Why didn't Obi-wan finish off Anakin?

Originally posted by green dude
Can i say something you have a friend who has save you life 4 times and has now gone to the darkside and you'v cut off arms and legs he's being burned by lava do
a) hit them with your light saber to stop the suffering
b) leave them be you can't bear to see them like this
d) if you hit them with your light saber it would scar you for life to know you killed a friend
c) leave them to their fate though they'll proiable be saved
e) you have hope they will be saved and someone eles wil kill them or help them
f) help them out maybe they will change back to normal theirs still hope for them

i would be (f) but then their would be no sequal starwars would end befor it started so i think it ok the way Lucas made it 😄

Originally posted by yerssot
I thought it was 9 times? ... ten if you count that one time at Cato Neimoda 😉

That one, that one doesnt count 😮‍💨

obi couldnt kill his brother

He had a Doctor's appointment that he was already late for.

Well i guess you'd assume that with his arms and legs off while hes on fire on the lip of a lake of flaming lava he'd be pretty rooted

Of course he never seemed to sense that he wasn't dead using that force thingie, and consdiering how close there supposed to be you'd think there'd be some connection via the force, but really, you can't kill vader, that would just be confusing

Also to finish off his unarmed and wounded oppenent woulden't be very jedi, even if it was a mercy killing i'd wildly imagine

here's what it says in the book

"In the end there was only one choice. It was a choice he had made many years before, when he had passed his trials of Jedi Knighthood, and sworn himself to the Jedi forever. In the end, he was still Obi-Wan Kenobi, and he was still a Jedi, and he would not murder a helpless man. he would leave it to the will of the Force.

in an interveiw i read ewan mcgregor (obi wan) said that obi wan would have killed anikin if he knew that sen. palpatien woule rebuild him.

anikan acted really unprofessional in AOTC in front of the naboo governement and that reflects poorly on obiwan as an instructor.

then he carries on about not being made a master, after they have gratiously allowed him to enter a council meeting...

if i had been obi, i would have been absolutly mortified with embaressment and i would have cut his head of before he srtarted sliding...

especially, when he's saying, what the hell happened to you, i loved you, you were my brother...
to which ani says 'i hate you'

i'd be pretty hurt by that, i would have kicked his ass into the lava!

Originally posted by Bar-en-Danwedh
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especially, when he's saying, what the hell happened to you, i loved you, you were my brother...
to which ani says 'i hate you'

i'd be pretty hurt by that, i would have kicked his ass into the lava! [/B]

But don't you feel sorry for Anakin? When yo think about it, he was betrayed by everyone he knew, even Palpatine (even though he was too gullible to know it). The Jedi council used him as a spy, they didn't trust him, they were very abrupt and ignorant of him. He even wrongfully thought Padme was against him. As far as he was concerned, only Sidious/Palps appeared to be on his side (which Sidious/palps orchestrated masterfully). His expression when he looks up at Obi-wan, after his legs/arms are sabred, is heart wrenching - you feel so helpless for him, and feel for him ...

I feel for him, that is one of my favorite aspects of the PT.

Ok, 3 BIG reasons!
1. Obi-Wan loved Anikan as a brother. So he couldn't kill him, just as he told Yoda.
2. A true jedi can not kill a defenseless enemy. Anikan had a burnt mechanical right arm, thats it....oh and the force too but he was to exhausted.
3. The most important point, if Obi-Wan killed Anikan then, how do you explain Darth Vador in Episodes 4, 5, and 6???

It would've been impossible for Obi-Wan to kill Anikan because of 4, 5, and 6.