What's good is not "few lightsaber bois", what's cool is having characters that CAN be in danger. This can be done by having characters who are weak or by having said lightsaber bois being in a situation where they can't freely use their powers (which is usually because they are infiltrating someplace). Another possibility is having insanely powerful villains but that would also be an asspull (starkiller base).
Entirely agreed with most of your points, it's the basic interpretation I was going for, which is that Jedi kinda ruin the stakes in most of the stories they become involved in. They're the Superman of Star Wars: all problems can theoretically be solved by them showing up, and the only way to counter their power creep is with their distaff counterpart with Evil Enhanced Powers. I guess I'm not a huge fan of the combat oriented culture the Jedi have developed as the series has released, I like them more Monk-like than I dunno, Sword Wizard
Like another poster mentioned Corran Horn and he's a Jedi and he's one of my favorite characters, admittedly partly because he straight up rejects his heritage for a while and just keeps on being a pilot. He's a good character even as a Jedi because he has this weird Genetic deviation in his force powers which make him weak with telekinesis but strong with Illusion and mind powers, as well as energy absorbtion I guess? So he can't just solve his problems by waving his hands at them, he has to be really clever with his limitations.
I'd like to stress I didn't say Jedi aren't cool, just that they're oversaturated
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What's good is not "few lightsaber bois", what's cool is having characters that CAN be in danger. This can be done by having characters who are weak or by having said lightsaber bois being in a situation where they can't freely use their powers (which is usually because they are infiltrating someplace). Another possibility is having insanely powerful villains but that would also be an asspull (starkiller base).
Entirely agreed with most of your points, it's the basic interpretation I was going for, which is that Jedi kinda ruin the stakes in most of the stories they become involved in. They're the Superman of Star Wars: all problems can theoretically be solved by them showing up, and the only way to counter their power creep is with their distaff counterpart with Evil Enhanced Powers. I guess I'm not a huge fan of the combat oriented culture the Jedi have developed as the series has released, I like them more Monk-like than I dunno, Sword Wizard
Like another poster mentioned Corran Horn and he's a Jedi and he's one of my favorite characters, admittedly partly because he straight up rejects his heritage for a while and just keeps on being a pilot. He's a good character even as a Jedi because he has this weird Genetic deviation in his force powers which make him weak with telekinesis but strong with Illusion and mind powers, as well as energy absorbtion I guess? So he can't just solve his problems by waving his hands at them, he has to be really clever with his limitations.
I'd like to stress I didn't say Jedi aren't cool, just that they're oversaturated
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