Hi! I did a few months ago for a Star Wars Fanzine. I do not know much about Star Wars universe but I have always loved Obi Wan ;v; so hope you like it!
It’s always jumped out at me how lost and alone Anakin looks in this scene after Obi-Wan turns to leave, but also…look at the way Obi-Wan’s shoulder’s are hunched here. Like he KNOWS he’s saying goodbye for the last time, and he wants more than anything to bring Anakin with him. Nothing will ever convince me the Force wasn’t absolutely shrieking at both of them here, yelling at Obi-Wan to take Anakin with him to fight Grievous, and shouting at Anakin to not let his master go alone. And that they both just blew it off, feeling like it was their duty to do so – Obi-Wan not wanting to prioritize his attachment to Anakin above a mission, and Anakin not wanting to seem childish or like a disappointment bad Jedi after Obi-Wan had just praised him.
It seems like both of them are silently hoping for the other to give in or for the Force to intervene (it was TRYING but you idiots wouldn’t listen to it!), and I don’t believe for one second that if, in this moment, Anakin had tried to follow Obi-Wan, or Obi-Wan had even mentioned in passing that he’d prefer Anakin come with him, they wouldn’t have gone on that mission together, leaving Palpatine’s plans falling down around his ankles, showing his naked Sith emperor ass to the galaxy sooner rather than later. Anakin knows he should have gone with Obi-Wan. He even says it later. He should be with his Jedi bro kicking some armored bug butt, not hanging out on Coruscant waiting for shit to unfold. And Obi-Wan’s posture in this second gif says it loud and clear too.
I’M CRYING RIGHT NOW. We all know that Pablo Hidalgo tweet about how George said Anakin had “help from the other side” to become a Force Ghost without training, which was obviously referring to Obi-Wan. Because Obi-Wan loved Anakin always, no matter what he did, Obi-Wan loved him. Even after the death of the Jedi and the children, even after all the monstrous things Vader did, OBI-WAN KENOBI LOVED ANAKIN SKYWALKER. LOVED HIM ENOUGH TO BRING HIM HOME.
AND THEN HERE’S THE END OF ROTJ, WHERE ANAKIN SHOWS UP.
Yoda’s reaction to seeing Anakin Skywalker again:
He actually smiles wider, he’s happy to see Anakin returned from the dark!
Then Obi-Wan puts a hand on Yoda’s shoulder and he turns to look at Obi-Wan and gives him THIS LOOK:
“I KNOW WHAT YOU DID, YOU SMITTEN LITTLE SHIT, YOU ARE STILL SPOILING THAT KID ROTTEN.”
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