The other mention of the formal side of the Jedi was in ESB by Yoda,...
“Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained."
I'm not seeing the organization reference in that quote.
There's a guy teaching kids karate in a dojo down the street from me.
Should I assume that he belongs to a global karate army? 'Cause I just figured he was a guy teaching karate.
As I recall, what Ben said was "For over 1000 generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice throughout the galaxy. Before the dark times. Before the Empire."
I'm not seeing the organization reference in that quote.
There's a guy teaching kids karate in a dojo down the street from me.
Should I assume that he belongs to a global karate army? 'Cause I just figured he was a guy teaching karate.
@Riceball: See, that makes sense to me, and that's pretty much how I figured it went down in the OT universe.
I could see Jedi masters here and there, scattered throughout the galaxy, teaching youth the ways of the force.
But I reject the PT universe scenario of toddlers snatched from their mothers and shipped off to Curuscant to twirl lightsabers surrounded by a Jedi army in a giant Jedi temple.
I still fail to understand why if Yoda and Obi Wan wanted a Jedi army, they sat on their hands for 20 years waiting for Luke to come along.
Why didn't they comb the galaxy nabbing and training babies themselves? They had 20 years to do it.
I also fail to see how a Jedi army jives with the philosophies Ben and Yoda taught Luke about using the force for good. Seems contradictory.
@Riceball: See, that makes sense to me, and that's pretty much how I figured it went down in the OT universe.
I could see Jedi masters here and there, scattered throughout the galaxy, teaching youth the ways of the force.
But I reject the PT universe scenario of toddlers snatched from their mothers and shipped off to Curuscant to twirl lightsabers surrounded by a Jedi army in a giant Jedi temple.
I still fail to understand why if Yoda and Obi Wan wanted a Jedi army, they sat on their hands for 20 years waiting for Luke to come along.
Why didn't they comb the galaxy nabbing and training babies themselves? They had 20 years to do it.
I also fail to see how a Jedi army jives with the philosophies Ben and Yoda taught Luke about using the force for good. Seems contradictory.