Quote:In Episode one he was piloting the pod racers and winning the events, that made him a pretty good pilot. I don't see the contradiction there? There's plenty to not like about Episode one but I'm missing your point there.

 

I hear ya, but I pretty much grew up watching Star Wars...  When Old Ben was talking to Luke about his father in Ep. IV, the implication regarding Obi Wan and Anakin's relationship was that he was a great pilot in regards to the fight against the empire.  It's always been a splinter in my mind the fact that George Lucas decided that a great pilot meant in Pod Races rather than in actually fighting against the fascists of the Old Republic.

 

Now you can take the conversation in Jedi where Luke began to question Obi-Wan's description of certain event's as "A certain Point of View", but to me, I just cannot reconcile that conversation from Ep. IV....  It's just a non-starter for me.  

 

It's a complete inconsistency regarding how Anakin was depicted in the Original Star Wars versus how Lucas completely sold out to get a new generation to  fall in love with the Star Wars Universe.  If you remember, prior to Lucas going CGI crazy and "remastering" the Original trilogy, when we saw "Ghost Anakin" he was an old man like Obi-Wan.  This, to me, means that Obi-Wan and Anakin were similar in age when they first met.  That's how it was implied in the Original trilogy. 

 

The way Lucas created the whole dynamic between Obi-Wan and Anakin in the prequels just doesn't jive with what was described in the Original.  

 

And don't get me started with Mitochlorians and how that completely destroys Yoda's speech from Empire Strikes Back.  How can the Force surround you, when it's just a bunch of cells that some people have alot of and some people don't.  Lucas basically made the force into a kids book about wishing to be gifted instead of the metaphysical awakening of becoming one with the Universe as Yoda described it.

 

Han Solo's (and most of the Empires) interpretation of "an old hokey religion" also comes under question if you accept that Mitochlorians are the basis for a Jedi's powers.  The concept creates a quantifiable basis to decide who's in the "Jedi Club" and who's out.  The whole point of the Original Star Wars trilogy was that it had nothing to do with your birth or your genetic makeup, but with your relationship with the Universe that surrounds you in a more  esoteric and philosophical way.

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