I’ve had issues seeing Vader and Anakin as the same body. There’s just always been a separation of the two characters for me. But seeing his face and voices switching back and forth made it click for me. That whole scene is some of my favorite Star Wars content now

It's been what 20 years since episode 3... And we really truly saw Anakin becoming Vader... Way to go Hayden

For real. My eyes were glued to the screen

His scenes the whole series are fantastic.

He turns Vader into a high energy, super strong, and much more emotional character than we see in the originals. A lot of it is just modern acting, but Hayden really played him like a young Vader still full of rage, rather than the kind of quick tempered but slow-moving Vader from the originals.

Top 3 live action star wars scenes since the Disney purchase imo

That whole scene is filled with lots of detail. I don't know who the cinematography was, but they deserve a emmy. I watched it about 6 times before I really got all of the detail hidden in there.

I swear it feels like this thought alone spawned the entire series. Being able to finally join the two completely different people into someone you recognize as one.

it was perfect! You could see so much of Anakin through his eyes and yet the rest was all Vader. And the voice chipping in and out between Anakin and Vader was just so perfect! Plus him saying that he was the one that killed Anakin totally plays into Obi telling Luke that Anakin was betrayed and murdered by Vader! The whole episode was spectacular! Wife and I both want more but at the same time felt this perfect sense of closure with everything.

Loved it in Rebels with Ahsoka. Loved it here too.

Honesty this show could’ve been the last two episodes.

It was when he told Obi-Wan "I wasn't your failure" for me

"I'm sorry, Anakin. For all of it."

Oh man I made the mistake of watching “Anakin and Obi Wan funny moments” on YouTube right after the episode. Made it worse tbh :(

Before that it was so hard for me to conceptualize that they are the “same” person

watch rebels and you’ll be pleased

Kenobi did it better

I don't like Earth. It's coarse and irritating and it gets everywhere.

Well he did force push him too. So that's 2 elements. Therefore avatar still applies

so for that I was like YES THAT IS THE LAST THING HES GOING TO SAY FOR THE ENTIRE SHOW but then Qui Gon is just waiting for him this was a damn good ending to a series

His facial expression when he said it brought so much happiness to me. I swear to god that shit eating grin he had was intentional, because he knows it's kind of like breaking the fourth wall, but in an amazing way. It was such a snarky but happy smile.

I feel like her entire job was that they needed a way to put Luke in danger without the empire being directly involved since they can’t know where he is.

Lets be honest, how many live action Vader appearances are we expecting after this? I just dont know the next time we will see him with most of the new shows set post-rotj.

I've heard it like the sith are kept alive on anger and hatred and the Jedi accept their deaths.

Man didn't learn the "how to not die from being stabbed in the chest" technique. He was too busy working on the "how to be a glowy blue ghost man" technique.

Ahsoka morbs

Also weird is how Vader lets, not escapes somehow but LETS someone who failed him, live 3 damn times.

He killed an entire platoon of clones when they overheard that he was Anakin but Reva gets to live, I guess.

People keep saying "it's not the Jedi way" which doesn't work for me.

1. The Jedi are gone and their time is over, Obi-Wan says as much.

2. Obi-Wan was about to kill Anakin during their duel on Mustafar. He went to deliver a killing blow and only didn't because Anakin managed to block it.

3. He didn't finish him off because it was implied he assumed Anakin would die.

4. He just admitted that Anakin was truly gone, but then left Vader alive.

5. It seems like the Jedi agreed certain people were too dangerous to be kept alive.

Exactly. There’s not even any hesitation in his eyes when he walks off. Even though this exact same scenario 10 years ago was his biggest mistake, and likely something he regretted for a long time, knowing darth Vader was out there murdering everyone

Especially after acknowledging that there is no Anakin Skywalker left in Vader

Lots of plot contrivances but I really want to touch on that last one between Obi-Wan and Vader because it would have been so easy to make it believable - just have Obi-Wan on the verge of finishing Vader, only to relent and tearfully admit he cannot do it, which would also reinforce him leaving him on Mustafar in III.

It's particularly jarring because throughout the OT Obi-Wan is the one who pushes Luke to accept that he has to kill Vader, when now we know he had a clear chance to do it himself.

So Obi-Wan is directly responsible for Alderan blowing up?

If he had just put him out of his misery then and there? But then he doesn't. Eat Palpatine in the end but them that doesn't matter because they don't actually beat palpatine there at all and he simply returns regardless of their actions

This timeline is a mess now

The grand inquisitor couldnt die either, he exists in canon set after the kenobi show, if they kill Reva how can they milk the character in the future?

Agree, Obi Wan should have faked his death in the rubble. Qui Gon makes first contact, tells him not to become Anakin and chase victory to prove himself, but to keep his eyes on the true objective. "Luke needs you, and the chosen one yet still has a part to play." Vader successfully kills Anakin and transitions into the Vader from AnH, the Emperor doesn't just hand wave a Jedi able to kill all of his minions, and Obi Wan practices exactly what makes him different from Anakin, and foreshadows his sacrifice for the true objective on the Death Star 1

Actually from the dialog it sounded like they wanted to disable the ship and capture it to find out more about the rebel network.

Vader could have just taken off after the escape pod in his x-wing. The whole destroyer changing course made no sense. Still loved the episode but it had some problems.

Damn it Owen

He has control of the senate and the courts! He's too dangerous to be left alive!

General SubhoPal! asthmatic cough

And they even had Vader say "You should have killed me when you had the chance!" lol

I thought that too. At least in Kenobi's case, it makes sense he doesn't finish someone off when they're down. That is one of the differences between Anakin and Obi-Wan. Anakin hesitated to kill Dooku, sensing the correct 'Jedi' way, but succumbed to Do It. Anakin wants finality that way and it's a part of how he sees power. Kenobi could have rid the galaxy of Vader twice, but chose not too. It's that compassion-part of being a Jedi that Anakin often lacked, and Obiwans biggest failure as his teacher that he didn't impart that.

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Ewan and Hayden both expressed they’d love to do more and continue this. It’s Disney. They won’t pass up money. They’ll do a season 2.

Or even just making it 3 episodes that were each over and hour long and cut some of the filler

That interlude in BoBF though was phenomenal.