I keep seeing pro-Jedi posts about how "attachment" in Star Wars is referring possession/obsession and not healthy relationships and like...guys Yoda literally says in ROTS to not mourn or miss deceased loved ones because that is the "shadow of greed". Can anyone else not see how messed up that is?
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a jedi shall not know anger. nor hatred. nor love.
that's literally in a poster for episode ii. the jedi code forbids all attachments, not just unhealthy ones. it's the whole moral of the story, that the order became too detached, no pun intended, to the point where they didn't know how to handle a nine year old, who *gasp* missed his mother.
I’ve addressed this so many times, and I always try to point out that the Jedi do not permit FAMILY bonds, so that is what they are considering to be ‘negative attachments’. The concept of people being forbidden from having families is a common feature in dystopian sci-fi stories, and was in fact the premise of Lucas’ first film:
-https://www.tumblr.com/the-far-bright-center/706265350685278208/dystopian-themes-in-the-prequels
“Looking back is helpful in understanding his work. Lucas started out in the 1960’s as an experimental filmmaker heavily influenced by the a
-https://www.tumblr.com/the-far-bright-center/726910478885044224/the-jedi-dont-forbid-love-thats-not-what-they
As an OG Prequels fan, I didn't suffer through the last 20+ years of Prequels-hate just for people to try to tell me that the Jedi don't for
-https://www.tumblr.com/the-far-bright-center/726831459115139072/the-jedi-dont-forbid-love-thats-not-what-they
From The Phantom Menace novelization: "Anakin watched his mother appreciatively. Her lank, dark hair was beginning to gray, and her once gr
-https://www.tumblr.com/the-far-bright-center/726722141524049920/look-the-jedi-code-that-forbids-love-doesnt-just
look, the Jedi code that forbids love doesn’t just forbid possessive love or selfish love. It forbids love, period. It’s an important plot p
-https://www.tumblr.com/the-far-bright-center/726589490047713281/look-the-jedi-code-that-forbids-love-doesnt-just
Agree with all of this! The thing is, Anakin's tragic flaw that leads him to fall isn't even love, it’s his Fear of Loss, which is related t
-https://www.tumblr.com/the-far-bright-center/726647184512139264/the-far-bright-center-noctuamagna
“The difference with the prequel Jedi is that they are not really anti-heroes, but they aren’t classical heroes either like Luke Skywalker o
Aside agreeing with all you guys said, it also makes me facepalm when I see takes like "Luke learnt compassionate love with no attachments like the Jedi way" when his attachment to his father is what literally saved Anakin. What's more, when Anakin was dying, Luke didn't wanted to let go of his father ("No, you're coming with me. I'm not leaving you here, I've got to save you" and "Father, I won't leave you") and it was ANAKIN who had to reassure him that he already saved him and that nothing could stop his death right now, as if he wanted to give his son the comfort and advice the Jedi never managed to give him.
And don't get me started how Luke dropped his training with Yoda to save Han and Leia, despite that Yoda and Obi-Wan told him to not. While he ended with his ass kicked by Vader, he did learnt the truth that eventually would save his father and the Galaxy, so he wasn't wrong at all!
The majority of SW fandom doesn’t seem to give a shit about the actual story told in the Prequels and Original Trilogy—aka, the story of Anakin’s rise, fall, and redemption. They insist that the Jedi are the main protagonists of the story, when this is not the case. It’s not that the Jedi are the ‘bad guys’, either—it’s just that the Skywalker family is what the saga is actually about. The Sith vs. Jedi struggle is simply the *backdrop* against which the story is set. But many fans simply refuse to acknowledge the story at hand because not only do they want Star Wars to be primarily ‘about’ the Jedi, but they also prefer to cling to an escapist fantasy view of what ‘being a Jedi’ entails. A view that is based almost entirely on Obi-Wan’s few lines in ANH, and which oddly persists even in spite of the fact that Obi-Wan was proven to be a biased and unreliable narrator as early as ESB. I feel like the insistence that the Jedi were perfect and never did anything wrong is also at times a holdover from a certain section of fans who were into the post-RotJ EU material that came out prior to the Prequels, and who became heavily invested in a fanon idea of the pre-Dark Times Jedi that was ultimately overturned by the Prequels. This was, at the time, one of many reasons fans hated on the Prequels—it jossed their Jedi headcanons.
Another angle I have seen is people who do enjoy the Prequels, but who primarily love individual Jedi characters, and since they think they can only root for characters if they are 100% flawless and unimpeachable, they refuse to believe the Jedi were in fact already on a decline even before the saga begins. The Old Order had rejected the concept of family, something that is foundational to civilisation. Without it their fall was only a matter of time. Some insist that the Jedi Order was perfectly fine as it was and everything is solely Palpatine’s manipulations. Or worse, that everything bad that happens is solely Anakin’s doing. When, in reality, Anakin is literally a product of the Old Jedi Order and a symbol of their failures. But some fans insist on imposing their own idealised headcanons about an imagined warm and welcoming Jedi culture onto the Old Order, and refuse to see where the Order fell short, lost their way, and even at times actively made huge mistakes and failed themselves and others. It’s possible that the Order was once different, better. But that’s not the Jedi Order we are introduced to on-screen in TPM. There’s a refusal from these type of fans to ever even try to see the Jedi Order from little Ani’s perspective, even though that’s exactly what story is inviting us to do. Why is it inviting us to do that? Hmmm. Maybe it’s because that all-important theme of family.
