JE>In certain books and even in the movies, Luke could have gotten himself
JE>out of a great many problems by just levitateing, why didn't he?
     Two answers: 1) It would shorten the story.
                  2) Too easy.
     Well, actually, the real reason would be that using ALL of your
   talents in battle takes a certain amount of practice (that's why you
   see martial arts students doing "kataas", a series of attacks and
   defenses, to practice/program the flow of moves). As Luke hasn't had
   all that much practice fighting, it may just not have occurred to him
   to do so. And he needs a Master to push him to "practice his
   weaknesses", something missing often.
JE>And if Jedi can levitate rocks and droids, then why didn't Palpatine use
JE>some kind of levitation to save him self when he was falling to his
JE>death?
     Can we say *SHOCK*? To have this awesomely powerful SLAVE who has
   been kissing his whatever for years precipitously jump up and throw
   him in a hole while he's throwing around the powers of the universe?
   I would be taken somwhat aback myself. =}
JE>I hope you guys can answer that one.
JE>OH and, one other thing, in ROTJ, in the seen on the 2nd death star when
JE>Luke grabs his light saber and trys to kill Palpatine, Why didn't he
JE>just use the force and flip the saber on, and turn it a little to cut
JE>him in half? That would have been alot easier then turning around,
JE>grabbing the thing with the force, turning it on, and then attacking.
JE>Alot quicker to.
     Luke is still, at this point, a manual kinda guy and he was working
   from rage AND Palpatine had his full attention on Luke. If Luke HAD
   sent the light sabre to do it, it would have been a simple task for
   the Emperor to turn the digus to slice/dice Luke.
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