Timeline for Why did Obi-Wan Kenobi choose that moment to appear to Luke?
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| Feb 26, 2020 at 21:15 | history | edited | Valorum | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 18, 2016 at 7:35 | comment | added | Valorum | @RichS - Each of those times Luke sort of looks around as if he can't trust his senses. Did you note that most of the things he says are things he's already said to Luke before he died? | |
| May 18, 2016 at 7:30 | comment | added | RichS | I just watched the entire Battle of Yavin scene and counted how many times Kenobi's ghost spoke to Luke. The total number of interactions is not once, not twice, but 6 times! Once seconds after Kenobi died. 2nd is right as Luke is leaving the rebel base. The next 3 are during intense battle moments. (Two of those are close together, but since there is a pause between them, I counted those as two separate vocalizations). The 6th was right after the Death Star went kablooie. Luke clearly knew Kenobi was speaking to him and followed his mentor's instructions each time. | |
| May 18, 2016 at 7:07 | comment | added | Valorum | @RichS - Let me rephrase that. We know that he was hearing Kenobi's real voice, but at the time Luke didn't. On both occasions the voice is offering good advice, which would explain why he took it. | |
| May 18, 2016 at 7:04 | comment | added | RichS | He maybe heard Kenobi's voice during the Battle of Yavin? Seriously? That would imply he decided to turn off his guidance computer and use the Force based on a hallucination. No, he clearly heard Kenobi's voice not once but twice in that movie. And both times he clearly acted on Kenobi's advice. This whole meditation justification seems too ad hoc of an explanation. You might be better off going with an out-of-universe explanation for why Kenobi didn't appear to Luke (or speak to Luke) sooner. The simplest answer might be that Lucas didn't think of it when he wrote ESB. | |
| May 18, 2016 at 6:54 | comment | added | Valorum | @RichS - He half-heard Obi-Wan's voice, maybe. He certainly didn't see him until he'd grown in the Force and meditated recently. And he then saw him even more clearly after he'd been trained in the Force and had been meditating recently. | |
| May 18, 2016 at 6:41 | comment | added | RichS | This whole meditation answer is bogus. Kenobi's ghost spoke twice to Luke during ANH. Once right after Kenobi died when he told Luke to run. And again during the battle when he told Luke to use the Force to destroy the Death Star. Luke wasn't meditating during either moment. Are we really supposed to believe Kenobi didn't talk to Luke during the entire 3 years from ANH to ESB because Luke didn't meditate? | |
| Dec 29, 2015 at 2:12 | history | answered | Valorum | CC BY-SA 3.0 |