10 Star Wars Moments Deeper Than You Think
10. Obi-Wan Visits The Jedi Archives - Attack Of The Clones
In Attack of the Clones, Obi-Wan (Ewan McGregor) pays a visit to the Jedi Archives to research the mysterious planet Kamino.
When it's nowhere to be seen in the records, Obi-Wan suggests they must be incomplete, only to be rather brusquely informed by the archives' librarian, Jocasta Nu (Alethea McGrath), that this can't be the case. She says:
"If an item does not appear in our records... it does not exist."
While on a superficial level this simply speaks to the shadowy nature of Kamino, where the clone army is being secretly built for the Galactic Republic, on another it underlines the dogmatic, even arrogant potential of the Jedi Order in its dying days.
Jocasta Nu was clearly offended by Obi-Wan's suggestion that there could be a planet concealed beyond her or the Jedi Archives' knowledge, believing it to be simply inconceivable.
This even falls perfectly in line with Yoda's (Frank Oz) earlier comment about a major personality defect many Jedi have:
"A flaw more and more common among Jedi. Too sure of themselves they are."