message again:

https://youtu.be/8N_Cj3ZS9-A

She wasn’t asking to be rescued, she was asking him to come out of retirement and become “General Kenobi” again and to serve in the Rebellion effort to defeat the Empire. I’d remembered the message through the scope of what happened - Luke and Han rescued Leia and they escaped because of Kenobi sacrificing himself. But that wasn’t the plan - Kenobi was supposed to go to Alderaan where he’d be a general leading in the Rebel Alliance.

Given this - him having rescued Leia in the past is small potatoes compared to what she was asking, and it makes more sense for her to ask on behalf of her father for him to return to being a general as he was during the Clone Wars so many years ago.