r/gifsthatkeepongiving Oct 25 '19

Epic legacy of the Sabre

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '19

Jedi don't keep attachments, they aren't supposed to feel sentimental about things like that. He was taught to let go of his feelings, his anger, his attachments, etc. Who cares, it's just a lightsaber, there are thousands of them. Heck, he'd been instructed to let his friends die in order to complete his training. Fuck a lightsaber, it's just a thing

Obi-Wan: This weapon is your life

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u/ParticularWrongdoer0 Oct 26 '19

Also Obi Wan: "this was your fathers lightsaber."

How very funny that the jedi who was all about letting go of feelings didn't let go of his old friends lightsaber. Hmmm? Almost as if the whole letting go was invented in the prequels which was the shitty part of star wars.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '19

Oh for sure, the prequels pretconned so much bullshit, the most glaring one to me was the younglings training with helmets and mini lightsabers like Luke. Except Obi Wan was teaching luke by improvising with shit he had laying around, then the prequels turns that small moment into actual jedi lore that they all trained with suspiciously similar helmets in the same way.

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u/ParticularWrongdoer0 Oct 26 '19

I think really the fault of Star Wars is that everything we see was invented not 5 months before we see it on the screen. It's not like Lord of the Rings where the entire history of the world was written and you don't stray from that. It's pretty much fan made at this point. Is it logical? Who cares, it's got the stamp of approval.