![]() ![]() In Star Wars every line has a deeper meaning than what it appears. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image. Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. He died about the same time your father did." His uncle replied. Obi Wan comes looking for him?" Luke asked his uncle. Each day we have a new chance to heal, to move forward, to become truly alive again … if we’re willing to take it."What if this. But unlike Kenobi, the ending of our stories hasn’t been written yet. We know that these things won’t be ultimately resolved until a final confrontation on the Death Star a decade later. After all, we know he returns to the desert. It’s hard to say if Obi-Wan ever recovered from this moment. There is a greater wholeness, a greater life we can only find when we have faced what came before, when we have laid our ghosts to rest. We can find healing and freedom in truly facing what came before. But we can face our grief, our trauma, and our wounds. We can’t erase the things that have come before even with the vaunted powers of the Jedi (or Sith), we can’t bring back those we’ve lost or undo the past. There is a greater wholeness, a greater life we can only find when we have faced what came before, when we have laid our ghosts to rest.īut as much as any of us might want to forget, our broken bonds and worst moments cry out for healing, not erasure. He is the jagged end of the break, the open wound itself. He is everything Obi-Wan wanted to forget. He is a nightmare of fire and Sith power. ![]() In the quarry on Mapuzo, Vader comes for him like a horror movie monster, flickering in and out of vision like a fever dream before he suddenly strikes in a flurry of red light. But now, Ben is becoming Obi-Wan again and, like blood pumping back through atrophied flesh, there is a rush of stinging pain breaking through his numbness. ![]() In the desert, he never healed from the trauma and pain of loss, but instead allowed it to choke and wither any meaning or connections he had left, just as he himself withered and faded into the Tatooine sands. Lying to me.”īen is a man haunted by the living and the dead. The whole time I’ve known you, you’ve been hiding something from me. “You knew her, my real mother, didn’t you?” Leia later asks. Sometimes when I look at, I see her mother’s face. At his side walks the most painful reminder of all: the bright, fearless and sarcastic Leia, a reminder of the lost promise and potential of Padmé and Anakin both. He has a hallucination of an accusatory Anakin in Jedi robes, glaring at him from the horizon on the planet Mapuzo. He plaintively cries out to Qui-Gon for guidance, almost more of a prayer. Everywhere he turns, Obi-Wan is confronted by the past. His meditation at the beginning of the episode is almost more like an anxiety attack, filled with disturbing rushes of images and voices. ![]() The very worst moments of his life, the deaths of his adopted Jedi family at the hands of the very clone troopers he had served alongside, the downfall of the Republic, the triumph of the Sith and the deaths of Anakin and Padme-these are all given a new and more horrible form. Throughout their desperate flight, Obi-Wan is now carrying a renewed weight of fear and trauma and grief. The long cliched revelation of The Empire Strikes Back takes on heart-wrenching context as we see the loss and betrayal processed by the one who called Anakin a brother. While this is by no means news to Star Wars viewers, here, for the first time, we see it through the lens of Obi-Wan himself. ![]()
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