RotS Novel is a MUST READ - *MASSIVE SPOILERS LIE HERE* (Off-Topic)

by CruelLEGACEY , Toronto, Monday, December 21, 2015, 22:21 (3266 days ago) @ cheapLEY

Seriously thought, go read the Revenge of the Sith novel ;P

I actually have. :) I read it before I saw the movie, and it's part of the reason I like the movie. I could apply the insights from the novel to film and make it work; I filled in the bus-sized gaps the movie left with stuff I knew from the novel.

I agree that it's excellent, and I understand everything you said.

But my point is, even with all that, they weren't actively doing anything. If it wasn't for R2-D2 running into Luke, it seems like they would have been content to just sit around waiting. And not only that, Yoda flat out refuses to train Luke until Obi-Wan convinces him. What does he think is going to happen if he turned Luke away without training him? It seems like he'd basically just given up.

We don't know what Luke has been doing (other than searching for the first Jedi Temple), but it seems like he's been content to just let Kylo Ren run wild while he's in exile. That's not exactly dealing with your mistakes.

I totally get what you're saying. I guess I'd always rationalized it by telling myself Obi Wan and Yoda were specifically hiding. They couldn't really do anything without risking detection by Vader or Palpatine. I think the book even mentions Yoda's choice of Degobah was due to the abundance of diverse life forms, which would help mask his own force presence.

As far as Luke goes, who knows. Could boil down to trauma and guilt as much as anything else.