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In ESB when Luke is freezing, Obi Wan appears and tells Luke to go to see Yoda. He says something to the effect that Yoda was his master...What? Is there an explination here?

"Master Yoda taught me to be mindful of the future..."

Yoda was Obi-Wan's teacher before Qui-Gon.

As Yoda teaches all of the younglings, he would have had contact with Obi-Wan, and taught him much. Obi-Wan conveniently leaves out Qui-Gon because, well, Qui-Gon wasn't invented yet.

Alright, thanks...It was bothering me.

Also, how does Vader just block the shots that Han Solo fires at him in the cloud city?

Yoda was Obi-Wans Academy trainer, Qui-Gon was his Field Training Jedi. Watch the show 10-8 to get an idea of what I mean. As for Vader, his hand is fake which is why the blaster shots don't hurt him.

Then why when Luke and Vader are fighting later, he (Vader) cries out when Luke touches his arm with a saber?

No, that's not it. Vader is using a Jedi technique that was mastered by Corran Horn in the book I, Jedi. He actually absorbs the energy of the blaster bolts and uses that energy to power his telekinesis, sucking the blaster from Han's hand.

yeah, the hitting/absorbing thing is not that sure and all

What? I didn't understand that.

its a polite term for not canon. yerrsot's one of the official enforcers of it remember?
But it is, even without an "official" explanation, obvious that he's using the force. But, honestly, it could just be the armored suit. but i think its the force.

its not canon but yoda in AOTC absorbs Dooku's lightning and launches it back at him, and then at the end of their little lightning skirmish just before Dooku says "It is clear that this battle cannot be decided by our knowledge of the force but with our skills with a lightsaber.", Yoda absorbs all the lightning energy into his hand.
Vader must of done the same thing only with laser bolts.

oooh...Good point Dirty!

it's not canon?? dude, you can see the second time Dooku tries it that Yoda gets it in his little hand, closes it and it's all gone! that's absorbing

So there we have a canon example of force absorbtion power in action. Yet another EU idea successfully makes the crossover.

er ... no
I for example believe that Vader uses absorption when Han shoots at him in ESB, way before any EU was made

I don't think much about it being absorbtion or not....though it might...or he could have just let it smoke in his not so real palm

maybe he turned off pain receptors in it. but i still like the absorbtion idea. And Vengeance, y'know, a lot of the EU is based on things we've seen on film and notes and concepts (be it art dept. or lucas) so its really hard to judge what's straigt EU and what came from film sometimes.

Yeah, that's true. But I'm pretty sure the absorbtion concept was developed in I, Jedi. No way to know for sure without asking Lucas though...

not that it's a big big debate topic...just something interesting

if it hit him, it should at least have made a hole in his glove, no?

It's more likely that he used the force to absorb it because otherwise I would have thought it would have melted his artificial hand.

true. Absorbtion it is then. Horray.