I doubt it. He was always excited about being in Star Wars and he loved the character. But just like many fans he thought the way they were written etc was NOT that good.



I consider myself a fan of the prequels, in some ways I may even like them more than the OT, if I'm really honest, but more because of what they could have been than because of what they are. Lucas got too caught up in the "ooooo shiny new toys/characters" to actually follow through on any of them and I felt Obi-Wan Kenobi as a character particularly suffered due to that.



Obi-Wan and Anakin's friendship was never really shown or convincing due to the set up. In TPM they kicked Obi-Wan to the curb for Qui-Gon, Qui Gon was given a more over-powering role in that movie than ANY other single character in any of the other SW films. Obi-Wan should have been the one to discover Anakin, Obi-Wan should have been the one who decided he should be trained. Qui-Gon could have supported him(which is what happened in the early drafts of the script) but it should have been Obi-Wan in accordance to the dialogue in the original trilogy.



Don't get me wrong, I really liked Qui-Gon, and I'd definitely still want his role to be significant, but Obi-Wan as the character who would go forward really needed the one to get the development and his and Anakin's relationship needed a real foundation.



It would have still been a great way to show Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon's relationship but allowing Obi-Wan to be the proactive character in it - we could have seen at the beginning Obi-Wan still being on Qui-Gon's case about picking up strays, then Qui-Gon sends him into town on Tantooine to buy the hyper drive and Obi-Wan ends up coming back with his OWN stray, like father like son, so to speak. Still not exactly the same, but showing how Obi-Wan was affected by being in the middle all those years between, basically, Yoda and Qui-Gon and their two very different point of views.



Anyway, neither here nor there...but I think Ewan, as both a fan and an actor, probably feels there was a lot of potential for Obi-Wan as a character and for him to play as an actor, that was never reached because as written and directed by Lucas he didn't really have the chance.



Edited at 2013-02-14 09:55 pm (UTC)