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This line has made me laugh/driven me nuts since the first time I saw the movie — "Only the Sith deal in absolutes" is itself an absolute.
by jkincaid 15y ago
This line has made me laugh/driven me nuts since the first time I saw the movie — "Only the Sith deal in absolutes" is itself an absolute.
- trevelyan 15y agoThis isn't inconsistent with the purpose of the films. Like the other Jedi, Obi-Wan is a flawed character through the first three films. He doesn't live up to the pacifist and altruistic ideals of the Jedi in many, many ways. Lucas stresses this with a number of cinematic parallels to Luke in Empire. This is why the ending of III is in sharp contrast to the ending of VI: Obi-Wan goes to kill rather than confront and forgive Anakin as a true Jedi presumably would. Even Yoda makes this mistaken in attacking Palpatine -- although he seems the only character aware of why he failed after the fact.