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mesaba
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SLIGHT SPOILER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . In the light saber training room scene, Yoda calls one of his students 'young padawan' or something to that effect. We've all pretty much defined 'padawan' as the apprentice stage of Jedi learning, but it appears that all Jedi trainees are padawan by definition.
Interestingly, whenever we've heard the term padawan before, it's always referred to the aprentice stage, and always uttered as part of a phrase with a key modifier - 'MY young padawan,' 'padawan APPRENTICE,' etc. - so we've made padawan = apprentice, although it appears now that's not the case.
This is also a sly way on Lucas's part to rationalize Obi-Wan's ESB statement that he was trained by Yoda. Any Jedi can legitimately claim to have been a padawan of Yoda's, at least within the last several hundred years or so.
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SharonDee
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I get the idea that Yoda is in charge of the academy in general. It could be also that the term 'padawan' is used with the elder apprentices to remind them that they haven't finished all the training despite the fact that they do go with masters on missions when they are old enough.
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dezirina
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Has the similarity between padawan and obiwan not caught anyone else's attention yet? I can't help but wonder if 'obiwan' is not synonamous with 'teacher' or 'master' much the way that padawan is with student.
Has Lucas ever specifically stated that Obiwan was Ben's formal first name rather than an honorific title of some sort? <shrug>
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1212
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That's an interesting proposition, considering how the interpretation of 'Darth Vader' has changed, even if Lucas denies it now.
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srkaeppler
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Doesn't it go Padawan Padawan, Baker's Man?
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johngnova
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It just occurred to me the other day that calling Ben by the title Obi- wan Kenobi would be much the same as calling Anakin by the title Padawan Skywalker. <shrug>
Then again, I may have spent a little too much time out in the sun
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pietersejl
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Padawan = learner or student. I returned to college this year at the age of 30, but, to my teacher (master) I'm just as much a student as the 19 yr old snott noise sitting next to me.
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