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Some major Star Wars characters returning might have created a massive plot hole with Yoda in the latest episode of The Book of Boba Fett.
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Episode 6 of Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett, “Chapter 6: From the Desert Comes a Stranger,” streaming now on Disney+.
Star Wars fans were excited to see Luke Skywalker return in the latest episode of The Book of Boba Fett, getting insight into his career as a budding teacher in the wake of Return of the Jedi. He was found educating Baby Yoda/Grogu on the ways of the Force while he began constructing his new temple on his mysterious forest planet. However, when Luke presented Grogu with a heartwarming gift, the Jedi Master may have also created a massive plot hole regarding his mentor Yoda.
When Luke sat Grogu down at the end of the episode, he presented him with two tokens and a choice. The first was Din Djarin’s gift of armor and the second was Master Yoda’s lightsaber. Luke told him that if he took Din’s gift, he’d have to follow the bounty hunter as a Mandalorian foundling, but if he took the lightsaber he’d follow the path of Luke’s mentor and pastry expert Yoda and learn about being a Jedi as a Padawan.
The problem occurs because Yoda’s lightsaber shouldn’t be in this timeline — since it was supposedly destroyed. After Revenge of the Sith, he lost the weapon when fighting Emperor Palpatine among the Senate pods. The Darth Vader comics in 2017 revealed that Grand Vizier Mas Amedda destroyed the blade on Coruscant to show the public the Empire was the new way forward and that all the ills associated with the corrupt Jedi had to be burned.
The act was not only a PR campaign for the citizens and a show of intimidation, but a lesson for Vader, because Palpatine taught him that bleeding the kyber crystals is what helps create a Sith’s red blade. Thus it’s confusing to see the same weapon being offered up to Grogu decades later. It seemed to be the same blade, because when Luke lit the lightsaber it shone green, which created a conflict with what the books told.
The Book of Boba Fett isn’t the first time this plot hole has been brought up either. In the 2016 book Star Wars: Complete Locations, Yoda’s hut had a small box containing his lightsaber, encouraging fans to ask comics writer Charles Soule about the discrepancy. He responded on Twitter that Yoda probably built another lightsaber and kept it in his hut on Dagobah, or that Palpatine might have offered up a fake to fool the public and scare Vader.
Now that inconsistency is rearing its head once more, leaving fans hoping for a definitive answer about what happened to the blade from the Senate fight and if Luke did indeed own a copy. But even moreso than that, viewers are more excited to learn if Grogu ultimately chose the Jedi tool over Din’s gift.
The first six episodes of The Book of Boba Fett are streaming now on Disney+. The Season 1 finale airs Wednesday, Feb. 9.
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