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Originally Posted by Coach
So awesome. That Vader/Obi-Wan duel should have been in a different version of Episode 3 where those movies were better. It did beg the question as to why Obi Wan wouldn’t have killed Vader at that point.
Either way loved it. Maybe the best lightsaber duel in canon now. Very similar to the Ashoka duel. Him screaming “Obi-Wan!” Through his robotic twisted voice. So great.
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Going back to the ROTS book, sorry, but its really well done.
But first of all, Kenobi felt the approaching Darth Sidious, but didn't know how soon.
Second, after the duel, Obi-Wan stood over Anakin's body, and he thought about his fallen friend, betrayer, child murderer. But at his core, he still loved him and couldn't bring himself to kill him, he knew at that point he couldn't save him either. He also decided to leave Anakin's faith in the hands of the Force.
I think that Obi-Wan was frightened, Anakin should have been dead, he's lost multiple limbs, he had burned and only Anakin's peerless command of the Force kept him alive. There had to be a reason for that.
Obi-Wan believed that Anakin had died on Mustafar. At the end of the book Dark Lord, Obi-Wan was in a bar in Tatooine, when he saw a news report of Vader slaughtering and enslaving Wookies. He prepared to go and gather Luke and go get Leia and go deeper into hiding when he heard the voice of Qui-gon.
Qui-gon told Obi that there was still a spark of the good man that was Anakin buried deep in Vader, and Vader would never step foot on Tatooine because it would cause him pain and might awaken that conflict inside of him.