Why is Yoda afraid when Luke points his blaster at him?

I know I am starting to get quite annoying, so I will stop posting for awhile.

When Luke points his blaster at yoda, yoda is terrified of it. Why didn't he use the force, and jump away from it or grab it out of luke's hand?

Also, how does Vader have the ability to defelct blaster bolts with his hands, like he did in ESB. It can't be because his hand is mechanical. As seen with Grevious, 3po, R2, and other metal droids, they come apart easily with a balster bolt.

 

He feigns terror. He is not really afraid, but at this time he has yet to tell Luke that he is Yoda. He wanted to observe Luke and his biases

 

He startled Luke, Luke drew.

He was acting, to test luke.

You can't really compare GG or R2's ability's as "droids" to Vadars. Being as neither of them had any force powers.

 

i dont think he was really terrified he probably was just a little shook up when he saw it. keep in mind hes been living in exile since episode 3 so he hasent really practiced the force for a while probably. and the thing with vader i think hes just using the force to deflect the lasert blasts i never really thought about that. oh and by the way feel free to post as much as you want

 

It's an act. As with everything else when Yoda first meets Luke, he's pretending to be what he looks like, a weak little alien. It's Luke's first test of his psychology.

 

Yoda was testing Luke's patience by pretending to be an annoying and harmless little imp. It was all just an act right up until he started talking to Obi-wan about training him.

 

Brave little green guys. What if Luke had pulled the trigger?

"Hey! Nuts you are?"

 

"Acting!"
"Brilliant!"

 

Brave little green guys. What if Luke had pulled the trigger?

He'd probably do exactly what Vader did when Han fired his blaster at him, deflect the energy bolts.

 

As for the hand deflection, when it comes to force powers I like to refer to KOTOR I and II.

In KOTOR I and II, there is a move called Force Deflection where you use your hand to deflect it.

 

He probably would've just used the Force to angle Luke's hand away from him. It'd be the easiest thing to do or just pull the gun from his fingers.

 

In the EU there is a story about how the glove of Darth Vader's right hand is indestructible, how it survived ther 2nd Death Star explosion and became a valuable artifact thereafter...

Pretty cool, if you ask me.

 

I beg to differ. He isn't afraid- he's acting. Yoda looks like a harmless, weakling with nothing going for him. He's testing Luke's psyche, because he doesn't want to create another Dark Jedi.

 

I beg to differ. He isn't afraid- he's acting. Yoda looks like a harmless, weakling with nothing going for him. He's testing Luke's psyche, because he doesn't want to create another Dark Jedi.

Yes, newbie, several of us have already said that, including myself.

 

This is a really interesting thread...

 

Was he really afarid?

Think about the transformation he goes when he sighs then says "I cannot teach him."

He goes from this annoying type of scoundrel type of charcter to an old wiseman. That should answer your question as o if really was afraid. And now that we have 1-3, I think this really should answer your question as to if Yoda is afraid of amear blaster.

 

The bolts didn't deflect. Go watch the scene again, they just get absorbed into his hand. If Yoda can absorb Sith lighting with his hand why can't Vader absorb a few blaster bolts? Of course Yoda was acting. The whole time before he tells Luke who he is he's acting like an annoying little idiot. Why would he smack R2 with his cane when he could hurl him into a swamp with a wave of his hand. Why was this question even asked?

 

actually i remember reading somewhere that vaders suit is composed of some highly dense material, thats why he appears to be so thick (we all know david prowse was a body builder) and why in ESB when luke hits his arm with his saber it just burns his arm and does not lop the whole thing off.

this is why the blaster bolt appears to deflect off of his hand.

 

Actually Vader doesn't absorb the blaster bolts. I used to think that, and some EU has said that as well. I think this is actually due to only having seen it in pan & scan. While watching the widescreen DVD scene, you can see the bolts hitting the walls opposite Vader and to either side of Han, sparking, even leaving smoke. No absorption.

 

YOda was hiding his true identity because he was trying to test Luke's patience. The only reason why Yoda revealed his identity was because Luke started to whine and Yoda finally said "I cannot teach him....." and then the spirit of obi-wan interjected and so on and so forth

 

I can't believe this is actually a conversation... was Yoda afraid? He's been a Jedi for 900 years why would he be afraid of a jit with a blaster? It was obviously a feign. As far as him sating he can't train him I think it was a motivational move between Obi-Wan and Yoda to push look harder into his training. I'm not flaming but how can you watch the movies and see that scene and the scenes follwing it and actually believe that Yoda was scared? Even if you're not into Star Wars you would realzie yoda was pretending to be something he's not.

 

I also can't believe this is being debated. Yoda totally wasn't scared or senile. Maybe he seemed a little loopy, but he had been chatting it up with Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan and who knows how many other dead Jedi. But for heaven's sake, he was testing Luke for the most basic, critical attributes he needed to become a Jedi! Patience, foremost... not to mention dealing with fear and anger. And don't forget! in 1980, this was the audience's introduction to Yoda as well... imagine the casual viewer, seeing a silly green munchkin and hearing the voice of Bert. We had the same prejudices.... hardly expecting this little guy to be a Jedi master.

 

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Oh yeah, he really absorbed and deflected it

 

I don't have the dvd of the OT to watch only the original VHS. As far as I can see on the VHS they aren't deflecting just hitting his hand and making lots of sparks. Once both trillogies are released on DVD I'll have to check this scene out again to be sure what happens. Possibly it was a bit of both! Some of it absorbed through the force adn some of it deflected of his "indestructible" glove. As for the Yoda question; I'm not even going to answer that because it's so dumb.

"Kick his ass Luke" "Kick his ass and take his wallet"--Obi Wan Kenobi

 

Everyone has already answered the Yoda question twenty times already, so I won't bother also doing that. However with the hand, I think that it was the suit (extra thick with armour..). I don't think that blaster bolts can be repelled just with hands and the force, as no-one else has ever done that before, and I'm sure they would if they had the ability