Obi-wan had the chance to kill Vader on Mustafar but left him assuming he was going to burn to death. Vader survived and wreaked havoc on the galaxy. Then Obi-wan has Vader beaten in this series, and instead of finishing him walks away with guilt. Vader survives again and continues his reign. What's the logic behind this?
shareThat is, in my opinion, the main problem here . It is obvious, that Darth Vader is not going to die at that moment, but it makes not sense to me that he wanted to leave him alive (again), it would have been better if he had tried to kill him but for some reason it was not possible.
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He can't bring himself to do it. Jedi can't have children, and Anakin was the closest thing Obi-Wan had to a son. Despite the shitty prequels glossing over the relationship, he raised Anakin like a son, and watched him grow from a little boy into a man before the Dark Side stole him away. No matter how evil he became, and no matter what he did, in his heart, Anakin was still that little boy that he believed, likely correctly, that he failed.
In the battle, notice that he does seem prepared to kill Darth Vader, and it isn't until his mask is cut open and he sees and hears Anakin that the doubt creeps in and ultimately wins. Suddenly he wasn't fighting a robot monster, but he was about to murder someone he raised like a son.
Love is the most powerful force there is, both in the real world and the world of Star Wars. Consider the finale to the original trilogy. Anakin, who has been pure evil since he was a teen-- he murdered children, destroyed the Jedi Order, and ruled the galaxy as head of an evil empire-- sees his son, a son he only recently learned he had, and one he'd never laid eyes on for the first 18 years of his life, about to die, and has a complete change of heart. His love for his son is strong enough to eradicate the Dark Force from his soul, and he redeems himself before he dies.
Obi-Wan felt a similar love, and could not strike the final blow to kill Anakin.
The prequels were constrained by the already-released movies that occur after it. How is he supposed to kill Vader if we know Vader doesn’t die until Luke kills him in the 1983 movie
shareDarth Vader must survive here, it is clear. But I think it is a mistake in this series that Obi- Wan let him voluntarily, again, alive. Now knowing what sort of Sith Lord Vader is.
In my opinion it would have been better or more plausible, if Obi-Wan had tried to kill him, but it was not possible because Vader managed to escape or a lot of Stormtroopers suddenly showed up or something like that.
you're right
shareHe's what you call WOKE. By that I mean he lets criminals go hoping they'll redeem themselves until its too late. Vader has a double to triple digit criminal history. He eventually gets killed by the same criminal he once showed sympathy towards. What a fitting end.
He should've attempted to end Vader but then his dark troopers or whatever elite reinforcement comes to his rescue and Obi-Woke Kenobi would be forced to withdraw and flee back into hiding for Episode IV.