Yeah. I feel like Avatar: the Last Airbender did a better job of explaining how that is supposed to work than the Jedi Order ever did.
“What? Two Chakras ago love was a good thing!”
Here’s my take on it: love is a good thing. Attachments that you can’t accept life without are a bad thing.
Anakin suffers not because he loves Padme, but because he can’t accept that she is mortal, or even that she could divorce his arrogant ass at any time. It’s not the fact that he has attachments that leads him to the Dark Side. It’s the fact that he would be destroyed by the loss of his attachments that does.
If he could have balanced his love for Padme with the acceptance that she was, ultimately, temporary, then he would have been able to have both, safely. We know this because Jedi families – even whole-ass Jedi dynasties – were a thing in the Old Republic. Notice how Nomi Sunrider has descendants kicking around well into the New Republic era, and she never fell.
Too much love, not enough acceptance, and you get Darth Vader. Too much acceptance, not enough love, and you get Ki Adi Mundi (see above re: why he is a terrible person).
Yeah. I feel like Avatar: the Last Airbender did a better job of explaining how that is supposed to work than the Jedi Order ever did.
“What? Two Chakras ago love was a good thing!”
Here’s my take on it: love is a good thing. Attachments that you can’t accept life without are a bad thing.
Anakin suffers not because he loves Padme, but because he can’t accept that she is mortal, or even that she could divorce his arrogant ass at any time. It’s not the fact that he has attachments that leads him to the Dark Side. It’s the fact that he would be destroyed by the loss of his attachments that does.
If he could have balanced his love for Padme with the acceptance that she was, ultimately, temporary, then he would have been able to have both, safely. We know this because Jedi families – even whole-ass Jedi dynasties – were a thing in the Old Republic. Notice how Nomi Sunrider has descendants kicking around well into the New Republic era, and she never fell.
Too much love, not enough acceptance, and you get Darth Vader. Too much acceptance, not enough love, and you get Ki Adi Mundi (see above re: why he is a terrible person).