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Episode 7: What Makes a Great Jedi? · Most Things Kenobi - A Star Wars Podcast

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Hello there. It's most things Kenobi.
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Hi everybody. Welcome to another episode of
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most. Thanks Kenobi.
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A Star Wars podcast about Obi-Wan Kenobi, and all things
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Star Wars. I'm your host Lauren and I'm
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your host Leanne and as we always do, we start by giving a
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thanks to James Arnold Taylor for recording the intro to this
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episode and all episodes so far what a wonderful human go on
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over. Give that Jedi some love on the
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socials wouldja. So today we have a really fun
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topic. I'm really excited to talk about
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this one. So am I, it's deep, it's good.
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It has a lot of different angles that we can go with and it
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probably deserves more than one episode, but we're going to try
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and do it in one. We're going to try and do it in
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like 30 minutes or less. Yes, which is always a challenge
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for us. Very challenging.
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So today we're going to discuss. What makes a perfect Jedi?
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Yes. Does such a thing exists?
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I think so. And well, you brought up a
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really good point of does that mean according to the code or
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does that mean, right? According to our ideas of what
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makes a good Jedi or what, you know, it's kind of like, could
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be defined a couple different ways.
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Yeah. Because I have an idea of what
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my perfect Jedi embodies, right, and it could be summed up in one
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word Luke. But you know, for the sake of an
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episode it's either what I think is a perfect Jedi or what, I
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think of Jedi should be and have the qualities that they should
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carry with them but then there's also like does the code dictate
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and by the code the Jedi code right?
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Does that dictate what a quote unquote?
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Perfect Jedi is. I don't know.
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That's what we're going to get into.
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Yeah, so I went to Wikipedia for most of my info.
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I did find a really good article on Reddit, that helped me when I
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had questions about, like, Cosmic Force versus living
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Force, because that's also part of like, Jedi ethos.
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But where did you get your research?
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Where did you find your stuff? Well, I wanted to, I really
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wanted to dig into the code because I think the code is
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defining of the Jedi and is defining of their downfall.
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So I think it begins and ends with that goddamn Jedi Code that
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they were, you know, forced to live by if you will.
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So I kind of studied it and when I studied it, I tried to think
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of examples in my mind. What's the first Jedi?
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You know, well, known or not? Well, known, that comes to mind
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when I think of, you know, the Is listed in the code which I
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shall read for anyone. Who is not familiar?
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Yeah, let's do the. That's good idea with the Jedi
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Code. The Jedi Code goes like this.
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There is no, emotion there is peace.
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There is no ignorance. There is knowledge.
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There is no passion, there is Serenity.
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There is no chaos, there is harmony, There Is No Death.
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There is only the force, so that's the Jedi code, right?
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And they were supposed to to abide by that, but I believe
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that it was also extremely Strapping?
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Yes, it caused their downfall. I think it was, it played a huge
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part, I'll say in the demise of many Jedi, I think whenever you
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restrict natural inclination, it's like what they say, even
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about like dieting, right? If you tell yourself, you can't
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have a thing. That's the thing that you crave
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the most. Yeah, I think.
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It's not that the code doesn't mean that you can't have these
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things. I think the word balance needs
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to be emphasized more in this code in all the codes you know,
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Sith greige, edit, whatever first but like where is the
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balance? Because So there is no emotion.
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There's peace. Well, there's emotion.
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You have to have some emotion, right?
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You just can't go overboard. Like, Anakin, did you know,
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Ahsoka has a motion? Mmm, she Corral did at times at
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times she didn't, but there was a balance there and there's
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times when she tried to Corral it, and Anakin to yes, and so
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did Obi-Wan. And, you know, it's Then you
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look at Luke who if he didn't have the emotions that he had,
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let's say in Empire Strikes Back.
