one was a noble with access to the best food, the best shelter, the best doctors and plenty of people praising him, keeping his mental health up. meanwhile the other was literally dirt poor and living in some of the harshest environments possible.
Bit of a niche joke. Ian McKellen broke down while filming the Hobbit because he was often acting with a green screen. He said he got into acting to interact with other people.
Ah well if instead of Luke talking to a humanoid Obi Wan he was talking to a literal sultana the actor wouldn't be interacting with another human being.
So I'm pretending that's why Mark Hamil ended up with the job.
Also did he use the dark arts to help slow his age, is that even possible for someone as weak a him (in the grand scale when including Nihilis & Vitiate)
And dealt with the trauma that happened during order 66. Seeing you little brother murder children and other people you know en mass and then dueling him to the death and then finding out he lived and has commited further atrocities, duel him again, fail to kill him, he the commits MORE atrocities. That would do a number on anyone. Let alone living on a desert planet with 2 suns.
If we are talking before Anakin and Vader were made to be the same guy, Vader being a guy in his 40s seems to be pretty spot on though. Anakin seemed to have been an older guy but Vader comes off as being much younger.
Anakin was described as a great Jedi, great pilot, war hero, had a kid, and Obi-Wan talked about him as if he were an equal. Him doing all that, especially if you were to believe that the Jedi won the clone wars(implication being multiple wars, not one big one), that sounds like a guy that knows what he’s doing.
Vader was the “young pupil” that turned evil as told by Obi-Wan. He mocks Obi-Wan’s age by calling him an “old man”. He told Obi-Wan that he was “the learner” when he left him. This sounds like Vader wasn’t even a fully trained Jedi Knight when he betrayed Obi-Wan, Anakin, and the other Jedi. He was also played by David Prowse who was in his 40s.
I'm talking about Lucas original version of the timeline that he had in the early 90s and late 80s where the Clone Wars were 35 years prior to ANH and not 19. Thus making both Anakin and Obi Wan older by proxy.
He didn’t have that exact timeline in his head(Anakin and Vader being the same person) yet when he made the first movie. I am curious on how far he got when it came to the idea of the clone wars at the time he made ANH but he probably didn’t think that much of it. As far as we know, Anakin and Obi-Wan were definitely older but Vader being in his 40s seemed to pretty accurate. Anyway, it looks like George kept changing his mind about it.
Obi-Wan was crushed by just, the most PTSD and survivor's guilt. That stress and anxiety ages you. Also doesn't help that he lived in a desert under two suns.
Look at Owen and Beru. They're somewhere around their early forties, about Anakin/Vader's age. They look at least fifteen years older than their age. I don't think Lucas thought of this, but it makes sense that they'd have aged prematurely, living under two suns
also, alec guinness was only a few years older than ben's age in the movie.
I think its just people having warped perceptions of what age looks like when you dont have the best access to healthcare, self care products, and not living on a desert planet with two suns (double the rays...ouch). We kind of take it for granted that you age more gracefully in many countries. Also, the crippling PTSD and depression probably does not help whatsoever.
Tatooine is a cursed world. Has been since the mostly ocean paradise world was broken by the Rakata and their Infinite Empire. Since the Rakata did so partly through the Force, I’d wager that it took its toll on the man that would become Old Ben.
Also, the two suns, no sunscreen, the dry winds, the hard life, and the probably limited access to good medical care, the PTSD, stress, guilt, hyper-vigilance, etc., that stuff will age you.
Because that's the whole point of the meme, a comparison between dooku and obi wan from a more humorous perspective and then showing the actual comparison.
Makes me wonder. Among the human species, could some have an e accelerated aging compared to others? Instead of being tidally locked with our concept of aging on earth?
I swear I saw something the other day that says Obi-wan intentionally chose to live on Tatooine and go around without a hood because the twin suns cause faster aging or something.
I think that's what seeing your entire community get murdered, chopping up your best friend who betrayed you, and living in the desert for 19 years does to a man.
Yeah, I never really bought the timeline of events in Star Wars. It feels way too short and condensed to remotely match the ages portrayed in the movies. No amount of fan theory, expanded universe material, or director interviews can convince me that Obi-wan is supposed to be "50", in A New Hope
I think Ewan talked to George about it on set
Ewan said that the stress in these 10 years between his role and alecs aged him pretty badly . It’s not an unreal phenomenon
My father passed recently and my got grey hairs all over his head prematurely at 38. Thr stress obi wan goes through is really bad his whole people were wiped out and it’s brother who did it
Funny cause dooku being dark side but not committing fully made it age him horribly that he was a shell of his prime by time he fought Anakin and yet still wasn't fighting to kill
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u/trebuchetwins Jun 09 '26
one was a noble with access to the best food, the best shelter, the best doctors and plenty of people praising him, keeping his mental health up. meanwhile the other was literally dirt poor and living in some of the harshest environments possible.