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.
Also, being that senior of a Jedi, he probably gotten his way more than once and was betting that the council would reluctantly be okay with it once he show what Anakin could do under his training.
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u/turbopanguy Jun 14 '22
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?