| rdfs:comment | - The episode "Two Cathedrals" shows a mentor-student relationship between the two, with the older woman latching onto a young man in whom she sees incredible potential, becoming more of a parental figure to him than his father, insisting upon his calling her by a formal title, and grooming him to play a major role in reshaping the world into what, from her point of view at least, is a better place. The clincher is at the end of the episode, when Jed shouts for her after her death and she shows up to give him advice much like Obi-Wan did for Luke after his death. Jed doesn't seem at all surprised to see her; and their conversation acknowledges her death, so it's taking place after she's passed on. Not once does the President question his sanity because of this, so it's not out of the questio
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| abstract | - The episode "Two Cathedrals" shows a mentor-student relationship between the two, with the older woman latching onto a young man in whom she sees incredible potential, becoming more of a parental figure to him than his father, insisting upon his calling her by a formal title, and grooming him to play a major role in reshaping the world into what, from her point of view at least, is a better place. The clincher is at the end of the episode, when Jed shouts for her after her death and she shows up to give him advice much like Obi-Wan did for Luke after his death. Jed doesn't seem at all surprised to see her; and their conversation acknowledges her death, so it's taking place after she's passed on. Not once does the President question his sanity because of this, so it's not out of the question that he was expecting it. Force ghost, anyone?
* In this, there's a tenuous possibility that Jed is short not for Josiah, but for Jedi.
* This raises the question of who Jed's padawan is. Perhaps it's Toby Ziegler. A brooding, ill-tempered man who has committed a serious crime for what looked like excellent reasons at the time, betraying Jed in the process. He has also fathered twins, a boy and a girl. This doesn't look good.
* It's Charlie Young, with Jed's handing over his father's copy of the constitution in the last episode marking his graduation. The gift of Paul Revere's knives in the first season marked the start of his training.
* Sam fits the bill too. After all, Jed did express a desire to see him become president one day. Josh is clearly Leo's padawan, but we don't know who trained Leo.
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