Don't apologize! I am so behind on tv shows, it's not even funny at this point. And since I follow SW blogs, I get the occasional SW: R post, which I find interesting.
I don't know if you've ever seen "Avatar: The Last Airbender", but your post reminded me of a scene there. The Avatar, having been raised by monks that all life is precious is having a hard time thinking of how to defeat the man who is trying to kill him and speaking with a past self, his past life tells him that as an Avatar, he cannot completely detach from life, as seeing it was his duty to protect it.
Which brings me to think that maybe that is what went wrong with the Jedi Order when it comes to non-attachment, by completely detaching themselves of the emotional side of it, they lost sight of how powerful emotions are, and how they can be both a good thing and in some occasions, a bad thing.
Those who have fallen seem to (to me at least) have experienced emotional isolation and since there is no support whatsoever, they fell to the dark side. Qui-Gon was close to falling after Tahl's death, Ani fell due to his mother's death and the fear for Padme's life and if those two cases show me something, is that while Ani could speak his fears with Padme herself, and she did what she could to sooth them, he still lacked more emotional support.
As much as I love Obi-Wan, I cannot help but to go back to the scene where Ani is speaking of his visions and he responds 'dreams pass in time', and I wonder if little comments like this made throughout the years made Ani weary of speaking with Obi-Wan.
So, I guess what I'm trying to say, is that perhaps by shutting themselves away, the Order was ill-prepared to deal with situations like these.
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I don't know if you've ever seen "Avatar: The Last Airbender", but your post reminded me of a scene there. The Avatar, having been raised by monks that all life is precious is having a hard time thinking of how to defeat the man who is trying to kill him and speaking with a past self, his past life tells him that as an Avatar, he cannot completely detach from life, as seeing it was his duty to protect it.
Which brings me to think that maybe that is what went wrong with the Jedi Order when it comes to non-attachment, by completely detaching themselves of the emotional side of it, they lost sight of how powerful emotions are, and how they can be both a good thing and in some occasions, a bad thing.
Those who have fallen seem to (to me at least) have experienced emotional isolation and since there is no support whatsoever, they fell to the dark side. Qui-Gon was close to falling after Tahl's death, Ani fell due to his mother's death and the fear for Padme's life and if those two cases show me something, is that while Ani could speak his fears with Padme herself, and she did what she could to sooth them, he still lacked more emotional support.
As much as I love Obi-Wan, I cannot help but to go back to the scene where Ani is speaking of his visions and he responds 'dreams pass in time', and I wonder if little comments like this made throughout the years made Ani weary of speaking with Obi-Wan.
So, I guess what I'm trying to say, is that perhaps by shutting themselves away, the Order was ill-prepared to deal with situations like these.