Todd’s Movie Blog

Instead of writing the last post I should have just gone to a true fan and had it all explained to me. I was at work the other day and mentioned to a friend my confusion about the whole Anakin/ Padawan situation. He pointed out to me that you don’t have to be a Master Jedi to have a Pawan, you just have to be a jedi Knight, siting the end of The Phantom Menace as an example, Obi Wan Kenobi is made a Knight and takes Anakin as his Padawan. He then went on to explain that there is an implication at that the end of Attack of the Clones that Anakin is made a Knight for his battle with Dooku, and that in the beginning of Revenge of the Sith he is obviously not a Padawan anymore as he doesn’t have the buzzcut/ Padawan rat tail hair style. Being only a casual fan I missed those subtleties. So I now retract my comments about the confusion over Anakin having a Padawan in The Clone Wars, that now makes sense. As for my comments concerning the cynicism and greed on the part of the film makers, those things I still believe.