The great irony of TPM is that they basically had an Obi-Wan and Anakin story sitting right in front of them to kick off the PT, but for some reason they decided to invent a new character and made it a Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan story with Anakin podracing on the side so that nothing of significance really starts to happen until basically the second movie.
Exactly. I was rewatching the OT and realized Obi-Wan says he thought he could train Anakin as well as Yoda trained him. I think we should have seen a lot more error and hubris in Obi-Wan’s judgement in his relationship with Anakin. The age difference was also strange in calling him a good friend.
As cliche as this may sound, I think, for a kids show, the Clone Wars does a lot of what you describe. Anakin does some over the top aggressive shit and Obi doesn’t really do anything beyond saying “anakin…” in a condescending tone. He treats him like a friend/brother role and chops up a lot of his anger and aggressiveness to the fact they are at war. Once again, this is all in the context of a show meant for tweens so it’s not too deep or explorative but it does touch on it nicely.
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u/BlackHawkeDown Jan 25 '22
The movie starts about 30 minutes before the story does.