Yoda doesn’t ask Luke to kill his father. He tells him he must face him (as he must face his fear of becoming like Vader as illustrated by the cave). Ben is the one who tells him the galaxy is lost if Luke will not kill his last remaining parent.
So Luke follow Yoda’s advice but only after almost turning to the dark side following Ben’s.
Putting stained glass in the Ranch library 😉
Yoda is a Jedi but at no point in ESB or ROTJ do we get any evidence that he was ever a Jedi Knight.
He constantly pushed Luke to avoid violence, avoid weapons, avoid confrontations until he is ready. And only then in the context of confronting and defeating his own personal fears not Vader or even the Emperor.
Ben on the other hand flat out tells Luke he has to kill his father in order to save the galaxy. During his first face to face meeting he gives Luke a weapon and tells him a lie setting him on a course that will lead him to confront Vader. He lets himself be killed infront of Luke possibly hours after this. He is a militant character.
Yoda is more of a guru, a teacher a source of knowledge.
Luke ultimately rejects Ben’s demand to kill and accepts Yoda’s lesson of facing fear, this rescues Anakin. The true ‘other’ the real ‘new hope’ the only person Palpatine would allow to get close enough to throw him down a really stupidly placed hole in the floor.
I realise this is my interpretation of the characters which is totally flipped by the prequels as they currently exist but it just seems odd to me that a philosophy such as the Force would only have a military arm. There are Buddhist and Taoist, even Christian warrior monks but they are a tiny sub faction of philosophies devoted to different things.
I currently have no PS3 and a cash refund
Not sure what your all-in costs were, but maybe it’s time to reconsider which is better: a used PS3 that has problems playing a bunch of cheap, older games or a new PS4 that reliably plays a few newer, but more expensive, games.
A new PS4 paired with Horizon: Zero Dawn is £254.
I think it’s more to do with the way the retailer CEX works.
They recieve a lot of hardware, often from people hitting hard times, with difficult lives (drugs, crime etc) an they haven’t the staff hours to test them.
I only really discovered this through talking to the staff (who are almost universally amazing btw) and hanging around in the background and seeing who is bringing things in.
A couple brought in an iPhone without a charger and legged it out of the shop when staff offered to check if it was locked or not. I dare say they handle some stolen goods too.
As for my reason for buying the console. I am interested in playing the previous genenration of games, not all the games I want to play are available on the current generation machines and I find their online service a bit suspect.
I have a PS account but my bank details are not on it, the mailing address is not where I live and my email address is not the one I use for my financial, work or personal email conversations.
I download the upgrades and patches and then I disconnect myself from the internet.
I never connected any of my previous games consoles to the official internet service (XBOXlive had abandoned the original Xbox by the time I had one, my PS2 has never had an ethernet cable in the back).
I am currently flush enough to buy modern consoles and games but I have so many games already that even buying a PS3 and a Wii U (which is something I want to do at some point in the year) is a bit of an unnecessary luxury.
I’ve ordered another PS3 from Ebay.
If that’s a dud I will get a refund from that service eventually.
PS4 will not be on my shopping list until the PS6 is on the horizon.
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I would like to add two ideas, I don’t know if anyone already mentioned those ideas, so I’ll just explain them here, they are both about the final part of the 3rd movie.
- I think Yoda fighting Palpatine was a great moment in the 3rd movie, and it should be preserved. I saw people suggesting it should be removed from the third movie, but I believe it makes Yoda look like a coward, just running away and leaving the Sith to rule the Galaxy.
I understand that the fact that he is unable to beat Palpatine makes Luke victory seems “too easy” in ROTJ, but with some clever editing it is possible to make it look like Yoda was winning the fight but Palpatine was saved by imperial troopers. I mean, in the last scene, when Yoda and Palpatine where exchanging lighting, only Palpatine would fall. Yoda would stand on his feet but in that moment, imperial troopers comes and shoot Yoda, that falls when trying to avoid being hit by the lasers.
- I don’t think Padme’s labor should be seen. Besides giving away that Luke and Leia are brothers, if Padme Lives, it doesn’t give a good explanation to why Luke was separated from Padme and his sister. I think it would be enough if we see Natalie Portman scene in Ana Bolena with a baby girl in the end of the 3rd movie, without seeing her labor. That way someone who sees the prequels would think she only had one baby girl (preserving the secret of Luke being Darth Vader’s son) and avoiding giving a decent explanation to why Luke was separated from his mother.
Anyway, just my 2 cents.
The main objections to Palaptine and Yoda’s fights in general seem to be that they diminish these two powerful being to just another computer game boss.
Yoda is always dismissive of weapons and Palpatine describes the Saber as a Jedi thing so it makes no sense that the two should fight with Sabers.
