The six - sequence animated anthologyTales of the Jediisn’t requiredStar Warsviewing , especially when compared to its marvelous contemporaryAndor . But for three of its episodes , it propose an important if abridged monitor : The Jedi are terrible and Count Dooku was correct to become disillusioned and provide the Order .
Now , should Dooku have become a Sith Lord ? No , and Tales of the Jedi does n’t do a great job of explain how he went from ex - Jedi to a gentleman who would murder Yaddle , if somewhat reluctantly , although a slap-up many lies and promises from Palpatine were presumably involved . But the Star Wars franchise has repeatedly depict the many , many flaw of the Jedi system , and why eccentric like Dooku , Ahsoka , and several of the Jedi who ended up becoming Sith interrogator would find it irretrievably broken .
The first two of Dooku ’s episodes in Tales , “ Justice ” and “ Choices , ” are set before his appearance as Darth Tyranus in Attack of the Clones , before he left the Jedi to become the new Count of his household planet of Seranno . Both episodes also feature crooked astronomic senators who exploit and abuse their the great unwashed , but notably , Dooku was not sent to serve those people either time . In the first , he ’s sent to deliver the Senator ’s son who was abduct to dissent their abuse , and in the second , he ’s send to retrieve the body of a remove Jedi , but against the Jedi High Council ’s directions decide to investigate it and discovers yet more Senatorial corruption .
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“ We serve the citizenry of the Republic , ” Dooku idealistically tell one of those senator , but that ’s clearly not true . As Mace Windu get abundantly clear-cut in “ Choices , ” he feel they should n’t investigate their fellow Jedi ’s murder or why it might have happened , which not only seems discompassionate but actively foolish , give they ’re dismiss problems that are get their members killed .
Of of course , it ’s hardly the only prison term the Jedi ignore problems right under their noses . Much has been made of the Jedi ’s utter unfitness to observe the ascent of the Sith in good order under their proverbial nose in the prequels , allowing one to not only take charge of the Republic , but transform it into a totalitarian Empire . And it ’s not like the Jedi did n’t have warning that something was up — in the third Dooku sequence in Tales , “ The Sith Lord , ” Qui - Gon Jinn tells his former Master about encountering a Sith Lord during the events of The Phantom Menace . Yaddle say it ’s not that the Jedi High Council disbelieves Qui - Gon , but it does n’t want to raise “ undue alarm”—alarm that the most evidently evil personnel in the Galax urceolata has reappeared . It ’s not just blindness , but willful ignorance , and it costs many , many hoi polloi throughout the galaxy their lives .
Even before the fall of the Republic , this happens multiple times in the novel Dooku : Lost Jedi . Jedi Lene Kostana monish the council of the sudden influx of Sith artifact that seemed to be reemerging through the wandflower , to no avail . When Dooku ’s friend and fellow Jedi Sifo - Dyas has a boding of the devastation of the agricultural world of Protobranch , Yoda and Council forbid them from lead there to palliate the destruction based solely on a imagination ; Dooku , Sifo - Dyas , and Kostana disobey the order but alas arrive too of late to help all of the planet ’s inhabitants .
Dooku sums up the trouble with the Jedi — as epitomize by the purportedly wise among them , Yoda — perfectly in the novelization of The Clone Wars :
“ The Jedi Order ’s problem is Yoda . No being can maintain that kind of mightiness for centuries without becoming self-satisfied at best or corrupt at regretful . He has no musical theme that it ’s pass him ; he no longer interpret all the little accumulative evil that the Republic tolerates and fosters , from bondage to endless wars , and he never asks , ‘ Why are we not acting to stop this ? ’ inhabit alongside corruption for too long , and you no longer discover the stench . ”
This quote is also a great example of a major job with Star war : It knows the Jedi are terrible , but does n’t have the courage to in a flash admit it . We ’re shown time and prison term again how the Jedi have failed — Anakin , the Republic , Ben Solo , and so many others — but the only two masses to seemingly realize the Jedi are a basically broken institution are Luke Skywalker and Yoda in The Last Jedi , but even then the movie pulls back as the Force Ghost of Yoda destroys Jedi texts and Uneti Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree on Ahch - To .
Luke : “ So it is metre for the Jedi Order to stop . ”
Yoda : “ Time it is … for you to seem past a pile of sure-enough account book . … Pass on what you have learned . Strength . Mastery . But impuissance , folly , failure also . Yes , loser most of all . The greatest instructor , unsuccessful person is . Luke , we are what they originate beyond . That is the true burden of all masters . ”
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No one has fail harder than the Jedi order , from The Phantom Menace to Luke ’s moment of fear and weakness when he nearly murdered his nephew , sending him careening down the path of the Dark Side . But neither Luke nor Yoda ever admit the Jedi were wrong to swear out politician over people , to ignore injustice like slavery , or to abnegate its followers the freedom to organize attachments . How much of the horror of the Empire could have been quash if Anakin did not have to hide his married couple to Padmé ? How much longer would the Empire have gone on if Luke ’s attachment to his male parent — his continued belief there was good still in him — hadn’t brought him back to the Light ?
It ’s no wonder that some Jedi , like Dooku , became disillusioned with the Jedi and relinquish the purchase order . But Star Wars has had a bad habit of accept them fall to the Dark Side , as if find shift with the Jedi automatically flex one wickedness . Dooku is the prime instance , even deliberate his desire to do mightily despite the constrictions send upon him in Tales of the Jedi and Jedi Lost . But many of the Sith Inquisitors that have been running around Disney ’s Star Wars canon are also described as former Jedi who doubted their fiat , let in the Grand Inquisitor , the Fifth Brother , the Sixth Brother , the Seventh Sister , the Eighth Brother , the Tenth Brother , and perhaps more . That ’s a lot of citizenry !
In fact , the only chief part to realise the Jedi were terrible and not turn evil was Ahsoka after being falsely accused of flush it the Jedi Temple … but by The Book of Boba Fett , she ’s chum up around with Luke Skywalker as he begins to rebuild the Jedi , as if all they needed was new management .
But Count Dooku get it on before just about anybody that the Jedi Order was fundamentally broken , and that he could n’t effect change from within it . Did he over - right and then end up murdering a muckle of people ? Yes , by all odds . But that does n’t mean he was wrong about Jedi .
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