• Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
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    5 days ago

    Yoda and Ki Adi Mundi really should have put Anakin into a youth program under a different master and made Obi-Wan stay a padawan for longer.

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      4 days ago

      But that would require wisdom. This is the same console that didn’t understand what balancing the force meant. 10,000 v 2, hmm whats gonna happen if we balance that out?

      They should have sent that boy on his way home, hopes and dreams crushed. If they want to be extra safe, have an unfortunate air lock incident on the flight back.

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        According to Lucas himself balancing the force was just getting rid of the dark Jedi and sith. Had nothing to do with numbers, just getting rid of the dark side.

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            I didn’t say it was clever; this is Lucas and he is not in any way subtle. Convoluted at times but not subtle. So yeah the good guys destroying the bad guys and that being the end of it tracks pretty well. In fact unless it’s a Disney retcon the whole idea of balancing the force by equalizing light and dark force users was never taken seriously by the fandom since it makes no sense and disregards all non Jedi/sith force users. One of the few ideas from the sequels that was decent is that getting rid of both Jedi and sith, eliminating rigid doctrine and just letting force users use the force on their own is what brings balance, which I guess is the canon take? Anyway if the prophecy was about numbers of sith and Jedi Anakin fulfilled that prophecy right before Yoda died, assuming Yoda and Luke were the last living Jedi. But it all falls apart with Jedi in hiding. Basically none of it makes sense.

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          4 days ago

          They listened to the guy who bet everything on a kid winning a pod race to get some spaceship parts, and worse, he brought Jar Jar back with him.

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          Bad opinion. The whole downfall of the Jedi came about because they alienated the chosen one and were hypocrites blinded by their own high minded bullshit. Yoda et al. taught the jedi equivalent of abstinence only sex but for feelings. Works great until someone fails to keep it in their pants and now you have no backup plan to deal with natural consequences of biology. Add to it that the guy is the most naturally gifted force user the galaxy has ever seen and is being actively groomed by space Hitler while the counsel asks him to keep talking to him to see what this whole fire in the Reichstag is about. Like Jesus Christ just teach him to be emotionally stable instead of emotionally repressed and maybe his outbursts tone down a notch. As much as he’s not guilt free if we are tossing Anakin to a new master I vote Windu. Or a more honest Obi Wan.

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            Windu dabbled too much in the Dark Side to take on a padawan safely by the time he’d moved to working on developing Form VII, which required use of the Dark Side as a weapon. Same with Yoda, who used Force Lightning.

            I’d suggest instead that Obi-Wan be handed to Ki Adi Mundi, and Anakin (if he’s trained at all), be handed off to Kit Fisto.