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Hello there. Somehow, Star Wars memes have returned. It's not a trap, this is where the fun begins.
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Just being a power Jedi isn't enough either. It was something Qui Gon learned and taught it only to Anakin, Obi Wan and Yoda. All the other powerful Jedi? Gone.
Until Rise of the Skywalker, but we don't talk about that mess.
But we do talk about the mess that is the prequels?
If you're someone that loves the prequels because you watched them as a kid, how do think it'll be in a decade when kids that watched Rise of Skywalker start posting to web forums?
As someone who watched both the PT and ST as an adult, the ST was way more interesting and better made than the PT.
Obviously they both suck compared to the Star Wars movies I watched as a kid LOL.
The prequels were bad in a completely different way to the sequels. They're poorly written and directed, but they recontextualize the originals in a way that makes sense and arguably improves them.
The original film is a standard Hero's Journey, and the Original Trilogy as a whole stands alone without any other context. It's the story of one man's rise from humble beginnings to becoming the hero who takes down a corrupt Empire and acts as a beacon of hope for the galaxy.
The Prequels change that, with the six movies now becoming the story of the rise, fall, and redemption of Anakin Skywalker, and shows how Luke lacks the flaws of the old Jedi Order while avoiding the traps that ensnared and corrupted his father, giving hope he can build a better system.
With the Sequels added, what story does the series tell? That Skywalkers have good intentions but inevitably fuck things up, only to redeem themselves through suicide? That it doesn't matter if Good triumphs because the heroes will end up lower than where they started and the villain will pop back up again for the next generation to deal with anyway? They're a narrative mess and add negative value to the existing saga.
He didn't teach yoda, he just chatted with him a bit and told him to go to Degobah to learn from the Jedi priestess.
Qui-Gon never completed his force spirit training, so I imagine it was quite difficult for him to communicate with Yoda in the first place, and he was meditating in a jedi temple at the time.
Oh and it was like the tail end of the clone wars by the time that happened, so I imagine Yoda was a bit pre-occupied before teaching Obi-Wan and by then there weren't really many Jedi to teach.
Anakin gets a pass for being the chosen one, and then for his redemption arc/self sacrifice...and I guess that gets inherited by Luke and Leah?
Hell Leah is like a masterclass in retcon and deus ex machina in and of herself.