Leia doesn't get to reunite with Obi-Wan, and instead, just before escaping with Han and Luke, she sees his murder. Of course, Leia doesn't know Darth Vader is her father yet, either in A New Hope and certainly not in Obi-Wan Kenobi. But for the most part, the narrative focus of A New Hope is on Luke.
She also knows Obi-Wan, and she knows him well. Her holographic plea for help, already iconic, will never be the same. She knows Obi-Wan's real name as well as his alias of “Ben.” When Luke comes barging into her cell and says, “I'm here with Ben Kenobi,” Leia jumps off the bunk in an instant.
Obi-Wan came to the Death Star to save Leia from the Empire's clutches, but was killed by Darth Vader while the others were busy escaping. Leia didn't see Obi-Wan again, nor did she experience any sadness when she learned of his death.
While Leia knew Obi-Wan Kenobi as a child, she may not have connected the dots to Obi-Wan's true identity as she met him when the Jedi Master went as Ben Kenobi. When Luke rescues Leia from cell 2187 and mentions "Ben Kenobi," Leia jumps up and is ready to go find him.
Obi-Wan's impact on Leia is equally as meaningful. After rescuing her multiple times, she views him as a protector. When the two are parted, she is not only frustrated that he would leave her but also concerned for his safety.
Leia does not seem to react to tragedy. Instead, she has this wonderful ability to stay perfectly alert, reasonable, and careful of the feelings of others. She witnessed the destruction of her entire planet, and still had the mental and emotional strength to escape with Luke and Obi-Wan.
During the iconic opening moments of Star Wars: A New Hope, Darth Vader has a tense confrontation with Princess Leia, an adversary who, unknown to him, is actually his daughter. Despite participating in Leia's interrogation, the Sith Lord doesn't uncover his familial connection with the rebellious royal.
Theory 1: Leia Doesn't Remember Ben Is Obi-Wan
Throughout her encounters with Kenobi in the series, he refers to himself as Ben. The most straightforward explanation would be that Leia knows the person who rescued her is Ben, and never connected the dots that Ben is actually Obi-Wan.
Obi Wan Kenobi is set ten years after the events of Revenge of the Sith and Order 66, making Leia around 10 years old. The series sees young Leia captured by bounty hunters under the orders of Inquisitor Reva (Moses Ingram) as a plan to lure out Kenobi, who had been living in exile after Order 66.
Why does Obi-Wan Kenobi age like that? Because he's not real, and is a fictional character played by different people. You see, Obi-Wan Kenobi is played by Alec Guinness in the original trilogy. Guinness was 62 when he filmed A New Hope, and he died in 2000.
The twins were split up, with Luke going to Tatooine with Obi-Wan while Bail took Leia to Alderaan. Later, the children born on humble Polis Massa would change the fate of the galaxy.
The ambush on Alderaan was a kidnapping of Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan by Vect Nokru and his crew at the behest of the Third Sister, who had Organa brought to the planet Daiyu in order to lure out fugitive Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, an old associate of Senator Bail Organa in 9 BBY.
At the end of the war, Bail Organa adopted Padmé's daughter Leia and raised her as an Alderaanian princess.
The first time, Obi-Wan tells Leia she reminds him of someone “fearless and stubborn,” a “leader who died a long time ago.” While it's possible he was referring to Satine Kryze (voiced by Anna Graves in the Clone Wars animated show), it seems more likely he was talking about Padme.
Star Wars is finally exploring Leia's emotional reaction to the revelation Darth Vader was really her father - as her identity is transformed. Star Wars has finally revealed Princess Leia's reaction to learning Darth Vader was her father.
In the story, we learn that Obi-Wan took on the name Ben because it's a nickname given to him by an old flame, the Duchess Satine Kryze. He takes on the name because it still has emotional resonance for him.
For Leia to name her son Ben Solo is the greatest honor, with Obi-Wan's memory able to live on in someone she loves. It is a sweet and moving gesture, and it retroactively addresses the questions that lingered around the Ben Solo name. After all, why name your child after someone who was important to someone else?
But when the first two episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi premiered late Thursday night, they focused primarily on the other Skywalker twin: a young Princess Leia, played by Bird Box actress Vivien Lyra Blair.
Leia and Han had three children, and they named their youngest son Anakin after Anakin Skywalker, Leia's biological father. Since Luke was the twin to spend more time with Obi-Wan in the old canon, it made sense that he, not Leia, was the one to honor Obi-Wan when naming his child.
The character is supposed to be ten, but the actor doesn't look a day older than seven, and half the time she sounds like a wise for her years high school student. I'm enjoying the show over all, but this character just feels off.
Not a Jedi, but "a leader." Kenobi is of course talking about Padmé Amidala, Leia's biological mother, but she doesn't realise that at this point. Seeing Padmé's fire within Leia reminds Obi-Wan of the people he's lost, and ultimately, why he needs to keep on fighting.
Encased in a distinctive silver-and-copper hilt, Leia's lightsaber used a naturally-occurring blue kyber crystal, much like Luke's original saber that he had inherited from his father by way of Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Reva knows that Anakin Skywalker is Darth Vader because she was one of his targets—a child—during the Order 66 killings that took place during the events of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.
Darth Vader only learned he had a daughter in Return of the Jedi - but there's no evidence he realized she was Leia before his death and redemption.
This is not because the Third Sister knows that Leia is Anakin Skywalker's child; it is because the Third Sister found a link between Obi-Wan and Bail Organa and she believed Obi-Wan would do anything to save Bail's daughter.