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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JacktheRabbit" data-source="post: 203660" data-attributes="member: 525">Yoda has certainly become the most interesting person in the movies in my opinion. The one thing you have to realise is that Yoda is not perfect. He makes mistakes in the first two movies and he even makes a mistake in Empires.In EP1 Yoda makes the mistake of tradition. Jedi tradition seems to say a Jedi Master can take on any pupil he or she wants. When Obi Wan says he will take on Anakin there is nothing for Yoda to do. This puts a very difficult student in the hands of a brand new teacher. A better solution would have been to make Anakin the Padawan of either Yoda himself of Mace Windu both Jedi with much more experience in teaching.In EP2 Yoda makes a further mistake of sending a very inexperienced and headstrong Anakin off on a mission alone with a female senator who is also equally well known to be headstrong. At the same time the entire Jedi order make a huge mistake in not altering its rules to fit Anakins uniqie position. Unlike every Jedi before him Anakin knows his mother. He has strong attachments to her. This makes her a continual distractionm. The smart move on the part of the Jedi would have been to send someone to purchase his mother and then relocated her to somewhere comfortable on say Naboo where Anakin could no longer worry about how her life was. The nightmares Anakin was getting were very strong and appeared to be rather unusual for a Jedi. It makes me wonder if they were natural of Sith enhanced.Finally in Empires Yoda makes yet another mistake. He teaches Luke how to use the force to see and the result is he sees the danger to his friends on Bespin. Yoda makes the mistake even worse by trying to keep Luke from leaving. My guess is that Yoda saw Luke leaving to be the same as when Anakin ran off to Tatooine and started his path down the dark side by salughtering the Sand People. This is a mistake for Yoda because the two events are not the same. Anakin went for selfish reasons and even willingly let people down and put Padme at risk. She is still technically being hunted. Luke on the other hand was acting in a manner full of self sacrifice. I very much doubt that the dark side has much of a chance grabbing hold of someone who is willing to do so much selflessly. The Bespin scene in fact was not as big a failure as poeple would think. Sure Leia and Chewie were able to escape on their own and even had to save Luke. Luke though got to learn how powerful the Dark Side was and who his father was. These were valuable lessons that helped prepare Luke for his encounter with the Emperor. How do you think the final battle had turned out if Luke had learned who his father was in the thrown room? Odds are much worse, without that knowledge Luke would have never had a chance to feel that little bit of good that was in his father. That knowledge is what held back Lukes final strike on Vader while Vader was down. There is little doubt that Luke would have fully turned to the Dark Side if he had killed Vader in rage.Finally there is the Leia, someone asked why Yoda did not skip Luke and train Leia instead.Yeah like that would have ever happened. You have a choice between a young and impressionable youth who has lived on Tatooine all his life OR his sister the grizzled former Imperial Senator and life long politician.I doubt Yoda would think it a very good idea to train Leia very much in the Jedi way. I doubt he has much faith in any sort of Politicians. Also I doubt Leia is all that gifted in the Force really. If she was then how did she spend all that time in the Imperial Senate without Darth Vader or the Emperor sensing it.</blockquote>

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