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Highlighted by what, though? I guess it's a matter of interpretation, but I don't agree about that. It doesn't seem to be in the source material, IMO. I think it's an EU embellishment thing. I'll look through my Making of Episode I and see if it originated from Lucas; it might also be from the novelization.
Edit: I think where we disagree is, you say that Qui-Gon is skewed too much toward the Living Force, while the Jedi Order is skewed toward the Unifying Force. I think that the Jedi Order is too skewed toward the Unifying Force, whereas Qui-Gon has the right balance, but because he's not too skewed toward the Unifying Force the Jedi Order think he's too skewed toward the Living Force. Their baseline is off. And I think that the Jedi Order is shown to be flawed in that sense reinforces that idea. And the Jedi do think he's too skewed toward the Living Force, but I think they are wrong because their baseline is wrong. So I think the argument that Qui-Gon is too rooted in the Living Force is an in-universe critique of him that's wrong. And I think Yoda in ROTS taking Qui-Gon as his master demonstrates that it's wrong.
But maybe I'm just a Qui-Gon fanboy, but coming out of the prequels I thought Qui-Gon embodied what Luke's Jedi should be. I thought Jacen at the end of NJO was going to become Qui-Gon.
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