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I was just wondering what was the significance of seeing Yoda's cloak falling after the fight with Sidious?
Did it mean anything?
I mean Yoda falls to the bottom, Sidious is hanging up top and then they switch to showing Yoda's cloak falling and landing on a metal post.
What are your thoughts?

Exactly what you see on the screen, yoda is the one who fails, so i think his cloak hanging on the metal post is a ''thought-up'' sign that yoda was defeated.

Dont know if this is true, but thats how i view it.

because yoda lost

It adds a nice moment-of-calm dynamic after the duel madness and I think it also suggests that its floated down to within Yodas distance of reach as we see him wearing it later... (Although not as he crawls through the shaft, strangely...)

actually, i think he wears a new one on the Tantive IV, with two brown stripes going down it - correct me if im wrong

The official significance? Prolly none.
Mine? The last fall of the old order of jedi, at least, for now

Are you guys kidding? The significance of Yoda's cloak falling was to show why he had a cloak in the prequels and why he didnt have a cloak on the Originals. Its only common sense.

if that be the case, then what happens to it between the end of 3 (Where he is wearing it) and ep5...?
All the common sense in the world can't possibly make you blind to the fact that thats no explaination for the cloaklessness in 5....

Yep Stun... I think it was an Adidas.... lol

Probably GL wanted to explain why he didnt have cloak on EP5, then he forgot and put Yoda a cloak on TantiveIV.

GL wanted to tie stupid things between prequels (so he will say "HEY FANS IM TYING THIS UP!!!) , like the cloak, like the burnings on ObiWan's cloak, the hair style, Palpatine's face...

It's a mistake(and not the only one)

Why would he have to not have a cloak in 5? Did you see the movie in 1980 and say OMG! That little green thing DOESN'T HAVE A CLOAK!

Seriously...

Exactly

True...Maybe he just had it in the wash that day....!
Or it was a little too warm in the swamp and he thought:
"Bugger it. I aint wearing THAT thing today..."

Originally posted by JKozzy
Why would he have to not have a cloak in 5? Did you see the movie in 1980 and say OMG! That little green thing DOESN'T HAVE A CLOAK!

Seriously...

Originally posted by darthmaul1
I was just wondering what was the significance of seeing Yoda's cloak falling after the fight with Sidious?
Did it mean anything?
I mean Yoda falls to the bottom, Sidious is hanging up top and then they switch to showing Yoda's cloak falling and landing on a metal post.
What are your thoughts?

I wondered the same thing, I assumed it was a Spielberg touch, since he did part of the scene...

I can NOT believe you guys are discussing a cloak.

Amazing... Are done discussing ROTS so soon?

What was the purpose of Sidious having long nails? He didnt in ROTJ...

*makes thread*

Yay!

I believe it was symbolic of the fact that the Jedi Order was finished, and Yoda's tenure as its lead master was over.

As to the missing cloak thing, is it so hard to believe that Yoda had a spare?

Yoda's falling cloack means: it is a sign of the Force that he failde the Jedi order and it was a sign to go in exile of the failure, as simple as that !

Yoda didn't take it with him, after the duel. He lost his cloak. He didn't have it on in the service tube, nor did he have it on in Bail's speeder.

Thats what I thought Cap, Just had to amend it in my mind to be otherwise since it seemed less logical that the Tantive4 would have any Jedi robes onboard, much less in his size....

Lets face it. Lucas screwed the pooch either way.

Yoda seems to have a cloak in ESB. There is no hood on it, but it is the same color and basic texture as the one he had in the PT. Perhaps he just got another one over the years. After all, he is supposed to look haggard and ancient because he has been hiding on Dagobah for so long. Just a thought.

Originally posted by darthmaul1
I was just wondering what was the significance of seeing Yoda's cloak falling after the fight with Sidious?
Did it mean anything?
I mean Yoda falls to the bottom, Sidious is hanging up top and then they switch to showing Yoda's cloak falling and landing on a metal post.
What are your thoughts?

There was no significance----just gravity at work.