5. Luke Ignores Pretty Much Everything That Yoda Says - The Empire Strikes Back
Admittedly, the Yoda that Luke meets in Empire is a far cry from the one seen in the prequel trilogy. Where before he was a wizard with a saber and quite coherent (apart from the bizarre mixing up of words, naturally), the Yoda who lives in the swamplands of Dagobah is quite honestly as mad as a box of a frog and would give Batman's The Riddler a run for his money with all his cryptic nonsense. Even so, Yoda is one of the greatest Jedi masters of all time, and Luke basically decides to ignore absolutely everything Yoda tells him during his training. The main offences here by Luke are not discarding his weapons to enter the evil Force cave of doom and blatantly rushing off to rescue his friends from Cloud City, despite not being ready at all to face Vader. If only you actually listened to the crazy swamp hermit Luke - you might have actually finished your training properly, beat Vader a bit later on, not lost your hand, not had to fall down a really big hole and cling to a antenna before conveniently being rescued by the rest of your chums who basically escaped entirely without your help. Listen to Yoda, you must.
4. Jabba The Hutt Refuses To Make A Deal - Return Of The Jedi
Honestly, Jabba the Hutt hasn't done too badly for himself. Although he is, at best, a useless pile of slug gunge, he's somehow managed to become a criminal mastermind and has his own palace and slaves and stuff. Well done him. Unfortunately, his decisions show him as more of a blundering fool than a true mastermind. Not only does Jabba decide to imprison Han Solo in carbonite and keep him as a wall ornament, but he also then pinches Leia as well and has her in a gold bikini for reasons that aren't quite apparent. This then prompts the might of the Jedi to come down upon Jabba's palace, with the newly-trained Luke hot on his heels. After arriving, Luke tries to make a deal with Mr Hutt, only to have it declined twice. What follows is rather spectacular - within minutes, Jabba has lost Leia, Han Solo is unfrozen and practically everybody - including the bounty hunter Boba Fett and a giant Rancor pet - are all dead, beat up or missing limbs.
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.
