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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fenros" data-source="post: 203445" data-attributes="member: 975">Rel wrote: Whoa, I think you missed entirely what Yoda was doing there in Empire Strikes Back. He was acting silly on purpose. He knew Luke was coming. He was testing him. Checking him out. He was pretending to be some crazy little annoying guy to test Luke. To see what kind of patience he had. Luke failed, he (as well as the audience that saw this movie for the first time without prior knowledge) thought Yoda was some crazy swamp goblin side character. He treated Yoda like he was a nobody. Based off appearances. Something a Jedi shouldn't do. If someone that looked like Chow-Yun Fat's character from "Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon" walked out of the swamp, maybe Luke would've thought that he could be this great Jedi.......could be worthy of respect. Instead, he gets this little goblin thing who's overly curious but harmless. But Luke immediately thinks he's not worth reverence or respect. Luke respected him as much as one of us respects a street bum. Thus, he failed Yoda's test.Oh, and as much as I thought AOTC failed in film directing/editing, I still thought the portrayal of Yoda was fine. He's very much like some old martial arts monk. He only resorts to the physical when he needs to. Count Dooku initiated a duel between them using sabers only. Yoda had enough honor and confidence to go along with that duel. Its clearly obvious afterward that Yoda is very unhappy about having to go the route of violence. But its something that was unavoidable. It just had to be done. Both the attack of the Clones and the duel with Dooku. If it were up to him, both would've never happened. I felt Yoda in Ep1 and Ep2 was still very much in line with Yoda in Ep5 and Ep6. I think a lot of people are reading too much into it or something weird.</blockquote>

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