“. . . .Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil, helped the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi Knights.”
A thread for discussing anything and everything about The Jedi Purge.
What did you think the Jedi Purge would be like before the Prequels were released?
Did you think the Purge would be set 17 years after the end of the Clone Wars, like it was originally stated and planned?
^ abridged screenshot image from ‘A Guide to the Star Wars Universe, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded’ 1994 book, by Bill Slavicsek. More sources for the original timeline above: Pre-PT era lore | an OT & EU scrapbook resource OT•com thread.
Did the Jedi Purge scenes in ROTS resonate with you, or were you expecting more, and anticipating something different?
Were you expecting to the see The Jedi Purge over a longer period of time in the Prequel films, or maybe spanning across a couple of the PT movies (instead of mainly just seeing Order 66 less than an hour before the end of Revenge Of The Sith)?
Did you think fallen or captured Jedi would turn on their former brothers & sisters, working for the Empire and hunting down and killing other Jedi (as happened with the Inquisitors)? Or that it would be just Vader plus an elite squad of stormtroopers?
Have there been too many Jedi shown to have survived past Order 66, and the following Jedi Purge (in either canon or legends)?
Just how did everyone in the galaxy seemingly forget or be unaware of the Jedi (and the Force), the very people who ended up leading the Republic military forces in the devastating Clone Wars, just circa 20 years before events in the Original Trilogy?
For example, Han Solo, well travelled smuggler from Corellia, a place where Jedi had their own temple, with a large group of Jedi living there, has seemingly never heard of them, or the Force:
^ ignoring the retconned issue of Han’s best friend Chewbacca having met and fought alongside Yoda during the Clone Wars, in ROTS. Or that the Inquisitors and other Imperial forces were openly and publicly on the lookout and hunting the Jedi (even issuing “wanted” posters, threatening the public for information on the Jedi, and even overtly maiming and killing civilians in public places for it?).
Or that there appears to be many Jedi surviving Order 66 & The Jedi Purge, despite what Yoda explicitly stated to Luke in ROTJ:
Or what Tarkin stated in exposition to us the viewer (and also to Darth Vader), in 1977’s Star Wars:
Would you have preferred the Jedi Purge to have been done differently to what we got onscreen in the Prequels?
If so, how would you improve it, or rewrite it? Or just talk about what you want to on the topic of The Jedi Purge. . . .