Quote Originally Posted by Sapphire Guard View Post
I mean, the High Republic era Jedi are massively struggling and taking considerable casualties against opposition that amounts to a large pirate gang with a few hardcore zealots in their leadership. Entire Jedi Temples are being destroyed (because they are picking off the isolated ones in the Outer Rim, Jedi Masters and Council members are battle casualties, and it's just a big gang of pirates.
I only got as far as Light of the Jedi (the first book) when it came to the High Republic, but it was very, very clear from the start that the people behind that series had 'sci-fi writers have no sense of scale', going really, really badly. I mean, it was embarrassing how ridiculously exaggerated certain tiny threats were and how places like Starlight Beacon had nothing like the capacity to serve the kind of duty they were purported to meet.

Given how distorted scale is in the High Republic, it mangles any message it attempts to present.

Quote Originally Posted by Infernally Clay
It should be pretty clear, for example, that if you found out the army you were using was commissioned by the very same Sith Lord your Order is fighting, you would want to find out what the bloody hell is going on before you sent any more Jedi out there to fight with that army, especially considering the Jedi Council already knew about the inhibitor chips inside the clone troopers and that when one of them malfunctioned they killed a Jedi in cold blood. The whole thing with Fives happened before all this, remember. The more the war felt like a trap waiting to be sprung, the sooner the Jedi should have withdrawn from it. Yoda saying that they just had to win the war before Dooku could spring his trap is arrogance of the highest order.
Arrogance is part of it, but the Jedi of the PT are also guilty of trusting the Force too much. They spent time with the clones and came to know them in the Force. Through the Force the clones were revealed as loyal, valorous, and dedicated to the principles of the Republic, something the Jedi had, themselves, worked to instill in them. At the same time, the Force hid the future in which, due to the activation of the biochips, the clones would undergo fundamental personality changes (the Bad Batch makes it quite clear that the clones behave very differently post-activation) and murder them all. This is, of course, the same mistake Palpatine makes in the OT. He trusts the Force's revelation that there's no threat on the Forest Moon and completely misses the possibility that the Ewoks would side with the Rebellion and support the attack on the bunker, which is ultimately his undoing. It's the same mistake - arrogantly trusting the Force instead of properly planning out contingencies - from the opposite side.

Ironically, given Lucas' stated goals to increase spirituality via Star Wars, both trilogies hold the same lesson: don't trust mystical insight over hard evidence and sound preparation.