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[00:00:06] What's up guys, welcome back to another episode of Force Facts coming to you from The Force Unscripted podcast. Today I have another fact from my holocron of horrors. Ah damn it! Did you know that Obi-Wan was supposed to survive Episode 4 originally? But in fact,
[00:00:42] they couldn't figure out what to do with an old guy in the middle of a space battle, so they went back and filmed him getting killed off so that he could impart his magical ghost
[00:00:52] force wisdom onto Luke from beyond the grave to have it be like a climactic moment without having to like pan over to some old dude on the comms like, hey buddy, what if you just
[00:01:02] use the Force Luke? And um, that's how we got the old green puppet Yoda. I still feel like- Cause they had to replace him somehow. I still feel like the whole thing is bullshit because Obi-Wan, you think about, I mean
[00:01:15] like I know back then they probably hadn't fleshed out the timeline as much as it is now, but Obi-Wan would have been definitely old enough to be a fucking star pilot or even
[00:01:22] not a star pilot. He was a commander in the Clone Wars. They could have found something for him to do. That's a fucking bullshit ass excuse. But you know what? When they were filming that first movie, he wasn't a c- he just fought in the Clone
[00:01:32] Wars. He ain't done anything at that point. That is true. Also, I'm actually kinda okay with it cause I like Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan, specifically as Obi-Wan, but that dude did not like that role. Like he thought
[00:01:45] that the entire thing was fucking beneath him and he did not want to do it. And so like because he's a shitty person, I'm okay with them killing him off, but I- I- Obi-Wan could have done some shit. I'm not gonna lie.
[00:01:55] I mean in episode four didn't he say he was a general in there? Cause I feel like you know experience as a general, you don't really need to still be young and surprise and you can really do anything in the- in the rebellion.
[00:02:06] Did he say that he was a general? I mean exactly. Like the slur. I think you gotta understand at this time, Garm Bell Iblis is like- I don't know, he's not that much younger than Obi-Wan. In fact, he might be older. I don't know Garm's age,
[00:02:18] but like he's an old ass fucker. He's in there. Who? You don't know who Garm Bell Iblis is? Nope. Oh, you're not a true fan. I mean, they doesn't really ring a bell for me either.
[00:02:27] Well one, he was in the- he was also in the Force Unleashed video game which is our fucking namesake so go back and play that shit. But he was just like a- Hold on. Hello. He's the BS version of that video game so- Okay he's-
[00:02:41] He may not be like- Oh, true. They like changed a lot of stuff in the- He's one of the people- he's one of the people you know like when like Leia and all of them
[00:02:47] are gathered around, he's one of those people that's there. He's basically one of the founders of the- but he's basically like- like Leia, Mon Mothma, him they're like the starters of the thing. He's Corelli and Han looks up to him like for a while. He's just a-
[00:03:03] So- so he's one of the guys that would have gone on the comms and said use the Force Luke so they already had a guy for that. They didn't need another old man who wasn't part of the rebellion to begin with. Okay.
[00:03:13] He was just living in the fucking desert. They didn't know him, they weren't gonna let him get on the comms. Leia knew him. Leia knew him intimately. Bailor- Bailor Goddard knew him. Yeah exactly. Bail's dead. Leia's you know like 18. Bail's dead. They're trying to run a rebellion.
[00:03:30] All I'm saying is that Obi-Wan could have had a fucking bigger part in that movie. That's it. Don't get mad at me. And instead of going fucking poof, gone. And smiled right before it too. Yeah it kinda was. Going poof was the power move. Vader was shook.
[00:03:42] I mean he just kind of gave Vader a free lightsaber so I don't know. That is true and then that lightsaber ends up causing fucking problem for Vader's grandkids. At least in legends.
[00:03:51] Well that has been this week's episode of Force Facts coming to you from the holocron of horrors. Thank you for tuning in. Feel free to like, subscribe, hit that bell, follow us on all of the socials, Twitter, formerly known as X.
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