@legobiwan replied to your post “<p>It's nice to get confirmation that Filoni drinks the Qui Gon is One...”
I'm curious what Filoni said...but I LOVE the GL explanation. Qui-gon is a super-complicated character, especially given his training with Dooku, and I personally don't think him training Anakin would have led to a better outcome. A different one, yes, but not necessarily better.
There was a long discussion about it yesterday, but basically, in the behind-the-scenes video for the most recent TCW episode, Filoni said some...confusing stuff regarding Qui-Gon being the one to get selfless love “the most right” and that that was passed down to Ahsoka. Specifically, he says:
And to me, when you look at the Jedi in the prequel era, the one Jedi that has it most right is Qui-Gon because Qui-Gon understands that you can still love someone as long as you don’t try to possess them, as long as you can let them go. He is selfless. Ahsoka is on a selfless path. And because Qui-Gon taught Obi-Wan taught Anakin taught her, that teaching is in her. She gets the benefit of Anakin and Obi-Wan. Both of them teach her throughout the course of her life. And so she has kind of a nicely balanced view of things where a lot of Jedi, I don’t think, have that.
Which...uh, again, there was a discussion on this yesterday but basically I’m not seeing any of this addressed in the films, Lucas doesn’t talk about anything like this when he talks about Qui-Gon, and the expanded material that I’m familiar with most definitely does not subscribe to this interpretation of Qui-Gon.
So while Filoni isn’t exactly saying that Qui-Gon training Anakin would’ve been better, he is expressing similar sentiments about Qui-Gon that the people who do claim that also say, so I’m not surprised anon took that away from his statements.
Personally, I like what Lucas says a lot better, and find it to make more sense with what we actually see. My own interpretation is that Qui-Gon is well-meaning and tries to do the right thing, but that he can get so caught up in what he wants/thinks the Force wants (and has trouble distinguishing between the two), that he doesn’t always consider other people or how his actions affect other people. So I really do not vibe with the idea that he is the ideal of what the Jedi should be, or that he’s somehow better or more right than the other Jedi; and I don’t see how that interpretation is supposed to be supported by the source material.
