Lit Clone Wars Continuity Discussion (Spoilers Allowed)

AOTC makes it pretty clear that the Jedi Order of the PT era does not tolerate any of its members having relationships, either within the Order or inside of it, or having families.

Later works such as No Prisoners have "Jedi splinter factions"- like that of Djinn Altis. Maybe Thracia was a member of one of these, on good enough terms with Yoda to make regular visits to Coruscant?

I disagree.

Anakin had a pregnant wife and they let him slide. I'm pretty sure they knew. I don't take everything that is said in the movies at "absolute" face value.

I think exceptions can and were made, there are several examples in the EU.

To follow up on what Iron_lord said, Thracia Cho Leem hardly seemed like a member of the Jedi Order at all, she seems to come and go as she pleases.

So, if you want, you can say that she's not even a proper member of the Jedi Order in Rogue Planet.

As I said, I have no problem with it.

The EU novels set in the time leading up to ROTS establish that Obi-Wan was the only other Jedi to know that Anakin was in a relationship with a woman, and that while he kept it to himself, he did not approve of it.

I think Yoda's knowledge of their relationship is evident in the movies.

I think Yoda knew Anakin cared for Padmé more than he should have, but I don't think he knew they were in a relationship. There's no way he'd have just sat on that, with everything else that was going on.

What about Anakin meeting Tarkin in Rogue Planet? How does that mesh with the TCW episodes?

Do the TCW episodes explicitly state he's never met Tarkin before?

I've long since given up expecting PT Tarkin to be at all consistent. I'll live longer for it, I think.

I have wondered about that too...

Tarkin is quite a remarkable figure, wouldn't you say?

Agreed.

Plus it's more likely Anakin just heard people talking about how the governor did this, the governor did that, where's the governor, what's the governor doing, I like the governor, I hate the governor, rather than necessarily hearing the name Tarkin that much.

I certainly was told the names of various people back when I was a kid, but like heck would I remember them all beyond "oh, that guy who taught the other class... what was his name again? Uh... I dunno." Memory isn't nice and clear like a Wookieepedia page.

It just seems unlikely to me that Anakin would forget someone like Tarkin.

It's not like TCW is the only thing to throw a twist into prequel-era Tarkin. In Cloak of Deception he's a lieutenant governor, and then a year later in RP he's a lowly naval commander? Strange career trajectory.

Doesn't Obi-Wan point out in Obsession that "every Padawan on Coruscant" knows where Anakin is spending his spare time, meaning wherever Padmé is? Although I think the CW media project had some diverging interpretations with this being the most aggressive one.

And seeing how EU even kicked Palpatine down a notch - he had to find out about the wedding through Typho - I'm pretty sure Yoda and the Jedi only think of Anakin and Padmé as friends. Therefore, it's perfectly okay to constantly have them on missions together. Obi-Wan was appointed as Padmé's security in AOTC with no objection to Palpatine pointing him out as "an old friend". And what do we see all around? Jedi having "old friends" everywhere. Yoda in Best Blades and on Kashyykk, Mace with the Colossus of Destiny. Bail Organa if you look at it the other way round. The Jedi still form connections with other beings, keeping contacts so that they can effectively help on a galactically important level, not just on the level of diner owners and freighter captains. If Yoda senses anything, then only that Padmé has an important destiny, and that it is a good thing to have a Jedi with a natural connection to her.

And after all, it only makes Obi-Wan more awesome if he was the only one who found out and tried to support Anakin the best he could. Awesome as a friend - other than that, this probably contributed big time to his failure as a master.

Panaka I think. From the Revenge of the Sith Visual Dictionary. In the RoTS novel he says "Do you think I have no friends among the Naboo clergy? Your secret marriage has never been secret. Not from me, at any rate."

Has the EU attempted to address this discrepancy at all?

He's like that kid in high school that joins all the extracurriculars just so they can put them on their college applications.

On the Anakin thing - I don't know that even Obi-Wan necessarily would've known about the marriage. I think "every Padawan on Coruscant" knew that Anakin and Padmé were very close, but there's no reason--or obvious means--for anyone to know hard details about the relationship. Those closest to him knew how attached they were to each other, and likely worried about it, but they knew that calling them out would just prompt a freak-out from Anakin, so they didn't bring it up. Then in RotS, Obi is feeling her out to get a sense of what she knows about Anakin's wherabouts, senses for the first time that she's pregnant, and puts two and two together.

That's my read, anyway.

In The Clone Wars: Wild Space- Yoda has figured out something is up- though not how serious it is- and asks Obi-Wan to break them up, right after Geonosis. Obi-Wan gives Padme a lecture- but as we know, she rejects it.

Although the GTW establishes that Tarkin's fleet in RP was set up by his uncle. He's basically switching a big government role for a (not even senior) post in what amounts to the family firm. Can't imagine that would work all too well as resume padding.