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the jedi did not repress emotions, y'all just don't know how mindfulness works
we see jedi very clearly displaying emotions like. repeatedly. CONSTANTLY throughout the movies alone and it's fine. obi-wan gets visibly frustrated with anakin, he also shows visible concern for anakin. yoda is sad a lot.
are most of them over the top with it like anakin is? absolutely not. does that mean they're repressing their emotions? also absolutely not, reserved people exist and have emotions. and not all the jedi we see are particularly reserved.
what the jedi teach is to not let your emotions rule you, which is a very good thing when you have a lot of magical powers and we definitely see how that goes when you don't with anakin. spoiler: it goes very poorly.
the council scene with anakin's test in tpm is usually what people trot out about the jedi not having emotions, but that's not what's happening there. *anakin* is the one denying his emotions - the council is specifically trying to get him to just acknowledge he's afraid at all
this, very understandably, is worrisome to them, because they are literally psychic and they *know* he's lying about being afraid. and not being able to acknowledge it at all is.... not the greatest sign.
it's also unknown whether qui-gon even told them that anakin's a former slave, and honestly i would be completely unsurprised if he didn't bother to mention it based on expanded material with him. so it's totally possible that as far as they know this is just some random kid
but like y'all they literally just tell him to "be mindful of your feelings." that is. the literal opposite of repressing emotions! being mindful is being fully aware of how you feel. telling someone to be aware of how they feel isn't telling them to stop having emotions!
it's just fucking wild to see these takes about the jedi when like. "if only they'd let anakin have emotions" Y'ALL anakin was the one refusing to deal with his emotions. all the jedi in his life reached out constantly to him like Y'ALL THESE ARE NOT SUBTLE MOVIES PLEASE
also! we do not actually know if the jedi are allowed to have romantic relationships or not. we know they are forbidden *attachment*, which in wog commentary and expanded material is explicitly defined as Possessive Love.
anakin is a poster child for Possessive Love, and it goes very badly! it happens a lot in real life, but most people don't have the magic powers to literally burn the galaxy down. anakin (and a lot of jedi) does!
anakin very literally murders children because he cannot bear the thought of losing padme. like. that is *not* a healthy expression of love! she herself didn't want any of the things he did in her name, but he didn't care, because his love for her is about what HE wants
in tcw this is VERY explicit (please watch tcw). there's an episode where anakin gets sent on a two week meditation retreat but he decides to fuck off and hang out in padme's office. he tells her "there is nothing more important to me than how i feel about you. NOTHING."
not "there's nothing more important to me than you." not "there's nothing more important to me than you being happy." it's "there's nothing more important to me than how *i* feel about you."
it is fundamentally selfish, and that's bad even when it's just a regular relationship. it's even worse when the selfish person is a fuck off powerful space wizard who can and will completely burn the galaxy down because he can't bear the thought of his mortal wife dying
this was always going to turn out badly, even if he didn't have those dreams about her dying and flip his shit. she was always going to die someday. it was always going to happen. he would have to face it one day no matter what.
the scene where he goes to yoda for advice in rots is also something that gets misread a lot. the thing you need to remember with that is yoda has no fucking clue who anakin's actually worried about because *anakin will not tell him*
honestly? he probably concludes that anakin's worried about *obi-wan*. which would make sense! obi-wan is currently on a very dangerous mission. but what would obi-wan want for anakin if he were to die?
obi-wan would want anakin to let him go. this is what the jedi teach - all things die, all things return to the force. you will never be with someone forever, and you must accept that, or else be consumed.
so, that's the advice yoda gives anakin. and yes, he gives it in "jedi platitudes," because as far as yoda fucking knows, everyone involved is a jedi. there is no reason for him to treat anakin like an outsider who needs things couched in a different way, because anakin *isn't*
he's a jedi too! he was raised with these values, even if he came to it a little later than everyone else! hell, he even gives the *exact same advice* to rex in the bad batch arc, just in different terms. he just refused to apply it to himself.
anyway i'm going to make myself go to bed now because my sleep schedule has been somehow fine and i don't want to ruin that, but guysssss pleaseeeeee stop taking all the shit palpatine, the literal Evil Guy, says about the jedi at face value
