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"Yoda goes mental with a light saber!"

Has anyone seen Episode 2?

What I don't understand is how come a green hairy midget who can't walk over 0.5 miles per hour without the aid of a walking stick suddenly do all these backflips and stuff?

Please explain...

Insane Bartender wrote:
> Got the new NJO book in the post this morning courtesy of Amazon! I
> love this series!

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Whats happening at the moment? The last one I read was when the Yuuzhan Vong had destroyed Ithor with that bio-bomb thing, and Corran Horn had defeated Shadao Shai. Oh yeah, the Jedi were getting trashed somehow.

Don't know about you, but I prefer the other books to the NJO, because fighting the Empire is more fun. Alliance with Imperial Remnant, my ars.

I really wish the film hadn’t shown Yoda fighting as it looked, quiet frankly, totally ludicrous. Well, the most annoying thing was that the choreography for the fight was stupidly repetitive, and well as totally OTT. His abilities should have remained a thing of ledged.

Look at what Yoda fighting achieves from a plot point of view – he arrives just as Count Douko is about to finish off Obi-Wan and Skywalker and scares him off. This could have been done easily without an actual fight, I think the only reason Yoda fights is because with the CGI they can make him fight now.

In a Jurassic Park styleee paraphrasing thing, they were so excited that they could they didn’t stop to think if they should.

Stryke wrote:
> Kit Fisto could take him.

Take him where? Alton towers to get his OAP discount.
Thinking that Kit could beat yoda is a stupid thing. Fool.

Got the new NJO book in the post this morning courtesy of Amazon! I love this series!

Yeah, in the books Luke hardly ever uses his power anymore. But he did use two lightsabers to free Jacen Solo from the Yuzhaan Vong, that was cool.

As it's explained (at great length) in many of the Star Wars books, the stronger a Jedi is in the force, the less inclined that person is to use that power. Yoda, being the greatest of the Jedi, rarely uses the power he has (which is considerable). On demand however, he is capable of superhuman feats. The jumps and backflips are all force-assisted, much like the 50 foot super jumps that Obi-Wan and Skywalker get up to all the time.

It's no mystery.

Kit Fisto could take him.

It is because he is Yoda - Jedi Master. The master of the force. He has the ability *when required* to kick butt in a serious way. Nobody uses the powers of the force all the time, that is why he just walks slow with the stick etc.

blahpro wrote:
> Has anyone seen Episode 2?
>
> What I don't understand is how come a green hairy midget who can't
> walk over 0.5 miles per hour without the aid of a walking stick
> suddenly do all these backflips and stuff?
>
> Please explain...

Maybe green hairy midgets find it easier to do backflips etc than to walk. Who can tell? Familiar with the anatomy of Jedi aliens I am not.

Just watched Episode 2 infact, and its far better than episode 1. The Yoda fight was awesome, mainly because it was so bloody funny watching a little green midget having a light sabre fight with someone twice as tall as him. I don't think it was ment to be a serious part in the film, which is why I think Lucas handled it the way it did. Very Funny.