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Post #258038

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BeeJay
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What did the Prequel Trilogy need?
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Date created
22-Nov-2006, 12:26 AM
Originally posted by: vote_for_palpatine
Originally posted by: BeeJay
In ESB, Yoda did mention to Luke that he kept a council of Jedi. If this council has a place to meet, as in the Temple on Coruscant, then that just means the Jedi found it more convenient for them to gather in a place instead of trying to have meetings while scattered around the far corners of the galaxy.


Could you elaborate on which scene you mean? Because I believe you're referring to this:


"Ready, are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained!"

That is not council as in "city council", but counsel as in "judgment". Below is the link:

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=counsel





All that I was saying was that there was a need for a Jedi council. You are right, I misremembered the quote. But I think Yoda and Obi-Wan's interactions, especially when Obi-Wan is trying to convince Yoda to take Luke as an apprentice, really give the impression that the Jedi were an order of individuals.

Here's Yoda coming up with excuses why Luke can't become a Jedi, and Ben says to the impatience argument: "So was I, if you remember." (Obi-wan as a youngling had impatience.)