“I don’t seem to remember ever owning a droid,” Obi-Wan Kenobi ponders in an early scene from Star Wars: A New Hope. He’s talking about R2-D2, who crossed the sands of Tatooine to deliver Princess Leia’s message, and who Luke assumes is the old hermit’s property. At the time, the comment — and Obi-Wan’s seeming inability to remember R2-D2 — didn’t appear significant. However, the film’s unprecedented success, and the subsequent need for backstory, raised some difficult continuity issues that have only fitfully been addressed in the decades since. The perceived oversight is more than forgivable. After all, the success of Star Wars surprised even its creator, George Lucas. And with Obi-Wan both a key player in Anakin Skywalker’s life and quite dead by the end of the original movie, his past was a logical place to expand the Star Wars universe.That meant studiously avoiding the old Jedi’s perceived inability to recognize R2-D2, who, with the prequels and The Clone Wars animated series in place, became one of Obi-Wan’s most stalwart companions before their renewed acquaintance on Tatooine. Naturally, fans have noticed the discrepancy over the years, as the pair become boon comrades during the Clone Wars, and there would be absolutely no way Obi-Wan could miss his old friend in A New Hope. The most plausible explanation entails the secrecy Obi-Wan has lived under for so long. As Obi-Wan Kenobi shows, both the Jedi and the astromech droid had good reason to be cautious. That, in turn, enabled a little careful wordplay to avoid revealing too much too soon. That connects their shared deception to the much larger one about Anakin’s status as Luke’s father.The base assumption of why Obi-Wan doesn’t remember R2-D2 — in light of the prequels — is that Obi-Wan is feigning ignorance in A New Hope to downplay the importance of the droid’s arrival. That explanation holds the most water for a number of reasons. A 2017 Reddit theory posted by u/mybustersword adds to that by connecting to the notion of a “companion.” It explains that Obi-Wan carefully praises Artoo rather than pretends not to know him, suggesting that he doesn’t “own” R2-D2 in the manner that Luke is describing. It’s effective not only in smoothing over the bumpy continuity but in illuminating Obi-Wan’s infamously casual relationship with the truth.
“I don’t seem to remember ever owning a droid,” Obi-Wan Kenobi ponders in an early scene from Star Wars: A New Hope. He’s talking about R2-D2, who crossed the sands of Tatooine to deliver Princess Leia’s message, and who Luke assumes is the old hermit’s property. At the time, the comment — and Obi-Wan’s seeming inability to remember R2-D2 — didn’t appear significant. However, the film’s unprecedented success, and the subsequent need for backstory, raised some difficult continuity issues that have only fitfully been addressed in the decades since. The perceived oversight is more than forgivable. After all, the success of Star Wars surprised even its creator, George Lucas. And with Obi-Wan both a key player in Anakin Skywalker’s life and quite dead by the end of the original movie, his past was a logical place to expand the Star Wars universe.
That meant studiously avoiding the old Jedi’s perceived inability to recognize R2-D2, who, with the prequels and The Clone Wars animated series in place, became one of Obi-Wan’s most stalwart companions before their renewed acquaintance on Tatooine. Naturally, fans have noticed the discrepancy over the years, as the pair become boon comrades during the Clone Wars, and there would be absolutely no way Obi-Wan could miss his old friend in A New Hope. The most plausible explanation entails the secrecy Obi-Wan has lived under for so long. As Obi-Wan Kenobi shows, both the Jedi and the astromech droid had good reason to be cautious. That, in turn, enabled a little careful wordplay to avoid revealing too much too soon. That connects their shared deception to the much larger one about Anakin’s status as Luke’s father.
The base assumption of why Obi-Wan doesn’t remember R2-D2 — in light of the prequels — is that Obi-Wan is feigning ignorance in A New Hope to downplay the importance of the droid’s arrival. That explanation holds the most water for a number of reasons. A 2017 Reddit theory posted by u/mybustersword adds to that by connecting to the notion of a “companion.” It explains that Obi-Wan carefully praises Artoo rather than pretends not to know him, suggesting that he doesn’t “own” R2-D2 in the manner that Luke is describing. It’s effective not only in smoothing over the bumpy continuity but in illuminating Obi-Wan’s infamously casual relationship with the truth.
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