#bc i was young and my descent into star wars had been very fett forward

[syn0vial]

honestly as much as i love galidraan as a source of angst and a big reason that jango is The Way he is, i do also think the overall conceit of it was poorly written and find arguments over which side was "responsible" for the massacre to be very frustrating.

imo, the problem is that the writer(s) would have us believe that a competent peacekeeping group could, with perfectly good intentions, wipe out an entire clan of people and then just kind of carelessly let the sole survivor of said massacre be sold into slavery in the aftermath.

and there's just like... no way to spin those circumstances into a form that isn't monstrous. and this isn't me saying, "therefore the jedi are the bad guys, the end." this is me being frustrated bc i don't find it feasible for a group of jedi to have done this. i literally do not understand how the jedi come there with the intention of arresting people and then just fucking genocide them instead—regardless of if jango shot first. unless the jedi had swapped out their lightsabers with rocket launchers or were specifically only aiming for decapitations, it doesn't make sense.

this strained suspension of disbelief is further compounded by the fact that the jedi council only expresses their regrets for what happened on galidraan after realizing that they'd been tricked by the planet's governor and that the mandalorians they'd massacred had been innocent—which only gives the very wild impression that if the true mandalorians had been guilty of crimes, then the whole mass murder and enslavement thing would've been peachy with them.

i just find the depiction of the jedi in this episode of star wars history to be atrocious to the point where it's just like... no, there needs to be more reason provided for this than just, "the governor lied to them." intentional sabotage, bad actors in the group, a greater conspiracy—there has to be something more than, "they just accidentally genocided this entire clan idk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯" bc the latter is just not believable on its own.

furthermore, if the massacre of galidraan was a thing that happened, whether bc of conspiracy or not, one would expect a much greater reaction among the jedi as a whole: an investigation, sanctions or even expulsion from the order for those deemed responsible, action against the governor that had lied to him, or, idk, tracking down the survivor you handed over to that governor to make sure nothing horrific has been done to him. something! instead, the jedi council is just kind of like "oops our bad" and, aside from dooku leaving, nothing really comes of it.

it really does just feel like the writer(s) needed a reason for jango to hate the jedi and so chose to, for this one isolated occurrence, write the jedi being cartoonishly, unbelievably horrible to justify it. and i find it all the more frustrating bc i think it would still have been believable for jango to loathe the jedi even if they hadn't been portrayed so appallingly. if the massacre had been the result of bad actors or conspiracy within the group, if the council had pursued action against the people responsible, if a mission had been deployed after the fact to find out what had become of jango—wouldn't it still make sense for him to, rightfully or wrongfully, hold the jedi as a group responsible for the death of his family? would he even know about the true reasons for the massacre or the jedi's attempts to help him afterwards? if the jedi had tried to rescue him from slavery but failed to find him, wouldn't that make his hatred of them all the more tragic?

idk, i just feel like there's a lot of lost potential there and i wish more people would discuss the lapses of the writer(s) rather than condemning or justifying the event as if it was an actual historical occurrence.