Talk:Obi-Wan Kenobi/@comment-31778166-20170501133557/@comment-30591854-20180801184726

Of course Lucas was speaking from Jedi point of view that Anakin's love for his mother and Padmé and his fear to lose them, is a form of greed, which is in a more general sense pretty debatable. In Anakin's case I'd rather believe his love for Padmé clouded his mind, most of all because he had to keep it secret due to the Jedi way of thinking in it, which might not have been exactly the right way. And since the Jedi order is a kind of a religion, things are always a bit getting out of context over time. Love is not really greed. Obsession for somebody is, and the borderline is a thin one. Anakin's obligation to resist his love for Padmé, turned his love into obsession eventually, opening the way to the Dark Side. At least that's my theory. :)

Basically all Jedi in important keyroles made mistakes in all 6 movies (I never saw the newest ones and a kind of principal thinking resists me from recognising them as part of the Star Wars franchise). Luke and Anakin included. I wonder if it was a good idea to hide from Luke that Darth Vader was his father.... even more to hide that Leia was his sister (it is possible that "Ben" didn't recognise her from R2D2's holo-message as the last time he saw her before going to Tatooine to face his excile, she was only an infant and on that holo-message she was a grown up woman already). Windu was far too distrusting of Anakin (and some of Obi-Wan's mistakes were the result of Windu's visions), and even Yoda bears part of the blame, and I guess that was the actual reason for facing excile on Deboga and not really his loss to Darth Sidious in the "final battle" of Revenge of the Sith. Obi-Wan contradiciting himself with the "Only a Sith speaks in Absolutes" line actually confirms that the Jedi are just living beings of flesh and blood and born to make mistakes just like everybody else.

And maybe Anakin's love does show an important message. It was not only love (for his mother and Padmé respectively) that drove him to the Dark Side. It was also love (for his son Luke) that got him out of that, and Luke's love for his father despite of what he has become took a great deal in that too, also confirming that love is not just greed, so in the end it was love that was the key to bring balance to the Force, and thus love that enabled Anakin to fulfill his role in the prophecy to bring balance to the Force. The Jedi were simply blinded by their own search for perfection to see that something as imperfect as love was the key to bring balance to the Force. And to think that answer was right before their faces all the time, as hatred was the emotion that Darth Sidious valued most. Since hatred is the opposite of love, or since love and hate are the flip sides of the same coin, just as light and darkness are, the solution was, if you think about it, pretty obvious ;)