HERE’S A THING THAT WE DON’T TALK ABOUT NEARLY ENOUGH
THE JEDI ARE PSYCHIC AND WHAT THAT MEANS.
Of course we know it on some level, you don’t have to look hard to find fics that have the Jedi using telepathy or have a Force Bond that lets them connect to the other person, but it often gets written off as Oh It’s Just The Force and then the complications aren’t really further considered. How it affects other people and why control is so, so important.
We knew even before this that Ezra had a connection with animals but this moment demonstrates two really important things–the first is that letting your fear and anger consume you (even for a moment!) leads to exactly what Ezra does here, he lashes out in an incredibly powerful and dangerous way because of his connection to the Force. But it’s showing that Force users have a very real impact on life around them, even life that’s not Force-sensitive itself.
Seems obvious, right? We see the Jedi Mind Trick, we see several examples of Force users looking into people’s minds to retrieve information, we see the constant sensing of enemies nearby, we see Obi-Wan sensing the deaths of all those people on Alderaan. But we almost never see an out of control Force user and how dangerous that can be–we get a glimpse of it here, but another time when a powerful Force user doesn’t bother to control or contain themselves is when Ezra, Ahsoka, and Kanan sense Vader. It’s so powerful that Ezra physically feels cold and the direct connection is enough to cause Ahsoka (someone who would not fold easily!) to faint dead away.
This is why the Jedi worked so hard to control themselves. It’s been explicitly said more than once that their feelings are natural and not to be suppressed, that’s never what they taught, but instead that they must control themselves.
It’s not just a momentary fit of rage the Force users have to worry about in and of itself. It’s the momentary slip that leads them to cause another person to faint dead away when connecting with them, it’s the slip that allows an animal to become caught up in the storm of your emotion and attack in a rage, it’s the thoughts and emotions that become part of your blade (as Kanan tells Sabine during her training with the Dark Saber) and linger there.
It’s not just one moment’s slip, it’s so much bigger than that when you’re dealing with psychic powers.
It’s the momentary slip that leads to you being ruled by your emotions and they linger and haunt you, in the Force and in your crystal, and it’s the affect this can have on the people around you. Not just Force-sensitive people, either, but anyone and everyone can be affected by an out of control Force user.
Yeah, no kidding the Jedi needed to rule their own emotions and I think that’s why we don’t really consider it much, because the Jedi kept right on top of that shit, they did everything they reasonably could to make sure they taught control. Otherwise they’d have left nothing but wreckage in their wake.
The Jedi were psychic and that has a whole lot of implications for just why they had to really be in balance with themselves and why their emotions and the control of them were so, so important.
This is a way better and logical reason for the jedi’s control and repress of their emotion, not because it sounds “zen” (which is how many westerner tend to mistake it is, considering how the Jedi is very oriental coded, but it’s not true), but because the emotional bond can literally kills people they care. I actually feel better knowing this.
A Force Sensitive Phasesixer 