Ernk. I think I may have mis-stepped. It was 4:30AM my time when I posted that -- the argument that I was trying to construct is the reverse of the Obi-Wan Duckling argument. It's precisely that I don't want to read so much of Obi-Wan's subsequent accomplishiments back onto Qui-Gon. (Or, I guess, some kind of late-bloom.)

I'm arguing that since Obi-Wan is so awesome later, it's hard to think that he was completely unawesome before he was apprenticed. The sketchy moves are still there, of course. IMO, they're that I equate early awesome with precociousness, equating later awesome with precociousness, and presume that awesome has something to do with the age at which one is apprenticed.

You'll have to forgive me this comment and the previous and of the rambling, in a way. It's now 7:30AM, my time, and I've had somewhat less than three hours of sleep. I have an international flight to catch, which also means that any response you make is going to be a wee bit delayed, as I'm out of my native country for three weeks. 'Net access is going to be a bit sporadic.

I think I'll have to read some more of your stuff, do you mind?

I don't think any writer has ever responded in the negative to that. Ever. XD