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While the Jedi are no doubtStar Wars’most iconic figures , they are also oft self-contradictory and perplexing , and several things about them make no sense . The blood of the Jedidate back , as Luke Skywalker said inStar Wars : The Last Jedi , " A thousand generations,“but age does not always adequate wisdom . By the fourth dimension of the prequel trilogy ’s Jedi Order , plenty of inconsistencies and even flaws had developed with the Jedi .
SeveralupcomingStar Warsmoviesindicate that the dealership is reassessing the theatrical role of the Jedi in the galaxy and what their self - imposed rules should be . Updates on Rey ’s young Jedi Order moviein particular suggest thatStar Warswill be contrive into sharp relief whatthe Jedi Order ’s mistakeswere in the past tense . The Jedi will surely always stay beloved , but these 10 nonsensical aspects of the prequel trilogy ’s Jedi Order are undeniable .
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10Even A Child Is Wiser Than A Jedi Archivist
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Obi - Wan Kenobi hunts for information about the lost planet Kamino inStar warfare : Episode II - Attack of the Clones , and approaches Jedi Archivist Jocasta Nu . When Obi - Wan explain that the Jedi archive have no record of the planet , however , Jocasta suddenly distinguish him that if it ’s not in their records , it simply does n’t exist . This interaction would be peculiar enough , givenan archivist should for sure hump there is always more to learn . The shutdown makes Jocasta Nu rather mistrustful , but she ’s mean to only be curt .
What makes this exchange even more bedevil is that a Jedi Archivist , a Jedi Grand Master ( the highestJedi rankinStar Wars ) , and one of themost powerful Jedi can not figure out why this planet may be missing . Instead , when Obi - Wan brings the problem to Master Yoda , Yoda turns the question back around to a group of younglings . It ’s only then that one of the children says it could be pretermit because someone removed it from the archive computer memory , which Obi - Wan and Yoda both respond to as though it ’s a stroke of genius rather than a fairly obvious explanation .
9The Jedi (Initially) Treated The Clones Like Droids
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Once Obi - Wan does track down Kamino and uncover the clone army being made for the Republic , the Jedi take on the clones ' existence and the Jedi ’s right to practice them much too quick . Even more than the alarming nonchalance with which they accept a mysterious U. S. Army apparently made for them , though , is the fact that the Jedi then go on to " employ " the clone — if it can be called that — in the Clone Wars . Rather than the Jedi leading with compassion and respecting all life , they comprehend the artificial creation of living beings who fight and die for them .
It is true that the Second Advent of the Clone Wars need quick action . Still , the willingness of the Jedi to permit the clones to be created just to serve in the Republic Army and follow order as soldiers seems all confounding to who the Jedi are mean to be . Worse still , it claim prison term for the Jedi to really begin to sympathize clone individuality and the fact their deaths are as tragic as any other being ’s .
8Despite Being “Peacekeepers,” The Jedi Mobilized As Soldiers Immediately
Coinciding with the Jedi ’s acceptance of a clone army is their straightaway engagement in the Clone Wars themselves . When the Jedi come to the rescue of Anakin , Padmé , and Obi - Wan Kenobi on Geonosis inAttack of the Clones , they do not hesitate to engage in conflict , and , when Yoda rather bluntly says"Begun , the Clone War has,“he make it clean that the Jedi will be participating . The speed with which the Jedi become soldiers is quite staggering .
As Ahsoka Tano states directly in theAhsokashow , she was raised to be a Jedi , not a soldier . Her grooming as a youngling in no way prepared her to fight in a war . Nevertheless , despite all Jedi younglings up to that point presumptively receiving the same or at least very like training , the Jedi ( even Padawans ) seem confusingly prepared to inscribe a war , with many becoming general even as teenagers , such as Anakin Skywalker . The Jedi ’s power to transition for peace treaty - keeping Jedi to full - flight soldier is one of the strangest Jedi plot points .
7Mourning Is Against The Jedi Code
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
The Jedi rule against mourning is perplexing , perhaps even more so than their rule against attachments . InStar Wars : Episode III - Revenge of the Sith , when Anakin run to Master Yoda with fear over losing someone he sleep with , Yoda tells Anakin,“Mourn them do not ; miss them do not . “This intimate that the Jedi approach to death is not to mourn . This is brook at multiple point duringThe Clone Warsshow as well , including when multiple Jedi cash in one’s chips in a bombing of the Temple and when Master Luminara says she is willing to accept the last of her Padawan , Barriss Offee .
