PT What did you think of Yoda dueling with a lightsabre in the PT?

I thought it was cool. But at the same time, it was also kinda silly too.

 

People were freaking out when they saw this in Cinema! It was hyped and loved by the audiences. All of a sudden some Internet critics started hating on it and People jumped on that band wagon.

Watch audience reactions of that Scene back in 2002 when Ep II was in Theaters. People cheered and applauded. I loved it too!

 

I loved it..

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Love it. It wasn't something I ever really considered before AOTC, but that was due to the limitations of the puppet, not because I believed Yoda was "beyond using a saber." And yeah, the crowd reactions in the theater were insane. I've never seen anything like that before or since.

 

Awesomeness

 

It was dope af. Made Yoda cooler in my eyes

 

I'm mixed. The execution was over-the-top and comical, but that kind of made it endearing. But at the same time, it's just... weird. It often seemed like it was more about the CGI animators trying to show off than what Yoda would actually do. I mean, levitating a lightsaber to behead a clonetrooper?

 

I loved it, particularly the juxtaposition between Yoda entering the scene on Geonosis, leaning on his walking stick then flipping around with a lightsaber minutes later. I always wondered how Yoda, given his smaller stature, could fight against regular human-sized opponents. I can’t imagine a better way for Yoda to have carried himself in such an encounter.

Had Yoda remained planted on the ground, I think that he would have been vulnerable to sweeping strikes and thrusts from his opponents. By leaping unpredictably and coming at his opponent from different angles and at different heights, Yoda was able to turn his small stature (and shorter lightsaber blade) into an advantage.

Yoda and Sidious fighting in the senate is one of my favourite scenes in Star Wars. I like how the PT gave us a more martial Yoda. I remember being taken aback the first time I saw him throw his lightsaber into the chest of a clone trooper outside the Jedi Temple. Brilliant stuff.

 

Blew my mind as a kid. Nowadays I think the stuff in Clones is a little on the goofy side but they found the sweet spot for Sith.

 

I disliked the acrobatic way yoda tried to go beserk on dooku.

i thought yoda'd be a more "civilised" duelist like Dooku himself.

This does not mean i did not like yoda with a lightsaber. I love it all. Also sidious with a lightsaber. I mean how can you dislike this?

 

It was silly and ruined Yoda tbh. He should have remained the wise advisor and never fought.

Just another bad thing in the prequels.

 

I liked it, it's a way to show that Yoda is not so much above it all as he seems in the OT.

 

The prequels had a lot of flaws and contradicts the way we once saw the OT from a certain point of view.

I loved the prequels for what they were. When it comes to the sequels.... well that's hate fuel for me.

Yoda is wise. He is old and has been through a lot. I don't think the fights were bad. But that is my humble opinion.

 

It was one of those moments that you experience very rarely in the cinemas… Last time I felt it last year when Captain America hit Thanos with Mjolnir.

Lucas managed to surprise us, like he did in the entire PT, and it was a nice culmination of the second movie in the trilogy.

 

Ultimately, I like it, and when it happened I remember laughing - with pleasure - with my friends in the cinema when we first saw it, the little noises he made
actually harkened back to the 'crazy Yoda' we see in TESB at the start so we already knew he had that sort of crazy in him.
It was just another glimpse of a different level to his personality that perhaps he normally has learned to control over nearly 900 years, maybe
he was a berserker when he was a young hot-head of 400 years old?

Still, I would have toned down the flips over the machinery and made his movements make a bit more tactical sense, and have the fight go on
just a little longer.

 

Makes sense, since he was a Jedi.

 

I agree. The over the top nature feels even more egregious when 20 years later, he can barely get around and is on his death bed. Especially considering 20 years to Yoda's species is like 2 years to a human.

 

Yeah but that doesn't bother me. When leaping around etc he is using the Force to boost his speed, strength and resistance. As soon as he stops drawing on it he goes back to his semi crippled way. I have always been fine with that concept.

It's like Qui Gon doing mad flips when he's meant to be 60.

 

When I saw this the first time in the theater the crowd went *nuts* (I was living in Pittsburgh PA at the time). I haven’t experienced that in a theater either before or after.

 

It was definitely better in RotS with the Yoda vs. Palpatine fight. Or at least, more serious.

But in AotC? It was still cool, but even more comical. Those croaky Yoda battle cries... I can't not find that funny.

 

Aging isn't a totally linear process. An old person can go from being relatively active to struggling to move around unaided in the space of a couple years. Not in the least implausible. Yoda is less than a year from dying of old age when we meet him in TESB.

He's supposed to come across as noticeably older and more frail in the originals as compared to the prequels. Frank Oz even does a different voice depending on how old Yoda is supposed to be. Oz's Yoda voice isn't as strained and guttural in the prequels as it is in the originals. When Oz came back to voice Yoda for Rebels, he intentionally reverted to his OT Yoda voice.

 

It confused me as a kid when he turned into a beast out of nowhere after walking on a cane for the whole film, but I grew to like Yoda's PT portrayal more as time went on (though him yelling in the Dooku fight will always be a bizarre addition IMO, and is probably what made that more jarring for some people than it actually was).

What makes me love it is how it shows the power of the Force in general as well as Yoda's strength/experience (along with the absorption and large-scale telekinesis), and everything shown in AOTC was refined and put to much better use in ROTS when he fends off the clones and in his duel with Sidious.