How did Ahsoka still become a Padawan at age 14?

I remember reading about Obi-Wan, it says if youngling's aren't selected to be Padawans by age 13, they don't get trained to be Jedi, they get transferred to other services of the Jedi Core.

And when Qui-Gon passed by, I guess what happen was Obi-Wan wanted to prove he could be a Padawan but got dueled his rival with so much anger that Qui-Gon thought he was too reckless. When Obi-Wan turned 13, he was transferred. Later on the same planet I guess, Qui-Gon was in trouble, and Obi-Wan who happened to be there saved him, and Qui-Gon decided to take Obi-Wan as his Padawan afterall.

So if Ahsoka was 14 at the start of the Clone Wars, why wasn't she transferred to other services a year ago, instead she's still at the temple another year and becomes a Padawan a year after her Youngling time expired.

 

I'll sum it up for you quickly.

TCW doesn't care about what has happened in the EU.

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Because that might not gell with what George Lucas has in mind for Jedi younglings. What happens in the EU doesn't necessarily happen in GL's universe

In-universe explanation can be is that Ahsoka is far too powerful to lose as a Jedi. It also depends on what age a Youngling would leave, how far into their 13th year are they sent? She could have been about to be sent when the Clone Wars started and she turned 14 shortly after.

 

The only problem with that is Anakin's line: "You know, I don't even think you're old enough to be a Padawan."

Her original age was 12 per GL but was later changed to 14 when the movie came out.

 

Could they have changed the rules slightly since Obi-Wan's Padawan days, giving Younglings an extra year to be apprenticed?

 

I for one am glad that stupid, totally arbitrary rule is gone. In fact, I wouldn't mind if the final season of clone wars was nothing but undoing every last bit of those Jedi Apprentice/Jedi Quest books. They're awful and ought to be burned

 

They did need all the Jedi they could train after the Clone Wars broke out, that's a possibility. As is knighting earlier.

 

How do you know Ahsoka was not a padawan to some other Jedi before Anakin Skywalker?
Also, please realize that one of Ahsoka's many Force powers is the ability to create multiple threads about herself.

 

Maybe they changed the age when The Clone Wars broke out

 

He just joined and probably didn't know about the Ahsoka discussion thread.
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Well she doesn't look her true age so I think we can forgive Anakin for that

 

The best in-universe explanation is that the rules have changed since when Obi-Wan was that young. There was reference in the Genndy micro series to there being a shortage of Jedi and also recently in the opening narration for The Gathering.

The real out-of-universe explanation is probably more along the lines of what CT-867-5309 said. TCW is not following the EU, and I'll add that I wouldn't expect the sequel trilogy to either. GL doesn't seem to regard new EU any more highly than the Marvel comics from before Ep. V.

 

I haven't watched the movie in a while, but at least in "The New Padawan," I was thinking she looked younger than in Seasons 1-2. (Like shorter or something) Maybe I'm just remembering that wrong though. It would make sense though since she was originally much younger than her now official age.

 

I would agree with you there. She does seem shorter in the movie, only slightly. I've been doing a 'Clone Wars marathon' and just started Season 3 today and I'm getting to the point where they age her up, where she gets taller too. It's very strange that in S5 she's basically as tall as Obi-Wan compared to how short she is in earlier seasons. If they do anymore aging of her she could even get to Anakin's height by the end of the show!

 

or taller than Anakin

 

Not likely. I didn't think she was much taller than she is now when they showed her future self in the Mortis arc.

 

She was envisioned at 12, but then with all the backlash against a pre-teen wearing a tube top and micro mini while surrounded by male troops...she magically aged to 14.

 

It doesn't seem that far-fetched that Jedi would limit Padawans by age, judging by the comments about Anakin and Luke both being too old for it.

 

Yeah, but it doesn't exactly make the Jedi Order look very open-minded to individuals being ready in their own time.

 

We have an Ahsoka thread here: http://boards.theforce.net/threads/...lone-wars-thread-general-discussion.28090775/

Questions about her should be asked here. I'm closing this.