PT Why NOT send Anakin to kill Grievous?

Yes.

 

Lol then there's the answer to your question as well.

 

Great episode and like the Obi Wan scene. But one would have thought he would mention two key pieces of information!

1. Chancellor Palpatine was the Sith Lord.
2. Anakin Skywalker had betrayed the Jedi Order and become Darth Vader.

Seems like at the Conclave at Kessel and encounter by Shryne and Chatak at Murkhana, no Jedi survivors seemed to know this!

 

That's because they didn't. Obi-wan and Yoda didn't know what was going on when the message was recorded, other than the Jedi on Coruscant were dead and more around the galaxy. Yoda had already figured out that Anakin had turned evil, which is why he warns Obi-wan to not play back the security cameras. Only after seeing the conversation between Palpatine and Anakin do the two of them know the truth. But they do not change the message.

 

They should have stated to Palpatine they were sending a large group of jedi to stop General Wheezus but really sent just Obi-wan and hidden the others on Coruscant until Palpatine made his move.

darth-sinister why wouldn't the jedi take that message and send it out on all channels to the public?

 

They knew that Palpatine wouldn't buy that so many Jedi would be sent after Grievous. Not this late in the war. The Jedi are stretched thin and the Council has only ever sent three to four Jedi at a time on a mission since Geonosis. They also didn't think Palpatine was a Sith, just corrupt.

All the conversation shows is that Palpatine went to the Temple after General Skywalker eliminated the Jedi threat in the Temple. Everyone knows that the Temple was under attack and Palpatine was telling the Senate that the Jedi attempted a coup, but were defeated. Not exactly incriminating.

 

It was all part of Palpataines plan,

1. The Council did not like receiving a recommendation from Palpataine and saw Anakin's self nomination arrogant.

2. Palpataine knew they would see it like that, and set it up as one more sting from the council towards Anakin.

3. It get's Obi Wan away from Anakin's side, making him more easily corrupted by Palps advances.

4. It gets him in the Outer Rim, surrounded by Clone Troopers during Order 66. Even if he survives, he'll arrive too late to stop Darth Vader's birth.

 

I agree, they should have been more public. Perhaps they were simply not used to it. For a thousand years they had acted as guardians of the Republic.

However, they acted on their own accord or under supervision of the Chancellor/Senate most of the time. That was their normal channel for public relations. They didn't trust the Chancellor and believed most of the Senate to be corrupt. They didn't know who to trust and also were so focused on the Sith and belief in it was their sole duty/capability to make things right that blinded them from what was happening before their eyes.

The Jedi were played.

Order 66 made me so sad. Aayla, Mace, Plo Koon. I can imagine Qui Gon going "Nooooooo!!!"

 

Perfect answer!

 

In response to the OP: Not from all perspectives it isn't. It's not about raw power. It's about skill and self-restraint. Anakin doesn't have much of those. He has heedless arrogance.

 

That's a point. Tbh, I was wondering in terms of the grand plan of Palpatine in separating Obi Wan from Anakin. Also in further creating a rift between Anakin and the Council.

 

Anakin was not supposed to be on the council in the first place. It was not his duty or responsibility to go out on missions.

Fair argument. You would think that with their recent success in rescuing Palpatine that the two of them would be able to take on Grievous. However, Anakin was an emotional tornado all throughout AOTC and ROTS, and having been accepted into the council (as a voice of Palpatine, not a master) he was a little upset that he was not granted the rank of being master. He needed some growing up to do.

How so? By killing Mace Windu and turning to the Dark Side?