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Would he have gone after Han and Leia and any of the best been
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stuff would have happened, you know, he had very strong
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emotions. I have to go save my friends,
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you know, and maybe it was rash at the time, you know think
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through this he is a Skywalker. They don't think first they just
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act first we love them for it. Right?
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Very dramatically by the way. But he didn't, you didn't go
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overboard with it. He didn't go in just killing
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everybody. Like Anakin probably would have,
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you know, get away from my family, stay away from my
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friends, you know. And then just starts beheading
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people like right, God, bless mannequin but Luke you know was
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patient which is also on, you know, part of all of this, the
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patient's part of like, hmm thinking through things, you
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know. And that's that's kind of like I
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believe Obi-Wan had quite a bit of passion.
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I just think he thought more, he was more methodical with he
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thought. And then executed.
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And left a lot of it out, I think, right?
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When I wonder like when that came in because like, if you
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read the Jedi, Apprentice novels, they talked about how he
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was much more rash as a young person.
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Granted those aren't Canon their Legends now but they implied
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that he had serious issues with anger and was self-conscious and
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was overreacting. Sometimes they're like hyper
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reactive without thinking ahead, but it's interesting that you
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talk about balance because I actually wrote a note here as
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Well that I think the most balanced Jedis are Luke Ahsoka
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and Qui gonn. That's exactly what I have
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written down. Those three are what I have
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written down. Yes.
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And I think it's because they have the greatest level of
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internal peace and it's not that they don't have a motion, but
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they're able to understand that their actions don't need to be
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driven necessarily by emotion. And sometimes that's hard
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learned. Like I think Ahsoka and Luke
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Luke learned that by making mistakes.
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Yes, because Empire Strikes Back obviously.
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It's like part of the heroes Arc.
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Is part of it. Is you make a huge mistake that
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usually results in like physical damage to your body which is he
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loses his hand and Empire. Every Skywalker is this at some
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point. It's required by Jedi law.
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Yes. So like Don't know how I mean I
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guess in master and Apprentice you see a little bit of quiggins
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training and younger years but we know for sure that like
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Ahsoka. Her inner peace is hard fought,
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you know, she's gone through like what we talked about in
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some pretty prior episodes, the Jedi, Who Knew Too Much?
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Is that what the episode is? You know?
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And that's the stuff with beerus.
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Yeah, and then her are not expulsion but like she leaving
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the Jedi Order leads to some pretty hard lessons in season 7,
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which then brings her full circle back around to like she
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really knows herself much better now, especially maybe since she
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gets away from Anakin for a while, she's had time to sit and
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think and reflect and see where she needed the balance, where
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she was too heavy, and one way for sure.
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Lighten. Another you really see it in the
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Mandalorian to, she's so, like centered and the way she refuses
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to train. Goo baby, Yoda, baby Yoda.
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And because of the attachment with the Mandalorian, what did
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she say? She saw the best fall.
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Obviously, speaking about her master and I can and really if
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you think about it, Everyone has a motion.
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Anyone could give into too much of that, you know, so I want my
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perfect Jedi to have some, you know, I want them to have that
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because otherwise, you're just a wet paper towel.
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Like, what are you doing? Like you dare?
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I say yeah, end up like luminara.
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Oh yeah, it's funny. You said I just watched that
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episode the other night where a Oka.
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Embarrassed. Get trapped, and there's you
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notion Foundry? Yeah, that'll Foundry and
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luminara is like, she's kind of a badass.
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I really like her, but then she's also so cold and I was
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listening to her in that episode, trying to give her like
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benefit of the doubt, and trying to see it in a different way.
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And it's like she was a good Jedi because she was really
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strict with that code, like she lived by the code, Yeah, she was
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like ki-adi-mundi always like drives me crazy like when not
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Cody you Lauren is like good luck Commander or whatever.
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And Quixote is like there's no such thing as luck.
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It's like, come on, you ask you, what is up man?
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Q. Yeah, why are you such a dick?
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Come on. Yeah.
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So there we have. We have an example.
