Genius Gone Insane
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Guru you don't need to show me clips, I know the movie. I must not have made myself clear on this...6 months ago, I would have agreed with everything you said above and I would have thought this Genius Gone Insane guy is an asshole who's is full of shit.
Do me and you a favor -- just sit back, forget everything you know, and think about my hypothesis. Just think about it for like a night or two. But really give it a chance.
Your citations above are assumptions -- they are things inferred in the movie. But we don't know them for sure. Just like "Your father wanted you to have this when you were old enough." We can infer that Obiwan is full of shit and is manipulating Luke into learning about the force, or we can make a deeper assumption that Obiwan genuinely thought that Anakin would have really wanted it. The two explanations are not mutually exclusive. However, how you look at them actually makes a big difference on your perception of Ben.
Maybe that's not a perfect example but the point is, we don't really know a lot of shit about the movies. You're inferring that Obiwan is calling himself Old Ben to stay in hiding. Nowhere in the movies does it say why he's called old ben.
What I'm saying is that 20 years ago we would have inferred that Anakin did in fact tell Obiwan that he wanted Luke to have the lightsaber. And maybe he did. But it turned out that Anakin never did tell Obiwan about the lightsaber.
Point is, inferences may not be what they seem. See Leia/Luke kiss
Do me and you a favor -- just sit back, forget everything you know, and think about my hypothesis. Just think about it for like a night or two. But really give it a chance.
Your citations above are assumptions -- they are things inferred in the movie. But we don't know them for sure. Just like "Your father wanted you to have this when you were old enough." We can infer that Obiwan is full of shit and is manipulating Luke into learning about the force, or we can make a deeper assumption that Obiwan genuinely thought that Anakin would have really wanted it. The two explanations are not mutually exclusive. However, how you look at them actually makes a big difference on your perception of Ben.
Maybe that's not a perfect example but the point is, we don't really know a lot of shit about the movies. You're inferring that Obiwan is calling himself Old Ben to stay in hiding. Nowhere in the movies does it say why he's called old ben.
What I'm saying is that 20 years ago we would have inferred that Anakin did in fact tell Obiwan that he wanted Luke to have the lightsaber. And maybe he did. But it turned out that Anakin never did tell Obiwan about the lightsaber.
Point is, inferences may not be what they seem. See Leia/Luke kiss