Crazy Yoda Theory

[avatarxprime]

Ok, I fully admit this is one heck of a crazy, out there theory, but what if Yoda accepted the fall of the Jedi and just planned to have it happen? I mean it's been discussed on this board that Yoda knew the "shroud of the darkside" was on them, the the Jedi were growing to complacent in their abilites and that there way was no longer working. We also know that some changes had been made in the Jedi between Ep II and Ep III. So I'm not saying that Yoda let the fall happen, he did try to stop Palpatine and all. However, seeing everything happening around him he could have started planning a way to use this great calamity to recreate the Jedi order, free of the old ways, and still stop the Sith. I doubt Palpatine would have kept the shroud of the darkside up after the events of ROTS. So just as Palpatine had this great all-encompassing plan for the Sith, why couldn't Yoda have formulated a similar plan for the Jedi upon seeing the tragedy that was happening around him?

[Spanky The Dolphin]

Yoda was clearly shocked when he felt the deaths of other Jedi occuring throughout the Galaxy, so it's pretty clear that he didn't previously perceive it to happen.

[18-Till-I-Die]

Just a tad off-topic but, does it seem like Yoda is surprisingly grounded and realistic for the overly idealistic Jedi. He seems to admit to himself things that others refuse to accept, and he was the only one who really understood the Shroud and it's effects, despite a few others feeling it.

I knwo Yoda is upposed to be wise, but i always imagined the Jedi of Jedis being more locked into their idealism than he was prtrayed in the films. Really, if you think about it, only one man saw this coming and that was Yoda.

I think the shock was, that he felt all those people he knew since childhood (training Younglings and whatnot) die all at once, and teh horror of knowing he could do jack to stop these people who he probably taught as children and padawans from being slaughtered. I imagine it must've been heart breaking for him.

[Noble Ire]

Just a tad off-topic but, does it seem like Yoda is surprisingly grounded and realistic for the overly idealistic Jedi. He seems to admit to himself things that others refuse to accept, and he was the only one who really understood the Shroud and it's effects, despite a few others feeling it.

I knwo Yoda is upposed to be wise, but i always imagined the Jedi of Jedis being more locked into their idealism than he was prtrayed in the films. Really, if you think about it, only one man saw this coming and that was Yoda.

Does this bother you? Yoda, being nearly 900, is bound to be more grounded than say Mace, or KI-Adi-Mundi. I think Yoda believed in the Order (and it is shown that many of his beliefs, like upholding aspects of the Code, were flawed), although he could see the problems with it, unlike younger, more idealistic Masters. He probably felt tied to upholding the Old Order, despite its flaws, because he really couldnt think of a better system (this considering that Yoda still believed that attachment was more of a path to the dark side than a savior from it.) Perhaps Yoda might have begun reforms if somehow Palpy had been stopped before the Purge, but its really hard to say whether or not his change of ideal was triggered by the eradication of his entire way of life, or it was just the catalyst to feelings he had had for a long time.

[avatarxprime]

Yoda clearly believes in the Jedi Order, but based on his comments in Ep II, he is not happy about the way that the Jedi are headed and thinks that changes must be made, but he has no time to really do anything. Then, with his comments in the Ep III novelization concerning the training of Luke and Leia, you see that he has come to a final conclusion about how to handle training, at least final for that point in time. Although it would be nice to know if he felt this way before the events of ROTS or after.