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Originally Posted by blankall
That ending was a bit odd for me. I'm not quite sure that I understood the motivations for all the characters and how that would lead to their actions.
Sol turning into a blubbering idiot and admitting that he was responsible for everything was a bit much. The witch mother did turn into evil looking fog and then seemed to attack or suck the life out of one of the children before they killed her. That's a pretty reasonable reaction. Master Torbin taking a vow of silence over that incident? If that's all it takes to force a Jedi to require a decades long vow of silence, in their prime, to atone, they aren't going to get very far in their role as protectors. I mean the witches did earlier mind control him. That's hardly the act of benevolent group of people.
Am I way off here? I just don't see how what the Jedi did was so bad. They give the two girls, who are clearly being used as child soldiers or at the very least pawns, by the witches, the options to leave. One of them chooses to leave. The witches resist this and turn into a fog monster, meanwhile there's all sorts of confusion because Osha has lit the place on fire and there's zero fire control precautions. In that confusion, the supposedly not evil witch mother gets killed.
And surely there must have been a cleaner way for Rwoh to deal with the whole thing, than what she did. It was as though she was purposely going out of her way to act corruptly without any need to do so. It's a galaxy of trillions of people, where genocides of entire planets happen on the regular and there's all sorts of major mafias enslaving entire planets. Surely, this accidental witch killing can't be that big of a deal. Can't they just write a police report, mentioning the witch turning into an evil looking fog monster.
We're also talking about Jedi. Obi Wan, in TOS, seemed to pull out his light sabre at the drop of a hat and dismember people. Now, the death of one questionably evil witch is causing all this disarray?
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You could argue that the Jedi shouldn't have ever intervened in the first play. Sol made up the reasoning that he felt the girls were in any kind of danger. There was never any indication of that. And he created that narrative and believed it so firmly that he just reacted and killed their mother.
But the fact is that the Jedi showed up and basically tried to lay their philosophy on the witches that they were the only one that could be trusted to train force users, even after the witches stated that they weren't part of the Republic.
Then Sol decided to return to their homes, he was intent on taking those kids away. Because he so badly wanted a Padawn.
All of the death that day came from sheer Jedi arrogance and entitlement.
You had a Padawan that wanted to go home so he was easily manipulated by Sol. You had them break into someones home and pressure them into giving up their children.
Then when the Witches tried to protect themselves against the Jedi they paid with their lives. If the Jedi wouldn't have gone there, wouldn't have unnecessarily interfered, then none of this death would have happened.
Sol was a good man, that did a bad thing because he believed what he was doing was good.
And he destroyed lives, and even in the end in his arrogance he couldn't see that he was in the wrong.
And then it gets worse as the Jedi lie to cover up the whole thing. And clearly if this show continues Yoda will take part in this cover up to deceive the Senate.
What Sol did was equivalent to the Catholic Church feeling they had the right to seize children and educate them themselves because only the church was right minded when it came to Children.
In the end, the real justification of Order 66, beyond Palpatine wanting to seize power and enact the revenge of the Sith, was that the Jedi needed to evolve and reform and clearly the Force was ok with that.