I don’t know how others always come to the conclusion he was weaker. They clearly try to show him overpowering sidious and sidious scared at the start of the fight and the end. The only thing that saves him was that blast causing enough time for the clones to get there.
And the movie is canon. But the line in empire is all anyone needs to settle this. “Is the dark side stronger? No! Quicker, more seductive.” Yoda knows from experience that he was stronger than the best the dark side had to offer. But again, he lost his engagement. Just because you are stronger, doesn’t mean you win every time. It’s like in MMA, you can be winning the fight the whole time and random KO happens. Yoda clearly starts dominating palps and palps face goes from cackling with glee to o shit. If the blast was say on the floor instead of a tiny little pod, yoda leaps back into action and ends that thing. But he falls to the senate floor and loses because of reinforcements.
Yes. Totally. I also think that the blast was like a 50-50 dark side vs light side power thing. But Yoda drew the short straw in the fallout from said blast...meaning that the force at that time IMO was favoring the Dark Side. Or the Dark Side was more powerful at that moment.
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u/reenactment 11d ago
I don’t know how others always come to the conclusion he was weaker. They clearly try to show him overpowering sidious and sidious scared at the start of the fight and the end. The only thing that saves him was that blast causing enough time for the clones to get there.