Two things I noticed from watching The Empire Strikes Back last night. I'll address them separately, so as not to confuse myself. First up, Yoda's attitude. You'd think, after daring to infiltrate an obviously-Imperial Coruscant with Obi-Wan to simply recalibrate the Jedi recall signal in an effort to save as many Jedi as possible in Episode III, Yoda would have been a bit more ... eager? ready? ... to being Luke's training after the Battle of Hoth. Yoda admits that he's been watching Luke's development all along, so he had to know that Obi-Wan was dead and wasn't training Luke - obviously the Jedi's best chance dfor redemption. But, jeez, come on, the little green guy comes up with every excuse in the book to delay or ignore Luke's training. "He's too old." "He's too reckless." "There's too much anger in him." (And by the way, what's the Obi-Wan comment about being an angry and reckless youth all about? He seemed like such a nice young boy...) Although Yoda gives in way too easily, he still makes a fuss about it. Is this all an act, to put Luke off and see if there's any real dedication in the young man? Or has Yoda spent way too much time in the dismal swamp of Dagobah? My guess is that Yoda saw something of the "Dooku/Qui-Gon" effect in Luke. Think about it... Dooku trained Qui-Gon, Qui-Gon trained Obi-Wan, Obi-Wan trained Anakin, then Obi-Wan mentored Luke. Lots of recklessness and independent thought in that group. Seems like it was something akin to fate that this chain also started with Yoda's training of Dooku...not to mention the further training of all of them. Yoda admits - at least in some of the EU sources - that he was at fault for not advancing the mentality and position of the Jedi Council with respect to the state of the galaxy and the possible development of the Sith. He admits that he was too reluctant to change, and based his training regimen on the Jedi Order of nearly a thousand years earlier. Maybe he's worried that he's not ready, regardless of Luke's abilities. The world may never know....