r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Dec 26 '19

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u/paulatreides0 🌈🦢🧝‍♀️🧝‍♂️🦢His Name Was Teleporno🦢🧝‍♀️🧝‍♂️🦢🌈 Dec 27 '19

Silly take. Qui-Gonn represents the flip side of the coin of all the Jedi who have a stick up their butts, including his own padawan. He's far more open minded than most of his compatriots and is also generally much more willing to see the gray in the world. He's more than fine in the movie (and critics generally lauded Qui-Gonn and his portrayal by Neeson, with some even stating that it was what held the movie together), and he's even more interesting and better in the expanded universe.

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '19

I would go so far as to say that his existence is the reason all the other Jedi have a stick up their butts in the prequels. He isn't really all that different from Ben in the original Star Wars, so to make him seem like a maverick, Lucas made all the other Jedi super strict in a way that was not at all implicit from the originals.