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Lumen are being a fantastic Jedi, truly skilled but she
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could have found a little more balance when it came to being
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less detached from you know, her Padawan.
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I mean come on I mean but did that make her a better Jedi for
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it. Right.
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That's kind of what when I was researching this I started to
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fall into this vicious cycle of like what does that make you a
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good Jedi or does it make you? It was just like, what is the
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answer? It's like an existential issue
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that I feel like, I don't really have an answer for any more.
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The more I read about it, the less I felt like I could grasp
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it. That's why I think it's fun.
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This is fun to talk about and it probably deserves more than one
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episode, right? Because yeah, I mean, so I went
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through the list of all the different things discussed in
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the Jedi code and I came up with Luke for almost every single
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well for every single one. Hmm Ahsoka, for two of them
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Qui-Gon 43. No, we won 4-1 and those are
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just the ones that came to my mind.
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Immediately, I'm sure if I thought like You know, ala
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Sakura was very good, she was very even-keeled.
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She, you know, you can look back at the episode in the Clone Wars
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where Anakin was hurt Ahsoka was really distraught about it, but
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it's a good lesson because it, you know, are they peacekeepers?
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Were, were they peacekeepers and that the lurmen taught 8le, and
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the rest of them It's some reflection on our you.
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I mean, you're fighting. You're fighting for what you
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believe in but are you peacekeepers?
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So, right, because they were pacifists.
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So it was like I thought that was a really interesting that
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was a really interesting juxtaposition pacifist next to
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the Jedi using force not necessarily the force but like
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physical Force for the good, you know, for the greater good
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actually that one of the first thing I wrote down, Knowledge,
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the force self-discipline where the considered like the three
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pillars of the Jedi strength, right?
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And then they, they were like a unified group of people who used
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the force for the greater good to protect people, but they
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still use force. And we don't see that in Clone
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Wars because it's a kid show, the very rarely like kill living
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beings but in In the movies and books in the cartoons, or the
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comic books. There's definitely like physical
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violence against living beings and they don't obviously,
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they're not supposed to attack unarmed creatures.
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But like, even Luke in Return of the Jedi, when he goes to
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Jabba's Palace. Forced chokes.
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Those go morons, like all they did was stand in his way.
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It's like, I'm gonna strangle you.
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It's really funny to watch that again.
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He just put them out for a few minutes.
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That's all Yeah. That's what I like to tell
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myself. It was just he he put them to
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sleep and they're fine other Phil wake up Dazed and Confused,
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and it's fine. Everything's fine.
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One, like, I love that scene, I love that sequence, I love
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seeing Luke the powerful like that.
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Yes, he just, he doesn't double, he doesn't second-guess himself.
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Also a great quality and in a Jedi.
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You know who never second-guess himself, Obi-Wan He was always
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very sure. I mean, so sure.
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I would say he only second-guess himself when it came to personal
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matters. Yeah.
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Inward inwardly. I would say he questioned
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himself outwardly, you know, dubbed.
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The Negotiator you know wartime no hesitation.
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He knew what he was doing, he knew what he had to do.
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He got it done? No hesitation well and like
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Anakin was his probably greatest weak point.
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Yeah. As much as people like to think
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it's the teen I think. He was pretty sure what his
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feelings were. I mean, he made it pretty clear
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like even if he loved her, he wasn't going to leave the order
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for her and he wasn't going to really sacrifice his honor for
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her. Right?
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But for Anakin he like laid himself out there.
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He's the only person he's ever said out loud.
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I loved you. Yes.
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And there is always Qui-Gon in the back of his mind I promise,
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you know to yeah. I said take this child that was
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supposed to be quiet. It's padded one.
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And, you know, Qui Gon is For the there is no chaos.
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There's Harmony I put Qui-Gon down for that and Ahsoka because
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I find that there is quite a gun was the harmony.
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Not so much in, you know, everything's Blissful.
