In AOTC why doesnt Yoda just force push Count Dooku's ship into the wall of the hanger?

Because during their entire standoff and battle of force powers it would have been very easy for Yoda to simply reach out in the force and take Count Dooku's ship the Solar Sailor and use the force to send it flying backwards into the wall where it would be wrecked or heavily damaged upon impact, thus making it very hard for Count Dooku to use his ship to leave Geonosis, heck Yoda could have also used the force to throw a rock into the cockpit windows and destroy them, thus making it impossible to fly the Solar Sailor in Outer Space because the inside would be exposed to the vacum of space itself.

These are just two easy ways that i have thought of that would have worked and stopped Count Dooku from escaping Geonosis or escaping very easily, he would have a much more difficult time if Yoda damaged his ship, or even better had reflected his own force lightning towards the Solar Sailor and caused some damage, reflecting the lightning did cause a minor explosion in the hanger so Dooku's ship would have been damaged as well.

This way Yoda would have prevented Dooku from escaping and rallying more systems to his cause.

 

Because that would have been stupid. Who takes the easy way out? The Jedi sure don't, as they could have used the force at any time to:

1. Kill General Grievous, for one. Not to derail, but it's astounding how they could have so much trouble defeating some cyborg general with no known force connections; you have Jedi Masters being bested by him.

Anyway, Jedi like to make it difficult for themselves for some strange reason.

 

Because then Dooku would've been merked by Yoda, thus no Clone Wars and no one for Anakin to kill in ROTS.

We see in ESB that moving a ship is no easy thing, Yoda would be sitting there concentrating on it to move it and Dooku would jump in and chop him. Not very good continuation if you ask me.

 

Instead of giving me stupid cop out answers like there would be no movies just answer the question the way that i posed it, people have no ability to think outside of the box and that is stupid.

 

"We see in ESB that moving a ship is no easy thing" was an answer.

 

Let?s not try to tell other people how to post, okay? Regardless, if you pose a question, it seems unfair to judge their answers as ?stupid? and therefore irrelevant.

 

Agreed. The ship would have been halfway to the wall about the time Dooku's lightsaber blade was penetrating Yoda's skull.

 

Wrong because after Dooku crushes the crane and drops it to fall onto Obi-Wan and Anakin then Yoda was forced to stop and force catch it and Dooku tried another final strike as Yoda started stopping it, Yoda quickly blocks his strike and Dooku runs onboard his ship and leaves, so Yoda would have blockd Dooku's attack while moving it one handed, nice try though.

 

Yoda does nothing of the sort. And Joe Garelli, these little questions you post all the time really need to start going in the PT Quick Questions thread.

 

Wow, I must be watching a completely different version then you...one that lacks imagination. IIRC, Dooku realizes he's lost the fight, rips out the pillar and leaves it to fall on Anakin and Obi Wan. Yoda, being the good Jedi saves them instead of pursuing Dooku and merking him. Dooku runs off like a madman, dipping in his ship.

 

Hmmm, makes one wonder why Yoda doesn't use the giant slab he's already levitating and launch it at Dooku's ship. It was imperative to the mission that Dooku not get away, but Yoda did so anyway.

 

It seems that he doesn't have the strength to do so.

 

He was busy saving Obi-Wan and Anakin.

Why didn't -you- do something?

You just sat there with your arms folded and did nothing!

 

I am so ashamed.

 

We all tried to do something but then Dooku took a final strike and we were da pwn'zorz

 

"A Jedi uses the force for knowledge and defence, never for attack" -Yoda. If Dooku is fleeing, then it's not defence.

 

I totally agree with Shrapnel.

 

That's the thing, he was able to stop a Senate pod coming at him, spin it to give some momentum, and fling it back at Palpatine. He had the strength then. Maybe he had a Red Bull before that battle.

 

I think it's all about the mind. Yoda didn't necessarily want to kill Dooku, they were once friends and close to equals. Yoda knew he HAD to kill Sidious, so he went in giving his all. Jedi don't just give up when something is required of them, Yoda was exhausted after the duel with Sidious. Obi Wan says in Outbound Flight a Jedi can achieve whatever they expect themselves to, restrictions can't be placed.

and like Shrapnel said, Dooku was fleeing, a Jedi does not kill someone who is unarmed or has surrended. Sure Dooku went on to lead the clone wars, but there would be another time and place for Dooku's death as we all saw.

 

Yoda didn't need to kill Dooku at that moment, but he could have used that large pillar to, at least, disable the ship and prevent Dooku from escaping. Yoda could have both saved the unconscious Jedi AND kept Dooku from fleeing long enough for at least some sort of reinforcement to come and help in capturing him. As it is, he's inexplicably tired after a really short battle, and even then, Dooku provided Yoda with a rather large bolt that could be used against a ship (without tapping into any Dark Side tendencies).

 

I thought Yoda was too busy keeping the 20 ton power generator/heavy thing from crushing OBI and Anakin?

 

Size matters not. Yoda inferred to Luke that there was no difference between "the stone" and "the ship." Still, he was able to stop a Senate pod launched at him and spin it around, but he (for some reason) has to put down the pillar/generator/thing without the energy to launch it forward with a mission relying on it?

 

God, Yoda is so selfish in that scene. While he was at it, why didn't he stop Hillary from stalling the nomination of Obama. We know he could have. Selfish ass muppet.

 

For that matter, Yoda could have stopped the planes from going into the WTC on september 11th. Selfish B******.

 

Most of the answers are less stupid than you think.