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Post #482353

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twooffour
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Star Wars could have been a modern day Iliad.
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Date created
10-Mar-2011, 11:30 AM

Quackula said:

EyeShotFirst said:

WhatsMyName said:

Qui-Gon was good, because he was unique from the other Jedi. He was his own character and really made me want to see more of him in the movies.

Qui Gon was interesting only because Liam Nesson is interesting.

That's a really excellent way of putting it.

And he was hardly any more interesting than Obi-Wan in the later two films. Why? Because Ewan McGregor is also interesting.

The fact that Qui-Gon had a different opinion from the other Jedi made him only slightly more interesting - it's not a mandatory criterion for a good mentor character, and it wasn't conveyed interestingly in TPM.