PT Was having yoda have a lightsaber in the prequels a good idea?

I have watched many videos and reviews about the prequel movies and what i heard was many people say was that Yoda should have not had a light saber in the prequels and it ruins his character. they say in the prequels it makes the whole Yoda character a joke because in AOTC he fights Count Dooku jumping up and down like a ball and to go even as far as saying he fights like Sonic the hedgehog and to say he's the last character in existence to have a light saber.

I'm personal think he should have a light saber because a Jedi's weapon is obviously the light saber as proven by this quote said by Obi wan Kenobi in ANH
"This is the weapon of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or random as a blaster. An elegant weapon for a more civilized age."

However at the same time i don't think he should have one because it makes the Yoda in the prequels a joke and makes me feel like the PT Yoda and OT Yoda are two different characters, like the OT Yoda was awesome how he was a great mentor and uses his wisdom and shows his extremely good connect with just the force, unlike the PT Yoda who just jumps everywhere like a bouncy ball swinging his light saber too Count Dooku and emperor Palpantine.

What do you guys think?

 

yes

even Mr Miyagi had action in Karate Kid Part III (well in some extent in the first too)

Einstein said it best: example is not A way to teach, but the ONLY way to teach.

in other words: Yoda walked the walk.

 

Yep, and I thought the idea was used brilliantly, and is an excellent example of continuity with the OT, in the form of character development. One informs the other.

It's one of the ideas in the PT that has my full approval.

 

Having Yoda in the PT at all was a bad idea.

 

Ties in nicely to ESB but looks off in AOTC imo.

 

Even Luke said in ESB, "I'm looking for a great warrior."

 

I always got the sense that that was the image of Yoda that Luke had in his mind. He just assumed that Yoda had to be a great warrior when that ended up not being the case.

 

nah.

though I approved of yoda getting some action scenes and he definitely should have been in the pt (maybe with a bit of a different role). if I were writing it, I'd have it to where he'd just show off his force abilities.

 

I agree on the first part, but not on the second. Luke searching for a great warrior was indeed what he pictured Yoda to be, not a description. But Yoda telling Luke that wars don't make one great, has absolutely no bearing on Yoda being a great warrior or not. The sentence is probably meant in the same way as a young person sees a veteran, as a hero who saved the day, while the veteran himself probably spends more time thinking about who he lost and how he wouldn't want to be in a war again. The former has this idealised view of heroism, while the latter has experienced war and is no fan of this view. That doesn't mean that the veteran is/was not an exceptional warrior.

 

I used a bad choice of words...what I meant was Yoda doesn't appear as a great warrior in ESB. Obviously he probably was a great warrior at some point in the distant past, and also saw how war affected his students over the centuries (this is based on my impressions from the OT before the PT was released).

 

Since Yoda is a Jedi, yes, of course he should have one.

 

I think it was a great idea. Helped show his development from a typical Jedi to the sage we see in ESB.

 

I don't see it as character development. In fact, his character is something that remained very consistent throughout the saga.

 

All four films.

It was never a condemnation on Jedi using Lightsabers, which some fans took away from that statement.

 

I only wish it were yellow...

 

Yoda having a lightsaber wasn't a bad idea. Him using it was. In fact, during the duel with Dooku I would've loved, after Dooku says "there is only one way to settle this…with the lightsaber", if Yoda reached out with the Force and crumpled Dooku's. Then Dooku would be like "Oh **** I'm outta here!"

 

Yes, I like the fact that Yoda wielded a lightsaber in the PT.

He knows from experience that "wars not make one great"

 

It has never bothered me that Yoda had a lightsaber and I don't understand why people are getting upset because of that. I hear things like "he shouldn't have a lightsaber because he's small, old and wise". Well didn't he even said to Luke in Empire "Judge me by my size do you? Hmm... Well you should not". He means by that, you shouldn't always judge something or someone by his appearance. So he should also have been able to wield a lightsaber in his past before the events in Empire.

But I must admit that seeing his jumping around in Clones during his fight against Dooku might have been a little bit too much, maybe because I was less involved in this fight than the one against the Emperor in Sith since I saw Episode 3 before Episode 1 and 2. The fight between Yoda and Palpatine in Sith was simply awesome and much better than the one against Dooku in Clones.

 

u all should read the making of empire strikes back and return of the jedi by r.w. rinzler. Lucas actually says to Kasdan that Jedi masters were essentially just gurus and not fighters. They were different than knights altogether. If Lucas would have remembered back to his younger days when he was making great decisions, Yoda would not have used a lightsaber. And Jedi master would not just be a title of seniority/rank but would rather be a reflection of the type of jedi and force gifts they had.

 

Things change.

 

not always for the better bro.

 

That I definitely agree with. There's a certain "Star Wars" film coming out this year that I have a feeling will be full of "wonderful" changes.

 

Obi-Wan was a Jedi Master in the original Star Wars from 1977 and he's old and wise as Yoda. So why does he wield a lightsaber in that movie while Yoda shouldn't?

 

I think the green (obviously) goes well with the rest of Yoda's color palette. But yellow would have been interesting, I agree.

You know, this calls to mind the days when the rumors for Episode III were really picking up, and folks were suggesting that Darth Sidious might wield a lightsaber. For some odd, inexplicable reason, I was convinced that if the Chancellor ever were to have a lightsaber, it would have a yellow blade. In my mind's eye, it was the only thing which seemed to make any sense.

Then someone mentioned that if he did have a lightsaber, it would of course have a red blade (a point which I immediately conceded, realizing full-well that it would be so).