Quote Originally Posted by Peelee View Post
Also, sure, you can't tell the hot-head he didn't get promoted because he's a hot-head and expect him to not get mad, but that's also the hot-head's problem. Self-introspection is the key there, which he should realize at being told that, even if it might take effort and time.
Anyone who serves in a leadership role needs to know their subordinates and to assign them positions and tasks that are appropriate to their skill and temperament. People are not perfect, they have certain jobs they can handle and certain treatment they will tolerate and certain treatment they will not.

Anakin fails the various tests that are thrown at him in RotS. That's absolutely true and ultimately that's on him and his large collection of character flaws.

At the same time the Jedi Council sets him up for failure. They fail to manage him properly and to assign him tasks that are appropriate to his abilities and mental state. They are in fact so massively bad at this that Palpatine can openly suggest to them a solution that will solve all their problems: sending Anakin to go kill Grievous, and they reject it out of hand. Throughout the course of RotS the Jedi Council makes one failure of leadership after another, and while this is not directly responsible for their ultimate doom, it does contribute. Multiple parties can be at fault for a single awful outcome.

Now, maybe Anakin's character flaws were such that he was unmanageable as a Jedi. I am very sympathetic to that argument. However, that option is foreclosed upon by the conclusion of TPM. The Jedi Council makes the choice to train Anakin and, for better or worse, he is the Chosen One. The Council needs him. They can't just fire his ***. This is important because it means Anakin has leverage over the Jedi and he, at least on an intuitive level, knows this. Giving Anakin the rank of master is, with regard to him personally "petty and inconsequential" so they should have done it. Over-prompting him as a sop to his ego means nothing. Now, I maintain they should have not done it openly as a means to push back against Palpatine, but promising hm the rank of master costs the Jedi Council nothing and just might have saved the galaxy.

He was already incredibly troubled and in insane turmoil, sure, but you can't fault the Jedi for not helping with that when he never told them anything about it. Can't help a person who doesn't want to be helped and all.
I can, and do, fault the Jedi Order for not noticing that he was troubled and in turmoil. Basically every agency on Earth that conducts 'high-risk' jobs, including law enforcement, the military, medicine, and others, has all sorts of programs in place to try and detect, catch, and solve mental turmoil in their personnel. Beyond simple kindness, this is an important aspect of maintaining capacity, since people who break can't work for you anymore.

The evidence we had is that the Jedi Order handled this very, very badly during the Clone Wars, with Jedi breaking apart all over the place. This isn't entirely their fault, they clearly weren't ready to deal with the strain created by the transition from peacekeeping to active military duty, but they also don't even seem to have tried. So Jedi such as Ahsoka, Bariss, and even Pong Krell were all lost to the Order.

Also, Anakin does want to be helped! He wants it desperately. He goes to Yoda begging for it! The problem is that the Jedi Order's bad rules make it impossible to ask honestly. He feels and is trapped, and when pushed by Palpatine, breaks. Yes, the ultimate responsibility is his - very much like so many other Jedi in RotS he chooses the worst possible option and loses everything as a consequence - but others failed to help him.