"We will not train the boy. He's too old."
- Thread starter RoJoHen
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They were going to send him to primary school in Bejing. That IS what "youth-in-Asia" means, right? 
The council never seemed like a particularly wise institution. Making up a lot of really stupid rules. So there's that. 
Baring the presence of a penal colony the rejects are dumped into, Midichlorians as practically positive scabies.
1. Create a toxic environment Midichlorians want no part of. Force neutering basically.
2. Whatever "organ" or "gland" fluxes with presence of Midichlorians can be excised. Force Lobotamy basically.
1. Create a toxic environment Midichlorians want no part of. Force neutering basically.
2. Whatever "organ" or "gland" fluxes with presence of Midichlorians can be excised. Force Lobotamy basically.
In the books and games at least, there were ways to cut off a persons access to the force. Nothing was mentioned in the films of course.
Something like that. I don't think most people who are force sensitive realize it or can actively use it without training. Then of course we got Rey... My pet theory for that: the moment she resisted Kylo's mindmeld, something in her clicked and jumpstarted her abilities. That's the best I'vegot at the moment.
I think the future will show that Rey was mind blocked in some way to forget what training she may have had. Because the Ren switching it on theory is the only one that makes sense.
The answer is actually pretty simple: George Lucas never bothered giving it more than a passing though.
"He's too old to train? Oh well, just let him go out in the wild and do whatevs. It'll be fiiiine." is pretty much like saying "Dang, all this uranimum would cost too much to enrich. Just leave it on the street over there. It'll be fiiiine."
The whole reason Qui-Gon brought Anakin to the council in the first place was a prophecy: some day someone strong with the force would restore balance after a dark time. Qui-Gon thought that someone would be Anakin. The Council didn't agree, so they decided not to train him.
So what would have happened if Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan had gone along? Nothing. Anakin would go back home and the council would just wait for the real force balancer while going about their business of taking babies from mamas and raising them like force monks.
Heh. I was in a Star Wars RPG once where the GM decided without consulting me to make my character Force-sensitive.
I was obviously too old to go through Jedi training...at least based on TPM.
Meanwhile there's a Dark force user (in-game I had my suspicions but wasn't sure yet) who was more than happy to teach me how to better use my abilities!
Yeah, the Jedi seem to be lightsabering themselves in the foot on this one.
I was obviously too old to go through Jedi training...at least based on TPM.
Meanwhile there's a Dark force user (in-game I had my suspicions but wasn't sure yet) who was more than happy to teach me how to better use my abilities!
Yeah, the Jedi seem to be lightsabering themselves in the foot on this one.
That's how I've always seen it. The Sith "rely on their passion for their strength", while the Jedi seem to train younglings to govern their passions and control their emotions in an almost Vulcan-like way in order to resist the temptations of the dark side. Starting young, when they have more of a blank slate, seems to be the best way to do that. At 9 years old, Anakin has already forged significant emotional connections with the 'outside' world.
Yes, exactly.
