Jedis Deflecting Blaster Bolts

[Felon]

Where did we first see a jedi doing this nifty trick?

I ask because my group was sitting around creating Star Wars Saga characters, and I couldn't help but notice that even a low-level jedi can match or even outshine many of things we saw force-users do in the first movies. We see Darth do some cool stuff--chokes a few guys, stops a blaster bolt with his hand--but most of what Obi-wan and Luke do is subtle stuff--sensing disturbances, focusing perception, the mind trick. In trying to pinpoint when Luke really seems to have some control over the force, I'd say it's when he starts deflecting blaster bolts on Jaba's airship.

 

[Ilium]

You could say the first time this is done is during Luke's early training on the Millenium Falcon. It's only a training drone, but still, he deflects energy bolts.

So it seems to be an amateur trick.

 

[Mouseferatu]

You could say the first time this is done is during Luke's early training on the Millenium Falcon. It's only a training drone, but still, he deflects energy bolts.

So it seems to be an amateur trick.

Yep. But I think the first time we actually see him do it to a full-on blaster is in RotJ. I can't recall him ever doing so in ESB. (Though I admit it's been a while, so I could be mistaken...)

 

[Klaus]

Yep. But I think the first time we actually see him do it to a full-on blaster is in RotJ. I can't recall him ever doing so in ESB. (Though I admit it's been a while, so I could be mistaken...)

Well, there's Vader telling Han's blaster to talk to the hand.

Other than that, it's either the drone in Star Wars, or the Sarlacc Pit Massacre in RotJ.

 

[Cthulhudrew]

Didn't Luke deflect some lasers when storming Bespin? (Been a while since I've seen ESB, so I'm not sure.)

Could have something to do with Ben's training. Aside from him seeming a bit too old to be doing some of the really physical stuff (Yoda and Dooku's performances in the prequels aside), maybe Ben just felt the more esoteric arts would be more useful to Luke than the physical ones in the long run?

 

[Mouseferatu]

Well, there's Vader telling Han's blaster to talk to the hand.

Yep, but I count that as something slightly different.

 

[Mouseferatu]

Didn't Luke deflect some lasers when storming Bespin? (Been a while since I've seen ESB, so I'm not sure.)

I don't think so. I'm almost positive Luke didn't draw his light saber until confronting Vader. When charging his way through Bespin, he always had his blaster in his hand

 

[Alzrius]

We see Darth do some cool stuff--chokes a few guys, stops a blaster bolt with his hand

Strictly speaking, the bolt that hit his hand was deflected, not stopped completely. In the widescreen version of the movie, in the next shot you can see the scorch mark on the wall where the blast was sent after hitting Vader's hand.

 

[Klaus]

I don't think so. I'm almost positive Luke didn't draw his light saber until confronting Vader. When charging his way through Bespin, he always had his blaster in his hand

... and didn't fire a SINGLE shot!


... damn hippie kid.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Strictly speaking, the bolt that hit his hand was deflected, not stopped completely. In the widescreen version of the movie, in the next shot you can see the scorch mark on the wall where the blast was sent after hitting Vader's hand.

I personally think that Vader is such a badass that when he saw that Han Solo was going to shot at him he decided to redirect the laser blast so that it would hit his hand the be deflected at a fly he saw crawling on the wall.


Redirecting a photon torpedo into a meter wide exhaust point = easy
Redirecting a laser blast so that it can be deflected off your hand then kill a fly = awesome.