re: #224 goddamnedfrank

On top of all that Lucas, I think unintentionally, made the Jedi Order out to be a bunch of amoral child exploiting cock-bags. Their tacit condoning of slavery already cast them in a very dubious light, but choosing to keep Anakin while letting his mother remain a slave without at least trying to go back and purchase her freedom was just an unforgivable decision. Amidala didn’t see fit to do shit about the situation either, though you can kind of overlook that since she wasn’t really an adult yet had her own planet to worry about, but the Jedi? Was this how they treated all the children they trained? Just take them from their parents under duress, without any real consent, and leave them with gigantic levels of unresolved emotional damage?

That movie was fucked on so many levels, but when it was over I couldn’t bring myself to give the tiniest fuck about whatever horrible fate awaited the Jedi.

Geez, I never thought about it like that before. I remember the slavery bit in The Phantom Menace and thinking “Wow, that’s cold”, but your explanation really does paint the Jedi as a lot less noble than people view them.

Unless that was Lucas’s intention all along. Not sure I should credit the guy who gave us Jar Jar Binks with that much deep thought.