• jkure2@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s nice to reflect on how as a little kid I went and saw episodes 2 and 3 in theaters and thought the Jedi were so freaking cool man - then coming back to the series 20 years later having developed politics and realize the Jedi are pretty blatantly a corrupt, listless, doomed-by-its-own-inadequacy organization starting at the top.

    Palpatine/fascism are the bad guys but the Jedi are certainly not the good guys, in a way that went ten miles over my head at the time lol. These movies deserve more credit imo

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      1 year ago

      “Starting at the top” is especially true. I would argue that most if not all of the failures of the late-Republic Jedi can be laid entirely at Yoda’s feet.