C3PX said:Johnboy3434 said:7.) Sifo-Dyas is a prime example of how the Jedi don't constantly monitor each other. I assume it's because there's supposed to be a sense of trust. The Council can trust a Jedi to answer when he is called upon, and a Jedi can trust the Council not to spy on his activities. Dooku's fall to the Dark Side wasn't known until AotC. His official reasoning for leaving the order was that he became disillusioned after the death of Qui-Gon. Many Jedi have left the order for philosophical reasons that aren't Dark Side-related, and the Order makes no attempt to stop them. One in particular was even shown to come visit the Temple and catch up with old friends on occasion.
But that is all just meaningless EU stuff, isn't it? That stuff gets over written all the time. At one point Boba Fett was a Rorschach-esque self-righteous young man named Jaster Mareel. Now, I bet if you even so much as mentioned Jaster Mareel over at a place like TF.n or SW.com you'd get lynched.
Those stories are just made up by various sci-fi writers who get paid for it, if one day George or the creative forces behind the TV show decide to do something that contradicts those books, then suddenly they become irrelevant.
As for Sifo-Dyas being an example, do we even hear anything about him for him to be an example? I though Sifo-Dyas died before ording the clone army, which means he is not really the one who did it, right? Is there anything about him mentioned in the movie beyond, "Jedi master Syfo-Dyas..." "Sifo-who?" "Sifo- Dy-- Ah, screw it! He isn't even important to the plot."
Well yeah, it is EU and the EU gets written over all the time. But then non-EU gets written over too -look at Leia's memories of her mother, and originally Anakin was supposed to be in his 60s in ROTJ (that's why they cast a 77 year old actor) which meant Anakin should have been in his forties in ROTS. And Lucas does seem to be using the EU more nowadays. I think The Clone Wars show is supposed to be more than just EU (Lucas seems to include it in his Star Wars universe) and it's used Asajj Ventress who's from the EU (started out in the comics). The line between EU and non-EU is blurring. Look at Force Unleashed for example. With a lot of stuff the EU is all there is to go on. I'm all for not taking the EU seriously, but that's pretty much all there is here. Except that there was no indication in the prequels that Su Doku was ever in any trouble for leaving the Jedi. Funny thing is the EU (I think starting with the novelizations) claims that only 21 Jedi masters ever left the order, at least in the 2000 or so years before ROTS. Now that's damn implausible. In 2000 or more years more than 21 Jedi Masters would want to have sex.