Heh, Darth Saruman. I love that. And yeah, that's what I was getting at with Yoda too. The spirituality of the Force is never really delved into in the prequels (the midi-chlorians pretty much killed that possibility). It's all about moving really fast, jumping really high, and having really cool-looking swords. And I admit they had some pretty cool fights, but if you bring Yoda and the Emperor into the fray, then you expect to see something different! Something sagey and guru-like. Instead, everybody has the same powers.

EDIT: And that's what I always used to think the difference was between Jedi Knight (hello, the word knight mean anything to anybody?) and Jedi Master. Masters were the teachers. They were higher up. Maybe they had been knights back in the day, or maybe they had taken a different path in the Force than Knights. That's why, I always thought, Obi-Wan could fight but managed to fail at training Anakin properly and why Yoda would have been a better choice. He was a Master. Training was what he did! Fighting was what Obi-Wan did.