Was Obi Wan the last of the Jedi of the Old Republic?

I never knew but always wanted to know. I heard he wasn't but it was from an unofficial source..

Anyone?

Define that, please. Yoda was still alive after Kenobi's death.

meaning beside yoda. Should've wrote that my bad..

No. The EU has many Jedi that survive beyond both Obi-Wan and Yoda, some of which merged into Luke's New Jedi Order.

Which annoys the shit out of me.

I kinda like it, brings a much bigger sense of realism to the Universe. There would be no way for Vader & Co to hunt down all the Jedi. That they reappeared later though, might be another case.

True. The OT is really, really unrealisrtic in that sense. It is impossible to wipe out all of anything, even on our little planet. Destroying all of something in a Galaxy, is completely, utterly, impossible, if they go into hiding.

Originally posted by FistOfThe North
I never knew but always wanted to know. I heard he wasn't but it was from an unofficial source..

Anyone?

Movies: with Yoda, they were both the last of the Jedi

EU: hell no!

you can see them, and read about them in different media:
In Comic books, Novels and Videogames (some Canon, other Non-Canon) released before and after the PT.

I too think it's unrealistic in the OT to have them as the only Jedi alive... I like to think it was that way in the movies because they had a connection to both Vader and Luke and were the only Jedi relevant to the story

Realism is not something Star Wars is known for; I prefer to think that Kenobi and Yoda were the last of their kind.

The way it was stated was that aside from Yoda and Obiwan, the rest of the jedi ceased to be jedi and in that sense, Obiwan and more importantly, Yoda, were the last of the jedi.

how did they cease to be jedi?

Originally posted by xxxpoppunker182
how did they cease to be jedi?

Good question. I strictly remember Obi-Wan being disappointed in the Jedi that chose to band together and destroy Vader rather than hide in exile. Therefore, it's safe to assume that it's not because they didn't take action against the Empire. There were even Jedi within the Rebellion long before Luke.

Rex is correct, Star Wars is not born of realism, but of dramatic and heroic necessity. It is made exceptionally clear that the Jedi are all gone and Luke is the only one in ROTJ.

The EU flatly contradicts this for purposes that are, frankly, lazy.

what about hett??was he still a jedi by the ot?but then again there is vergre...
dam these are all eu

Originally posted by Ushgarak
Rex is correct, Star Wars is not born of realism, but of dramatic and heroic necessity. It is made exceptionally clear that the Jedi are all gone and Luke is the only one in ROTJ.

The EU flatly contradicts this for purposes that are shite

Schpot on. Minus my correction.

Originally posted by Ushgarak
Rex is correct, Star Wars is not born of realism, but of dramatic and heroic necessity. It is made exceptionally clear that the Jedi are all gone and Luke is the only one in ROTJ.

The EU flatly contradicts this for purposes that are, frankly, lazy.

I never got that impression. I got the impression that he was the last hope and that the Jedi were far from the power they once were. I don't believe the OT suggested that Luke is the only light sided force user in the galaxy.

The dramatic necessities as satisfied here by the fact that Luke is the only Jedi left alive that can hope to topple the Sith, not that he is literally the only Jedi left.

Originally posted by Ushgarak

The EU flatly contradicts this for purposes that are, frankly, lazy.

or for purposes that are brilliant and make more sense?

I think Luke was originally intended to be th last jedi in ROTJ. Right before yoda dies he says Luke, when gone am I, last of the Jedi will you be. and then the eu changes that of course.

I don't necessarily have a problem with the idea of Jedi having somehow survived the Purge....I think that the EU has mishandled it at times, though, making it seem like Palpatine and Vader weren't competent enough to see the destruction of a sizeable amount of them....

Originally posted by Darth Hord
I think Luke was originally intended to be th last jedi in ROTJ. Right before yoda dies he says Luke, when gone am I, last of the Jedi will you be. and then the eu changes that of course.

It could mean symbolically, though. As far as what the Jedi actually stood for, represented, they were gone.