So he gets stronger and builds a new sabre all on his own? Damn he didn't need Yoda or Obi-Wan.
Why didn't Yoda teach Luke how to block force lightning?
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I would just say it's probably a very advanced technique, and Luke wasn't up to it yet. You don't do calculus in 1st grade.
I suspect Rey may not have been the first to heist Jedi training manuals (like 'How to Build a Lightsaber') from their master's place on the way out...
Yawn for the reply, and your attempt to mischaracterize Luke.
She didn't, she had Luke's Sabre. I doubt many libraries contained many 'how to be a Jedi' books during the Empires time.
Not on screen, no. But the expanded material he found stuff in obi-wans place on Tatooine that helped him
I've read very little EU stuff.
at some points in the EU Luke used force lightening himself, though he called it something else. By the end of the Fate of the Jedi books, pretty much the end of the EU Luke was almost God-like. He could teleport, manipulate time, change preceptions, etc. He went all over the Galaxy learning every force technique from every obscure force using faction left. Except the Jensarrai. They were dweebs.
Clearly Yoda could perceive that in the future Luke might become a paranoid friend-abandoning, cause-betraying, book-burning milk-chugging hermit who might try to murder his own students during panic attacks. The kids might need something to defend themselves against this future monster.
So he left some shit out of his super-duper rapid training program. Good thing he did!
If you want a willing audience who stares in rapt awe every time you have so much as a brain-twitch in response to stimuli, may I suggest Twitter?
Because the EU had already decided to lean into the whole ‘Good Power/Bad Power’ thing, only for later writers to realise this meant their heroes physically couldn’t use most of the ‘cool’ ones.
Hence: Totally-not-Force-lightening. It’s different because it heals people and shit, as well as having the potential for horrible torture.
It was hilarious.
The movies never indicated that building lightsabers was all that hard, or at least not beyond the abilities of somone with basic tinkering skills. The ‘it’s super complicated, dangerous, and is a spiritual experience’ was an EU thing.
And Luke had Anakin’s saber for years. Considering the thing is held together with some basic muggle screws, he easily could have cracked it open and poked around it’s workings.
Anakin’s comment in AOTC about continuously breaking his (not again!) suggests that it’s entirely possible for a Jedi to go through them like candy. We see tiny children with them!
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In-Universe explanation: Even though Yoda knew of Palpatine's force lightning abilities, he would also realise the obvious: that Luke would have been unable to employ such an advanced defence the likes of which we saw in Yoda's duel against Dooku.
Luke unseating The Emperor was never going to be a contest of power. The Emperor clearly could have killed Luke with a thought. Yoda knew Luke's part in the piece was to turn Anakin back.
Luke unseating The Emperor was never going to be a contest of power. The Emperor clearly could have killed Luke with a thought. Yoda knew Luke's part in the piece was to turn Anakin back.
Of course the thing is Luke has never been a Mary Sue, he sometimes failed. That's what made it more relatable. Now if it were Rey she would come programmed with all the moves no teaching required
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Of course the thing is Luke has never been a Mary Sue, he sometimes failed. That's what made it more relatable. Now if it were Rey she would come programmed with all the moves no teaching required
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*What’s funny, is you’ve actually argued against Trek_God. He spent a lot of words dictating how Luke’s actions were, in fact, in no way a failure.
(Because I am apparently an idiot who doesn’t know little things like ‘theme’ and ‘drama’ are also important things when constructing movies, just because I didn’t happen mention them when making some pithy commentary from what was clearly a Watsonian perspective. Because why the fuck would I be speaking from any other one, when the OP’s question basically dictates that’s the context he wants answers in, and-
*girlfriend yanks away keyboard because she hears the tell-tale clacking of a rant coming on* )
I’d say your response is almost bot-like in how obvious it was that you only latched onto a select few keywords before attempting to push a spammy message, whilst utterly failing to comprehend the post’s actual meaning. But what did a poor bot ever do to me, for me to insult it so?
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When it comes to Yoda's training of Luke in TESB, the concept of lightning from fingertips didn't exist yet.
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But the Jedi have never before considered lightsabers representative or indicative of the dark side and throughout the films, until that moment, using a weapon for defense was considered very different from for aggression.
Knowing the writing process of the original Star Wars, it probably didn’t exist during the beginning of ROTJ either!
More seriously: Lucas didn’t plan on Yoda dying during ROTJ. There’s an entire interview where he argues with Kasdan that, er...killing the old hero would be too much for the audience delicate sensibilities. They’d be too upset to enjoy the movie.
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So for all they knew, Yoda was gonna teach Luke all sort of shit in ROTJ. Especially when they were originally thinking of it as two future movies.
(Hence why Yoda dying before saying who ‘another Skywalker’ was, is presented as a genuine mystery. Only to be hastily and awkwardly infodumped about five seconds later. Finding the other one was originally a sequel-hook.)
Yoda just dismissed Luke, saying he only needed to confront Vader for his training to complete (wait, he just did that last movie when it was too soon for him to go but nothing new's been taught yet...) No wonder Luke is snarky toward Rey in TLJ!
Yoda: Taught you that Vader was your father, I did. Great personal growth, you had.
Luke:...Vader did that.
Yoda: What say?
Luke: Vader told me that he was my father. And made me confront my dark side. And kept giving me, um...fencing lessons.
Yoda:...
Luke: You know I can’t leave this planet if I tried right? We never got around to mastering how to lift my X-wing out of the water!!!
Note for the pedants: I do think Luke eventually learned how to lift heavyrocks stuff. It’s just he explicitly never managed to learn that skill when he was with Yoda.
But if he knuckles it out for himself off screen after a single failed attempt and seeing it displayed, then he’s too perfect and a Mary S-*fingers start burning.*
Luke:...Vader did that.
Yoda: What say?
Luke: Vader told me that he was my father. And made me confront my dark side. And kept giving me, um...fencing lessons.
Yoda:...
Luke: You know I can’t leave this planet if I tried right? We never got around to mastering how to lift my X-wing out of the water!!!
Note for the pedants: I do think Luke eventually learned how to lift heavy
But if he knuckles it out for himself off screen after a single failed attempt and seeing it displayed, then he’s too perfect and a Mary S-*fingers start burning.*
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