Star Wars: Season 2, Episode 3: Children of the Jedi
When a datacube with the location of force-sensitive children in the galaxy is stolen: Mace Windu, Anakin and Obiwon Kenobi work together. And what do they do to the thief? They magnify the Mind Trick by doing it together.
This scene made me really uncomfortable. They break his will. They force their will upon him. They don't give him a choice, and invade his mind against his will.
Dammit, Jedi. You're supposed to be the good guys.
Of course, at the same time, Palpatine is stealing jedi children and conducting weird experiments on them. So, that's worse, i guess?
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Noah Stevens The more I watch of this series, the more I agree with that. I was able to box off the prequels due to perceptions of quality, but this series seems perfectly reasonable. Every step the jedis take -- every egregious violation -- seems in line with how they have been presented. And the Republic trusts them, and that is really misplaced. But, if you can't trust superhuman wizard samurais that report to you, who can you trust?
ReplyDeleteI don't understand your last statement. Can you rephrase? I'm not parsing.
This is the point of the Clone Wars series. Also, most of this has come to pass because of Darth Sidious's careful and well thought out planning.
ReplyDeleteThe corruption is every where, and that's Darth Sidious's special Sith power.
David Hawkins Yeah. I tend to see things as PbtA games. From time to time, it looks like the PCs in charge of Obi and Anakin make 6- force rolls, and Palaptine moves a countdown clock ahead. And the galaxy becomes a worse place.
ReplyDeleteThe sad thing is: They think they are winning the war.
Well, from there perspective, and by the numbers, why would they think anything else? That false sense of security, and blinded by their own hubris was a key factor what made Order 66 so successful.
ReplyDeleteOh, so you meant something like "Vader invalidates and damages Luke by what and how he tells him the truth" ?
ReplyDeleteok. Earlier, it was unclear to me that that was how you meant it.
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