Had Qui-gon Jinn lived to train Anakin, he would have had a chance.
We never hear Qui-gon say or show that he’s against the no-attachment rule. That’s just fan conjecture. I’m still not convinced that Lucas viewed the Jedi’s rules on attachment as an unhealthy thing.
And this is one of the main reasons the PT is so disliked. Lucas seems to think the way he portrayed the Jedi in the PT would meet with approval from fans!!! But they came off as cold, unemotional assholes. Yet it seems Lucas felt we would admire them!!
Lucas seems to have interpreted Buddhism (clearly the inspiration for the Jedi, especially in the PT) the same way as Nietzsche; but whereas Nietzsche was against it, Lucas seems to be for it. Essentially the Jedi cut themselves off from what Jung would have termed “the shadow self”. Nietzsche and Jung would have said you have to integrate that “darkness” into your being to have a full life. The Jedi actually even go beyond this - I mean forbidding relationships and having children is as anti-life as you can get.
Can we draw a link between George’s real life infertility and how he portrayed the values and norms of the Jedi?
In the OT Luke was his avatar, by the time the PT came around it was Mace Windu. Yikes.