YES

I thought the slice and dice was pretty slick and I’m very glad Darth Bortles got to chew some scenery. It’ll be interesting to see if Sol ends up having to explain the massacre to the Jedi, or if Fauxsha has other plans for him.

The Jedi Temple and Hogwarts appeal enormously to entertainment and tech bro-types, because it tells them that their success flows from a natural gift rather than dumb luck or flat-out nepotism. Of all the stuff that got walked back in TRoS it’s really telling that Rey was no longer a nobody. She had to be descended…

I notice the Ahsoka series had a bit where Ahsoka is very clear that the Force isn’t hereditary, and that everyone can potentially use it (TLJ had similar implications), so I suspect Filoni etc. are keen to move away from that, but Abrams, a deeply unimaginative man, was keen to reinforce it.

-camp fire in space - Star Wars is science fantasy not science fiction. Lucas has explicitly stated this over the years. In Star Wars science gets broken all the time. It’s allowed and expected for the sake of telling a story.
-Carrie Ann Moss dying from small knife and because jedi master lost concentration in a…

If there’s a single aspect that led to Star Wars’ creative downfall it’s the decision to make the Force a hereditary ability, rather than something anyone could master given time and patience. Early on, that was Lucas’ description of the Force; in one story conference from the early ‘80s he compares it to yoga. But in…

Yeah exactly. Master is a rank you have to actually achieve, but eventually it’s just assumed that the vast majority of Jedi will become Knights. Some will be Padawans for a long time before they’re able to take the trials and become knights, others probably do it more quickly, but it’s assumed almost everyone will…

Marky Mark screaming at a statue of HOWLER MONKEY FORD.

Because they went against their principles, got involved in a stupid war and got too close to a governing body that was corrupt. You know, they did not live up to their teaching.

Osha: “A Jedi only draws their lightsaber when they’re ready to kill.”

The Jedi of this era insist on training anyone who is Force-sensitive, if their parents will hand them over, so you’ll get a lot of slightly more um, oaf-ish Jedi.

“who isn’t actively making things worse”

There are a relatively huge number of Jedi, I forget how many but it’s a lot, and there isn’t really a cap because they want essentially all Force users who they find at the right age to train as Jedi. That age is pretty young though and obviously not everyone is willing to hand over their kids to some mystical…

“This a supposed shining age for the Jedi, they should have have any issue with recruitment”

I’m not sure I agree with your conclusion - keep in mind that the Jedi do not “recruit”, especially in this era, they “find” and “take” children who are Force-sensitive. They train all of these children. Some, like Osha, leave the Order, but most don’t. Even a mediocre Jedi like Yord will eventually reach the rank of…

Nonsense. The best Jedi in the show is the fat Jedi who let the bad guy walk right out the door under his nose. I suspect he’s a Porkins.

Yord is 2024s Jar-Jar.

The thing with the show being about critiquing the Jedi order is that we haven’t had a single piece of live-action content since the original trilogy that isn’t about critiquing the Jedi order. Deconstruction needs to be the counterpoint to some construction; the name “Jedi” hasn’t had any positive reinforcement…

I have less of an issue with him than I do with Jedi saying “Yeah, let’s just get this murder wrapped up quick and not worry to much about truth and justice.”

“Uh, dispatch, we’re gonna have to call off the chase — it’s started to sprinkle and my vehicle is falling apart” **SQUELCH**