cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/4846369
The only plausible explanation is that Watto is so pissed at Qui Gon for cheating him at dice that he will never sell her.
this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2023
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Being fair, Watto cheated first.
His dice were loaded 🎲
My balls are too 🎲🎲
The Jedi Code is so weird. It allows slavery? Why didn't Qui Gon just cut Watto in half after the race and take Ani's mom with them?
The Jedi are not supposed to interfere, something they do frequently regardless. Qui-Gon was already known to bend the rules but he wasn't so impulsive as to kill a slave owner that isn't attacking anyone under his care.
The Jedi Order was hypocritical and paranoid. Their hubris and arrogance led to their eventual downfall.
The Jedi are not supposed to interfere
Literally the first thing we see Jedi do in episode one is get dispatched by Valorum, Chancellor of the Senate of the Republic to negotiate with the Viceroy of the Trade Federation (Nute Gunray) in an attempt to get him to disband his illegal blockade of the peaceful planet of Naboo per request of the recently elected Queen Amidala of the Naboo. They're the motherfucking CIA of the Republic. They're basically like if the Secretary of State had an agency of hybrid ambassador/spies. Their whole business is to interfere on behalf of the Republic. They're space wizard samurai cops.
Correct. As I said, they are not supposed to. Over the years they became more and more influential. It eventually leads to their downfall.
Problems with the Jedi Order are more explicitly discussed in the EU of the series, especially pre-Disney. Iirc even Luke Skywalker finds something of a “middle way” in the force.
"Why does Ross, the largest friend, not simply eat the other five?"
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The Jedi are not supposed to interfere,
What kind of Trek-level “prime directive” nonsense is this?
Isn’t Tatooine supposed to be part of the Republic? It’s near enough for them to space limp from Naboo, and yet the entire Republic was dragged into war over Naboo. If Naboo can be held under Republic law, Tatooine ought to be as well.
Tatooine is in the Outer Rim and isn't entirely under Republic control, mostly run by gangsters like Jabba. Coruscant is the heart of the republic.
Pretty sure Watto had to sell her to help cover gambling debts from anakin winning. I could be wrong, but it would have been fairly simple for the Jedi to send somebody out to take care of it.
But then the Jedi are all brainwashed slaves anyhow.
But he sells her to Cliegg Lars
Eventually. But not to a Jedi
I wouldn't be surprised if Watto struggled in his business after Anakin left and sold her to shore up his debts or something
Don't worry, he didn't buy her as a sex slave and then catch feelings.
The timeline is very clear that...
Oh, wait. No it isn't.
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How did the moisture farmer know some random slave lady in the city again...
“Not the Jedi way,” yet it was fine to buy Anakin’s freedom when it was convenient for them.
"From my point of view, the Jedi are evil"
Clearly is is only (top-quality) muscle for the dictator of the galaxy.
(Slightly damaged)