Tyler: If you were to pick one character from
Star Wars who would nudge you, you get to
elect them, you're the only vote ‑‑ even
Samantha doesn't get a vote, just Cass, not
your children ‑‑ which character would
you pick? Who would you trust with that nudge?
It's a universe full of Jedi here, right?
Cass: Yoda.
Tyler:  Yoda?
Cass: I trust that guy.
Tyler:  I worry about Yoda.
Cass:  I trust him.
Tyler:  It seems to me Yoda is always wrong.
Here's what someone online wrote about Yoda.
Let me just read.
Episode V and VI, I quote, "Basically every
single word of advice Yoda offers Luke is
dead wrong. In the end, Luke was right and
Yoda was wrong. There was still good in Anakin,
and the death of Palpatine came about because
Luke ignored his advice.
" Yoda was also wrong about what to do at
the end of Empire Strikes Back, Episode I.
Yoda refuses to believe that Mal was a Sith,
and he refuses to allow Anakin to become a
Padawan until it is confirmed there were Sith
about. Then, he totally changes his mind,
and he badly mishandles the crisis on Naboo.
"Episode II, Yoda not only takes the bait
and jumps into the trap of taking the clones
to rescue Anakin and Obi‑Wan, therefore
starting the events leading to the death of
all the Jedi and the start of the worst war
in millennia, dah, dah, dah." You sure you
want to pick Yoda?
Cass:  Yoda had it all figured out. It looks
like he made a lot of bad decisions, but he
knew "No pain, no gain," and it all works
out. Hooray Yoda.
Tyler: He doesn't tell Luke who his father
is. He could've said that.
Cass: Another way to put it, you're onto something
actually very deep about the movies, which
is that Yoda is nominally the wise person,
but he makes a fundamental error which is
he thinks that detachment is good and attachment
is bad. He's the kind of stoic or Buddhist
figure in the movie to which obviously the
saga is deeply drawn.
The Buddhist and stoic view is defeated in
the end. Attachment wins out. That's what
brings balance to the force, because Anakin
can't bear...he's called Anakin, by the way,
in the script for the first time after he
saves Luke by killing the emperor and being
in his death scene, then he's called Anakin,
again.
It's attachment. It's attachment that restores
him, so Yoda's deeply wrong. I was just thinking
about if the question is financial wisdom,
or food consumption, or exercise, I don't
want to ask Luke, or Leia, or Han. I can't
even understand what R2D2 is saying, and C3PO
is just going to get all anxious on me, so
Yoda is my guy.
Tyler: If you ask Luke, you're going to get
a weird, chaste kiss with your sister, right?
Cass:  It might be not that chaste, and I
love my sister. Let's change the subject.
