11. Yoda Just Gives Up On Fighting Sidious - Revenge Of The Sith
After a visually spectacular fight with loads of crazy leaping around, lightsabers twirling through the air with reckless abandon, a bunch of unnecessary snarling and a bit of council-chamber pod flingage with the power of the force, Yoda decides to just totally give up trying to fight the newly revealed Darth Sidious and decides instead to turn in early. He falls to the ground of the chamber and simply slinks away for a life of exile in a swamp. This is despite, for the most part, matching Sidious move-for-move and clearly being able to win the fight. Given Yoda's position as perhaps the wisest and most awesome of all the Jedi on the council, his sudden decision to just slink away without warning is one of the most idiotic moments in the entire franchise. A Jedi shouldn't give up - he should be right back out there, giving that evil Sith Lord what-for! This decision would lead to Sidious being left to have complete control over the galaxy and brought forth many years of despair for millions of people. Well done Yoda - when faced with an enemy, it's always best to just nick off and hope it'll all go away.
10. Anakin Ignores Obi-Wan's High Ground Advice - Revenge Of The Sith
After a ridiculously massive lightsaber fight complete with super-duper twirly moves, erupting volcanoes, droid-riding and a great deal of anger, Obi-Wan and Anakin come to a bit of a stand-off where Obi does a massive force-powered leap up to the top of a hill, leaving Anakin to look all cindered and miffed on a robot in the lava lake. At this point, Obi Wan does his best to assert his victory by proclaiming that he has the high ground. Anakin, declaring that his former master underestimates his power, then decides to leap up the hill and promptly has several of his limbs removed by Kenobi. If that's not bad enough, Anakin then falls down the hill and manages to set himself on fire by partially falling into the lava lake. This in turn leads to severe respiratory problems, being modified extensively with robotic parts and leads to Anakin becoming a slave to Palpatine's bidding for basically the next decade. If that's not a daft decision, we don't know what is.
Dan Curtis is approximately one-half videogame knowledge, and the other half inexplicable Geordie accent. He's also one quarter of the Factory Sealed Retro Gaming podcast.
