Full Series Things in Star Wars That TCW Fixed Accidentally

I'd probably say it did both. Yeah, there's The Hidden Enemy and Cat & Mouse, but there's also Brain Invaders and Kidnapped.

 

An author writes books after books of unsubtle anti-Jedi propaganda, and the fans violently react to defend the Order. The crew of a tv show meant for kids present the Jedi as good men who make some big mistakes but still have their heart in the right place, and the fans start questioning it. That is great. Absolutely great. I don't see what the problem is.

 

Maybe someone should make a "Things in Star Wars That TCW Screwed Up.. Even More!" thread?

 

The issue is the same problem evident in Troy Denning's work. Whereas Karen Traviss openly and honestly states that she's not particularly a fan of the Jedi for several legitimate reasons, she still writes Jedi as flawed but well-intentioned, in general they're doing-the-best-they-can characters across her collective contributions to Star Wars. Denning and apparently a portion of The Clone Wars' writing team are avowed Jedi fans, but don't consider what it means to write truly heroic characters, and instead believe that because the Jedi are good, their every action is automatically good and requires no further thought on whether what's being done in the name of "Good" is truly moral or simply the expedient choice.

I've noticed a rise in this attitude, as well, though mostly among more casual fans. People who don't realize that the series' writers have mischaracterized the previously well-handled members of the Jedi Order, essentially sacrificing the credibility of the Council and the Order in an effort to artificially create sympathy for Ahsoka. However, I think most people more familiar with the broader Star Wars universe recognize that the situation being presented is an anomaly rather the rule. Either way, it's still a shame, considering the same plot could have been presented without so recklessly throwing the Jedi under the bus in order to push the audience to root for Ahsoka the underdog.

 

Looking at the Jedi Order as an organization, rather than specific individuals within it as of the "modern" SW era, it was probably harmed more by TOR and some of the other material dealing with that era.

You have Pultimo's Sith Holocaust, among other things, in there. The Jedi Order was directly a party to that piece of unpleasantness. You also have Revan programming a deadly Jedi killer droid to conduct a campaign of genocide against the Sith species, hunting down and murdering anyone with any discernible Sith blood.

When you see some of the stuff that the Jedi did, it would almost provoke a feeling that the Revenge of the Sith is something the Jedi had coming. In a karmic sense.

 

It seemed to me that especially Ki-Adi-Mundi, after his appearance in Season 2, was written totally wrong here. This is the guy who fought on Geonosis alongside Anakin and Ahsoka, and even kept tally of his kills in the battle. He seemed to be quite friendly with Anakin and Ahsoka. And Yoda's worked with Ahsoka many times before, between her visions in Season 3 and whatnot. And Plo Koon? Oh, goodness, the fact that he even ever considered that Ahsoka might have done it after the connection they shared...the arc was good but it assassinated all three of those Jedi Masters. Obi-Wan was meh, too.

 

I could see where the general population of the GFFA and Anakin would think the Jedi deserved what they got as they got closer to the events of ROTS. I think that's what TCW was trying to convey, they just did so poorly. I think the Fugitive arc is a good example of that. I still see the Jedi as the good guys that made some mistakes - no one is perfect.

 

Because they did far more than kill Jedi. Bin Laden gave the Soviet Union what it deserved but is still considered evil because of 9/11.

 

IIRC they weren't entirely united on believing Ahsoka was the guilty one, but the majority, which is what counts on a Council. The thing is, I personally actually didn't see what happened as they 'discrediting' the Council. In fact, I saw it as natural progression of doubts and difficulties they have been going through. Remember the opening of AOTC? How Dooku could not be behind things, because 'He was once a Jedi' and 'It's not in his character'. Being wrong about that hit the Jedi Council hard, and cost the lives of hundreds of Jedi, thousands by the time of said-episode. Its the same way that Mace Windu doesn't trust Anakin. Frankly, the Clone Wars have wounded the Jedi Order fatally, and them being all too willing to believe Ahsoka had betrayed them was just a symptom of those wounds. They gave Dooku the benefit of the doubt; they will never do so again.

All just my view in it of course.

 

I agree with this. I don't like this cynical idea that the Jedi are to blame for all the badness in the Star Wars universe and that they're not protectors, just passive dictators. They are the protectors, they balance and help but it just seems like ever since...KOTOR 2, people have been obsessed in making the Jedi look just as bad, if not worse, than the Sith. It's like people just can't believe that good is good and bad is bad anymore.

So far TCW handled this the absolute worse, what with the very citizens that the Order is dedicated to protecting acting like spoiled brats and treating the Jedi like monsters just because it's dramatic.

 

It's the old "two wrongs don't make a right" philosophy. The Jedi weren't right for what they did to the Sith, but the Sith weren't any better for retaliating. An act done in spite is an act wasted, I always say. The Sith, unlike the Jedi, aren't big on forgiveness and will actively seek revenge for a millennia old feud. There's no forgiveness, and the Sith merely want power for the sake of having power, and not actually help people with their power. The Jedi stand in the way of them achieving power, and on top of the old feud, there's just mindless power mongering from the Sith. As Anakin says in RotS "The Sith ... They think inward, only about themselves." "The Jedi are selfless... they only care about others." There is a definitive separation of philosophies between the two that make the Sith the villains and the Jedi the heroes regardless of what acts the Jedi had committed in the past.

 

First of all, no one is saying the Jedi are as bad as the Siht, but tit's important to note that "better than the Sith" =/= "good."

I have some serious ethical problems with their philosophy, and I feel that, in any other universe, the Jedi would be considered villains.

 

Thats not even really debatable; in our world they would at best be an uncomfortable entity. If they were bound to the EU or UN, most none-member countries would likely ban them from their states, as they are just as much spies and agents as diplomats. Their abilities would foster great mistrust. And their policy on children would either have social workers out for their blood, or trying to hire them. (I'm not a fan of government agencies with little oversight, in our own world.)

In the more totalitarian sci-fi settings, the Jedi would be in a similar situation to Order 66 and the Dark Times.

In a few they might fit, but very few. Mass Effect for example, they would likely fit. However, enough off-topic-ness from me.

 

You called?

 

Well, someone is. They're just not here at the moment.

Nah, it's pretty debatable. And the way you're describing the Jedi, you make it sound like they're a violent cult that abducts children from there homes and then abuses them. In reality, they're a monastery. And they wouldn't be under debate, whatever government that uses them as soldiers would.

 

The Jedi did hideous things in the past. They were a party to a wilful genocide, at the behest of Supreme Chancellor Pultimo. The Jedi order participated in genocide. That's a biggie. If you're talking about the Jedi Order's history of pure noble goodness and light, that's always going to be a bantha in the room.

Also, Revan, one of the heroes of the Jedi, attempted to create an army of extermination droids with the express purpose of slaughtering anyone with any discernible Sith (species) ancestry.

 

He was a hero of the Jedi for stopping Malak's campaign against the Republic. Given the atrocities Malak committed, that was deserved. Not sure Revan kept that aura after the plan you just mentioned.

The Revan thing is in TOR.