[ Jedi can't compromise. It's such a black and white way of thinking, he notices. The Jedi compromise on many things, but those things aren't what matter to Anakin. And besides that, he can see how Anakin would draw such a conclusion from an objective standpoint. Obi-Wan had always considered the Jedi way of doing things the right way of the universe, and then the Force took away his Master and thrust a canonball of a boy into his life and gave him no choice but to lift his eyes from the text.
They should have been compromising, but they didn't, and Obi-Wan never really spoke up about it. In his hubris he assumed he could handle it on his own, and perhaps in some ways... he knew the Council wouldn't understand. Anakin needed things that they were not willing to give, and Obi-Wan made it a point never to tell them more than they needed to know.
In all reality, the Jedi as he knows them have fallen. The more Obi-Wan meditates on it the more he can see all the ways they went wrong. How many times had he disagreed with the rest of the Council, often a single voice out of the whole? As he aged, and as the war dragged on, he started to understand better the way Qui-Gon had defied them. If the Jedi don't compromise, then what is the point? Then we wouldn't be Jedi, we would be something else. Yes, they would. They would not be the Jedi as they had once been known and quite frankly, that might be exactly what is needed.
The ripples of his swinging feet have faded, but the water still moves at odds with the tide. The movement of something underneath that he cannot see. ]
Then perhaps what it means to be a Jedi is what must change.
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They should have been compromising, but they didn't, and Obi-Wan never really spoke up about it. In his hubris he assumed he could handle it on his own, and perhaps in some ways... he knew the Council wouldn't understand. Anakin needed things that they were not willing to give, and Obi-Wan made it a point never to tell them more than they needed to know.
In all reality, the Jedi as he knows them have fallen. The more Obi-Wan meditates on it the more he can see all the ways they went wrong. How many times had he disagreed with the rest of the Council, often a single voice out of the whole? As he aged, and as the war dragged on, he started to understand better the way Qui-Gon had defied them. If the Jedi don't compromise, then what is the point? Then we wouldn't be Jedi, we would be something else. Yes, they would. They would not be the Jedi as they had once been known and quite frankly, that might be exactly what is needed.
The ripples of his swinging feet have faded, but the water still moves at odds with the tide. The movement of something underneath that he cannot see. ]
Then perhaps what it means to be a Jedi is what must change.