Are we just never going to have a nice discussion based on the fact that the Jedi Order sent goddamn kids into war? That they put their kids through hell and then turned their backs on the same kids almost immediately when they came back damaged by something they sent them off to do? Are we going to talk about the fact that the Jedi never properly taught those kids the emotional affect that war has on you or how to deal with is, besides ‘learn to let go’? Are we not going to talk about how they put out the innocence of a child by sending them to watch other lives, their FRIEND’S lives, disappear right before them?
Are we never going to talk about the emotional AND physical scarring this has on KIDS and continue to defend them? What they did was horrendously wrong. Yeah. Plenty of the individuals of the Jedi Order are amazing characters, but it’s just like our own society. There ARE good people, but that doesn’t mean that the system isn’t deeply flawed.
This is also interesting, because at first glance it seems like the Jedi traditionally had Padawans as commanders, and this is how it was always done. Yet in the KOTOR series (which while EU is the only thing we have on this), the only teenager you see fighting in the war is Mission, and that’s because you recruited her for this quest of finding maps.
This implies an interesting thing- the prequels Council decided that the rank of Padawan automatically meant the rank of commander, despite it not being a historical precedent in an era extremely warn torn. It could be that the Council saw that padawans served in wars before, not realizing it meant Padawans that were Bastilla’s age of late teens/early 20’s.