[Telepathic Intruder]

I'm used to Star Wars plots not making sense. In The Empire Strikes Back, Yoda warns Luke not to confront Vader until he has finished his training. That he must be a fully trained Jedi first. But Luke ignores him and goes off to confront Vader, only to get his hand cut off and nothing else.

In the next movie, Luke (after rescuing Han) goes straight back to Yoda to complete his training. But Yoda says "You don't need any more training". Luke says "So I am a Jedi". And Yoda says "No, you must first confront Vader".

Excuse me, Yoda? Didn't you say I had to complete my training first? Look, I've got no right hand now. Now you want me to go back again? What kind of a Jedi master are you anyway?

[Yardstick]

Maybe Yoda was kind of winging it.

There’s also this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9t-slLl30E

[cuban leaf]

Yep. This sort of thing is very common in science fiction.

The author of this article says that Palpatine came back without any explanation, yet he cast Ben into a pit saying he was doing to Ben the same thing that was done to him. And like him, Ben was not killed, but came back. We don’t need to know every single little detail that allowed someone to escape certain peril in a movie if their character no longer matters in that particular movie.

IOW, regarding the article, “Me thinks the woman doth protest too much.”

I’m no fan of a lot of the Star Wars movies, but this one hit a home run. Even Rey taking on the Skywalker name at the end brought tears to my eyes - and I saw it coming a mile away.

I’ve not “cared about” a character in a star wars movie for a very long time. I forgot what it was like.