Bingowings said:
Sure I get what you are saying but let's face it the whole thing was set up to put a little Thorn Birds style frisson into the love story.
In the current arrangement the Jedi just come across us utter swines.
A Jedi must not have particular attachments so to test it we will leave the chosen one's mother a slave and see what he does next?
We are supposed to care about these guys?
In ESB Yoda and Ben know just how dangerous Vader can be especially to someone with very little training like Luke (a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing but especially so when you have a guy like Vader pressing all your buttons).
They aren't saying to Luke that his friends aren't worth saving or aren't important.
They certainly don't go out of their way to make sure Luke's friends are in danger or have a crappy life to see how he will react.
They just say that it's more important he finishes the training so he can fulfill the higher goals of his friends (well at least Leia).
Ultimately they don't stop him from going either even when they have put almost all their eggs in one basket.
Sending someone to pick up Shmi, free her and have her live on a Jedi parent pension wouldn't harm their philosophy of non-specific attachment. They could have paid for her to be freed and she could then have married Cliegg of her own free will instead of him buying a bride (that's a weird set up too).
They might as well have fitted him with an electronic chastity belt if they are that concerned with enforcing their rules of attachment ("If you get any naughty thoughts it goes BOOM!").
It just paints the Jedi as a really creepy cult with a disconnect policy :
lol we all know Lucas's love life is one that has NOT contributed to Star Wars in a positive way. Well except maybe Empire since he was going through his divorce at the time (and thus darker...) but we all know that Gary Kurtz saved ESB (and Ady is making it shiny and awesomer XD).
Anyway, we all know that these ideas of "love" have been skewed for Lucas and thus these ideas incorporated into SW have been jacked up as well (ie Anakin and Padme). The idea of the Jedi being unattached is similar to Christian doctrine. However, let's say they did go and rescue Shmi or whatever... She still meets Clegg if she stays on Tattooine and the end result is that the during the Tusken Raider raid they'd still take her.
In fact, that's not a bad idea, all that is a dialog change just mentioning that the Jedi freed her from Watto a long time ago but she opted to stay because of meeting Clegg. Anakin when he senses her pain wants to go but can not abandon the mission either to protect Padme... Makes it an easier fix