Having Palpatine kill a Jedi with his own weapon for laughs fits in with his twisted sense of fun but I can’t see him having one himself.
If the Yoda and Palatine fight was in the nature of the later half of the fight (throwing architecture and energy around) that too might be redeemable but the silly facial expressions and dodgy effects would be difficult to work around.
Having the Emperor saved by Clones would undermine his power (he has just won two wars that he instigated, he has exterminated most of the Jedi and brought down the Republic).
Skinny Jeans are still a thing 
To further confuse matter Peter Faulk could be reading it from The Princess Bride and check with his grandson that it isn’t going too far when Yoda died.
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I currently have no PS3 and a cash refund
OTTOman is the worlds most symmetrical superhero
put the lime in the coconut… a lamentable choice.
I’m hoping that some of the creatures from The Neverending Story and the Hawkmen from Flash Gordon can help the Ewoks bring down the Empire.
“I remember when I was a little boy, I-I once stole a pornographic book that was printed in Braille, and I used to rub the dirty parts”
If you have good memories shuffle those to front of your mind and keep a hazy placeholder of the bad memories at the back as a warning.
It’s a shame but the world is full of people who aren’t doing that so set course for them.
You never know, when her personal crisis concludes you might get a response that makes sense.
I suggest you show these texts to your boss.
If anything to cover your back.
I wouldn’t respond to them though.
Something clearly strange is going on there and sad as it is it’s the last thing you need right now.
I had been really into a girl for about a month. We went out a lot of dates and we really liked each other. Eventually she started having some family issues and started getting some really awful depression. I could tell her life was spiraling out of control. She talked to a therapist and decided it is best for her to not have a relationship with anyone right now. The saddest thing is that I completely understand and this is the right thing for her to do but I really liked her a lot. This hurt a lot 😦 I feel really hopeless and depressed
Try to take comfort in the fact that she’s doing what she feels is best for her right now. Respecting her and her choices is a great thing to do, and maybe when she’s feeling better you guys can rekindle something.
Breakups are tough, so just hang in there and try to find some joy in a hobby or school or work or whatever you get up to. Take the time to find yourself a bit.
Thank you so much for the advice! Sad thing is that she is also planning on moving to California for the summer, and if she likes it there (she probably will), then she would move there permanently. So it will not work out period. It is quite a rough truth to accept.
Send her a card saying you understand the decision and respect her wishes. But remind her that you remain her friend and can be called upon if needed. When this sort of thing happens feeling that you have burned bridges can be a burden in of itself. Giving the power to her to call on you if she needs to may be of benefit further down the road. But respect those boundaries and try your best to get on with things yourself. All the best.
Angel One, yeah that’s another episode the cast would probably like to see lost in a vault fire.
I find it amusing that Doctor Who almost did a story about a female dominated society during Patrick Troughton’s tenure in the late '60’s. Can’t recall why they never went into production with that script, but they probably dodged a bullet in any case.
It was transformed into a mini comedy series for The Two Ronnies called The Worm That Turned.
Splitscreen. . Splitscreen? Now that’s a thing I have heard of in a long time… A long time.
One of my neighbours loaned me his son’s PS3. More than half the games not working went down to 2. So it’s definitely been the consoles at fault. So Thursday I have to take it back again.
Really it’s CEX who are the issue here.
Either they are selling consoles that don’t work or they are selling discs that don’t read or some combinantion thereof.
If the next round of disc swaps don’t work I may press for a refund (their policy is to do this in vouchers rather than cash which probably means ending up with something else that doesn’t work).
Annoyingly the shop I bought the console in is in the town I live in not the town I work in and it was an impulse piece of retail therapy that just backfired terribly.
Should have got a Wii U or a PS3 somewhere else.
The shame is what plays, plays well but most of the games I’ve held off playing for years now will not. So no Bioshock, no GTA, No Red Dead Redemption, No Portal 2, I can’t even play the South Park game. I hate confrontations of any kind. I feel really tense takig these things back. The staff are really nice but the end effect is exactly the same.
Have Boushh sound like Sgt Hatred from Venture Bros (plenty of material for a very short scene) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjN3iATuBB0
I’m with you, anything about Mandalore puts me to sleep. Proud warrior races in general are one of the dullest things in fiction, IMO. The only thing I’ve ever found interesting about the various Mandalorian arcs that Rebels and TCW have done was the sexual tension between Obi-Wan and Satine. Ever since she died, all it is is a bunch of interchangeable jerks yammering on endlessly about honor.
At least the Sontarans are creepy/funny.
Maybe she was cloned from Vader’s skin which is why she loves sand so much 😄