Average mission for Qui-Gon, honestly

And if they had just brought the kid's mother, or gone back for her and the other slaves, he never would have had to go rescue her and kill all those sand people, leading to his fall.

Since the Jedi had fucked up “codes” to live by, I never would have expected them to rescue the mom.

Queen Amidala, however…

How fucked up is it that she was taken in by Anakin’s mother, who (as a god damn slave) fed her, gave her a place to stay, allowed her son to risk his life in a pod race, and ultimately gave her only son up willingly to go with her and the two Jedi, not really knowing what would happen but just trusting he’d be safe—but then, that same kid who gets attacked on the way to the ship just leaving Tattooine, ends up flying a fighter craft and destroying the droid control ship which saves Amidala’s entire planet and people. The fact the kid survived any of that is a miracle, but he clearly misses his mother. A fact Amidala was blatantly aware of.

The fact that Amidala, who had nearly infinite resources at her disposal, owed her life and every life she was responsible for in Naboo to Anakin, and was clearly aware of pretty much the only thing Anakin wanted in the entire universe—his god damn mother—and yet Amidala didn’t do jack fucking shit to drop a few coins on Watto and free Shmi.

I never would have expected the Jedi to free her, but Amidala? What a fucking piece of work…
- Yeah, but mother-in-law.
- First time you’ve come across an SW plot hole?
  
  There are just so many wtf did George do this questions where the only answer is "so the movie can happen." It’s lazy writing which most people overlook bc the movies are fun spectacles.
He would still have been attached to her and in the film's logic, that was the problem. You can bet that there would have been a point where he would have been afraid for her leading to yadda yadda.
- I always found that strange... The jedi were supposed to be the "good guys," yet their entire thing was "you are not allowed to love or care about anyone or anything ever again."
  
  Seems kind of fucked up.
  
  Edit: figured I would just put it in an edit rather than respond to each "it's based on Buddhism" reply: yes, I understand that. But I don't see Buddhism as something that is inherently "good" or "evil." And I think most Buddhists would agree with that given the nature of the philosophy.
  
  On the other hand, in the Star Wars canon, the Jedi are very explicitly "good" in a universe that doesn't leave much room between black and white for any grey.
  
  Maybe it gets murkier if you wade into the EU, but if I'm being honest, I don't enjoy the series to care enough about any of that stuff. Most of which seems "retconned" in (there's prob a better term for it) long after the original three film trilogy story wrapped up (and maybe the prequels, if A New Hope actually was planned as Episode IV from day one which I don't think it was) later on to make the universe seem more complex than what was presented in the first three movies.
  
  I don't know a better way to describe it, but that stuff always just seemed like clever sci-fi authors who aren't George Lucas trying their damnedest to flesh out a kind of boring (sorry everyone don't hate me, but it kind of is when you get down to it), one dimensional, kitschy, soft sci-fi setting. I just have zero interest in any of it.
  
  Just my opinion of course.

And the negations failed. And the blockade already in place. And way too late. And the princess almost killed. And a sith encounter.

This has to be one of the worst diplomatic missions ever :D

But you have heard of me. Wait, shit, fucked it up
- Fuck you for putting the concept of a Jack Sparrow Jedi in my head
  
  Edit:because it’s amazing and now I want it, but it will never occur
"Worst diplomatic mission so far!"

Where's everyone thinks the rest of the younglings came from?

They take them as infants.

Government sanctioned. You know. For the greater good.

The real reason the Jedi rarely take strays that can talk in; is because the mind of a toddler is easily molded through the force.

Yup.
- Nope. If we follow the lore as intended, the order switched to toddlers after a bloody civil war left a dude in charge that decided attachments are the source of all evil and training in the force should begin before any form of attachment is allowed to take root.
- The greater good.