One has to wonder what he'd do if faced with a "Luke, I am your father" kind of moment
At that particular moment? Complete mental break-down, I think. Luke had already be tempered by the losses of Owen, Beru and Ben, and the ordeal of the Tree. He had *time* to mourn and recover.
Obi-Wan had a devastating loss and his Trials of Spirit, Courage and Skills all at once. If the Jedi High Council was at all fair, they'd have at least let him mourn for a month or six before asking him to take Anakin on.
And I think that there's more ways of not-succeeding than going completely batshit.
Oh definitely. But Obi-Wan doesn't fail do dramatically and precipitously as Anakin does. He never becomes as centered as Luke -- and part of that is because Old Republic Jedi dogma wouldn't allow him to be.
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Date: 2005-08-29 09:37 pm (UTC)At that particular moment? Complete mental break-down, I think. Luke had already be tempered by the losses of Owen, Beru and Ben, and the ordeal of the Tree. He had *time* to mourn and recover.
Obi-Wan had a devastating loss and his Trials of Spirit, Courage and Skills all at once. If the Jedi High Council was at all fair, they'd have at least let him mourn for a month or six before asking him to take Anakin on.
And I think that there's more ways of not-succeeding than going completely batshit.
Oh definitely. But Obi-Wan doesn't fail do dramatically and precipitously as Anakin does. He never becomes as centered as Luke -- and part of that is because Old Republic Jedi dogma wouldn't allow him to be.