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Friday, May 20, 2005

A Jedi could give you a close shave but I'd never let him watch my kids.

Let's face it. A Jedi makes the worst parent. After seeing 'Revenge of the Sith' I have to blame the Jedi for the whole problem. They started it. I've always said, the biggest and strongest bond for any child is with the one raising him/her. Their strength, fortitude, convictions pass in some shape to the one being raised. That being said, Ben was a pretty good guy. So, who the Hell did Anakin fall so quickly and so hard? It's like this:
"I'm on the good side. I'm on the good side. I'm on the good side. I'm on the good side. I'm on the go..."
"Hey Anakin, wanna come to the dark side?"
(quick pause)
"I'm on the dark side. I'm on the dark side. I'm on the dark side. I'm on the dark side."
It was that fast. Let's base it on Christianity shall we? Besides, many of Lucas and Spielberg's movies are based on WWII and the Holocaust. Okay, a Priest who is taught of the Divine ways to live may learn the ways of the Devil and evil as well. He's at least aware of them and what they stand for. Okay, now let's say you're a priest. Not a good one either. Other Priests think you're not so strong and you haven't even heard one confession yet. Along comes a Politician who communicates with the Priests fairly regularly. He's telling you that the other Priests are fools and you should be giving Masses let alone hearing Confessions. Are you immediately going to sway? Would you even think about it? Now, disagreement is human and I'm sure it's no different for Jedi. But, the code Man! The Oath! The principles of the Sith and Jedi are pretty much laid out. I'm sure even non-Jedi people running around know to be wary of the Sith. My God Anakin, get a frickin' backbone. Even worse, come on Ben. Wake up! His attitude was lacking in Episode 2. Didn't you see that! Bad parent! Bad parent! Don't they have boarding schools for wayward Jedi someplace? Anyway, I guess I'm a little upset that he didn't see the lie coming. Maybe Christianity isn't the best analogy. Karate is better. Almost everyone past the age of 10 knows about the existence of karate. Not everyone knows it and it can be used both ways. Offensively and defensively. Some bully might be using it to steal lunch money and gain power where there is some softspoken chick on Biology class who has kicked ass during recess to help out another kid. Every knows it. Now, the kid who uses it bad....who is to blame? Mom and Dad that's who. They're too busy working on computers or the lawn to care. Kids go awry. Same thing with the Jedi. Too busy meddling with political crap or finding Sith Lords.
One last note. It appears that all the other Jedi went through some training of some sort at the Headquarters. There were "younglings" running everywhere in Episode II and III. It appears to me that Ben did the raising and teaching on his own for Anakin. That was a bad experiment if it were true. They paid for it in the end. Stormtroopers rioted in the streets raping and pillaging the Wookie while Ben was eating camel in the Gobi desert while Yoda was eating fish and crawdads in the jungles of the Congo. If James Tiberius Kirk were there, he would have cleaned it all up by the end of Episode I. But, he probably would have impregnated 3 of the female jedi in the process.

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