Ever since the release of the Phantom Menace I've seen a new meme slowly gathering strength in the circles of Star Wars fandom: the idea that, by the time of Palpatine, there was something deeply and structurally wrong with the Jedi, that they had -- perhaps unknowingly -- lose sight of their founding principles.
Reason has a good post (and discussion) about this called Late to the Sith Contrarian Ball, which discusses the nature of the Seperatist movement, and wonders -- as Padme does -- if the Jedi were on the right side.
Indeed, it seems now that the only way to defeat the evil that had crept into the heart of the Old Republic, and to overcome the stagnation of the Jedi Order, was to destroy that order and allow a new one -- one headed by the far less-manipulative, and far more sincere, Luke Skywalker -- to be founded.
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