STAR WARS

Leia's on a Mission. From Dad.

Kenobi changes the subject to R2 and we're shown another handy coincidence - he pats R2 twice and the message pops right on.
Did Kenobi activate Artoo's 'play' button?
Is R2 this clever?
Is Luke (are WE) this dense?
Watch Kenobi pat the astromech and walk away, completely expecting a projection to play.
If anything he looks annoyed that it took as long as it did to pop up.
We don't find out until years later how well Kenobi is supposed to know these droids.
I've heard others site the interplay between Kenobi and the droids here as evidence that the two trilogies don't mesh
Kenobi seems quite familiar with this droid to me.
There is no inconsistency here - there is a sly and evil old man carefully hiding his true role.

Or maybe it's nervous body language - understandable.
I imagine Kenobi's got a great deal on his mind at this moment.
For THESE droids to show up...

You remember Leia's message to Kenobi
Right?
Do you remember who she says sent her?
You might want to go back and watch the movie again...

Leia's message mentions her father 3 times.
"You served my father in the Clone Wars"
"I am unable to present my father's request"
"My father will know how to retrieve it"
I hope it's ringing in Kenobi's ears - Daddy, Daddy, Daddy!
Because Vader is her father
VADER IS HER FATHER
And she knows it

If Leia is not supposed to be referring directly to her royal father, who is the reason she is a princess, then... WHAT?
Did Lucas himself forgot about Leia mentioning her father?
Everybody else seems to have.

Note the 3d recording and transmitting
To the untrained eye, I suppose it could look like a ghost...

In her message, Leia addresses Ben as "General Kenobi", indicating he's possibly an active military commander.
Oh sure, he could be in retirement -
he just HAPPENS to have taken up residence near his enemy's offspring,
and he just HAPPENS to get recruited by the leader of the Rebellion, who is also his enemy's offspring,
and he just HAPPENS to receive vital secret information
that just HAPPENS to be housed in a droid he's worked with during covert operations in the past.
Shit, I guess this galaxy's like a small town, everybody just keeps bumping into people they're related to.
Without meaning to, right?
Over and over again, right?

Theoretically Kenobi's in hiding, though if Vader sent Leia, either he or Leia seems to know where Kenobi's at...
Differences aside, the threat of the Death Star might be enough to unite sworn enemies, with Leia acting as diplomatic liason.
(Unless Leia's doing something really weird on her own, wrangling Kenobi's help for her own ends...
Kenobi's behavior on the Death Star has me leaning toward the idea that Vader and Kenobi are working together with Leia, though...
Indeed. The thought plickens. More on that later)

What must be at stake for these bitter enemies to be working together?
For Vader's daughter to get involved on Vader's behalf...
For Vader himself to be asking for Kenobi's help...
Turns out there are worlds hanging in the balance.
Even so, Kenobi is so vindictive he still takes time to brainwash Vader's kid.
What happened between these two to produce such hatred?