Was Luke usning any force ability to disable ATAT walker?

On Hoth during the battle in the snow, Luke was able to single handedly destroy an entire AT-AT walker. I've always wondered - was the Force in play here or not? What are the odds of Luke surviving? Pretty slim I should think.

 

That's expressly what I meant - here's Luke with nearly neonatal Force skills developed and he 'accidentially' destroys one of the premire landing fighting vehicles the Empire has to offer.

Prior to that, Luke covers ROGUE2 in entrapping a walker's legs in harpoon cabling. On the other hand, all of the other speeders of ROGUE SQUAD on Hoth are annihilated - virtually no success unless Luke was involved directly.

All of this accomplished by an untrained Force-sensative? Geez. I'd like to see what Obi-wan would have done out there(in his prime, of course.)

 

I don't think the Force was at play, I mean the snow does soften landings right? I live in Florida, so I honostly don't know if snow hurts when you hit it from a free fall.

 

It doesn't seem that he used the Force on the At-At Walker.

 

Alright, if Luke did not use the Force, then the only other conclusion to be drawn was the disperity between using devices/weapons to achieve against impossible odds versus using the Force for the same results.

He still had not achieved the spiritual break through whcih eludes 99.99% of the people on earth.

 

I live in Florida, so I honostly don't know if snow hurts when you hit it from a free fall.

I suppose it depends on how much of it was powder. I caught a mean backside edge snow boarding last February and broke my arm. And that was just me falling over, not dropping from the height of an AT-AT.

Since the Rebels were able to run pretty easily during the retreat, I'm guessing that whatever snow was there was extremely compacted. If not frozen solid.

 

Could in theory, an AT AT walker be pushed over with the force seeing as yoda would say 'its only different in your mind'.

 

I suppose, in theory, that it could. Take a look at how effortlessly Dooku toppled the tower on Geonosis. Unfortunately for Luke, he wasn't at a point where he would have been able to do that.

 

i always thought it was really cool the way luke took on one of those all by himself. he really improvised too since he had no harpoon gunner and all. what's neat also is that in dark empire II luke just walks up to an at at and deflects all of it's blasts back at it, while shielding himself in the force. top notch stuff, and more continuity...

or is it the first dark empire?

 

I agree, Axle.
Luke should have been killed by a near-by walker or some snow troopers..or STEPPED on...but he survived.

The Force survived Luke to live another day - like obiwan said, the Force partially guides your actions; "luke, trust your feelings" afterwhich, Luke destroy gun turrents on the Death Star one.