re: #277 Sherlock Hound

If Lucas had been a gifted scriptwriter, the Jedi Order could have been an endless source of dramatic storylines. To the extent I can talk about the SWEU as “real”, I’m more than willing to believe that the Jedi Order was always corrupt from early on. One novel, forget which, even has a Jedi saying that the Order and the Council were always fighting the last war.

My favorite example of Jedi attitudes was in one of the Corran Horn novels. The younger Horn, who is Force-sensitive, is getting a pompous lecture from Luke, you know the kind, “The Jedi have to be SO good and SO pure”.

Horn stops him by talking about his father, the detective. And the gazillion credits worth of glitterstim that his department seized in an investigation.

Dad’s not a Jedi, remember. Horn ends the conversation by saying if the Jedi, or *that* Jedi (Luke) didn’t think his dad wasn’t thinking about that glitterstim or what it represented, he was stupid. I imagine the Jedi alienated a lot of people along the way in the first three episodes, and before.

That was one of the best scenes in any of the EU books. After Luke condescendingly claims that Horn doesn’t understand the dark side, Horn, a law-enforcement officer, goes on to point out that he could have executed the murderer of his father, also a LEO, in the middle of his agency HQ and everyone there would have said the murderer was resisting arrest, but Horn didn’t do it.

Another bonus for that scene was to call bullshit on Kevin J. Anderson’s white-washing of Kyp Durron’s murder of a billion people. It was a huge take that from Michael Stackpole.