finally watched the season 5 finale and can i say, even though I knew exactly what was going to happen, i cried about it regardless… relatable character arc ngl… so excited for more clone wars to come…. aaaaaaaaa
ok public poll: is anakin being serious here or is he more like “iT Is noT the jEDI wAY” like that one spongebob meme
Funny answer: Both lol
Serious answer: The Jedi Code was the only thing Anakin had left. Palpatine had been tempting for so many long and had finally revealed himself as the Sith Lord. Anakin didn’t followed him immediately because that wouldn’t have been “the Jedi way”. Then at this moment, Anakin realized, what’s the real difference between the Jedi and the Sith? Both were willing to kill an “unarmed person” (which we know it’s false).
Anakin was in desperate need of help. He had asked the Jedi for help when he talked with Yoda and the only thing he got was basically a “let that person die, there’s nothing you can do about it, if you’re afraid of losing them, then you’re taking the path of the dark side, you’re greedy for not wanting to let them go” (paraphrased, but that’s almost the same thing Yoda told him). And then Palpatine comes and tell him “Hey! There’s a way to stop people from dying! The Jedi won’t teach you, but I can”. Anakin realizes Palpatine is the Sith and goes to the Jedi and then this happens.
Anakin chose to follow Palpatine because he didn’t had any hope left in the Jedi.
That’s not
a possibility because Obi-wan didn’t find the clone army by accident. Palpatine
needed the army to be found so if Obi-wan had been too slow to follow the clues
he would’ve tried something else.
Sidious had
the ability to see deep into the future, but there was always the unexpected.
With the power of the dark side, however, came flexibility. Having traced Fett
to Kamino, Obi-Wan Kenobi had turned up on Geonosis. All at once, here was
Qui-Gon Jinn’s former Padawan, right under Dooku’s nose. But when he had informed Sidious of Obi-Wan’s presence, Sidious had
only said, Allow events to play out, Darth Tyranus. For our plans are unfolding
exactly as I have foreseen. The Force is very much with us. [Labyrinth of
Evil. James Luceno]
Without the
army, the war would’ve been a very short one and that’s not what Palpatine
wanted.
If the Jedi hadn’t
learned of the clone army, Dooku’s Separatists would have suddenly appeared on
the scene with tens of millions of battle droids, fleets of warships, and
seceded from the Republic without contest. But there would have
been no coexisting with the Confederacy. Ultimately it would have bled the
Republic dry. War would have been inevitable, and the Jedi would have been
caught in the middle, as they were now. [Labyrinth of Evil. James Luceno]
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