Wouldn’t that depend on your interpretation of The Prophecy, with someone (perhaps Anakin? perhaps Luke rather? perhaps Leia’s 3rd son Anakin?) slated to “bring balance to the force”?
Though again, was that Anakin who helped Palpatine overthrow a corrupt and dying democracy (never you mind what it got replaced with…)
Or was it rather his son Luke who then overthrew that, allowing the cycle of death and decay and authoritarianism and then revolution to restart? Or, throwing it back was it rather Anakin but for a different reason (more locally minded to concerns directly related to force-users) since he overturned the corrupt establishment not of the Old Republic but of the Jedi Order itself, which had perverted its original intention by allowing themselves to get suckered into helping the rich stay rich and sticking it to the poor i.e. “defending the status quo”, ignoring things like slavery while stopping things like robbery of the existing oligarchy?
Is “balance” a good thing? Although conversely, can anything in nature exist without it (bc of entropy or whatever)?
(And above I was entirely ignoring here the ass whooping handed out by the Yuuzhan Vong, but yeah that still works too: by overthrowing the Empire Luke restored the Republic to the cycle of conquer or be conquered, i.e. “balanced” in that manner of being animals that exist within the constraints of the natural order rather than perched on top of it.)
All of which is to say that while nothing is ever guaranteed in life, except the Force, Qui-Gon knew that the lad was somehow important, though for what… who could say.
Maybe we here though can say that it wasn’t Obi-Wan that wanted to “gamble”, with the assurances of a force-assisted victory, but rather it was Qui-Gon who wanted to gamble for real?
I still hold that an Anakin did exactly what he was destined to do. At the end of the 3rd move he destroys the Jedi. A light side exploiting dogmatic order that had, at the time, near total monopoly on force sensitivity in the galaxy. At the end of the 6th movie, he kills palpatine and dies himself. Thus ending the reign of the sith. This leaves only Luke, who never completed his training to be a true Jedi and was not above force choking people and allowing worldly attachment to sway him but is also generally good aligned.
No light, no dark, just folks. Perfectly balanced.
I wonder what Qui-Gon would think of that ending? Probably “it is the will of the force…” and so at least nominally approve.
And then that leads me to wonder if knowing that, would he still have had the courage to do it - and die as a result, even though obviously becoming a force ghost?
Now that is probably crossing the line into over-thinking it! 😄 (/s btw, bc there is obviously no such thing!)
Wouldn’t that depend on your interpretation of The Prophecy, with someone (perhaps Anakin? perhaps Luke rather? perhaps Leia’s 3rd son Anakin?) slated to “bring balance to the force”?
Though again, was that Anakin who helped Palpatine overthrow a corrupt and dying democracy (never you mind what it got replaced with…)
Or was it rather his son Luke who then overthrew that, allowing the cycle of death and decay and authoritarianism and then revolution to restart? Or, throwing it back was it rather Anakin but for a different reason (more locally minded to concerns directly related to force-users) since he overturned the corrupt establishment not of the Old Republic but of the Jedi Order itself, which had perverted its original intention by allowing themselves to get suckered into helping the rich stay rich and sticking it to the poor i.e. “defending the status quo”, ignoring things like slavery while stopping things like robbery of the existing oligarchy?
Is “balance” a good thing? Although conversely, can anything in nature exist without it (bc of entropy or whatever)?
(And above I was entirely ignoring here the ass whooping handed out by the Yuuzhan Vong, but yeah that still works too: by overthrowing the Empire Luke restored the Republic to the cycle of conquer or be conquered, i.e. “balanced” in that manner of being animals that exist within the constraints of the natural order rather than perched on top of it.)
All of which is to say that while nothing is ever guaranteed in life, except the Force, Qui-Gon knew that the lad was somehow important, though for what… who could say.
Maybe we here though can say that it wasn’t Obi-Wan that wanted to “gamble”, with the assurances of a force-assisted victory, but rather it was Qui-Gon who wanted to gamble for real?
While that’s all a good question and thought provoking… unfortunately it’s literally just word of god that if Qui-Gon won, the light would win.
A common problem in Star Wars- the fans have put waaaay more thought and worldbuilding into it than Lucas ever did.
I still hold that an Anakin did exactly what he was destined to do. At the end of the 3rd move he destroys the Jedi. A light side exploiting dogmatic order that had, at the time, near total monopoly on force sensitivity in the galaxy. At the end of the 6th movie, he kills palpatine and dies himself. Thus ending the reign of the sith. This leaves only Luke, who never completed his training to be a true Jedi and was not above force choking people and allowing worldly attachment to sway him but is also generally good aligned.
No light, no dark, just folks. Perfectly balanced.
I wonder what Qui-Gon would think of that ending? Probably “it is the will of the force…” and so at least nominally approve.
And then that leads me to wonder if knowing that, would he still have had the courage to do it - and die as a result, even though obviously becoming a force ghost?
Now that is probably crossing the line into over-thinking it! 😄 (/s btw, bc there is obviously no such thing!)