Very recently, I met with some crew members of Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Mandalorian 3 and the upcoming Ahsoka series. We got to talking about RPGs and a charity event I will be helping out with. There is a subtext to Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi that really ties into ideas of hope during our darkest times […]
So, I’m really trying not to get my hopes up too high for a Qui-Gon appearance in the Obi-Wan show, not least because Liam Neeson has said he isn’t in it. (He could be lying Andrew Garfield-style, I suppose.) But if this actually happens –
In Chapter Six, after all is said and done, the blue ghost of Qui-Gon Jinn does manifest for Kenobi. As Qui-Gon appears in front of Kenobi, Obi-Wan looks on in amazement, hardly able to believe his own eyes. Qui-Gon Jinn smiles at Kenobi and asks him what took him so long? Qui-Gon then says he’s been there with him the entire time.
-my Phantom Menace/Jedi Apprentice loving self will be SO BEYOND crying tears of joy. I will be sobbing for days.
Dooku had a point in Ep. II: Qui-Gon likely would’ve been an easy turn had it come to that, between his passionate and impatient nature, his susceptibility to attachment, and his sense that the ends justify the means on some level. And we’ve all read enough fanfics where he gets Sithed to understand why that’d be horrifying in every sense of the word, right?
(Sidenote: So there’s a war on. Dark and full of terrors, as wars ever are. And you take a broken old man whose superpowers include feeling other beings’ suffering, and whose coping mechanisms include that friend-to-all-living-things, bring-home-all-the-strays shtick, and you stick him in that war, that galactic-scale war where he can’t even come close to 1% of 1% of saving everyone. Yeah, it’s not going to go well. Were I to write a General Jinn AU, it’d read like “Shatterpoint”. Or *worse*.)
You know, having read Master and Apprentice now, I am dying at the whole perpetual Fandom Debate about whether it’d have been better had Qui-Gon been Anakin’s master. Anakin “Let’s Fly Off the Handle at the Slightest Prompting” Skywalker being led around by Qui-Gon “Chosen One Prophecy Obsessive” Jinn. Oh my God. L O L.
Anakin: [walking into Qui-Gon’s room at 2AM] Master, I had a very vivid nightmare about something terrible happening. What do you suppose it means? Qui-Gon: [bolting out of his bed, grabbing an emergency kit bag out of a drop-down ceiling tile] I have no idea, but I do know we should probably flee to the unknown regions just to be safe, and spend all of our time obsessing over whatever it is you saw while sending increasingly insane messages to the Council about it. [grabbing Anakin’s shoulders] Do you feel different? Are you injured in any way? Did any evil forces long thought dead attempt to contact you in any way? Anakin: [more confused than usual] Injured? Master, I was sleeping and – Qui-Gon: [stuffing a thermometer in Anakin’s mouth] I’m also going to need you to give me a quick blood sample. [shines a light into each of Anakin’s eyes] Anakin: [eyes widening, thermometer still in his mouth] Blood sample?! Qui-Gon: [pacing, laughing nervously] Don’t panic, my young Padawan. There’s still possibly a small chance whatever you saw isn’t literally going to happen in real life. [pauses, furrowing his brow and looking into the distance] …or…maybe it has to happen. Wait, is it that we want your visions to come true, or that we should try to stop them? I can never remember where I landed on that one. Anakin: What?!
I may have gotten carried away and made this a lot longer than I intended… This is based on an idea my sister @shevyce had forever ago but I hadn’t gotten to until now. Poor Qui-Gon, he’s an adaptable little guy, but some changes are just too much to handle :)
Okay so first of, I find him a hot and interesting character.
That said… I also understand he’s a deeply flawed and hurt man. A human with traumas, strong conviction and hurts and someone that has lashed out at people that don’t deserve his scorn. He’s also a person that is fierce, compassionate and wants to help, even when the order he serves and the Senate the Jedi is suppose to obey tells him no.
He’s someone, just like everyone else of us, is trying to live a life.
I don’t blame him for having traumas honestly, I do blame him for taking it out on people that don’t deserve it though, as we’ve seen in canon stuff that he’s behaved like a arse to Obi-Wan.
And I blame Yoda for pushing a apprenticeship on him, using a child to heal an adult.
But yeah, that’s my opinion of him. Just a human with flaws and good sides.
Each of the original six Star Wars movies received at least one tie-in video game adapting its story. We could talk for hours about the exhausting sand monsters of Super Star Wars or the amazing Jedi Temple purge scenes that we deserved to see in the film from the Revenge of the Sith action-adventure game. […]