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Everything's, I'm talking like Harmony and that he understood,
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he understood. It was this way.
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He understood that. It could be different.
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He wasn't afraid to speak, and he was okay with that.
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Like there, he knew that there were faults with the Jedi.
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You knew there was faults with, you know, the Republic I guess.
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And and But it was like, okay to him.
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It was it was like fine for him. I don't know if I'm eloquently
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putting it properly. You're more of a Qui-Gon assist
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than I am but I just find that his whole like, he's very
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centered. And that's the harmony that I
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think he's not chaotic. I don't find him chaotic
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whatsoever. No, I don't think so at all.
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But like, he's not afraid of action.
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He doesn't shy away from his duty.
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He's not afraid of dueling. He seemed very politically
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savvy. He seemed very affectionate
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Anakin, he seems ready to make peace with Obi-Wan eventually,
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even though they had contention in Phantom Menace, I think the
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Qui-Gon is one of my favorite characters because he's warm, he
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is super balanced and centered, but he's really powerful and I
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love that he just doesn't take shit from the council.
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That's that's it. They didn't like him for that.
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I even wrote one of my headlines ones that are blog was like Jedi
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Council. Judgy, people who can't keep
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their opinions to themselves. One is like percent true.
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They had this idea of living by the code, which is a problem for
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someone like me, because I really believe there's more than
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one, right way to live a life and there is no strict rule that
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everyone should live by, and I think that's why I really relate
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to Qui-Gon because he's all about like the living force and
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the cosmic force and like trying to find his place among that it
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was he was more inclined to be loyal to the force than to the
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code and I think that's what made him a successful Jedi and
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he kept trying to get everyone to listen to the force more and
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live by the code less. Like it was a good.
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It's more like a guideline. Yeah.
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Like Jack Sparrow says, I'm all right.
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Guidelines, can you just use it as just a reference piece, as
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opposed to, you know, a full-on must live this way, Chandelier
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live. Any other way.
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Like come on, you know. Yeah, I don't know.
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The people who seem to stick to the code, the most seem to have
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this saddest lime sometimes. I don't know, maybe that's not
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even a true statement, because, Anakin's pretty sad.
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They're all sad because it's Star Wars.
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Yeah, you're right. Ahsoka said, Lucas L3.
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Much everything that's on, makes me sad.
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Sorry, folks. We just took a huge downturn in
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this, but it's Star Wars. And we, we understand the
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subject matter here. You should always bring a box of
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tissues to every store where every single time.
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But you could you could argue that the hardships and struggles
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and this applies to real life as well.
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The hardships and struggles develop a good Jedi.
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If oh yeah learn from it like Ahsoka.
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If you want to use her as an example, been putting many
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different scenarios little bit of Obi-Wan in her little bit of
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Anakin in her, you know, kind of wrestling with both.
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But she comes into her own person and she lives by her own
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standards and that's Makes her great because she learned.
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I mean she lived through the worst of it, right?
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Everyone around her died or she thought and was left alone in a
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world of turmoil and she had to come to grips with, okay?
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This is not the way it is anymore.
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So what is the way? And I think a lot of that self
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growth, we see in Luke because he doesn't really have anyone to
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show him. He has a couple old text and
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like Obi-Wan's time with him. Him.
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But that is cranky. Yoda Force goes.
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Yeah. And how can I forget Yoda?
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But you know, that's not a lot. It's not like a whole Council.
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It's not a whole school. It's not right.
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And I think a lot of what makes a good Jedi, a great Jedi is
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just their innate ability to feel the force and they're a
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good person you know I hate to bring in Marvel but it goes back
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to the whole like When they told Steve Rogers, we're not looking
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for a good soldier. We're looking for a good person,
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right? So is it a good Jedi, or is it a
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good person that were talking about?
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What makes a great Jedi? A great person or someone who's
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great at abiding by these strict rules, right?
