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The Clone Wars writers avoided having Anakin meet Grievous because of a one-off exchange in Revenge of the Sith. Whereas, and I'm the opposite of the first person to say anything about this, but exactly zero (0) of the non-movie writers for Star Wars, either in Legends or Disney, have ever given a single miniscule fuck about the fact that in a major defining moment in the Original Trilogy, Yoda said, "When gone am I, the last of the Jedi will you be."

like he categorically said "the last". He didn't say "one of the last", he said "the last". That was a definite statement.

"Luke, when gone am I, the last of the Jedi will you be. Except for all the other Jedi who escaped the purge. Just lousy with surviving Jedi, the galaxy is."

And while it's possible that all the Jedi from the eight zillion stories about Jedi Who Survived The Purge Or Became Jedi Afterward may have died before Return of the Jedi, that's probably thematically incoherent for every single one of their stories, even by the standards of Legends or Disney.

but no, "I was expecting someone with your reputation to be a little ... older"/"you're shorter than I expected" means they've Never Met, and we can't contradict one of the movies, now, can we!


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in reply to @dizzy-h-slightly-voided's post:

I mean there's a pretty big difference between these two situations. Namely Yoda can simply be... Wrong.

Anakin and Grievous however are probably experts in whether or not they met.

I think there inevitably comes a point when you realize that 100% adherence to these kinds of absolute statements in the movies would... Frankly not be all that fun, and therefore complaining they happen feels petty at best.

Like Obiwan and Yoda easily hid away from the Empire for decades by hiding on planets they didn't have full reach over. This implies a limit to the Empires reach and power and therefore their ability to enforce Jedi extinction. Why can't obi-two or whatever hide on distant planet Ta-three-ine or whatever?

The inverse of the "last of the Jedi you will be" is "always two there are, no more no less" which is an INSANE statement the more you think about it. The way the movie frames it this guy with a red lightsaber is SO GOOD that he couldn't possibly be anything else besides a member of a secretive cult extinct for a millenia, something that further implies that no Jedi besides Anakin, and I guess Dooku, have fallen in that time, or that the Jedi have such perfect records that they can account for all possible fallen Jedi to such a degree that said illuminati cult is the only answer.

The movies LITERALLY imply that the only reason the Jedi are one step behind Palpatine is because he is somehow arbitrarily clouding the future, something that again we are probably meant to assume ONLY a sith could do. This one guy can literally just cast an "anti-scrying" spell over thousands of Jedi all by himself, and said Jedi are implied to be otherwise INFALLIBLE in maintaining a Peace that, according to Lucas, was some perfectly idyllic state of existence.

There are lots of statements like that which not only implies a perfect Force Monopoly maintained by the Jedi and Sith, implies that the Sith are the only people with access to the Dark Side(therefore Anakin has guaranteed that the Dark Side Will Never Rise Again). Hell in Lucas's Perfect Vision We Should All Unerringly Worship, the Empire is just completely and utterly destroyed by Endor with people on coruscant tearing down statues of the Emperor.

ALL of these statements and implications fundamentally do NOT work with the concept of an Expanded Universe. They only work in a self-contained fairy tale bubble where no one ever thinks "and then what", and I guess if you don't want to acknowledge the expanded universe... You can.

EDIT: It's interesting to note that even Lucas was chaffing pretty hard under the constraints he himself made. His vague Sequel outlines had Darth Maul coming back as this evil Godfather figure, and Leia becoming the Real Chosen One. Even in his own sequels he had to contrive to make everything tie back to the Sith having a monopoly on the Evil Magic. Because Evil still exists, Anakin is retroactively not the Chosen One, Leia is.

And even then he retconned in some handful of jedi survivors to help Luke rebuild. Because that Absolute Statement That Yoda Said is absurd on many levels.

Perhaps... we shouldnt take Absolute Statements as unerringly True... Insert funnie quote here.