![]() Finale - Allegro Molto (Eroica) MP3 song from the movie/album Ludwig Van Beethoven: Symphony No. Wynk Music brings to you Beethoven: Symphony No. 55 (Eroica) Recordings of 1938įelix Weingartner, Wiener Philharmoniker So the only fill-in-the-blank that could possibly work in the statement at the beginning of this post is “had gotten Palpatine killed or incapacitated” or “had somehow been able to keep Anakin away from Palpatine during his childhood” (though that latter one would’ve only saved Anakin, not necessarily the Jedi as a whole).Ludwig Van Beethoven: Symphony No. They were genocided because Palpatine/the Sith wanted them dead and manipulated things to make sure that happened, and only because of that. They certainly weren’t immune to making mistakes, of course, but those flaws and mistakes are absolutely not, in any way the reason they were genocided. So to say that the choices the Jedi made, or flaws in their culture “led to their own downfall/genocide” is incredibly disingenuous. ![]() And he held all the cards in this situation. Palpatine would’ve exploited any choice they made, he would’ve seized on any crack that could be found or manufactured in Anakin’s trust in the Order he would’ve twisted anything and everything against the Jedi, because he wanted them dead. Obviously the Jedi had agency in their decision-making and are responsible for the choices that they made (which I’d argue were mostly the best ones given the individual situations and information they had available at the time - again, character knowledge is not the same thing as audience knowledge), but that doesn’t change the fact that the entire war was set up so that they would be destroyed no matter what they chose to do. ![]() He’s already set things up so that every choice his enemies and pawns could make benefits him, and in the event that one of them makes a choice he didn’t account for (such as Padmé, frequently, but especially in TPM), he’s extremely effective at adjusting to that and taking advantage of the situation. Another problem with all the “If only the Jedi had then ” takes is that they completely disregard the fact that Palpatine’s plans don’t exist in a vacuum. ![]()
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