In fairness, a lot of the old Legends stuff was pretty awful in terms of how the Jedi acted--don't get me started on some of the Jedi Apprentice books!--but George Lucas said many times that those weren't canon to his Star Wars and that he never read them. Dave Filoni said that George always made it really clear that that stuff wasn't canon when they were working The Clone Wars. So, there's a lot of content floating around out there that will say, OH THE JEDI WERE SO TERRIBLE LOOK HOW THEY ACTED IN THIS THING!! and I'll be over here like, "Yeah, that's not canon. Also, the lady that wrote that never read any other Star Wars books, called fans slurs when they didn't agree with her math, and literally thought all the Jedi, including Luke Skywalker and his Jedi, were Master Racers and you're a Nazi if you disagree with her."
A lot of people really love Legends and I love a lot about Legends, too! But there's a reason I'm hard on the delineation between it and Canon--because the creators and owners of Star Wars have always and consistently said that's how it works.
MY POINT IS, that there's a lot of stuff out there that people will point to (especially taken out of context, because SO MUCH of this fandom hasn't actually read what they're repeating, I suspect) and so it's not like I'm going HOW COULD ANYONE EVER POSSIBLY THINK THAT??? but instead, "Here's why I strongly disagree. Agree or not at your own pace! :D"
Yeah Palpatine seemed to manoeuvre himself to poison Anakin so well. It would be interesting to see more of their relationship between I and II and see if the Jedi ever tried to stop it
*ROLLS UP SLEEVES* See, I love this question, because I think it's pretty clearly they did, as much as they realistically could have. In the Obi-Wan & Anakin comic, Mace tries to object to Palpatine spending time with Anakin, but Palpatine pulls rank on them and forces the situation. The thing is, they have no proof of Palpatine being evil, and we've seen a lot of canon pov stuff (I'm especially thinking of Scum and Villainy right now, the recent guidebook) where people legitimately thought Palpatine was super cool, so within the universe we're meant to understand that nobody really suspects him directly, he just seems like another politician.
We also see the Jedi object to Palpatine wanting to send Anakin back to Tatooine in the The Clone Wars movie, but he pulls rank on them again. (There was a third instance, but I forget it now. XD) These are small moments, but I think they tell a pretty compelling story about how, yes, the Jedi did try to stop it, but they had no concrete evidence with which to actually make a stand on! They just had a vague dislike of the situation, but nothing they could point to!
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A lot of people really love Legends and I love a lot about Legends, too! But there's a reason I'm hard on the delineation between it and Canon--because the creators and owners of Star Wars have always and consistently said that's how it works.
MY POINT IS, that there's a lot of stuff out there that people will point to (especially taken out of context, because SO MUCH of this fandom hasn't actually read what they're repeating, I suspect) and so it's not like I'm going HOW COULD ANYONE EVER POSSIBLY THINK THAT??? but instead, "Here's why I strongly disagree. Agree or not at your own pace! :D"
Yeah Palpatine seemed to manoeuvre himself to poison Anakin so well. It would be interesting to see more of their relationship between I and II and see if the Jedi ever tried to stop it
*ROLLS UP SLEEVES* See, I love this question, because I think it's pretty clearly they did, as much as they realistically could have. In the Obi-Wan & Anakin comic, Mace tries to object to Palpatine spending time with Anakin, but Palpatine pulls rank on them and forces the situation. The thing is, they have no proof of Palpatine being evil, and we've seen a lot of canon pov stuff (I'm especially thinking of Scum and Villainy right now, the recent guidebook) where people legitimately thought Palpatine was super cool, so within the universe we're meant to understand that nobody really suspects him directly, he just seems like another politician.
We also see the Jedi object to Palpatine wanting to send Anakin back to Tatooine in the The Clone Wars movie, but he pulls rank on them again. (There was a third instance, but I forget it now. XD) These are small moments, but I think they tell a pretty compelling story about how, yes, the Jedi did try to stop it, but they had no concrete evidence with which to actually make a stand on! They just had a vague dislike of the situation, but nothing they could point to!