The Jedi Order mainly being an institution about teaching makes me sad that we never see more "Jedi classes" outside of the popular ones like martial arts, healthcare and Force wackery.

Alongside basic language and science education etc there have to be at least some trade and college courses on offer, right? The Jedi need a bunch of their own people with law degrees. Proper pedagogy studies for future crèchemasters. Cooks. Managers. All types of engineers. Electricians. Accountants. Researchers. How many Jedi hold a doctorate or professorate? Because I think a large number of them do. Their databanks are filled with millennia of dissertations. You can still find Yoda's articles from 500 years ago and cite them in your history research paper.

The Order just having its own micro-economy going on and every member getting their own regular job education next to all the lightsaber swinging adventures... pls

I've been staring at this gif for ages and it's so funny.

Maul is just showing off and does this completely unnecessary jump to back away, doesn't bother to use the Force to open the doors but throws something at the controls.

AND FUCKING OBI-WAN KENOBI CASUALLY WALKS UP TO HIM, SWINGING HIS LIGHTSABER LIKE "YEAH I'M GONNA FUCK YOU UP BITCH"

The longer I look at it the funnier it gets. He's just not impressed at all lmao

EWAN MCGREGOR and HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN OBI-WAN KENOBI: A JEDI’S RETURN

Least fav SW head cannon is that Anakin would be a good parent, in the sense that his relationship with his kids would be healthy . Like i don’t think he would be able to handle his children growing into their own people. Since his relationship with Padme isn’t the healthiest (see him not trusting her ability to handle her ex, his willingness to kill an entire culture for her) I imagine that would bleed into this relationship with Luke and Leia.

Definitely agree with you. Anakin is someone who needs to be in control, and kids are incredibly uncontrollable, in the sense that unless you abuse them so they obey your every whim they're gonna be their own people with their own thoughts and are gonna drive you nuts at times.

I don't see Anakin being able to handle that, especially not as a young parent. In RotS we see how Anakin, 23, literally days away from being a father, reacts to things. We see that he is literally willing to choke his pregnant wife to the point of unconsciousness in a fit of rage.

You CANNOT convince me that that man wouldn't abuse his children in a fit of rage too, or that he wouldn't be controlling and manipulative, the way we see him behave in TCW towards Padme.

"Isn't our love more important?" (Anakin says this to Padme when trying to get her to skip work and come hang out with him on his meditative retreat) that's a red flag for emotional abuse right there lads!

So yeah, there is NO chance in my mind that the same Anakin Skywalker that we see in TCW and RotS would have a healthy relationship with his children.

In aus where things go very differently and his character is altered? Sure, you can have good dad Ani with a happy healthy family. But you can't with the guy we are shown in Lucas canon.

JUST THA BOYS.

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sighs. padme if i were in charge tbh

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“Anakin and Obi-Wan would never fight each other. They couldn’t. They’re a team. They’re the team. And both of them are sure they always will be.”

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Oh to be a scrappy 12 year old shooting cans and throwing rocks...

(Got out my sketchbook for the first time in ages to doodle some Luke n Ezra,,, ft more Luke )

[Star Wars: Episode I - Obi Wan Kenobi]

You know, it's really wild to me that a lot of Star Wars fans take their views of the jedi directly from the big bad Chancellor/Emperor Evil McBadguy. Just, uncritically regurgitating the bad guy talking points, like they're drinking kool-aid at the local cult, thinking that they're enlightened.

just wanted to draw Obi-Wan with a man bun

I never, ever say the Jedi were flawed, and here's why.

It's not because I don't think people can BE flawed, or that I don't think GOOD people can be flawed, of course they can. Even people who are genuinely doing good things and making good choices and trying their best to be selfless and kind and compassionate can make mistakes and have a bad day.

But there's really only two reasons I see anybody bring up "the Jedi were flawed."

The first is from Jedi fans who are trying to stave off the Stanakins and the anti Jedi crowd by adding that in as a disclaimer. "OF COURSE the Jedi are flawed, but it doesn't mean they aren't good people!" It's a meaningless statement because the side saying it doesn't even really believe it to be true and the side they're saying it TO thinks the Jedi being flawed means they all deserved to die. This is the kind of statement that leads to people deciding that individual Jedi are okay but their culture needs to be completely reformed in order to allow people like Anakin to just do whatever they want whenever they want and then they can all live.

The second is from people who DON'T really like the Jedi much and will insist that "the Jedi are flawed" is part of the whole point of the narrative of Star Wars, especially the prequels. This is the kind of statement that leads to people like Leslye Headland INSISTING that George Lucas intended for the story of the Jedi to be one of failure and criticism and casting the Jedi as "the evil institution" in her interpretation of Star Wars. This is what leads to stories like the Ahsoka show insisting that the Jedi were elitist bastards whose arrogance led to their own genocide. These people usually try to claim they like the Jedi, but they'll still cast the Jedi as the bad guys in the story instead of, say, Anakin. These are the people who genuinely have no idea what attachment is and don't care to learn. These people believe that, at best, the Jedi THOUGHT they were doing good, but that they had completely lost their way and were truly not that much better than the Sith anymore and their destruction was necessary to create balance in the galaxy.

I have no desire to appease people who don't like my interpretation of Star Wars, and I don't think that "the Jedi were flawed" was ever the point of Lucas's story and I genuinely think it takes a lot AWAY from his story to say that it does. So while I am perfectly happy to admit that people in general, even overall GOOD and kind and selfless people, are always flawed and can make mistakes, I will never, ever say that the Jedi were flawed. The Jedi lost, yes, but not due to their own flaws. They lost because of EVERYONE ELSE'S flaws, so what does it MATTER if the Jedi were flawed or not? If you truly believe the Jedi were good people who did everything right and simply lost due to other people's selfish choices, then what does it add to the story to insist the Jedi were flawed? How does it change anything, for the better or otherwise? The Jedi were right IS the point of the story, so insisting they were flawed actually takes away from that by distracting from how the Jedi were RIGHT, and it's people choosing not to listen to them or trust them or act like them that brings about the downfall of an entire galaxy.

The Jedi weren't flawed. The Jedi were RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING and that is the hill I will die on.