invictusdeusvult:wordsarewind:Clear your minds…and find Obi-Wan’s wayward planet we will.See this is
invictusdeusvult:wordsarewind:Clear your minds…and find Obi-Wan’s wayward planet we will.See this is what I see and don’t getYoda is hella nurturing and funny. He’s obviously personable. He’s obviously kind. He’s disciplined, but when dealing with people who literally have the power to move and control things at will, discipline and virtue are necessary because truly, with great power comes great responsibility.People talk all this crap about yoda like - no. Yoda is not a space Jedi “god”. He’s a senior member of the order with tremendous strength and clarity of the force but also one with tremendous kindness and gentleness — when anakin comes to him for help Yoda doesn’t manipulate the truth the way palpatine does, he tells him honestly to let go of all he fears to lose, for Yoda knows that controlling the outcomes of everything is something no one, not Jedi nor Sith, can achieve. Yoda tells Anakin the hard truth because he loves him. Palpatine indulges anakin’s darkest temptations and fears because he wants to use him. People have written Yoda didn’t do enough for anakin etc but what exactly could Yoda have done? Anakin didn’t go into details w/ Yoda over his situation out of fear, which is exactly the trap the Jedi are leery of: fear leads to division and anger and to Anakin keeping his secret from the one Jedi who may have been powerful (in terms of just raw power, like Sidious) enough to help him: Yoda. Yoda as a character is written as doing the best he can, with what he knows. Anakin, in trying to play all angles out of fear, fear which Palpatine manipulated in order to isolate Anakin, set himself up for failure — made possible thanks to the manipulative Sidious trying to force (no pun intended) Anakin into a corner. At every opportunity Sidious tries to stoke Anakin’s fears: fear of losing Padme, of being kicked out of the Jedi, of not being accepted —- and Yoda didn’t know this. Force insight, wisdom, and such are not superpowers, in universe, the force is “living”, you can’t just demand to see the possible future (aka what palp was doing to anakin). Yoda also makes mistakes, and that’s okay. Yoda isn’t a “perfect guru” - hes just a regular flawed mentor trying to do the best he can, given the stakes. Yoda’s “failure” to stop what happened is a testament to his humility - Yoda knows he is not space god and now the audience knows as well.Let him be a falliable but good character trying his best to love well.Save yoda from hate-mail 2020. -- source link