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THX 118?
date posted: Jul 31, 2007 6:47 PM
A memory wipe?
Hello there all. Some of you must be saying, "Whoa, who's this?" Well I've been here for quite some time just haven't had anything to blog about. I've been meaning to do this one for quite some time now I just simply kept forgetting. So now I'm finally getting around to it.

May 19, 2005. A day I will never forgot. Or will I? Of course I remember watching the final installment into the Star Wars saga. I remember the aplause at simply the Lucas Film Ltd. logo. And I remember the movie. I think.

Of course I've gotten it on DVD and watched it several times again since then but something always bothered me. Something that they seemed to have changed at the end. But it was a while between viewings of the Theatrical version and the DVD release. So I figured it was just memory. But the more I thought about it the more it bugged me.

At the end when Obi-Wan disposes of Vader in that oh-so familar fashion and Vader rolls down to be burt to a crisp, Obi picks up Anakin's lightsaber. Now this is where I get confused. I could have swore that in the theatrical release after Obi-Wan picks up Ani's lightsaber he said something along the lines of, "Our lightsabers, crafted together. Made so similarly." Something like that. About their lightsabers being similar. Now in the DVD there is no such dialouge which first made me think.

What else made me ponder was that I remember reading something on here about that dialouge. There were complaints that their lightsabers had no similarity at all and it was a stretch for Lucas to attempt to make that connection between them.

I was so concerned because when I asked my friend who I saw the movie with whether he remembered that part he just shook his head and looked at me strangely.

So if someone could tell me whether I'm completely insane or that I'm right and have a good memory. Either one would be helpful.

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  yodabud3
Star Wars is Inevitable.
date Posted: Jul 31, 2007 7:40 PM
My memory is pretty bad but when it comes to star wars my memory is nearly perfect. Obi-wan never said anything like that, unless you watched ROTS in an alternate universe, then maybe.....;
MissPadme
Miss Padme's Naboo Love Nest
date Posted: Jul 31, 2007 7:43 PM
I saw ROTS 13 times in the theater and I never once heard that line. You might have read it in the comic adapation or the novelization.
  Granny-Wan
I Am NOT an Old Fossil!
date Posted: Jul 31, 2007 8:11 PM
Not in the movie, nor in the novelization... maybe in someone's blog? Or a kids' book... other than a blue blade, there wasn't any similarity between their sabers...
  JadenNightsaber
THX 118?
date Posted: Jul 31, 2007 8:59 PM
Then I must be crazy.
  Captain Peabody
date Posted: Aug 01, 2007 9:00 AM
I think what you were probably thinking about was some comments on the blogs involving Palpatine's comment to Luke that his lightsaber was 'much like your father's'. Many people had complained that their lightsabers were nothing alike...
This is the only thing I can think of.....;
  Master Deireanach
date Posted: Aug 09, 2007 8:07 AM
I know I've read that somewhere about the similarities between Anakin's and Obi's lightsabers. and at first glance they looking nothing alike, however if you look closer you'll see that they are almost the smae except that Anakin's has an extra casing around the upper part of the hilt. If you go to master replicas website and check out the two you'll see what I mean.

MTFBWY
  Sith-hata
date Posted: Aug 21, 2007 9:57 AM
True. If you remove the shroud that encases the end of Anakin's lightsaber then you will see that his and Obi-Wan's do look similar. Remember both he and Obi-wan lost their original blades on Geonosis and constructed their "OT" lightsabers afterward. They more than likely constructed them together and modeled them after each other out of respect for one another.
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