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I mean, personally for myself, I, of course, prefer like a good
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person who's compassionate and uses their Power for the
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betterment of those around them. Actually wrote something
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interesting. I mean, I don't know if it's
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interesting, I can I say I wrote something interesting.
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I brought something after reading some stuff on Wikipedia.
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After I read the three pillars of Jedi strengths are Knowledge,
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the force and self-discipline. And I wrote like is
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self-discipline confused with self-denial.
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Hmm, that's an excellent question.
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I was doing a little research in like the exact definition of
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what that would be and I found something that was I thought
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pretty fascinating, or self-denial is different than
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like selflessness or the lack of self, it is an act of letting go
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of this. Of with altruistic abstinence
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the willingness to forgo Personal Pleasures or undergo
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personal trials. In Pursuit Of The increased,
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good of another, so, it's like, If you're really trying to be
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self-disciplined, I feel like sometimes some of the Jedi, like
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luminara is a good example, discipline leads to denial.
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Sometimes I think it's easy to confuse you know it's almost
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fanatical in a way. Yeah.
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You cling to something so strongly that you can't see
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opposing points of view, and it really becomes.
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It's you know, it's Red vs. Blue, it's Sith versus Jedi
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instead of like they say, Qui-Gon is kind of like a gray
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Jedi not because you like, Embraces Sith ideology but
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because he liked, realizes, there's more than one point of
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view in the universe. He had a little bit of that
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Harmony. Yeah, exactly.
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And I as you were speaking, it made me realize denial versus
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discipline denial. Let's go back to the diet.
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Talk denial is I'm not having any cookies ever again sit.
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That's so sad. Agreed.
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This thing you do good today. Agreed.
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Yeah, Star Wars isn't the saddest thing.
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It's the it's the lack of cookies but hear me out.
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Denial is zero cookies. Discipline is I'm going to have
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to I'm going to put them away and I'm going to go about my day
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now yeah. For Jedi.
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Denial is I won't have any attachment.
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I'll have no love. I'm not going to like this
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person. I'm not going to hate this
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person. I'm just it's they're up.
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They are a person period neutrality.
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Yeah, I'm neutral. But discipline is I like this
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person. I care about this person, but
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I'm not going to let that get in the way of what needs to be done
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or let it overcome my entire life.
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Like, Anakin did with the thought of padmé dying.
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Like, yeah, he was great, right up until he was consumed by that
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and that that is the lack of discipline really.
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When I would say that Obi-Wan, and Luke are particularly
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disciplined. Yes, cuz Luke clearly had a lot
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of attachment and a lot of compassion.
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I mean, he even had compassion for Darth Vader who blew up his
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sister's planet. Yes.
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And like, Ultimately even though he loved Leia in Return of the
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Jedi, he said, like if I don't come back you carry on without
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me. I'm not so afraid to lose you
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that I can't still try to do what's right?
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Exactly. And that's discipline.
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And even in the moment of like Temptation in front of the
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emperor, the discipline was to still find the center come back
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to himself even though he was, you know, tempted a little bit,
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there was a moment where you weren't sure, and then he tossed
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the lightsaber and He gave it up in that in that moment.
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And if he had not done that, where would we be right?
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Right, exactly. So I've heard this said before
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and I'm interested in your opinion on it that some people
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think George Lucas set up the Jedi, in the prequel trilogy to
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fail, that the code is designed to actually give them blind
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spots that Palpatine was then able to take advantage of.
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And like the whole point was that Luke has attachments.
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Luke has affection, that's why he succeeds.
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So what do you think? Do you think that's do you think
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he intended it to be? Like intended it to fail when he
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wrote the code. It would make complete sense for
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him to set it up that way. Yes.
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Now weather. George had the foresight that it
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was going to go that direction after you know, the original
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trilogy was made, I don't know. But It builds a great foundation
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for lifting Luke up and giving the opportunity to do what he
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did with his father there at the end of Return of the Jedi.
