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Originally Posted by blankall
I still don't get why Obi-Wan doesn't finish him.
Is he trying to be merciful? Letting Anakin seemingly burn to death slowly is better than a quick lightsaber strike? Does he think Anakin will survive....and just be horribly disfigured.....like the other Siths....so he's purposely creating a Sith lord? What's the reasoning here?
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I think there are two things, at least in my mind.
The Jedi, and especially Obi-Wan were big proponents of the will of the living force. Which includes future events. The Force maybe knew that Anakin would still fulfill his role as the chosen one that would destroy the Sith. Without Anakin Sidious would have found a apprentice without the attachments to Luke and Leia, and the Sith might have ruled forever.
Also I think that Obi-Wan felt that Sidious was soon to arrive, and he probably knew that he shouldn't stay and face a battle that he couldn't win, that he had an obligation to doing everything to keep Padme and her child(ren) safe.
A third thing and this was my theory, maybe in that moment, with the Dark Side ascendant and the greatest betrayer and possibly greatest Jedi Killer in history at his mercy, Obi-Wan just didn't feel like granting that mercy, and in that moment, he wanted Anakin to burn.
At the end of the Rise of Darth Vader we wee Kenobi following Owen and Beru and Baby Luke and he stops in a bar and sees a video of an armored monster that the news named Darth Vader, and he reacted being shocked that Anakin was still alive. He spoke to Qui-gon who assured him that Vader would never step on Tattooine because it would threaten to bring up the spark that was Anakin, and that he needed to focus on Luke and to an extent Leia and leave Vader to his fate.