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Friday September 14, 2001
Why was Anakin too old to be trained as a Jedi?
This report comes from the Official Star Wars Site!
Answered by: Steve Sansweet
While this basic question was answered recently by Madame Jocasta Nu, George Lucas addresses the issue with a slightly different spin in the audio commentary of the upcoming Phantom Menace DVD.
"Plotwise, we're dealing with the insistence of Obi-Wan in taking on this young kid and training him, even though, in theory, the child should have been trained by Yoda until he was about seven or eight years old. And then when he was seven or eight, he'd be given a Jedi. He'd become the Padawan learner to a Jedi.
So here we're having Qui-Gon wanting to skip the early training and jump right to taking him on as his Padawan learner, which is controversial and ultimately the source of much of the problems that develop later on."