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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 2307001" data-attributes="member: 4720">And some more philosophical bits...But what happens when that soothing, calming presence in your life betrays you?  Or dies?I know from being reliant upon another person for stability and strength.  If she were to leave me or die, I would be a basket case.  If I *knew* she was going to die, and there was something, anything, I could do to save her... well, there's nothing else in the world that could motivate me more to do something I would otherwise regret.Attachment, even the most benevolent kind, is risky for that reason.  It can make you do awful things.  That is why the Jedi fear it.  Yep.  Fear it.  "There is no fear."  Yeah, right.  The Jedi fear the Sith.  Most of all they fear becoming the Sith.  They know what kind of emotions lead directly to the abuse of their power.  So they tried to eliminate them.  But there are indirect paths to those places.  So they threw out the baby with the bathwater and tried to get rid of those as well.  As a result, they do not serve their true purpose in the universe.  And they stagnate, becoming vulnerable to the Sith more than ever.The novelization makes this point during the conversation between Yoda and Qui-gon Jinn (who has been my pick as the "true" ideal Jedi since his appearance in tPM).  I can only hope that the scene will be put back in for the DVD (or at least be among the deleted scenes).As for the plot-y bits...I'm not much of a fan of the EU, but it seems to me that between noting that the pilot who destroyed the Death Star was drawing on the Force ("The Force is strong in this one."), and hearing about the new "Hero of the Rebellion," Luke Skywalker, he could have put 2 and 2 together.They were in service to a Rebellion that probably wasn't swimming in cash, after all.  Perhaps they were upgraded piecemeal, much as my computer is.  Perhaps they simply weren't upgraded at all but were good enough.It certainly seems that no one ever performed much maintenance on R2.  His jets at the very least were clearly out of service by the time of IV. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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