# I seem to have a singular opinion on ATOC (spoiler)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-seem-to-have-a-singular-opinion-on-atoc-spoiler/110083>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 21, 2002, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-seem-to-have-a-singular-opinion-on-atoc-spoiler/110083 "2002-05-21T13:35:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-seem-to-have-a-singular-opinion-on-atoc-spoiler/110083/21 "2002-05-22T13:37:26Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Mr. Green Fool \*  
> \*\*Open yourself up the FORCE you fuckers!  
> You didn’t like it because you didn’t WANT to like it. \*\*

Oh I wanted to like it. And I don’t appreciate being called a ‘fucker’ for having a different opinion than you. This is not the pit.

So Yoda is 800+ years old. What ever race Yoda is may live to be 1600 years old and he may just be middle aged. I’m pretty sure the average life span of the little green dude race had never been mentioned in any film. Yes I’ll grant that he was in a fight for his life. But it does seem strange to me that _right after_ Obi-Wan gives a big lecture on what to do, while he is in a big fight and under fire, that Yoda comes to a completly different decision.

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**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-seem-to-have-a-singular-opinion-on-atoc-spoiler/110083/22 "2002-05-22T17:57:19Z")

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hey, how’d you get my opinion?  
😛

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-seem-to-have-a-singular-opinion-on-atoc-spoiler/110083/23 "2002-05-22T21:24:02Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Jack Batty \*
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> I was beginning to think Yoda was a pussy.

How could you think that when he looks so much like a scrotum?

Were you paying attention during that “birds and bees” speech? Your father didn’t just do that for his benefit, let me tell you!

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**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-seem-to-have-a-singular-opinion-on-atoc-spoiler/110083/24 "2002-05-22T23:32:25Z")

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> So Yoda is 800+ years old. What ever race Yoda is may live to be 1600 years old and he may just be middle aged. I’m pretty sure the average life span of the little green dude race had never been mentioned in any film.

I think it was made pretty obvious in ROTJ that 900 years old was… well… old.

Using your logic, we can also think that his race’s average lifespan is five months.

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> But it does seem strange to me that right after Obi-Wan gives a big lecture on what to do, while he is in a big fight and under fire, that Yoda comes to a completly different decision.

Last I checked, Obi-wan and Yoda are not the same person. This is hardly a decent criticism for them to have different opinions on an issue.

Besides, part of Obi-wan’s decision may have been influenced by his desire to keep Anakin in check.

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