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1. First woman to enter deep space, Christina Koch, went as a mission specialist to help test the preventative measures against the radiation that causes cancer in the ships, and primarily affects women. It affects men too but less so. Christina's literally so inspiring to me.

2. This mission and further Artemis missions are testing safety concerns to help push the boundary of what we've been able to explore up to this point. Safety is the primary purpose of the trip. This is the first step to exploring Mars and further planets! Including Europa (my beloved.)

3. Before this, only 24 humans have ever entered deep space. Of that 24, 5 are alive today and they're all in their 90s. We very much needed a newer trip to help confirm or change whatever information we had from years and years ago. Having 4 living testaments of space exploration is a very important part of keeping said exploration alive.

4. Even though it wasn't the primary purpose of the trip, we've gotten so many rare pictures! Including my favorite "Hello, World" taken by commander Reid Wiseman:

There's a reason he's so concerned about how Anakin's behavior will reflect on him and there's a reason Anakin is so quick to his defense if anyone Else criticizes Obi-Wan and that reason is; Obi-Wan is Not the perfect Jedi.

Sure, when Qui-Gon was alive, Obi-Wan rebelled against Qui-Gon's natural need to rebel, but as soon as Qui-Gon died Obi-Wan swore to uphold his legacy. This is where the problem truly started.

after this, Obi-Wan spends most of his post Padawan life on Very Thin Ice and with the Council assigning him the most dangerous missions, seemingly hoping that he and Anakin won't make it through the war because they are not considered post war men (Anakin especially) and because Obi-Wan Kenobi has a personality, an interiority, a personal identity and is also Super Famous with all the younglings for the Maul thing so he will Always be a great example of a bad apple spoiling the bunch, especially because:

Maul is also a great example of Obi-Wan's most damning trait, because he is always going into overkill mode, severing limbs, and generally committing ubermurder instead of regularly scheduled Jedi self defense.

it's a trait i wish more people explored as well because it's one that is Very On Screen in TPM and AOTC, especially in his early interactions with Anakin in that movie. They go from laughing in the elevator to Obi-Wan undermining and infantalizing him, looking like he wants to throttle the kid whenever Padme is even vaguely around.

He wants to get physical with Anakin in a genuinely angry way. he wants to put that boy in his place and have him accept it, have him be good. But that would be a flagrant violation of the Code which he HAS to live to the letter because he Knows he was supposed to flunk out, he Knows he was never meant to be a Knight, let alone a Master. That it's a fluke, that it's pure luck. That it's his anger that somehow got him here and he cannot pass that on to Anakin, a boy who has definitely been struck in anger before. A boy who suffers from anger of his own, which if fed could consume him.

@tyrannid these thoughts are way too good to be left in the tags

I think the Jedi are the same way in a lot of capacities. I think about Jocasta Nu, the way she flagrantly denies facts because her library is the best, bitch. she curated all this. If it's not in the collection it doesn't exist.

She gets Angry at Obi-Wan for questioning her, not for asking questions at all, but for questioning her foundations as a person, her deeply held beliefs about herself and the order, her life's work.

When Obi-Wan gets angry at Anakin it's at specific times, when Anakin is not questioning what they are doing, but the wisdom of doing it, invalidating Obi-Wan's life experience.

And Qui-Gon was always quick to shut down Obi-Wan's input which would make his feelings about this issue even stronger, so again, yeah, Qui-Gon is not equipped for the tutelage of students let alone the raising of children.

also, this is very much a headcanon, i am aware, but obw does canonically lecture anakin abt The Economics of Politics and how he shouldn't trust politicians in general bc even those who seem well-meaning have an agenda. so i wonder if this apparent insistence on following the letter of law when it comes to their mandate (they will only protect padme, not commit to catching the killer) is a little bit of posturing bc 1. anakin is misbehaving, 2. he is also inclined to dismissing padme, who seems pro-catching the assassin and 3. he would rather dedicate his efforts as a jedi to someone in greater need and with fewer resources as padme

so that automatically kind of positions him as the contrarian. in a way he is hypocritical about this, bc the first thing he does when padme is attacked is launch himself out of the fucking window, so HE is the one who initiates the pursuit of the assassin. so is it his innate sense of justice? adrenaline seeking? inability to allow someone to make the best of him?

Obi-Wan is so real to me because of this. I have known him so many times and i am Very Aware this is because Ewan and I have a cultural commonality as well as because he is So Very Hands On with the directors and producers through these three films.

Yes Obi-Wan questions himself when he has time and there's a trigger but he's also supremely confident in his ability to stick it with a laser sword if all else fails and a shit ton of patience.

HAVEN (2010 - 2015) ↳2x06 ― Audrey Parker's Day Off