Anakin Jedi
Anakin Jedi
How can Anakin have a padawan? I thought the Jedi Council hadn’t given him the rank of Master?
So, apparently, in this new Clone Wars movie (which I refuse to see) Anakin Skywalker has a padawan – and I’m wondering how that’s possible, because I remember him NOT being a Master. The padawan even calls him her “Master.” Did I miss something? I’ve seen all 6 of the live-action Star Wars several times, and I don’t remember anything further than him being denied the Master status.
Go watch the end of The Phantom Menace. As Yoda and Ben Kenobi are talking, Yoda says “Confer on you the level of Jedi Knight the Council does, but agree with your taking of this boy as your padawan learner, I do not!”
You don’t have to be a Jedi Master to take an apprentice, apparently, just a Jedi Knight.
Anakin Skywalker became a Jedi Knight in the previous series of Clone Wars cartoons aired on the Cartoon Network, so he had the right to take on an apprentice at that point if he wanted to.
Since Anakin would be the Jedi in charge of her training, and the person she would have to obey, she would call him master out of respect because he was HER master, even if the Jedi Council hadn’t granted him the formal rank of Master yet.
Granted, some of that (like letting someone who basically graduated high school earlier in the day decide he’s going to start teaching high school and pick who his students are going to be even if the state board of education doesn’t agree with the decision) makes absolutely no sense. As I’ve said before, though, Star Wars itself makes no sense when you get right down to it.
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