#pro jedi

The amount of people who do not understand what "attachment" means to the Jedi is honestly a little frightening. Even though the explanation is just one Wookiepedia search away:

One thing I think people overlook when they say "the Jedi should have listened to Dooku on Geonosis" is that Dooku had already betrayed the Jedi Order. Regardless of whether or not you think his disillusionment with the Jedi Order was valid, he quite literally betrayed all of them in the worst way possible.

Dooku could have just walked away, but instead he decided to weaponize the compassion of the people who had trusted him for years, and he fell to the dark side. Dooku became cruel, unmoved by the plight of others, used his own powers to oppress, and killed without mercy.

What reason did the Jedi have to even trust Dooku on Geonosis? Why would the Jedi suddenly take Dooku at his word after he had already demonstrated that he was willing to deceive, manipulate, and kill? "Well Dooku was right and the Jedi were too arrogant to believe him" when he fully betrayed their trust. Obi-Wan rejected what Dooku was offering because he refused the dark side, but he still reported everything that Dooku said to him back to the Jedi Council afterwards.

The Jedi address this at the end of Attack of the Clones. They make it a point to keep a closer eye on the Senate, which becomes increasingly difficult for them to do because the war is keeping them occupied. It's almost like Dooku telling Obi-Wan about Darth Sidious but not telling him that Darth Sidious was Supreme Chancellor Palpatine was all part of the whole game. He revealed just enough to make the Jedi suspicious, but that still wasn't much to go on. Even if they had suspected Palpatine was the Sith Lord, they had no proof.

It's not an accident this was revealed to them just as the Clone Wars began. It wasn't like the Jedi were standing around doing nothing while Darth Sidious gained more and more power. They were dying in a war they actively tried to avoid. A war that was orchestrated by two Sith Lords whose ultimate goal was the destruction of the Jedi Order and, eventually, unlimited power.

like anakin being a slave in his childhood isn't some sort of divine trial that tests both the Order and the Republic on whether they have the right to live and need "divine cleansing". The Force is not God or any mythological gods, it is an energy field that is sustained by the living. The slave part of Anakin's story is an easy way for the audience to realise anakin's character flaws and what he will struggle with his whole life. Star Wars is sometimes that deep but these are kid's movies that supposed to be easy to understand. Anakin can't be some sort of space Jesus because Jesus actually lived a sinless life and sacrificed himself to right humanity's wrongdoings and offer a path to forgiveness. Anakin murdered an entire tribe then went on to become the right-hand man to the equivalent of Hitler. People should stop reading the "born of no father" part of the prophecy and start thinking about the "destroy the sith and bring balance to the Force". The sith are killed, balance is regained. It's that simple.

At the same time Anakin is not Zeus hiding himself as an old man and beggar and goes out to some village to see if they are compassionate with him. And when the village failed with the exception of an old couple, they were flooded and the village destroyed while the old woman and man were rewarded by turning into a tree as a symbol of love everlasting.

There's so few of them left, and they're all scattered to the winds so even FINDING another Jedi was a miracle in and of itself, let alone surviving long enough to develop feelings for each other. But of COURSE they develop feelings for each other because the intensity of emotions about just having another Jedi around would already be so high that it doesn't take much to evolve in certain other directions. But they're also still JEDI, so they're trying so so hard to avoid letting that intensity become a full blown attachment where they can't let go of each other if it comes to that, especially since the chances of survival are so low.

No one would understand them or what they're going through like another Jedi, no one would be able to connect with them on certain levels like another Jedi, but they're also a constant reminder of everything they've lost at the same time because maybe they never would've met or fallen in love with each other at all if they hadn't been through this shared tragedy. It doesn't make what they've lost or what they've gone through worth it of course, they'd both probably give up the relationship in a heartbeat if it meant Order 66 had never happened, but that doesn't mean that the relationship isn't meaningful in their current reality. It makes things better, it makes them happier and more hopeful, and that's worth the risk of being discovered or losing each other.

Ieea Skunnel: Duros Jedi Padawan