That the retrospective you mention seems to criticize The Empire Strikes Back at all does get my attention a little (being heartily tired myself of seeing it held over the rest of the saga), but I wouldn't agree with the specific criticism either. It does have me somewhere between contemplating and worrying about "the decay of contemporary attention spans," though...
(I have to admit, however, to watching the movie last year and having the sudden, shocking thought "Yoda doesn't look quite right in some of these scenes... is it the way the puppet's being held?" Again, the way "on-set material" gets fetishized these days can get to me, but it doesn't explain the thought.)
It is interesting to interpret this scene in light of the TPM scene you mentioned (for all that some people probably formed impressions of how old Obi-Wan was when Yoda trained him that tripped them up later), but I can be a bit ambiguous about making too much of "reluctance to train him" given the situation, for all that "another" will be mentioned later... even if that might have something to do with suspicions this has been used by others to try and justify developments in the Disney Space Movies, something that really doesn't seem healthy for me to dwell on.
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Date: 2020-05-02 01:03 am (UTC)(I have to admit, however, to watching the movie last year and having the sudden, shocking thought "Yoda doesn't look quite right in some of these scenes... is it the way the puppet's being held?" Again, the way "on-set material" gets fetishized these days can get to me, but it doesn't explain the thought.)
It is interesting to interpret this scene in light of the TPM scene you mentioned (for all that some people probably formed impressions of how old Obi-Wan was when Yoda trained him that tripped them up later), but I can be a bit ambiguous about making too much of "reluctance to train him" given the situation, for all that "another" will be mentioned later... even if that might have something to do with suspicions this has been used by others to try and justify developments in the Disney Space Movies, something that really doesn't seem healthy for me to dwell on.