Episode I, Part I: The Beginning of the Beginning:
HAHAHAHA. As much as I would love some more Kenobi Backstory, I kind of love that THIS IS THE FIRST THING WE EVER HEAR OBI-WAN SAY. It’s perfect. RUN OBI-WAN RUN IT’S ONLY GETTING WORSE FROM HERE.
Qui-Gon Jinn, his Hippie-ish Space Dad, remarks that he doesn’t sense anything. LOL AGAIN. Of course you don’t, Jinn. No one in this universe ever really does. (Except Obi-Wan here, I guess, but that’s probably just because he hasn’t met Anakin yet and so he still has a few brain cells available to think about things other than “keep Anakin from accidentally killing himself/others” for the time being.)
(Ten bucks says Anakin stubbed his toe over on Tatooine and Obi-Wan’s just sensing it through the Force.)
…I just love the idea of Obi-Wan being like “something Deep and Dark and Mysterious and Definitely Very Important permeates the Force, Master” and it’s just like, Anakin getting a minor injury or eating some bad snake meat or something. Because in Obi-Wan’s world this probably WOULD be a Seismic Event.
I keep losing my shit at OBI-WAN’S FACE and “It’s not about the mission. It’s something… elsewhere, elusive.” and imagining a smash cut to Anakin stubbing his toe on Tatooine.
But also:
QUI-GON’S FACE. “Not this shit again.”
HE HAS BEEN DEALING WITH THIS FOR NINE YEARS NOW. OBI-WAN PICKING UP “SOMETHING ELUSIVE” IN THE FORCE, NEVER HERE IN THE PRESENT, JUST SOMEWHERE OUT THERE. OBI-WAN JUST KNOWS IT.
NINE.
YEARS.
QUI-GON HAS PUT UP WITH THIS. HE IS SO DONE.
Ok but consider an AU where Qui-Gon gets fed up and decides once and for all that they’re going to work out what is behind these feelings of Obi-Wan’s so he can stop getting distracted on mission. They end up playing a galactic game of “hot or cold” and causing all sorts of mayhem on their way to Tatooine…
Where they find a small child who Obi-Wan’s senses are screaming “this one!” about and Qui-Gon is torn between excitement about a potential Chosen One and dismay because he was rather expecting this whole exercise would prove to Obi-Wan once and for all that he just needed to keep his mind on the present!
And we’re all in agreement that Anakin has, of course, also been sensing Obi-Wan this whole time and goes bolting out of the door of the shop all IM OVER HERE IM OVER HERE ITS YOU ITS YOU when he senses that Obi-Wan is in his immediate vicinity, yes?
Well of course! I mean without whole “Queen in Peril” “Sith following us” drama Anakin’s senses are free to focus on the really important fact that Obi-Wan is RIGHT HERE!
It takes next to no time before the Jedi are dragged to see Shmi because “They’re IMPORTANT Mom!” and neither Anakin nor Obi-Wan have noticed that they’re still holding hands…
Qui-Gon and Shmi share a LOOK that is full of meaning. Predominantly “Oh thank that Force I’m not the only one who has had to put up with this” but more than a little “yeah, we’re not going to be separating them, better start planning” too!
Oh my god, I want to write this soooo Bad!! I’m just in love with The idea of the force just saying: “yup, those two dorks are going to save the universe TOGETHER or it just doesn’t get saved!” and then tying them together with a Nest bow on top
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