It's a chivalric love story

The ideal Jedi as chevalier sans reproche. A knight in a shining armour

Dolly Parton is the living embodiment of the Force

the jedi as an organization in the prequels are the institutionalized version of that philosophy, where the personal moral code that drives the individual jedi has led the group to ally themselves with the state they see as most deserving. the jedi are no longer these lone actors, but an organization of dedicated lone actors. they enact those core principles from the OT on large scale, and wage war based on their moral principles; a large part of the reason why the jedi agree to fight in the clone wars, despite the fact that they see themselves as peacekeepers, is because the sith are on the other end of it and the sith must be persecuted for the sanctity of the force. their power as an individual is multiplied thousands of times over; they’re not longer the fantastical idea of the mysterious lone knight, they’re the order of knights empowered by their service to the republic. the jedi very much get written as a fantastical ideal and then that’s deconstructed in the next film series, which i think is a really fun choice - there was nothing in the original trilogy indicating that george lucas had to stick his order of knights to the republic, they could have very well been some guys in the middle of nowhere doing arcane shit. he could have kept that idealized fantastical approach; but, now we have the space knights templar. do you think the jedi get paid in land holdings that’d be fucking hilarious

idk GL sucks man