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DID WE ORDER A CLONE ARMY?

veryone makes 01
E mistakes, but some
errors of judgment
can have profound
consequences. Take
Obi-Wan Kenobi’s
confusion over the clone troopers he
uncovered on Kamino in Star Wars:
Attack of the Clones (2002), and the
Jedi Council’s immediate uncertainty
about the army’s existence. Their
response hardly reflected the wisdom
the galaxy expected from the Jedi.
The average citizen may see the
legendary Jedi as flawless, but Luke
Skywalker rebuked his predecessors
and brutally assessed their leadership
during a discussion with Rey on Ahch-
To. “Now that they’re extinct, the Jedi
are romanticized, deified,” declared Luke.
“But if you strip away the myth and
look at their deeds, the legacy of the
Jedi is failure, hypocrisy, hubris.”
Skywalker’s cynicism in Star Wars:
The Last Jedi (2017), while partially
stoked by his own mistakes with Ben
Solo, is bolstered by the events that take
place throughout the prequel trilogy. up in prophecy, Qui-Gon petitioned the In The Last Jedi, Luke directly called out
Let’s look at each of Luke’s damning Council to permit Obi-Wan Kenobi to Obi-Wan’s failure, telling Rey: “It was a
assertions, and consider the evidence face the Jedi trials, despite the fact that Jedi Master who was responsible for the
that bears them out. he himself admitted his Padawan needed training and creation of Darth Vader.”
to learn more about the living Force. For all their talk of prophecy
Qui-Gon’s foolish plan to rush a Jedi into and visions, the Jedi also lacked the
Failure knighthood in order to replace him with wherewithal to notice the ease with which
Chancellor Sheev Palpatine manipulated
Anakin as his new student displeased the
Council. Yet, Master Yoda later agreed to them. Following the bombing of Senator
Accusation: The Jedi remained knight Obi-Wan shortly after Padmé Amidala’s starship on
blind to their own recklessness, Qui-Gon’s death on Naboo at How can the Coruscant, the Chancellor
Palpatine’s manipulation of them, the hands of Darth Maul. suggested that she receive
and their lack of empathy for others. Obi-Wan’s emotional Jedi fight for Jedi protection until the
- connection to his master, justice when danger dissipated. To settle
Evidence: Luke Skywalker’s coupled with Qui-Gon’s dying they do not Padmé’s misgivings, Palpatine
critique of the Jedi centered on plea, motivated the freshly ‘innocently’ proposed that
value their
their blindness toward their own minted Jedi Knight to urge the senator’s old friend
shortcomings, which can be traced all Yoda to authorize him to ‘colleagues’ Obi-Wan Kenobi (along
the way back to Star Wars: The Phantom train Anakin. In a display of with his Padawan) take on
Menace (1999). Qui-Gon Jinn’s decision impudence—and channeling as equals? the assignment. Jedi Master
to support a boy’s participation in a Qui-Gon—Obi-Wan Mace Windu relented in an
clearly dangerous podrace never sat well threatened to take Anakin as a Padawan unusually enthusiastic fashion, outwardly
with Padmé, who took a moment before with or without the Council’s approval. pleased over the pair’s recent and
the Boonta Eve Classic to remark, “You Even so, allowing such an inexperienced ‘coincidental’ return to the capital planet.
Jedi are far too reckless.” Sending a child young Jedi the task of guiding someone The Chancellor effortlessly maneuvered
into deadly circumstances purely on a with so much potential seems both Anakin into a position where he could
hunch about his future? What could rash and ill-advised, particularly in rekindle his feelings for Amidala, creating
possibly go wrong? light of Yoda’s misgivings about Anakin a festering weakness that Palpatine would
Young Anakin Skywalker’s win not and, indeed, how Skywalker’s future be able to exploit in the coming years.
only confirmed his potential to Qui- eventually transpired. The idea that After a second failed assassination
Gon, it also highlighted the accuracy of Obi-Wan failed to properly train Anakin attempt, the Jedi Council believed that
Amidala’s scrutiny of the Jedi. Caught is certainly supported by the latter’s son. to ensure her protection they needed to

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