Dang. That's brilliant. (I've been trying to think of another comment to add to that scenario, but so far no luck.)
But on the whole (or at least by Lucas's standards), the Jedi Council might've thought it would be best to ignore Shmi altogether, in hopes of encouraging that whole detachment thing in the kid-- and yet, Kenobi was presumably brought up in the Approved Manner (TM), but was clearly devastated in a very personal way by Qui-Gon's death and Anakin's betrayal. Yeah, Qui-Gon was known to've had some odd quirks within the Jedi system, but still.
(Or should we ascribe more significance to Qui-Gon having been apprenticed to Count Dooku before(?) the latter went renegade? Then again, since I haven't been keeping an eye on the fandom, I have no idea whether there are long, involved theories about that already....)
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Oooooo,
on 2005-12-13 11:36 am (UTC)But on the whole (or at least by Lucas's standards), the Jedi Council might've thought it would be best to ignore Shmi altogether, in hopes of encouraging that whole detachment thing in the kid-- and yet, Kenobi was presumably brought up in the Approved Manner (TM), but was clearly devastated in a very personal way by Qui-Gon's death and Anakin's betrayal. Yeah, Qui-Gon was known to've had some odd quirks within the Jedi system, but still.
(Or should we ascribe more significance to Qui-Gon having been apprenticed to Count Dooku before(?) the latter went renegade? Then again, since I haven't been keeping an eye on the fandom, I have no idea whether there are long, involved theories about that already....)