Kanan is a Prequel Jedi and nothing he taught Ezra is different from anything the Republic Era Jedi would have taught him.

It’s slapdash and half-remembered and taught very rushed and in all the wrong order but it’s the exact same underlying core principles and philosophies.

Please stop trying to use him as a club against other Jedi.

Attachment: - Kanan running to save Hera in desperation, without a plan, in season 4, before the wolf stops him. - Kanan’s feelings of worry for Hera distracting him on the mission. (Which he handles by putting Ezra in charge of the rescue instead.)

Not Attachment: - Kanan loving Hera - Kanan having a kid with Hera - Kanan’s relationship with Hera in general. Seriously, he’s completely willing to leave her behind in the season 2 finale to go do his duty and fight the Sith. He not only refuses to take revenge on the Protectors for nearly killing Hera, he also prevents Sabine from taking revenge. When Maul is holding the crew prisoner, he counsels Ezra that they need to let go of their fear of their friends so Maul can’t manipulate them with it. - Kanan’s relationship with Ezra. This is basically just a bog-standard Master/Padawan relationship.

On a more positive note: - Kanan refuses to touch the dark side in times of great pain, fear, and anger, trusting the Force to help him instead. (e.g. Season 1 & 2 finales, when he fights the Inquisitor after he thinks Ezra was killed and when he beats Maul) - Kanan chooses negotiation over conflict when possible. (e.g. negotiating with and then kidnapping Fenn Rau instead of killing the Protectors of Concord Dawn) - Kanan is humble enough to ask other Jedi for advice when he’s confused (the end of season 2, when he asks for Ahsoka’s help with the Inquisitor problem).

Kanan and Hera are a perfect example in SW of loving without attachment, both love one another so much yet they both know duty comes first and they are willing to let the other go if it comes down to it.

Kanan’s entire arc is him reconnecting to the Jedi and overcoming the trauma of order 66. He fights so much of being a Jedi at the beginning of the series because he is letting his fear drive him - he changed his name, doesn’t use his lightsaber, won’t train Ezra, doesn’t want to fight in a war, etc. The point of his arc is that he needed to become the Jedi he was meant to be all along, he is meant to be like a Jedi of the Republic.

And he in the end let’s go of his fear and sacrifices himself for not only his family but for the mission and for the people of the galaxy - that’s pretty damn Jedi if you ask me.

Kanan WAS a Jedi, just.like his Master and his Master’s Master!!

— George Lucas (via gffa)

Stop it

The Jedi do not kidnap children

The Jedi do not repress emotions

The Jedi do not forbid love

The Jedi are not celibate

The Jedi are not war criminals

The Jedi do not ban other cultures

The Jedi are not slavers

The Jedi do not “allow” slavery to exist

The Jedi are not elitists

The Jedi do not run the government

The Jedi are not responsible for their own Genocide

The Jedi are not responsible for the fall of the Republic

And The Jedi are not responsible for Anakin’s stupid, selfish choices

I've always interpreted Obi-Wan's line to Satine about the fact that he would've left the Order if she asked him as an indication that, at the time when they were on the run together, he was still too young to understand the responsibility of being a Jedi, but every time I see it being used to argument that it must mean that Obi-Wan wasn't happy as a Jedi and craft the "fix-it" ending in which he leaves the Order I die inside a little

Obi-Wan literally said he “had [Satine] said the word [Obi-Wan] would have” and that phrase does not immediately ring “if asked [Obi-Wan] still would.”

It’s not even sly or tricky wording. I find it rather blatant. He would have, before, when they knew each other younger, but he’s not saying he still would. He is a Jedi master now; he has boundless bonds and connections and loyalty. I find it very hard to believe that he would leave now. Even if he didn’t have responsibilities fighting a war, he is very dedicated to the Order and his vow.

There are dozens of reasons why I don’t think it would have worked, and I think it would have worked even less at the time they were in the show or even after the war if things had gone better. I find it hard to believe that Obi-Wan leaning the Order for Satine/Mandalore would be a fix-it at all, but that is here nor there and probably deserves an entire different post.

Obi-Wan is happy in the Order; these people are his family and he doesn’t need that romantic bond/connection to be fulfilled and happy in his life. He loves Satine, sure, and he cares about her, but there are dozens of others he cares about just as much in and out of the Jedi Order and just because he doesn’t have a romantic lover, wife or whatever like Anakin, doesn’t mean he isn’t happy with the family and bonds he has. And the Order he has devoted his life too.

Obi-Wan was happy as a Jedi. He loved being a Jedi. It was who he was. It was his life. It was his choice. And he kept choosing it as long as he could. As long as it was an option - and even beyond that.

Them: Mace Windu was evil. He put a child in jail.

Me, not thick as a rock: Mace Windu was a stunning compassionate Jedi who fought to keep Boba out of jail and advocated for leniency and was overruled and ignored by a corrupt system.

Thinking about…… baby Jedi not being able to pronounce “Master” properly…. and saying any variation of “Mama” or “Ma” instead…… or just trying super hard to get the syllables right (especially for the ones who don’t speak Basic a lot, or at all).

I think a likely vocalisation would be something like “Masa” or “Mata” and that almost illegally adorable

YES.

Then you have Nana or Nat for the Knights and Pawan for the Padawans! 

*imagines a youngling running up to their favourite babysitter, happily shouting “KNAT [insert attempt at name here]!!”* ….OK who gave the mini jedi premision to be this cute?

Pawa or Paw is also an alternative for padawans

Wait… What do the Jedi babies call the Clones? 

I guess in the general sense they might use some variation of “Toopa”, which now leads me to assume that some younglings mishear this as “tooka” and it becomes a Temple in-joke of some sort

…………….. your mind. That’s just brilliant. 

Jedi fan here too!

Oh, we are making this a find-friends thread? Perfect. Sign me up for the Jedi Loving.

I’m liking this. Where are my jedi positive people? Who hasn’t been put down by popular fanon? Sound off if you’re not dead.

careful, you might attract the englishlady

Let us not allow fear of the haters stand in the way of our love!

Agreed. If we all hid from every tumblr topic that received hate we’d have nothing to blog about.

Besides, they want me to. Shut up??? About Mace Windu?? About Shaak Ti? Obi-Wan? Plo Koon??? Outrageous. Unfair.

Hello there! XD

Listen, if Star Wars didn’t want me to blog about the Jedi, they wouldn’t have made them so incredible.  Or made Jedi babies so precious.  Or made Obi-Wan’s face like [gestures] that.  Or made Mace Windu the best character in the galaxy.  Or made Yoda hilarious.  Or made their Temple the most gorgeous, welcoming place ever.  Or--!