Star Wars Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force
When Obi-Wan recorded this, Anakin had only three years of Jedi training.
- his abilities exceed those not only of students his own age but of many instructors as well
- Skywalker’s behaviour was different from padawan trained since infancy
- as someone who has been liberated from slavery, young Anakin was outspoken about social injustices.
- Obi-Wan was concerned about Anakin’s impulsiveness, competitiveness, lack of patience and occasional arrogance
- Anakin became a strong part of Obi-Wan’s life yet he still was a mystery to his own master.
Because someone should care about your mom. Damn, Anakin. Too bad Obi-Wan doesn’t even know what a sick burn that is.
Also, Anakin’s abilities out stripe not only his fellow students, but some instructors, but his attitudes and behaviors are inconsistent with Jedi teaching in that he cares about social justice and is eager to help people. When the Jedi Council said he was too old to teach, this is what they were talking about. Anakin wasn’t too old to learn the skills, he was just too old to be fully indoctrinated/ brainwashed into the Jedi way of thinking.
Exactly. He was too old to be brainwashed into their BS code and cult.
I think it’s worth noting that the Jedi didn’t just up and decide to be dicks to Anakin. From Yoda on down, they were all subjected to this indoctrination. The only real difference is that Obi-Wan, Mace Windup and so on never really had the experiences to understand their situation.
Every single Prequel Era Jedi was as much a victim of their flawed ideals as Anakin was.
This. THIS is why the Order contained the seeds of its own destruction. Not out of malice – far from it – but from lack of perspective.
My theory remains that they depended too much on the Force for perspective of any kind, and when the growing cloud of the Dark Side took that away (as evidence by various bits of dialogue in canon, especially Yoda’s), they had nothing to fall back on.
When Obi-Wan calls Anakin a “wiser man than I,” that’s not empty flattery (even if it might sound that way to Anakin’s poisoned ears). That’s Obi-Wan recognizing that Anakin – even as he tends toward the quick, impulsive, and seemingly rash – thinks things through in a way for which Obi-Wan’s own mind is not equipped.
Can I just say that “Mace Windup” is the greatest typo ever?