Basically, what he said. A Force sensitive smuggler would probably have no idea that he can wield the Force, much less know how to mind trick people. There's a reason Jedi are trained from early childhood and are still relatively weak even in the rank of Knight. Even with the correct guidance, mastery of the Force is no easy feat.

They could include other organizations of Force Users, and there are a lot, but that would be way too troublesome to do.

Btw, I am fairly sure Anakin's flying ability had little to nothing to do with the Force.

 

Or pretty much everything to do with the Force, since that's how he was able to react in time to not be a smear on a rock.

Jedi are trained to fight each other blindfolded, using the Force to tell what's going on/about to happen. Nobody should be able to fuck with them. That said I'll probably be a bounty hunter because I want a backpack with jets.

 

"Fairly well"? He, as an 11 year old child, beat racers of species superior in agility and speed, with YEARS more experience than him. He was the ONLY human ever to win a podrace.

 

Talk about forced and unrealistic plot.

 

Talk about being the chosen one :awesome.

 

What is the fucking deal with the stupid Prophecy? Anakin was supposed to "destroy the Sith and bring balance to the Force"? How many years did it take for another war with the Sith to start? How many before the Jedi Order was destroyed once more? i think of the Prophecy as a stupid reason to make Anakin look important. Some peace he brought to the Galaxy.

 

To be totally fair, that shit was EU.

In the regular canon, he kind of did bring balance to the force. He wiped out both the Jedi and Sith, for the most part. If he'd done his job properly, Luke would've died too.

And as it's already been said, it was said explicitly in the movie that his flying was because of his force-based intuition. It's not some kind of inference, Qui-Gon says it.

 

Lets not forget that it was the Jedi's interpretation of the Prophecy as well, could only be one side of the story.

 

I think that's why they kept emphasizing that he would bring balance to the force, so when he turned on everyone there was an "Oh..." moment when you realized that their interpretation was backwards. At least that's how it was for me.

 

Nobody said that the balance would be a continuous thing, just that it would happen at some point. And Anakin did kill the Sith, as in he threw Palpatine into a giant hole of lightning-doom, and, because he was dying, left only a single Jedi (Luke), thusly restoring balance to the Force (even though it could be argued that an equal amount of Sith and Jedi would be far more balanced).

And to be honest, I never considered Anakin important because of the prophesy, but because I already knew what was going to happen. That and because he was Luke's father. And because he became Vader. And powerful. And was basically the Star Wars version of Jesus.

It was explicitly stated throughout the Phantom Menace that Anakin owed his flying abilities to the Force.

 

Fail. Seriously.

 

Trailer Canon Fail.

The mask Revan wore wasn't just a cool looking facial accessory, it was the mask of Mand'alor that he claimed as his own after defeating Mandalore the Ultimate in one on one combat on Malachor V.

After defeating Malak and destroying the Star Forge, Revan gives the mask of Mand'alor to Canderous Ordo and tells him to unite the Mandalorian Clans. Shorty thereafter Revan leaves on his quest to find the "True Sith" and is never heard from again.

So why the hell is the mask just chilling on what looks to be a tomb? A tomb that greatly resembles something you'd find in the Valley of the Dark Lords, on Korriban.

 

Well, there's no logical reason why there couldn't be a few former Jedi/Sith turned smuggler. Or even somebody with a little bit of Jedi/Sith training that couldn't quite make the cut as a lightsaber swinging warrior-monk.

EDIT:

Actually that's not true. It's a Mandalorian mask, but not Mandalore's mask.

 

How so? Both of them were fatherless to some extent and they both had an extremely important role to carry out.

 

Revan's mask was actually the mask a female Mandalorian wore. She was killed by Cassus Fett when she opposed his needless genocide of the entire planet of Cathar.

Revan took it and swore to wear it until the Mandalorians were brought to justice for what Fett did and to honor those Mandalorians who opposed the genocidal, overly violent Neo-Crusader traditions that Mandalore the Ultimate and Cassus Fett brought into power after Mandalore the Indomitable died.

What Canderous wore in KotORII was The Ultimate's armor.

Malak also took the name Malak during the Mandalorian war. The Jedi Council left orders to go so far as arresting any and all who followed Revan and Alek Squinquargesimus. He took the alias of a Captain, "Malak" to venture back into the Republic to attend a trial of the Mandalorian scientist who tortured him and a number of others.

Thats also how he lost his hair. The blue tattooes were to further this "disguise."

 

I've beaten Kotor 1/2 multiple times each, and none of that was in there

Is this from an EU book or something?

 

The KoTOR comic.

 

No, it actually couldn't. Canon says that the presence of Sith unbalances the Force. Having Sith=unbalanced.

 

I stand by that the only time the force is balanced is when there are no Jedi or Sith.

That was what Anakin was supposed to do, and he fucked it up by not cutting off his son's head.

 

Out of curiosity, where does canon mention that? You've brought that up a couple of times in this thread, but I don't remember ever hearing that from canon.