Posted on 02/25/2025 8:36:47 AM PST by Red Badger
Because by VI Yoda told him. Probably after he “died”. Well, Old Ben was dead too.
Remember Yoda just told Obi in V that, “no, there is another “. And that was that. After Yoda moved on he told Luke the details. So, logically Yoda must have explained it to him in between.
too late.
I’ve always wondered how Anikin didn’t realize she was pregnant.
That may have been the original vision before it was fleshed out, but that was changed/established with Episode VI (why they repeated him saying “you were our only hope” again), not anything in Episode III. There is no dialog in any movie that reflects anywhere Obi-Wan did not know about the sister or that he only learned about it after Yoda died. Nor anything that contradicts he was present at the birth and would not have participated in hiding them (he was on Tatooine watching Luke for a reason). This is the dialog from Episode VI:
https://youtu.be/2nO0uJenOgw?si=UXMOl1U9zM-1ak2S&t=100
Obi-Wan: You were our only hope.
Luke: Yoda spoke of another.
Obi-Wan: The other he spoke is your twin sister.
Luke: But I have no sister.
Obi-Wan: To protect you both from the Emperor you were hidden from your father when you were born. The Emperor knew as I did if Anakin were to have any offspring, they would be a threat to him. That is the reason why your sister remains safely anonymous.
Luke: Leia! Leia is my sister!
Obi-Wan: Your insight serves you well...bury your feelings deep down inside, Luke. They do you credit, but they could be made to serve the Emperor.
Yes in VI. In V when Luke leaves because of his cloud city vision Obi says “he was our only hope” and then Yoda says “no, there is another “ which clearly implies he didn’t know.
Thus he was told between the two.
LOL, we are debating perception.
So I’ll finish with episodes 7 through 9 sucked.
“I’ve always wondered how Anikin didn’t realize she was pregnant.”
Anakin did know she was pregnant - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkdtC8nOwUQ (that is the scene where Padme tells him of her pregnancy from the movie) But remember he believed at first she died before giving birth (and you see at the funeral they made sure to make her appear to still be fully pregnant)...until learning of Luke “Skywalker” - and he knew nothing of having a daughter until he senses Luke’s “thoughts” during their final encounter.
I think you may need to watch the movies all the way through in chronological order. :-) These contradictions you are concerned with don’t exist.
I’ve seen them a gazillion times. We differ in how we see it.
But I forgot he knew. Did he think the child died when she did? He was on fire at the time.
I still never understood why Obi Wan said in 4 he didn’t own a droid when 3PO and R2 are with him in 1 thru 3 all the time. You’d think he’d have remembered R2.
Well those types of droids were as common as grains of sand on Tatooine. He would have seen thousands of them looking pretty much identical to them over his life.
Obi-Wan *wasn’t* going to know...that’s why they had him repeat the line “you were our only hope” in Episode VI just before telling Luke in order to retcon it without it being or sounding like a contradiction of Episode V. When Episode V was made, Leia was not intended to be the sister. So that retcon occurred within Episode VI first using that dialog, not Episode III - what happens in Episode III was to make it consistent with Episode VI, not the other way around.
“So I’ll finish with episodes 7 through 9 sucked.”
Oh my goodness - don’t even get me started on that.
Star Wars? Dead. Star Trek? Dead. James Bond? Dead. I enjoyed them 10-20 years ago but they died long ago.
Too late...she’s already destroyed the franchise.
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