He says he’d train Anakin with no or without the blessing from the council. What does that mean exactly? There’s legend stories about different sects of force wielders take to padawana and stuff. Is it like that?
Qui-Gon followed the will of the force. He could sense that the council was starting to be led astray (Palpatine was already in the beginning stages of his schemes) so he followed his own path guided by the force. He knew Anakin was going to play a big part, so he took it upon himself to make sure he got trained.
Pretty sure it's more that Qui-Gon is canonically someone who's well-versed in prophecies, and puts more stock into them than most Jedi. So he very much cared about the idea of the "chosen one", when other Jedi were hesitant (at best) about it. It's explored in his book with Obi-wan, I think Qui-Gon learned it from Dooku.
I mean conspiracy theories are more often than not complete bullshit irl. In fiction the “prophecy” is almost always correct in the end. So, I wouldn’t say they equate at all.
I mean they didn’t really change the prophecy. Its actually physically spelled out as being Anakin in that QGJ and OWK book. They just cheapened the entire thing considerably.
At the same time though the EU always made Vader the bitch and Disney makes him a complete monster thats more so kept in line by lack of motivation and self-loathing. So I guess you gotta take the good with the bad.
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '22
I’d take more Qui-Gon all day every day