That is all fair G&G! And good point about the question of the original post for this thread. I do agree with you that it does seem like Lucas has the view of Jedi are generally right, and most of the responsibility rests with Anakin himself.
I always was bugged by the Sequel Trilogy never really exploring how the Jedi were going to grow and evolve to keep history from repeating itself. I’m kind of curious what you’re thoughts are on this, but do you think the Sequel Trilogy is actually being pretty faithful to George’s view of the Jedi by having Luke admit that his opinions on the Jedi were wrong in TLJ, and by having Rey just affirm the Jedi path rather than ever suggesting she is going to reform it in some way?
And even though I personally wanted Ben Solo to survive TROS, I suppose having him give his life to save Rey also makes a statement on Lucas’ whole “selflesses vs selfishness” theme. Anakin loved Padmé, so much so he couldn’t accept living without her. So that represents that selfish, possessive love. Whereas Ben also loves Rey, and for most of the trilogy does want to possess her, but in the end he does what Anakin couldn’t, and displays this literal act of selfless love, accepting that in order for her to live he can’t be with her. Definitely not trying to say the ST is brilliant by any means, but I might could see how this fits with what George’s opinions actually were regarding what it means to be a Jedi. But I think George probably would’ve thought of a more inspired ending than just blowing up Palpatine again. Maybe I’m wrong though.
Also should’ve realized you were a Spider-Man fan! Not really related to this thread but I wanted to share this thought with you:
When I saw No Way Home in theaters, I really wished the two after credit scenes had been two scenes of the the other two Spider-Man back in their own universes. With Andrew, we would’ve seen him meet or run into his version of MJ, kind of implying that he will be able to finally find love in. I’m not 100% what we could’ve gotten with Toby, but I like the idea of him with a son or daughter, and seeing MJ come home and realizing she is the mom, and maybe he is gonna retire the suit and settle down now or something. Idk, it could’ve tied into that idea that even though Tom is letting Zendaya/MJ go for now, that a universe will find a way to bring them back together eventually. It also would’ve given a nice epilogue to both Andrew and Toby’s version of the characters. Even though we didn’t get to see that, it’s kind of my head canon (though honestly I’m not a big MCU fan so I don’t have a lot of those). I do agree with you about the Captain America time travel thing and the Spider-Man villain idea you have. Makes the most sense.