I wasn't actually planning, per se, to write fic about them -- it's just stuff that's starting to come up again and again and again as I work my way through fic, and I just wanted a place to stash them and think about them critically. Most of them make serious sense, so it'd be wretched hard to contravene them.
Though. The rebellious/misfit Padawan thing. I really do like the idea of Qui-Gon drifting further and further from Jedi orthodoxy as he grows older -- after all, the Council FUCKS UP SO MUCH during the prequels. It probably doesn't happen on such a galactic scale before the Clone Wars and so forth, but it's a little weird to think both that the council didn't fuck up and that Qui-Gon didn't notice any fuckups.
Plus, a lot of times people use the rebellious/misfit from the beginning thing to shortshrift Dooku's influence. I mean, I swear, even when he was less crazy, Dooku must have been a huuuuuuuuge impact on whoever he trained. Sending an eleven, twelve, or thirteen year old kid in with a guy with that kind of charisma? I'm curious to see different versions of Qui-Gon's kidhood.
Re: the bigness thing. Yeah, it's probable that he was huge throughout his life, particulalry if we're going with input from Neeson' life or whatever, but it's also possible that he didn't. Some of the biggestathletes that I know a lot about had growth spurts in their early twenties or very, very late teens.
It goes into this whole developing idea of mine, I guess, of Qui-Gon's weirdness developing.
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Date: 2005-08-16 09:18 pm (UTC)Though. The rebellious/misfit Padawan thing. I really do like the idea of Qui-Gon drifting further and further from Jedi orthodoxy as he grows older -- after all, the Council FUCKS UP SO MUCH during the prequels. It probably doesn't happen on such a galactic scale before the Clone Wars and so forth, but it's a little weird to think both that the council didn't fuck up and that Qui-Gon didn't notice any fuckups.
Plus, a lot of times people use the rebellious/misfit from the beginning thing to shortshrift Dooku's influence. I mean, I swear, even when he was less crazy, Dooku must have been a huuuuuuuuge impact on whoever he trained. Sending an eleven, twelve, or thirteen year old kid in with a guy with that kind of charisma? I'm curious to see different versions of Qui-Gon's kidhood.
Re: the bigness thing. Yeah, it's probable that he was huge throughout his life, particulalry if we're going with input from Neeson' life or whatever, but it's also possible that he didn't. Some of the biggest athletes that I know a lot about had growth spurts in their early twenties or very, very late teens.
It goes into this whole developing idea of mine, I guess, of Qui-Gon's weirdness developing.