Yes it is. Ki Adi Mundi. Possibly the worst person in the entire Jedi Order.
The deal with him having wives and kids is that Cerean males are so rare that to remove one from the gene pool would be wildly irresponsible. They make an exception, basically, so that he can attend to what is seen as a vital contribution to the survival of his people.
Unfortunately, he takes the whole “no attachments” thing very literally. He doesn’t actually give a single shit about anyone in his family. To the point where they all get killed and the only way anybody even finds out it happened is when he gives Anakin a “you don’t hear me crying about it, do you?” speech emphasizing how little the deaths of dozens of wives and daughters affected him.
He’s an absolute trashbag of a person, but somehow he qualifies as a Master. What a fuckin’ joke.
It’s nice to reflect on how as a little kid I went and saw episodes 2 and 3 in theaters and thought the Jedi were so freaking cool man - then coming back to the series 20 years later having developed politics and realize the Jedi are pretty blatantly a corrupt, listless, doomed-by-its-own-inadequacy organization starting at the top.
Palpatine/fascism are the bad guys but the Jedi are certainly not the good guys, in a way that went ten miles over my head at the time lol. These movies deserve more credit imo
“Starting at the top” is especially true. I would argue that most if not all of the failures of the late-Republic Jedi can be laid entirely at Yoda’s feet.
Yes it is. Ki Adi Mundi. Possibly the worst person in the entire Jedi Order.
The deal with him having wives and kids is that Cerean males are so rare that to remove one from the gene pool would be wildly irresponsible. They make an exception, basically, so that he can attend to what is seen as a vital contribution to the survival of his people.
Unfortunately, he takes the whole “no attachments” thing very literally. He doesn’t actually give a single shit about anyone in his family. To the point where they all get killed and the only way anybody even finds out it happened is when he gives Anakin a “you don’t hear me crying about it, do you?” speech emphasizing how little the deaths of dozens of wives and daughters affected him.
He’s an absolute trashbag of a person, but somehow he qualifies as a Master. What a fuckin’ joke.
It’s nice to reflect on how as a little kid I went and saw episodes 2 and 3 in theaters and thought the Jedi were so freaking cool man - then coming back to the series 20 years later having developed politics and realize the Jedi are pretty blatantly a corrupt, listless, doomed-by-its-own-inadequacy organization starting at the top.
Palpatine/fascism are the bad guys but the Jedi are certainly not the good guys, in a way that went ten miles over my head at the time lol. These movies deserve more credit imo
“Starting at the top” is especially true. I would argue that most if not all of the failures of the late-Republic Jedi can be laid entirely at Yoda’s feet.
The whol “no attachments” thing. Ironically the whole concept of the force is being attached, to everything.