Obi-Wan Kenobi: 10 Ways It Changes Star Wars
7. Obi-Wan's "Certain Point Of View" Tale Makes More Sense Now
Ben Kenobi's initial reveal to young Luke Skywalker that his father Anakin was actually betrayed and killed by Darth Vader, only to explain this all away as being true "from a certain point of view" in the wake of the Jedi-in-training discovering the Sith to actually be his paps was one of the more jarring and obvious rewrites George Lucas made to his ever-growing epic.
However, in what acted as Obi-Wan Kenobi's emotional climax in Part VI, Deborah Chow was actually able to successfully justify Ben's A New Hope revelation to the next generation of Skywalker.
With the now revitalised Jedi Master dramatically apologising once again to Anakin "for all of it", Vader confesses with a chilling amount of menace that Obi-Wan wasn't responsible for killing the one-time Jedi Knight; he was. And just like that, Kenobi is forced to face the fact that what remained of his former pupil and brother was very much killed all those years ago, paving the way for another rather satisfying justification for a once infamously odd line...