Yes, literally. Even closed off from the Force for all that time so he can't have done anything valuable. And of course, I mean this lasts until the events in TLJ.
There's technically a six year gap between Ben's turn and Rey's arrival on Ahch To. We don't know how long Luke was actually on the island because he had to find it first.
Honestly, the movies don't make it seem so at all. Sure you have the ships that came at the end of ep 9 but for all we know it was just Lando using his "charm" to convince them lol
It was the point of the epilogue scene in Last Jedi and the implication of the ships at the end of Rise. It's just that JJ's execution of the point was abysmal because he sucks.
TROS takes place a year after TLJ. Nobody joins the Resistance until Lando shows up. Sure sounds like he's the universal inspiration.
I keep seeing people say it, but it is really not true.
Both of them are fairly disillusion/broken over personal failures and ANH/TLJ is about them finding the spark to get over their failures and fight back.
A character who spent two decades of his life watching over the last hope of the galaxy while preparing to support said hope, knowing that he was probably going to end up having to sacrifice himself, isn't somebody broken and disillusioned over his failures. Obi Wan has a purpose. He serves that purpose without hesitation.
Obi-Wan didn't train shit. He didn't do anything to prep Luke outside that one day training lesson in ANH.
Our OT characters already defeated the Empire. They're not super heroes regardless of how much you want th fan fiction to make them so.
I didn't say preparing Luke. I said he was preparing. We know he spent part of those 19 years learning the whole force ghost thing. We know that he made the effort to save and prepare Anakin's lightsaber to specifically give to Luke. If we get into canonical side materials, we actually now know that he even did indirectly interact with Luke by secretly leaving him things that would encourage him wanting to eventually find a life beyond the farm. We also know that he specifically wrote shit down about the Jedi and his own background knowing Luke was going to eventually find it.
I think that's a fundamental misread of the Alec Guinness character. Obi Wan never quit the Jedi Order and he never abandoned his faith. Luke is the reluctant hero in ANH; Obi Wan has to press him to leave Tatooine and save the princes, and he teaches him about the Force without hesitating.
Even then, Yoda isn't even a reluctant master in general. He's just a reluctant master to Luke, who he has entirely all reason to not want to immediately train (and then just as immediately gets proven right!)
I mean, I definitely think it should have had a more apparent effect in the story, but keep in mind TROS is only about a year later, and it probably contributed to the volume and readiness of the massive fleet of ships at the end. He's still a legend in the canon universe.
All true, but there's nothing in Legends as good as Luke's arc in TLJ. I don't even think there's anything in Legends as good as Luke's appearance on the summit in TFA. The gulf in quality between the work by Legends authors and Mark Hamill's performance, driven by Johnson's script, is hilariously vast. There's no comparison.
He wasn't disillusioned with the Jedi Order like Luke was, sure. I don't see how you can look at Obi-Wan in TROS and ANH and say how the climax in TROS didn't impact him in terms of his attitude. Even just the notion of just dumping it on Luke showed how his perspective had changed compared to confronting Anakin on Mustafar.
The end of RotS has him going immediately from the biggest thing that could have possibly disillusioned him from the path of the Jedi to dutifully taking up a task given to him by Yoda to watch over Luke. His interpretation of Jedi philosophy may have changed some to become more open like Qui Gon's, but he isn't at all disillusioned with the Jedi or his role in the will of the force like Luke was.
If Obi Wan was broken and disillusioned about everything to the point of abandoning everything about his belief in what the Jedi ultimately stood for, sure.
Interestingly, the OT heroes only redeeming Vader and not defeating the Empire and the Emperor until Episode 9 was pretty much George Lucas' original concept for Episodes 6 to 9.
