Powerful force users acting weak?

[Kithe]

I been watching star wars movies and series while waiting for my early access invitation. While doing so I have noticed that powerful force users as Obi-Wan can lift heavy rocks with ease, but has to really focus to retrieve his dropped lightsaber.

Does anyone know or have a entertaining idea about this? You would think if he could move around 1-200kg rocks a 1-2kg lightsaber would be childsplay...

[DeathMagician]

Tbh it requires the same amount of focus, "size matters not" and all.

[triojdna]

WELL SAID

 

 

[Oonkeh_]

The force has a physical exhertion on a persons body in Star Wars So it would depend on whether or not they're fatigued from battle, age etc.

 

There's also that Jedi humble themselves and practice restraint. They're pretty much taught that although they have the advantage of the force, it makes them no different from everyone else (so you can assume they'd rather pick something up with their own hands and such).

 

In someone like Sidious's case... he'd only ever feign weakness to achieve a darker ultimatum.

Edited December 14, 2011 by Oonkeh_

[Kithe]

Some form of quantum mechanics perhaps? Well if that is the case, how come they always look more focused on the smaller objects and seems to deal with the larger more relaxed? I guess it's mostly to make the scene more dramatic, just funny seeing how they seem to be able to move large objects around with ease and still need to look at and focus on something small and trivial as a lightsaber.

[Dreamsinger]

small objects require finer control, what is easier to grasp, a pencil or a baseball? baseball or a basket ball etc. etc. etc. weight isn't the factor only the perception of the item, and possibly the level of mental calm and fatigue.

[EvanVedder]

It aint real it's a movie

[AxisHalcyon]

While someone may grab a rock and fling it at an enemy you might want to be a little more precise when drawing something into your hand. If I just yank at it and it blasts off my hand because I pulled too hard it's a problem.

[Illwill-]

While someone may grab a rock and fling it at an enemy you might want to be a little more precise when drawing something into your hand. If I just yank at it and it blasts off my hand because I pulled too hard it's a problem.

 

Yanking too hard and pulling off is bad.

[Teksun]

it aint real it's a movie

 

blasphemy!!! Lol

[Smashbrother]

Same reason why no force user ever thinks to crush their opponent's lightsaber. It's a movie.

[DarthPlecko]

Hahaha

[DellaFoh]

Yoda, one of the great force users, had to withdraw from his duel with Count Dooku in order to save Obi-wan and Anakin from a large falling pillar. I'm not saying your observation is completely invalid, just stating an instance from the other end of the spectrum.

 

Maybe it's a matter of having an exhausted focus meter? /shrug

Edited December 15, 2011 by DellaFoh

[DellaFoh]

On another note, I liked how Yoda and Sidious spin the Senate Pods before hurling them at one another, as anyone who knows about physics will tell you, a rotating object carries more momentum.

[Terraphon]

In the scene you are most likely talking about, the fight with Darth Maul, the saber was also out of his line of sight...and he was hanging on for dear life...and he was preparing to force chin-up his way out of that hole.

 

I'd think that would take quite a lot of focus.

Edited December 15, 2011 by Terraphon

[PsychoSphynx]

think of it this way, at a distance of 20ft, it is easier to shoot a moose than a cat

[FalmeseReb]

On another note, I liked how Yoda and Sidious spin the Senate Pods before hurling them at one another, as anyone who knows about physics will tell you, a rotating object carries more momentum.

 

the spin is so the pod keeps a straight trajectory.... like a Frisbee.

[Xytek]

dude.. 1) its a movie.. and 2) its like the Superman movies/cartoons/comics

 

Superman can push a freakin planet, but have hard time lifting a car or a building...

 

Although, ( for the uber superman fan boi), you can say it all depends on his relative absorption of sunlight.. but come on.... O_O

[triojdna]

Maybe the little midi-chlorians inside him weren't working together, possibly arguing. Those organisms are unpredictable. Or maybe the are like constipation? Edited December 16, 2011 by triojdna

[Rhyltran]

Same reason why no force user ever thinks to crush their opponent's lightsaber. It's a movie.

 

No. It's explained in the EU. Every force user is constantly holding a barrier around themselves to block against force attacks. It's why hardly anyone is killed directly. To make a direct attack on a jedi/sith. You have to break their concentration momentarily or brute force your way through their defenses. This is why between two jedi every now and then one might get a push off or a choke or in some extreme cases overpower them completely.

 

Finally most of the time you see them struggling to pull a lightsaber is after a battle against another force sensitive. In which case they're already being worn out from the fight and using their force powers.

Edited December 16, 2011 by Rhyltran

[Jarraxus]

it's funny watching you ppl trying to find a logical explanation to a fact which has it's source in the movie's dramatic effect

[Rhyltran]

it's funny watching you ppl trying to find a logical explanation to a fact which has it's source in the movie's dramatic effect

 

The logical explanation has been stated in various novels. It may have originally be used for "Dramatic effect" but the title is a question so people are trying to address it with a lore appropriate answer.

[Xerolyfe]

if i just yank at it and it blasts off my hand because i pulled too hard it's a problem.

 

Too funny.

Edited December 19, 2011 by Xerolyfe

[GhostRiderLSOV]

Fatigue could indeed be a factor. (along with drama )

 

Luke didn't have a problem getting his lightsaber with the Force to attack Palpatine in an instant.