Shmi's Freedom

[GuppyShark]

Hi guys,

Is the subject of Shmi Skywalker's slavery and lack of rescue from this fate ever covered in the novellisations?? In AotC Anakin is concerned for her welfare but Obi-Wan seems to give it little weight. Why was she not rescued earlier?

[PainRack]

Hi guys,

Is the subject of Shmi Skywalker's slavery and lack of rescue from this fate ever covered in the novellisations?? In AotC Anakin is concerned for her welfare but Obi-Wan seems to give it little weight. Why was she not rescued earlier?

Ghosts of Tatooine seems to set up the storyline that Qui Gon gave her a precious crystal so as to help her redeem herself.

[Mange]

Hi guys,

Is the subject of Shmi Skywalker's slavery and lack of rescue from this fate ever covered in the novellisations?? In AotC Anakin is concerned for her welfare but Obi-Wan seems to give it little weight. Why was she not rescued earlier?

Because of the fact that the Jedi Order didn't condone attachments. Anakin had to let go of his attachment to his mother (something he never did). That is at least what I think.

[Lord Pounder]

Hi guys,

Is the subject of Shmi Skywalker's slavery and lack of rescue from this fate ever covered in the novellisations?? In AotC Anakin is concerned for her welfare but Obi-Wan seems to give it little weight. Why was she not rescued earlier?

Ghosts of Tatooine seems to set up the storyline that Qui Gon gave her a precious crystal so as to help her redeem herself.

Do you not mean Tatooine Ghost by Troy Denning?

[Chmee]

Hi guys,

Is the subject of Shmi Skywalker's slavery and lack of rescue from this fate ever covered in the novellisations?? In AotC Anakin is concerned for her welfare but Obi-Wan seems to give it little weight. Why was she not rescued earlier?

Because of the fact that the Jedi Order didn't condone attachments. Anakin had to let go of his attachment to his mother (something he never did). That is at least what I think.

So .... the death & destruction wrought by the Emperor and Vader is all a consequence of Anakin being a mama's boy?

[Mange]

Hi guys,

Is the subject of Shmi Skywalker's slavery and lack of rescue from this fate ever covered in the novellisations?? In AotC Anakin is concerned for her welfare but Obi-Wan seems to give it little weight. Why was she not rescued earlier?

Because of the fact that the Jedi Order didn't condone attachments. Anakin had to let go of his attachment to his mother (something he never did). That is at least what I think.

So .... the death & destruction wrought by the Emperor and Vader is all a consequence of Anakin being a mama's boy?

Well, Anakin has another, more intimate attachment.

[GuppyShark]

Hi guys,

Is the subject of Shmi Skywalker's slavery and lack of rescue from this fate ever covered in the novellisations?? In AotC Anakin is concerned for her welfare but Obi-Wan seems to give it little weight. Why was she not rescued earlier?

Because of the fact that the Jedi Order didn't condone attachments. Anakin had to let go of his attachment to his mother (something he never did). That is at least what I think.

Surely it would be easier for Anakin to let go of her if she wasn't a slave on a desert world run by gangsters.

It still strikes me as appallingly shortsighted... and the Jedi die for it.

[Chris OFarrell]

Yes and no.

Thanks to Qui-Gon she got her freedom, she was able to pay off Watto with a helishly valuable crystal powercore of some kind, she got it to Lairs who used it to buy her, then set her free. She lived happily with him for years...then she was taken by the sand people that morning and Anikin, sensing her distress came charging to the rescue...only to see her die and cause him to slaughter everyone in the area.

Sad actualy. If she had stayed a slave, she probably would not have died and Anikin would have probably never turned. Funny how things work out sometimes...

[GuppyShark]

Thanks Chris!

That makes a whole lot more sense.