Comments on: Obi-Wan Kenobi is a Clone

By: 420BAND

420BAND — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:23:58 +0000

Now you guys are messin’ with my memories man

“to many strands in the duders head”

F’n Clone?

By: Rodney

Rodney — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:54:24 +0000

The Holiday Special is Canon, and I dont have to get over it.

There is nothing in the holiday special that “ruins” Star Wars, just like the prequels don’t ruin the original trilogy.

Yes, the holiday special sucks ass, but just because it was poorly delivered, plotted and terribly acted.

You canceled out your own “contribution” when the OB-1 theory was disproven long before the prequels. Luke is the only one to call him Ben. Yoda calls him ObiWan in Jedi.

By: Luke

Luke — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:34:46 +0000

Thanks Rodney. I make a serious contribution to the debate on your theory, and the best you can do is tell me to get over the PT. The Chritmas Special must be canon too then, You get over that. Did you like my clones info?

By: Rodney

Rodney — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:11:57 +0000

Whether you like it or not doesn’t matter.

Its canon. Get over it.

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:19:33 +0000

You kind of missed out something with this. This is a theory from the OT time. In ANH Luke is suprised that the old man talked of being in ‘the Clone Wars’. The droids are people with names: C3PO and R2D2. The old man has two names. Ben Kenobi, and Obi-Wan Kenobi. OB-1!!!!!!!!! Is it a number/code name, almost like a droid, like he was MADE???
The theory is that Ben Kenobi was the original, and OB1 a clone. So that was scuppered in the trailer to the Phantom Dissappointment when Liam Neeson tells TurboBoy to meet ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ — so younger Ewan McGregor has that name, so…it seems ‘Ben’ was adopted by the old man, and was not the original name which the clone took on.

In ANH Leia, etc, know ‘Obi-Wan’ but he calls himself Ben — the original name. There is even a theory that Uncle Owen is also a clone. O-N!!!!
The people there to care/watch over Luke are all clones. It’s a good theory I think, and could be true–in the Original Trilogy.

Personally I don’t consider the Prequel Trilogy canon. ‘Cos it’s shit.

By: Rodney

Rodney — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:12:53 +0000

Mares, if you were reading above you would have noticed that there is a long history in the authorized canon expanded universe of Clones with force powers.

The main dark Jedi in Timothy Zahn’s Thrawn Trilogy of books was a clone with his powers intact, and there is even a later storyline of the Emperor himself returning in a younger cloned body – with force powers.

Just sayin.

By: Mares

Mares — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:33:24 +0000

I don’t think he could be cloned. I mean, even i the memories were copied, his ability with the force wouldn’t have. Now, i he was cloned to develope faster (like the clones from Jango Fett) still, he wouldn’t be so old.

Great imagination, though.
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By the way, I totally agree with the first post. It would have been really cool to watch Anakin on his trials, and the multiple times that he saves Obi-Wan (as mentioned on episode 3).

By: Rodney

Rodney — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:52:06 +0000

George Lucas also had origin stories that had the Wookies as the main threat in the galaxy and there was no luke or leia… Han and Luke were one in the same.

There were lots of “proposed” ideas Lucas had in his original 28 chapter long story. I am sure some of those could have potentially rolled over into the final 6 chapter product.

By: wil masisak

wil masisak — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:36:41 +0000

“I think that I first heard this theory about ten years ago. The person who told it to me speculated that the name Obi-wan could be from his clone’s serial number: OB-1.”

ding ding… we have a winner. your friend is simply recalling something from the deep recesses of memory or something. George Lucas gave backstories for the characters in ‘77 or ‘78 in which Ben Kenobi’s clone was named OB-1 (which is the character from the series. Also, Ben Kenobi was much older than OB-1 would have appeared in the movie. Wasn’t he a contemporary of Yoda?

By: john zero

john zero — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:24:01 +0000

“Excellent point Nick. I forgot about the accelerated life span. Let’s check the math.

In Ep1, Obi-Wan is 25
Ep2, 10yrs later, Obi-Wan is 35
Ep3, 3 yrs later, Obi-Wan is 38
Ep4, 19yrs later, Obi-Wan is 57

Clones are accelerated in their lifespan to age nearly double the rate on normal. At nearly double, a clone of Obi-Wan would be about 29yrs old in Ep4. 29-19 would make him 10 at Ep3. So if the time line of Ep2 were moved back to take place 10yrs prior to Ep3, then this theory might actually work out.”

Calvin and Nick, unless you forget Jango Fett had a certain clone made for himself, better known as Boba Fett, who was unaltered and grew at a normal rate so he could raise him as his own child.