Star Wars fans often give poor old Obi-Wan a hard time for telling Luke history “from a certain point of view.” His decision to keep Luke’s parentage from him is widely considered to be one of the biggest douche moves in the Star Wars universe.
But what’s this? Evidence that would redeem him and condemn his little green co-conspirator? Yoda, how could you?
In this deleted scene nabbed from the Return of the Jedi laserdisc, we see some cut and altered dialogue in Luke and Yoda’s final conversation. Yoda admits that Obi-Wan kept the truth from Luke under his orders (which makes sense given that Yoda is the Grand-Master-Jedi-in-Charge here), and then goes on to tell Luke that knowing makes him super weak. Ouch! Yoda, we never knew you could be so cold. Or, maybe we should have, seeing that you were kinda keen for Luke to let his friends die on Cloud City.
As character arcs, this might make a bit more sense; Obi-Wan’s relationship to Luke reads as more personal, like a relative, whereas Yoda was Master Tough Love. Knowing that Obi-Wan kept things from Luke at Yoda’s instruction almost seems more likely. What do you think?
You can watch the scene over on Moviefone.com!
That makes perfect sense to me.
And people get pissed at me when I say I don’t like Yoda. Dude’s a jerk.
After the prequels, I’m fairly convinced Yoda is the evil mastermind behind a plot to destroy the Jedi Order, and should be viewed as someone as evil (if not more so) than the Emperor.
@3, Funny thing, the EU introduced a Yoda like character, and it was real hard to get a bead on her intentions, she was a fully trained Jedi who’s been exiled from the galaxy for decades.
It was eventually revealed she was a Sith. But without that reveal, you’d have never known. Her advice wasn’t ever BAD, but it wasn’t definitely harsh.
When you see all the dumb things Yoda and the Jedi Council do in the prequels, this scene makes perfect sense. They might have wanted to be the good guys, but they were really inept in the way they went about it.
I dropped the entire Jedi Order’s IQ by multiples of ten when they kept on about a prophecy and the Chosen One bringing “balance to the Force.” Apparently, scooting on over to the library to look up the meaning of the word “balance” was too much trouble.