#most people are usually biased towards anakin when they complain about yoda's advice

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#it's ridiculous to complain about yoda's advice when anakin didn't say the truth about his situation#it's like therapy. if you aren’t honest with your therapist then they can’t really help you#most people are usually biased towards anakin when they complain about yoda's advice#and ignore that the guy can’t help someone that can’t even be honest about what they’re going through#and then comes the question: if he was really so fearful for padmé's fate then why couldn’t he be entirely honest about his fears?#what held him back from just putting all the cards on the table (his status as jedi be damned)?#the answer to that requires you to admit that maybe anakin wasn't as genuine in his desire to save padmé#that maybe her life wasn't above his own desires. that he wanted to have his cake and eat it too#yoda#george lucas#star wars#jedi order

"Guess the intended narrative!"

Real quick! Let's play a game 😃!

Here are some George Lucas quotes, for context!

Read them? Great 💪

POP QUIZ:

In this scene:

HOW DOES THE NARRATIVE FRAME YODA'S ADVICE?

Answer #1: "Yoda's advice is on point."

The narrative sides with Yoda, who - with what little context he has - gives Anakin objectively wise advice which Anakin just isn't in the right headspace to heed (and doing so, Yoda thus delivers George's message that the cycle of life and death is inevitable and you must cherish what you have and learn to let go, because nothing lasts forever and change is inevitable).

Answer #2: "Yoda’s advice is cold and useless."

"Yoda’s reply is useless for a terrified husband and father-to-be. [...] Anakin hears this cold advice in misery." - Jason Fry, Star Wars Insider #130, 2012 "A Jedi with that much empathy [Anakin] is also a threat to Yoda’s school of thought, even if they don’t completely turn to the dark side. Because empathy makes you worry about everything. And after seeing things the same way for centuries, Yoda doesn't want to be questioned like that! He is very good at the philosophical theory of compassion, but he is bad at its practical application on human beings. Like many people in the real world who talk a lot about decency or morality, without ever applying anything." - Karen Traviss, Lucasfilm Magazine #74, 2008

I know which answer I'd put my money on: the less convoluted one.

Y'know, like the one you'd find in a kids' movie.

Note: a scene can have multiple interpretations, yes.

But there is a big difference between headcanon and narrative intent. You, as an audience member, might see Yoda as cold... that doesn't mean the story itself agrees with you, and that we're meant to see him as cold.

And for Answer #2 to be correct, we would have to assume that the same guy who stated the above-listed four quotes would decide to frame the mouthpiece character presenting those very philosophies as cold and callous. In a movie for kids. Make it make sense.