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Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Doesn't Obi-Wan seem like he should have blamed himself more for the total enslavement of the galaxy? Don't tell me he's so down with the Force that he doesn't feel guilty.

I feel sort of shoddy discussing this with you, because by no means am I a huge SW fan, nor do I know all that much about it, but I don't know why he has to feel guilty over the choices someone else makes. I think the point is that Anakin made all of his own choices. In real life, and in the movies, hindsight is 20/20.

Maybe if what would happen was known, others would have acted differently, perhaps even tried to appease Anakin, but would that have turned him into an even bigger monster? Every turn, even literal turns right and left affect "destiny" whatever the hell that is. Everytime little Ani feels jilted just made him pissy and made him crave the praise Palpatine gave him, it's just common sense. I can't hold Obi Wan accountable for what a baby Anakin is. I'm sure he felt bad in subsequent, unwritten, unfilmed years, why else would you go into "seclusion"? That is what he did, right? Not feeling bad is moving on with your life as though it never happened, IMO.

He probably should have just killed Anakin/Vader, but that probably hurt too much for Obi Wan. A little too much leaving it all in the grey, but hey, he's a Jedi, probably didn't want to do the last blow, or was just too lazy to tie up a potential loose end. In either case, Vader couldn't die; we wouldn't have 4, 5 & 6 if that happened, right?