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   From: mcardle@ozemail.com.au   
      
   In article <46627288$1_1@news.chariot.net.au>,   
    "Jack"  wrote:   
      
   > "Anybody"  wrote in message   
   > news:020620071552156827%anybody@anywhere-anytime.com...   
   > > In article <3558i.65$V01.41@trnddc02>, peachy ashie passion   
   > >  wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> Anybody wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >> > In article <4h28i.88508$p47.37474@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,   
   > >> > "SpammersDie"  wrote:   
   > >> >   
   > >> >   
   > >> >>"SFTVratings"  wrote in message   
   > >> >>news:1180735370.923758.6740@q66g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >>>I'm sitting here watching Episode II - where Senator Padme' is almost   
   > >> >>>killed by an assassin.  And what does Jedi Master Obi-wan do?  He   
   > >> >>>jumps through a window, grabs the assassin droid, and proceeds to   
   > >> >>>almost get killed when the droid blows-up, and he falls to his death.   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >>I hope this isn't too much of a spoiler but the Jedi end up backing the   
   > >> >>wrong political party in Ep3 and the Palpatine administration ends up   
   > >> >>in   
   > >> >>power for the next two decades. Power returns to the other party only   
   > >> >>after   
   > >> >>a bunch of scrappy Rebel pilots (none of them Jedi) blow up the second   
   > >> >>Death   
   > >> >>Star.   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >>In other words, yes the moral is that the Jedi are stupid.   
   > >> >   
   > >> >   
   > >> > Not really stupid, simply complacent and unwary after 1,000 years of   
   > >> > not having a real enemy to face.   
   > >>   
   > >>     No.   
   > >>   
   > >>    They created Darth Vader.   
   > >>   
   > >>    He was consumed with a childish concern for his mother's safety   
   > >> because he was a CHILD and they left his mother as a SLAVE.   
   > >>   
   > >>    The Jedi Council created their own problems out of poor moral sense   
   > >> and idiot planning.   
   > >   
   > > e-watch Episode I. The Jedi didn't actually want to train Anakin. The   
   > > Council told Qui-Gon that he was too old and they could sense danger.   
   > > It was Qui-Gon's refusal to obey the Council, and then Obi-Wan's   
   > > commitment to the promise he gave the dying Qui-Gon that began Ankain's   
   > > tale and downfall. Jedi trainees are normally removed from their   
   > > families at birth / babyhood on purpose so that they do not have that   
   > > emotional family connection (the families agree to this since being a   
   > > Jedi is such a huge honour and often a better life).   
   >   
   > Where the hell do you get all this from?   
   >   
   > Do you just make it up or did you read it from one of those crap EU books?   
   >   
      
   That's how I saw the film too.   
      
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