STAR WARS: How could Sidious be more powerful than Yoda?
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ReadyAndWilling
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i meant that Yoda has a good 840 years on Palps in Force training and yet he loses the fight?
There was an awful amount of CGI spinning and backflipping in the prequels. It was totally laughable when Christopher Lee, who looked like he could barely hold a lightsaber in his close ups, suddenly jumped around like a frog. The Prequels are exemplary for the saying "Just because you can do a thing, does not mean you should do that thing."
Thus dooming the galaxy to tyranny for almost 20 years.
You mean the Republic that didn't exist any more?
Yeah I can't help but think that Yoda looks better if he just didn't have time to kill Palpatine before the clones blasted him and so decided to make a quick retreat.
Sidious looks to be at least 70 by today's standards. There is no reason that he can't be even older with all the advanced medical tech they have. There is no reason he can't be even older based on some Sith alchemy.
It is entirely possible that Yoda wasn't all that talented to begin with, but got where he is throught sheer persistance, experience, and training.
I always thought it was a case that Yoda was old as dirt and while the Force is a powerful weapon that enables extraordinary abilities, not even a Jedi Master as powerful as Yoda can keep his old age at bay indefinitely during an intense fight like that.
Even a Jedi can get tired if a battle lasts long enough...
Even a Jedi can get tired if a battle lasts long enough...
Size matters not.
That's what the small ones always try to tell themselves.
A 90-year-old man may have three times the experience of a 30-year-old man, but guess who will win in a fight?
How could Sidious be more powerful than Yoda? Easy. Because the plot demanded it.
Batman? Assuming, of course, he had enough time to prepare.
Batman? Assuming, of course, he had enough time to prepare.
ReadyAndWilling
Fleet Captain
He lost the fight. Eventually he merely had a lucky shot.
basically the plot needed Maul, who had previously been shown to have super fast reflexes, to suddenly stand there for a long period of time while Obi-Wan pulls off his move.
Weak writing. They should've had Obi-Wan overpower Maul with his anger like Luke did to Vader in ROTJ.
Being stronger doesn't mean you're going to win, I thought it was clever of Obi-Wan to use Qui-Gon's lightsaber to kill Maul. If all it took to win was strength Kruge would've easily have beaten Kirk in Star Trek III, since he was younger, stronger and a Klingon.
Zahn's novels discuss his take on the force and I like the take that he has. Essentially, you can use the force to do destructive and incredible things, but it generates massive amounts of static or background oise and you lose the ability to use the force for meditative and insightful purposes. When Luke first uses the force during meditation after abstaining from using it in an offensive way, the detail and breadth of his vision astonishes him. That is the kind of power that Yoda had, not some crude flips and kewl saber moves.
Alls fair in love and war so that didn't bother me anymore than Vader taking Luke's hand off.
