gffa:gffa:Light of the Jedi | by Charles SouleFollowing up talking about Light of the Jedi’s structu

gffa:gffa:Light of the Jedi | by Charles SouleFollowing up talking about Light of the Jedi’s structure and how it’s definitely aware of the parallels to the prequels’ Jedi Order, these were the context I had in mind when I came to these moments.“If you said you would try to do something, people heard that as you would do something, and if you didn’t achieve the goal then they thought you had failed. And blamed you for trying at all.”“But this was the solution he had. He had to try—even though he knew what would happen to him if he failed. That’s what good people did.“Me, after having yelled about this is the set up of Star Wars for like three years now, reading these moments:Yes, this is about an average citizen, but it’s also about the themes of Star Wars on a macro level, especially given that this book and this entire multimedia project has been centered around Being About The Jedi Order (and that “sometimes the Jedi are too useful” line is really, really telling about how it’s setting up exactly this), I think it’s fair to draw parallels here, but even just on a thematic level, this is such a true thing about the galaxy far, far away.If you say you’ll try to do something, people hear that you will do something. That if you don’t meet the goal, then you failed and they’ll blame you for trying at all.  But you still try anyway, because that’s what selfless people do.NOTHING COULD DESCRIBE THE JEDI ORDER’S ROLE IN THE CLONE WARS MORE.  THEY WERE PUT ON A PEDESTAL, SAID THEY WOULD TRY TO HELP, THE GALAXY EXPECTED MIRACLES FROM THEM, AND WHEN THEY COULDN’T END THE WAR IN THE TIME THAT THE PUBLIC WANTED, THEY BLAMED THE JEDI FOR GETTING INVOLVED AT ALL.BUT THE JEDI HAD TO DO IT ANYWAY, BECAUSE THEY BELIEVED PEACE WITHOUT JUSTICE WAS THE PEACE OF TYRANNY, BECAUSE PEOPLE’S LIVES WERE AT STAKE, AND BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT GOOD PEOPLE DO.  THEY TRY TO HELP ANYWAY, EVEN IF THEY KNOW IT MIGHT DESTROY THEM.bingo this this this The Jedi did their best and they gave their all they gave their lives but they were overwhelmed through little fault of their own because they couldn’t do it all on their own (via @raina16)There’s a passage in the book that supports this really well:  “But the key was this—and Chancellor Soh believed it to her very soul, and had made it the cornerstone of her entire government: You could not solve those problems individually. It was ridiculous to even try. What you could do, however, was make the various peoples of this high era of the Galactic Republic see one another as people. As brothers and sisters and cousins and friends, or if nothing else, just as colleagues in the shared goal of building a galaxy that welcomed all, heard all, and did its best to avoid hurting anyone. Truly tried its best.”Really, the book is very much about how the whole point is that everyone works together in good faith, that they are stronger when they work together, rather that in disparate parts.And that very thing is also supported by the Obi-Wan & Anakin comic:“I am stronger as part of the Jedi Order than I could ever be alone.”This is in a comic that uses the context of how Obi-Wan isn’t just part of the Jedi Order, but that the Jedi Order are part of the Republic, under the Senate, that he was able to actually do something here because a Jedi called for help, the Republic listened because he was a Jedi.And the difference between the High Republic and the Rise of the Empire era wasn’t that the Jedi were doing things differently–literally almost every single thing the Jedi say or do is a parallel to something the prequels Jedi have done in canon already as well–but that, here, the galaxy stood up to help.Whereas during the Clone Wars?  “The rift in the galaxy is not our fault.  If more worlds would stand up for themselves against the Separatists, this war would have been over long ago.”That’s it, that’s the difference.  And you can see the story leading up to this, Light of the Jedi makes a point of how miraculous the Jedi are, how useful the Jedi are, how they always deliver on what’s asked of them and more beyond that, that they’re just so good in a combat situation.If the rest of the galaxy had stood up with the Jedi, instead of putting it all on them because they were just so useful, then it would have been an entirely different story. -- source link

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