Obi-Wan Kenobi: Why Vader & Obi-Wan Shouldn't Have A Final Confrontation

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As Disney+'s latest Star Wars series approaches its finale, fans are waiting with bated breath for the climactic moment. From the start, many wondered if the show would see the title character facing off against his former pupil, Anakin Skywalker turned Darth Vader. But as the series draws closer to the high point of the action, the more it feels like that isn't the way it should go.

Obi-Wan Kenobi hasn't shied away from action scenes or fun-to-watch lightsaber duels; the fight between Darth Vader and the Third Sister in the latest episode is just one example. And in the finale, there may very well be a lightsaber battle to serve as a climactic moment, perhaps between Obi-Wan and the new Grand Inquisitor (or the Third Sister, should she survive). But if Obi-Wan and Vader were to duke it out in the series finale, it would undermine not only Obi-Wan's character journey, but the emotional tension of the original trilogy as well.

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Part of the core story of Obi-Wan Kenobi is, indeed, about Obi-Wan facing his past mistakes — among them, his own failure to keep Anakin from falling to the Dark Side. However, his journey isn't so much about facing down his demons as it is about forgiving himself and moving forward.

At the start of the series, Obi-Wan has abandoned the Jedi way. He is tormented by his past, haunted by his guilt over Anakin's fate, and no longer believes he is worthy of calling himself a Jedi. But by the time young Luke Skywalker encounters old Ben Kenobi in A New Hope, the latter is a kindly old hermit, well-versed in the Jedi way and ready to pass those teachings on to Luke. He may have regrets, but he is no longer the tormented man seen in the miniseries.

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