10 Star Wars Moments That Are Incredibly Stupid

7. Obi-Wan Taking The Guy€™s Arm Off In Mos Eisley - A New Hope

mos eisley hand Look, I€™m not saying this isn€™t a great moment. It€™s iconic, amazing, brilliant. It wonderfully establishes Obi-Wan and the relationship between him and Luke. But it€™s unspeakably stupid. Obi-Wan is one of the last remnants of an order that was ground to dust, publicly demonized. He has a price on his head that any of these scum and villains would covet. He€™s been living alone in the desert for two decades hiding from the Empire, trying to keep Vader from finding out where Luke is. And ten minutes after discovering that Stormtroopers are interrogating everyone coming and going from Mos Eisley, he waves his lightsaber around a public place. The iconic weapon of a Jedi, and he€™s using it when he could just, I don€™t know, grab someone€™s gun or something. Anything but use a lightsaber.
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Rebecca Kulik lives in Iowa, reads an obsence amount, watches way too much television, and occasionally studies for her BA in History. Come by her personal pop culture blog at tyrannyofthepetticoat.wordpress.com and her reading blog at journalofimaginarypeople.wordpress.com.