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re weakness: If being older when the Jedi training begins means that one will never be very strong in the Force, how does anyone here justify Kyp, Luke, or any of the early NR\ late Rebellion trainees? As Corran pointed out to Luke in "I, Jedi", they were all adults. They already had the morality in place that would create the template for the Jedi Knights and Masters they'd ultimately become.
Even teenagers, or older children for that matter, are that way.
The old saying "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" comes to mind when I think of Seha. For her to defend Jacen\Caedus' actions even to herself, regardless of how she felt about him... that's the sign of her own moral weakness.
The fact that she did wait to tell those on the Council what was going on was another thing that seriously bugged me about her. If she were a half-way decent being (person in this case), she would have gone to them right away, and not vacillated about it for any length of time.
My reasoning about Luke and Jacen being blinded by their own loyalty to the GA Order's way of doing things still stands as my main issue with her alleged Force-sensitivity, which I still believe is a poor excuse made by an author for putting her at the Jedi Temple in the first place. If she were really Force-sensitive, either she would have found her way to the training ground on her own or her parents would have realized she was different and brought her in for training. Nobody writing SW even hints at her age other than that she's a teenager ("Backlash").
During "Dark Nest" trilogy, Jaina, Lowie, and several other young\junior Jedi Knights spoke out against the GA Order using many of the same things that I, as a huge fan of virtually anything SW, found to be an issue with it. I'm pretty sure at least one of them made a point that they didn't trust the changes Jacen had convinced Luke to make. Luke jumped to the conclusion that they were questioning him, dismissing their concerns without a second thought, and exiled them in the midst of a power trip. Concerns that, as it turned out later, were valid.
Mara went on her last self-designated mission because she'd come to doubt Luke's ability to see things clearly. If even his wife questioned that, what does that say about Luke as a worthy leader? Of course, I hope that when Luke finally, permanently, steps down, someone who fell under Jacen's sway at any point isn't made Grand Master instead.
Without that creep Vergere (sp?) messing with Jacen's morality and introducing the "Unifying Force", as she understood it, on "Yuuzhan'tar"\Coruscant during NJO, I wouldn't have a problem with anything, or anyone, introduced after that. As it stands, I doubt the worthiness of any Jedi being introduced to the EU during the GA-era books to be a real Jedi at all, in line with Anakin Solo's views of what constitutes a Jedi.
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