reminder for you all... darth vader mentioned in A New Hope when he sensed a disturbance in the force that "the last time i felt it, i was in the presence of my old master"
this moment he's referring to didn't happen in Revenge of the Sith. #ObiWanKenobi https://twitter.com/allthingskenobi/status/1337372886462558208
this moment he's referring to didn't happen in Revenge of the Sith. #ObiWanKenobi https://twitter.com/allthingskenobi/status/1337372886462558208
im not saying obi wan and vader will absolutely 100% clash sabers, i'm just saying, canon isn't as open and shut as we might think. be prepared for anything to happen, cause anything CAN happen.
for all those who're gonna tell me i'm wrong, watch ROTS again. if they'd remembered this line while making it they would have made anakin sensing obi wan into a big moment, would have helped build up the tension before the duel. but they didn't.
anakin doesn't sense obi wan before he sees him, most likely cause he's too distracted by padme. as soon as anakin sees obi wan he changes his demeanor. anakin wouldn't have been so warm with padme if he'd known from the start that she'd brought obi wan.
so this line is mostly likely referring to something else. some other time vader was in the presence of obi wan. i dont know if this means they were in a fight or if maybe they just happened to cross paths, but clearly, there more story to tell.
adding to this, remember that obi wan has no reason to believe anakin survived after where obi wan left him. yet he hardly reacts with surpise when he sees anakin again, this time "more machine than man".
how does he have all of this info on vader?
how does he have all of this info on vader?
while he was a servant of the empire, vader was hardly a politician. no one really knew about him. he was, at most, a dark legend, a ghost story of imperial might. maybe the rebels knew of him? and we know obi wan must have stayed in touch with them, rogue one revealed that....
so if we accept that obi wan was in touch with the rebels (via bail organa) then we must also accept that bail had a jedi at his call during the difficult early years of the rebellion. now of course, that doesn't mean obi wan left tatooine every time bail needed an extra hand...
but there's more than enough evidence here that points to a potential story. just cause obi wan ended ROTS on tatooine and started ANH on tatooine that doesn't mean he did literally nothing for 19 years.