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So yeah II. Don't see how it couldn't fail.
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I don't see how it couldn't fail.
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I mean, look at the code, I mean and you can say the same about
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the Sith code to. I mean that's a little overboard
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as well. There has to be balance.
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So I, yeah, the stuff that's in the Jedi Code.
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I just don't see if you don't have balance or the
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self-disciplined. Like we said, I don't see how it
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couldn't fail. Yeah, interesting.
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It's interesting to think about, I mean, have the foresight.
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I mean, this man had seven movies planned out and 1972,
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whatever you're right. I mean, I just I'm of the mind
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that I don't want to speak for the genius, right?
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But It makes complete sense if he wrote it that way that?
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Yeah, yeah. Because without knowing
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anything, if I were to read that be like this, this is a bunch of
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bullshit. This is failure.
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This is a piece of failure, this code junk.
26:49
Okay, so after all of this discussion, What would you say?
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Makes a great Jedi in your mind. What are the things that you
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want your perfect Jedi to embody?
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If you had to pick some and who, who would your perfect Jedi be?
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Do you have one that you think is perfect?
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I'd love to hear that, because it's, it's hard to pick, and it
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depends like we said earlier on the criteria, you're judging by
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so hmm. Well, do you have an answer?
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Do I? Yeah, I mean, it's really a tie
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for Luke and Qui-Gon, because they're so similar Luke.
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A little more, just because he's Luke and he's adorable.
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And Qui-Gon just because part of me is quite he is I and I am
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him. Yeah.
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I'm not as cranky as he is. But honestly on some days I am
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and some days. I'm General Grievous.
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Oh, aren't we all? Aren't we?
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All my God. I adore him.
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You too. I just so relate to his piss
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Enos. Yeah.
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What about you? I'm pretty much right there with
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you. I mean, Luke is the clear winner
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to me but Qui-Gon, excellent. Jedi you could even say that.
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Kanan was an excellent Jedi. Think of the sacrifice he gave
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at the end there. I mean, oh my God.
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That's seen makes me. I fried, I lost my shit in that
28:38
scene told. I wasn't expecting to feel so
28:41
much. It was the it was the if you
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want to talk about it. That's the focus on the eyes.
28:45
There just is eye contact. We didn't have to show anything
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else but not to get off topic but, you know, Canon comes from
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a different school, it's post Republic.
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He had, you know, he lived through order 66 It.
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He had a good balance, you had a lot of emotion.
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He was with Hera he had a Padawan, and he gave the
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ultimate sacrifice. He didn't let his emotions for
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Hera, you know? And the entire team get in the
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way. Yeah, I think that's a really
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good point. So but also on the flip side, I
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think Ahsoka is an excellent Jedi because she left the Jedi
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Order. She saw what was going on?
29:23
She saw, it was too strict. She saw that they were willing
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to betray. Ray their own her and she said,
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I'm out like this, doesn't that makes her an excellent Jedi to
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me. I agree with you because like
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the council was so strict in living by the code, but it's
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ironic because then they would ask people to do really dubious
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things, like the rako, hardeen aren't the whole of whole lot of
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He fakes his death and then like by default lies to Anakin
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crushing him. I mean, it's like that is an
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immoral thing and then like that and how is Anakin not supposed
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to react? How would anyone not react to
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that their best friend, their father figure?
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They're relying on his reaction to sell it?
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Yeah, that I thought was Terror that's that's two-faced
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duplicitous backstabby, type stuff.
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I mean, It's no wonder and it can had such an issue.
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You know? And Ahsoka leaving was the final
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straw cuz she did what he desperately wanted to do but
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couldn't hmm. Yeah, yeah he was stuck.
30:38
Kind of I know Star Wars is very sad.
30:40
Cookie not having cookies all always said but Star Wars is
30:44
depressing beautiful to as our cookies
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34:03
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Are there any good sitting out there?
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It's a more complicated question.
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