gffa:Light of the Jedi | by Charles SouleFollowing up talking about Light of the Jedi’s structure an
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. -- source link
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