Wading back into the EU
Finished reading a book today. It was a Star Wars EU book, called Wild Space, by Karen Miller, that ties in with the Clone Wars television series. It...wasn't terrible. Certainly not as god-awful as the Legacy of the Force series that disappointed me so deeply back in 2008. If anything, Wild Space reads like an okay piece of hurt/comfort
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Anakin was granted Knighthood somewhere between Eps. II and III. As as I understand it, most Jedis don't get higher than Knighthood. You have to be really good and experienced to become a Master, and only Masters usually sit on the council. However, Knights can train Padawans, and are called "Master" by their Padawans, even though they are not full Masters in the Jedi Order.
The Clone Wars TV show (the CG animated one currently running) is set between Eps. II and III (canonically, a period of 3 years) and features the adventures of Anakin as a newly-minted Jedi Knight. He's been assigned a padawan--a girl who looks a bit like a Twi'Lek but isn't--named Ashoka. She's like, 14. (She's never existed anywhere in any canon before the Clone Wars TV show, and the fact that she hasn't appeared anywhere in the canon after the Clone Wars suggests to me that she doesn't weather the war very well. :/ ) Anakin having a padawan at his age and rank is justified by the fact that the Jedi are taking huge hits in the war and need to replenish their numbers as quickly as possible, and because Yoda thinks giving Anakin a padawan will teach him responsibility. I think I ranted about this decision a couple years ago when the Clone War movie or TV show was just coming out. Yes, I did. Here.
The book ties in with the show. So, yes. The book canon now includes Anakin as a Jedi Knight with his own padawan learner. The mind boggles a bit, don't it?
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