the inevitable star wars post III: now that I've had a few beers

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Two things:

• More on the Kenobi/Skywalker fight. I can’t really see it ending as it did. Kenobi, thanks to both his own training and his comradeship with Anakin, can’t kill Anakin. But he also can’t knowingly leave him alive, which he does. It would have been far better to have Anakin succumb to an apparently fatal event - e.g. he overbalances on the skiff, Obi-Wan takes off his legs, he falls on the lava, Obi-Wan sighs and leaves - than for the Lucas ending in which, without context, Obi-Wan is walking away from an obviously still-living Darth Vader.
• A lament, I guess, for the timing or constraints of the movie: this film had to peak with Darth Vader’s creation. Unfortunately, that means that from Episode III to Episode IV, there’s a gap of maybe 18 years during which the entire rebel force is created. There is no hint at its founding in RotS, since the Republic has only just been replaced. I find this a little jarring, but I can’t see a way to fix it that would utterly undermine the punchline for Episode III, viz. Vader’s emergence.