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Honestly the original scene was real shit. Obi-Wan is Qui-Gon’s apprentice, he’s not about to point out how Qui-Gon’s plan is just bad.
Would then being Jedi mean they could sense when the cards are about to change values?
Qui-Gon: Credits will do fine. [while attempting a mind trick]
Watto: No, they won’t.
Qui-Gon: Credits WILL do fine.
Watto: No, they won’t.
Qui-Gon: [Walks down street to money exchanger] Trade me these credits for Hutt bucks [Does mind trick]
Money Exchanger: Okay!
[Qui-Gon returns to Watto]
Qui-Gon: Here’s a pile of Hutt bucks. Sell me a functional hyperdrive.
Watto: Okay!
[Roll credits]
The thing with the Jedi mind trick is that only Jedi’s think it works.
Everyone else just see a scary lightsaber guy asking them to repeat a sentence and are more than happy to comply if it means they get left alone.
There’s a limit to how much you can pretend though.
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Letting an old man and a kid drive through a checkpoint? Fine, someone else’s problem.
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Handing over all your life savings for a bad deal? Uh, no actually.
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Yes, because the Hutts would be totally cool with a couple of Jedi rolling up to their gambling dens and blatantly cheating for several hours. Screwing over one random used car salesman on a single bet is much easier to get away with.
Not to mention the whole “he could be the chosen one” angle, at which point freeing Anakin was just as important to Qui-Gon as getting off-planet.
…Me? Overthinking a silly meme? Noooo…
Qui-Gon is gambling at much higher stakes, placing the fate of the entire future of the galaxy into the hands of that boy, who Yoda had strongly recommended against being trained. So it’s not that Qui-Gon was against Obi-Wan wanting to gamble, he just wanted him to significantly up his game:-).
Even the people who don’t kidnap children to survive aren’t exactly concerned with safety in this galaxy.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how much space-weed do you reckon Qui-Gon Jinn smokes in a given day?
12 parsecs
You don’t get that hair from smoking cigarettes.
About 27.3.
I think you mean about 42.0
Even Master Yoda doesn’t have a space weed count that high!
I believe he could be the stoner of legend, that he is the one who will finally bring balance to the clouds with the perfect THC/CBD ratio.
That’s only because he swaps between drugs to avoid building tolerance.
Yes.
Calvin’s dad says it builds character.
The hell is a Palawan
It’s a humorous way of saying he’s his apprentice AND his friend!
@TastyWheat @The_Picard_Maneuver It’s a jelly in training
Child endangerment is the Jedi way.
That’s why they are given laser swords that can cut through anything at age six!
Training swords! They just sting like a bitch. They don’t make their own until well later.
Don’t forget blindfolding them while they use their laser swords
they are given laser swords
You mean those kids didn’t go through the Jedi ritual of constructing their own lightsabers? What has happened to our cherished traditions?!
Disney happened, that’s what.
Palps strip mined Ilum so it’s probably better that we don’t send younglings there any more.
Ah yes because Dantooine and it’s fucked up dark side giant cave spiders is so much better.
You want those younglings to be defenseless against the Jedi that kill them with their laser sword?
