Star Wars: 10 Reasons Return Of The Jedi Isn't As Perfect As You Remember

5. All Your Favourite Characters Turn Out To Be Dicks

The Prequels and the Clone Wars cemented Obi-Wan’s reputation as the most sassy and sarcastic of the Jedi, somehow maintaining an actual personality while following all the stringent Jedi codes.

But good old Ben wasn’t always like this. In the first two Star Wars films (and we mean, of course, A New Hope and Empire), Obi-Wan was a straight-talking, down-to-earth Jedi who was serious about bringing down the Empire. Twinkly-eye and eager, he jumped at the chance to train Luke as a Jedi, earnestly telling him that his father had been a ‘good friend’ who was ‘betrayed and murdered’ by Vader.

Except, of course, that was all total bonkers. In yet another classic case of George Lucas-hadn’t-planned-everything-out-either, Empire Strikes Back retconned this with the (admittedly awesome) reveal that Vader was actually Luke’s father. And of course, Obi-Wan knew this all along, telling his poor Padawan that what he said was true, ‘from a certain point of view.’

While we can understand Obi might not have wanted to tell Luke the truth at first, his and Yoda’s deception, which served to essentially trick him into killing his father, must have seriously made Luke reconsider the Jedi ways. Even this we can almost understand, but there was absolutely no reason for Obi-Wan to hide from Luke that the girl he was lusting after in the hologram was actually his sister. No wonder he ended up on Ach-To.

From our point of view, Obi-Wan’s admission was a poorly written scene which set the stage for easy explanations undoing established plot points that plagues the franchise even now. Oops.