An Obi-Wan Kenobi writer recently slipped up in an interview and started questioning a massive plot point that has already been confirmed.

OBI-WAN KENOBI SPOILERS AHEAD

Obi-Wan Kenobi writer, Joby Harold, made a bit of a slip up in a recent interview with The Wrap. As Harold was going through some of the thought processes that go into Obi-Wan’s discovery that Anakin still lives, he began to question whether Obi-Wan knew if Anakin was Darth Vader or not. The reason this is a blunder is because it’s explicitly stated by Yoda in Episode III that Anakin has been, “consumed by Darth Vader.”

“Uhhh wut?? #Kenobi writer #JobyHarold quoted questioning if Obi Wan knew Anakin was Vader. Yoda explicitly confirms this AFTER seeing Palpy dub him Vader via holo in RoS: “The boy you trained, gone he is. Consumed by Darth Vader.””

“That was actually not something I pitched originally. That was something I discovered along the way, and sort of had to confirm with Pablo [Hidalgo] and really think, ‘Hold on a second, what does he actually know? Does he know the moniker Vader? What would that mean? Can he associate the two? What was he cognizant of? How isolated is he? Where’s Vader at that time? Where’s his reputation and how well known is he?’ And all those pieces of the puzzle.”

Harold goes on to talk about how the emotional moment impacted the story.

“The great piece of storytelling you can use is getting to Ewan play the moment of realization that that which haunts him is still alive,” Harold added. “And what does that mean for him? There were many avenues that I could take him down, all of which hopefully are good opportunities to tease out story as we continue. But it all comes down to, is it viable within canon to play that card? Which it was. Which is great, because that allows you, at the end of Episode 2 and the beginning of Episode 3, it gets you so much that feels essential to the fundamental story, which is Obi-Wan, Vader, that which haunts you, facing the past, everything that comes to fruition in 3 and beyond.”

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