How ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ Writer Justified Obi-Wan Not Knowing Anakin Was Alive
thewrap.com“Obi-Wan Kenobi” so far happens at the end of Episode 2, when Ewan McGregor’s Jedi knight learns that 10 years after their lightsaber battle on Mustafar, Anakin Skywalker is very much alive – and is now going by Darth Vader.It’s a piece of storytelling that many fans took for granted, assuming that Obi-Wan would know that Anakin made it out of Mustafar alive.
And for the show’s head writer Joby Harold, the moment came about organically during the writing process – although it wasn’t without checking to ensure that, canonically, he would be correct in depicting Obi-Wan as unaware of Anakin’s survival.“That was actually not something I pitched originally,” Harold told TheWrap during a recent interview. “That was something I discovered along the way, and sort of had to confirm with Pablo [Hidalgo] and really think, ‘Hold on a second, what does he actually know?
Does he know the moniker Vader? What would that mean? Can he associate the two? What was he cognizant of? How isolated is he?
Where’s Vader at that time? Where’s his reputation and how well known is he?’ and all those pieces of the puzzle.”Pablo Hidalgo is an invaluable source of knowledge for anyone working on anything “Star Wars”-related at Lucasfilm.
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