Remember when I said this last April:
I hope that Rian didn't go that way, and that the tease we get is just that- and instead we're getting a Save Old Man From Despair arc for Rey and Luke (with she doing for him what he did for Anakin). (The rest of the arc being the restoration of the Jedi from its ethical corruption as a tool of the Senate to being a pure expression of fulfilling a mission to the Galaxy to fulfill the Will of the Force- i.e. Qui-Gon Was Right; Season Six of The Clone Wars lays that out plainly.)
Nothing will get me committed to making a fork faster than proof positive that this form of pozzing is now policy- and yes, even something so beloved as that can be forked, successfully, and made to surpass it far sooner than you'd think.
That happened. Commitment made.
Bradford,
ReplyDeleteAs I didn't see the Clone wars consistently, how was Qui-Gon right about the Jedi? That they'd corrupted by identifying themselves with the republic? Thus was order 666 licit?
I never thought so because if I'd been a writer in the Expanded universe I'd have had a lot more Jedi survive like Asoka. In fact I'd have her represent the reformist branch of the Jedi.
Deep down, she realized that Qui-Gon was right and experienced firsthand how easily the Jedi got played as Anakin padawin.
I always regarded reformation of the Jedi to be the biggest squandered opportunity in the Expanded universe. It would've been really great to reflect on the unresolved tension that led to the republic's demise and pave a much more coherent mythos for the new trilogy via recrimination between the republican Jedi and the reformists.
xavier
Impossible as long as SJW-Disney controls the franchise. They can no more comprehend religion and mythology than sugar ants can do quantum mechanics.
DeleteThey are culture cargo cultists at best, and they will continue to deconstruct Star Wars, from failure to failure.
Disney delenda est.
Allow me to link you the segment where this gets laid out. It's part of an arc late in the series featuring Yoda and the mysteries of the Force: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g09-cvxdqqs
DeleteAnd yes, that is Liam Neeson reprising his role as Qui-Gon.
Qui-Gon was right is that the Jedi are to serve the Force, and nothing else. The Republic is not the Force, and by the Council becoming too entwined with the Senate they became too secular--too concerned with The World--and neglected their duty to the sacred.
The Sith (in Sideous) exploited this fact and lead the Jedi into a trap that would destroy them as an institution and leave a void that the Sith would fill to assume hegemony over the galaxy.
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