Why is it always a jump to "Overly Paranoid to the point of seeing everything moving as a spook" instead of just "reasonably cautious but otherwise still level headed"?

If the GM's decision really was to fold that character into the group by just having them stroll up to a smuggler's ship like "Yo, I'm the jedi, let me in," that was an incredibly fucking stupid way to handle that character introduction.

Do you forget that this is almost literally what Obi Wan and Luke did to recruit Han and Chewie? Ya know, the famous Smuggler pair? They just walked up to the pair in a bar and had a polite discussion about requesting some discreet passage aboard Han's ship.

Last I checked, no one bitches about that part of A New Hope.