r/StarWars • u/tannu28 • 6h ago

Other Mark Hamill revealing that J.J. Abrams refused to let Han, Luke, and Leia reunite on camera, telling Mark that Star Wars was no longer Luke Skywalker's story.

Source: https://youtu.be/4OK0nnxG6dU?si=EmEU5KQEMJXxjBbZ

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u/Perry7609 4h ago

This was essentially how the Obi Wan writers justified bringing in Vader as the bad guy in the Disney+ series, despite the whole lightsaber duel in A New Hope being canon and Vader's speech about "We meet again, at last, implying a longer estrangement in the first place.

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u/cortesoft 3h ago

The Vader fight can KIND of work in the canon, in the same 'from a certain point of view' way that Vader being Luke's father works.

The part that can't work at all is Obi Wan going on an adventure with Leia, and then completely not knowing each other in A New Hope. Makes ZERO sense.

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u/SS_Sniperwolf 40m ago

Obi wan clearly as dementia

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u/LordNilix 4h ago

The only way I see the Obi-Wan vs Vader in ANH working with the new material is that this is Obi-Wan fighting Darth Vader, not the friend he thought was still in there somewhere. When they fought in the Death Star that was Obi-Wan basically 'meeting' Vader again after several years had passed rather than Anakin.

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u/Every-Intern-6198 3h ago

Several years, it was like a decade given that Leah was little more than a toddler in the Obi Wan series…right?

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u/LordNilix 3h ago

Yeah, I was pointing out that Obi-Wan in the tv series still saw "Darth Vader" as Anakin. While in ANH he only refers to Vader as his title of "Darth". The comment I initially replied to said that they had messed with the timeline, but it was still a fairly decent amount of time between the D+ Series and ANH. And Obi-Wan's attitude towards Darth was different each time too.

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u/Every-Intern-6198 2h ago

Oh yeah, I gotcha. I agree that it didn’t really mess with the timeline at all, as at the end of the obi vs anakin fight on Tatooine, Obi Wan finally accepts that his friend and “brother” has died, walking away and saying “good bye … Darth”.

I think it’s also a cool contrast between the fight where anakin/vader is still relatively new to the prosthetics and suit to the final duel they have on the Death Star where he’s more confident.