-Wan just couldn't believe that his best friend would embrace the teachings of everything he had been told was evil, and rejected his friend because of Anakin's turn to the Dark Side.