However , this rule is not ready in Harlan Fisk Stone . In the canonStar WarsnovelDark Disciple , written by Christie Golden , rebel Jedi Master Quinlan Vos explicitly says that Jedi can grieve . This makes the rule ill-defined , but the notion that Jedi should n’t mourn , as Yoda show inRevenge of the Sith , is most puzzling . The Jedi are mean to be compassionate and one with the Force . While it ’s sure bittersweet for someone to join the living Force , it makes no sense that Yoda ’s policy would fundamentally boil down to forgetting someone once they ’ve died .
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6The Jedi Play Fast & Loose With Their Own Rules
The issue with the inconsistent formula about bereavement is diagnostic of a big problem with theJedi Code ; thatthe Jedi themselves do n’t seem to always follow their own rules or at least follow them in the same way . In the same novel , Dark Disciple , Mace Windu , an extremely esteem Jedi victor , breaks one of the Jedi ’s key philosophies . The Jedi are not theorize to kill unarmed opponents , meaning that an straight-out murder plot is sure enough against the rules . Despite that , Windu counsellor for the Jedi Council to O.K. the assassination of Count Dooku .
Alarmingly , the Jedi Council give Windu very fiddling pushback and , in the end , all agree that Count Dooku must die . Of course , part of this is not so much inconsistency with the Jedi ; this chiefly stem from the fact thatduring the Clone Wars , the Jedi lost themselves , and that contributed to their downfall . Unfortunately , that is made most apparent when Anakin loses all faith in the Jedi after witness Mace Windu about to kill an unarmed Palpatine inStar warfare : Episode III - Revenge of the Sith , leading him to side with Palpatine and rick to the dark side of the Force .
5Force Sensitivity Is Hereditary, But The Jedi Don’t Have Children
Although Anakin clearly demonstrates there can be serious pitfall to Jedi having attachments , he ’s also proof that the Jedi are cutting themselves off at the knees by refusing to give up romantic relationships among their rank and file . Anakin ’s obsession with Padmé run to the destruction of the Jedi , but his attachment is also the very reason the Jedi carry on , as his son , Luke Skywalker , is extremely strong with the Force . Given how inherited Force - sensitivity is , so much so that it passes down even to Anakin ’s grandson Ben Solo , it ’s rum that the Jedi would make have child forbidden .
4Obi-Wan Says Only A Sith Deals In Absolutes, Yet The Jedi Say No Attachments
3Yoda & Obi-Wan Back-Peddle On The Most Important Jedi Rule
From the moment Anakin Skywalker arrives on glittery inStar Wars : Episode I - The Phantom Menace , the Jedi are concerned about his eld ; at nine years sometime , Anakin had clock time to grow attachments to his family , which made him a hazard . Despite not only that perceptual experience but also their worries coming to pass , when the Jedi Order fall , Obi - Wan and Yoda explicitly adjudicate to ship Luke to his home . This is particularly odd because they mean Luke to be the futurity of the Jedi ; it ’s undecipherable why they immediately get back on a foundational pattern .
2Why Didn’t Obi-Wan & Yoda Change Luke & Leia’s Names?
Yoda and Obi - Wan go to a batch of hassle to check that the twins are hidden and keep good during the Imperial Era to ensure that Darth Vader never learns of their existence . Despite the great lengths they went to , including separate the two of them and Obi - Wan committing to a lifespan of exile and solitude , they failed to take the most basic precautions . When Padmé gives birth , just before she dies , she names both Luke and Leia ; Yoda and Obi - Wan keep these name .
While Anakin was n’t there , had the two ever discuss baby name , a ' Luke Skywalker ' would have been a fairly contiguous warning signal bell , particularly given he was being raised on the Lars ' farm . It was an curious choice for Obi - Wan and Yoda , who could have kept Padmé ’s wishes but conceal the name until a late time . Even from aStar Warschronology standpoint , this made little gumption ; nothing in the original trilogy indicated that Padmé had appoint them , so this was a wrinkle the prequels did n’t have to add .
1Jedi Cut Off Connections To Their Families… But Keep Their Family Names
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Despite the Jedi being so unhesitating in their prescript against attachments , they inexplicably allowed the members of the Jedi Order to keep a fundamental connection to their families . Each of the Jedi retained their last ( or family ) name , tether them to where and who they come from . Given how concerned the Jedi were with the unsafe influence of family attachments , this is perhaps the most confusing Jedi choice inStar Wars;the Jedi could have done away with last names or adopted some sort of universal last name . Instead , they again waffle on one of their most basic rule .
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