Obi-Wan Kenobi once said, “Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.” In that scene from Return of the Jedi , the master’s disembodied spirit explained to Luke Skywalker why a more corporeal Kenobi, back in Episode IV , had declared that Luke’s dad was dead when he was, in fact, inside the suit of Darth Vader. The real reason is that when George Lucas was making the first Star Wars movie, he hadn’t decided that Vader and Anakin Skywalker were one and the same.
In universe , though, the line is more revealing than even Obi-Wan knew. Yes, from one perspective, Obi-Wan’s original contention to Luke was technically correct . But it was also comforting for Kenobi, in hiding on Tatooine (except for that one time ), to think that his former Padawan was dead.
He was deceiving himself as much as he was twisting the truth for his new protégé. As Kenobi told Ezra Bridger in Rebels , “The truth is often what we make of it. You heard what you wanted to hear, believed what you wanted to believe.
” The same principle seems to apply to Episode 3 of The Acolyte —and this time, too, those squirrely Jedi are directly involved. Last week’s two-part premiere reunited Mae and Osha, two Force-sensitive twins who hadn’t seen each other since a childhood calamity destroyed their settlement and family, leaving each one believing that the other was dead. “Destiny,” a roughly 40-minute flashback that begins and ends at the poisonous but beautifu.
