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   From: mdhalbrook@yahoo.com   
      
   "Jack"  wrote in   
   news:46627288$1_1@news.chariot.net.au:   
      
   >> 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?   
      
   The Phantom Menace makes it very clear that the council did not want to   
   train Anakin because of his age.  I belive that Qui-Gon, in discussions   
   with Shimi also indicated that if Anakin had been born on a Republic   
   controlled world, he would have been found and taken in to the order very   
   early on.  I'm pretty sure the stuff is elaborated on in the novelization   
   of the movie, which, IIRC Lucas provided the extra material to the writer.   
      
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