#and makes me emotion
Fixing the moment in canon when Obi-Wan learns Anakin is still alive is interesting because of what it implies about Obi-Wan’s motivations in seeking to train Luke. He sees the boy as a future champion against the Empire writ large, not his father in particular. He believed in good faith that Anakin was dead, and was seeking to train Luke regardless. He perhaps believed in bad faith that he was dead after learning the truth, and the ethical debate over his reticence to reveal Vader’s identity aside, it’s just interesting to know that he wasn’t from the beginning manipulating to train Luke to slay his father. He was trying to train him to defeat an Empire. He believed in his larger potential, because no child of Anakin Skywalker could ever be anything other than extraordinary, for good or ill.
