![]() Luke: At the height of their powers, they allowed Darth Sidious to rise, create the Empire, and wipe them out. But if you strip away the myth and look at their deeds, the legacy of the Jedi is failure. Now that they are extinct, the Jedi are romanticized, deified. One of my favorite parts is when Luke, the last of the Jedi at that point, discusses the failure of the Jedi order: The Last Jedi is not a movie I particularly like, but it does have it’s moments. The truth however is that the Jedi Order, and in particular the order of the late Republic period was far from the shining example we’ve been told it was. ![]() The Jedi are often seen as the great heroes of Star Wars and what was at first the story a fight between a despotic Empire and a plucky band of rebels has morphed overtime in the grander saga of the enteral conflict between the heroic and good Jedi and the evil Sith. ![]() It has continued to be the most concise description of the Jedi and has colored people’s views of the Jedi for over 40 years. ![]() Before the dark times, before the Empire.” This now classic line serves as the world’s introduction to the Jedi Order when Star Wars was first released. ![]() “For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Let’s talk about why the Jedi Order wasn’t the force for good we’ve been told it was. ![]()
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