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by EffortlessFury , Tuesday, November 29, 2022, 15:50 (724 days ago) @ cheapLEY

the Jedi's hypocrisy and especially the flawed "do or do not, there is no try" mentality.

Yeah, those have long been ambitious words from a weird frog man hiding from his problems in a swamp.

Exactly. And yet it was held true as a mantra by many fans. There was nothing in the films to suggest he was wrong; if anything the OT reinforced it.

Which, if you'll allow a brief segway into an addendum to my reply to Ragashingo, Kenobi and Yoda went into exile because they were literally being hunted by the newly coopted government and their army now set to kill on sight via engrained order. That exile was relatively justified. Everything TFA told us about Luke's exile smelled of much less justification. He created a problem but one that wasn't entirely out of the realm of fixing. The First Order was not the dominating force in the Galaxy and a counterforce (the government presently in charge) was already in place.

The pieces of his irreverence were there, we just overlooked them because we had the same naive belief in the idea of the man rather than the man that was implied he had become.