In The Empire Strikes Back, Yoda unequivocally told Luke that the young Jedi didn’t need his weapons when entering a spooky Force cave. Notably, Yoda lumped Luke’s blaster and lightsaber into the same category: weapons unnecessary to those with a certain mastery of the Force. Yoda then demonstrated to Luke just how powerful he was by effortlessly lifting Luke’s X-wing out of the Dagobah swamp, to which Luke said, “I don’t believe it.” Now, 43 years later, what’s unbelievable is that Star Wars would ever let us have a Jedi who doesn’t wield weapons of any kind.
