Quote Originally Posted by Saintheart View Post
(That said, it does occur to me now exactly how much of a Rube Goldberg the plan was, since leaving aside that Luke had to accurately predict he, Chewie, and Han would be taken out of the Palace to be thrown into the Pit of Carkoon, it couldn't have succeeded unless R2 was providentially assigned as the drinks server on the Sail Barge.)
To quote Master Oogway, 'there are no accidents.'

Alternate phrasing, 'something, something, Will of the Force.'

Quote Originally Posted by Mechalich View Post
Stories about the Jedi are stories about elite characters taking on problems of elite scale that operate at an elite level. Stories about the best Jedi, like the members of the Jedi Council or most Force-using video game protagonists, do indeed go up a level and involve BDHs (Galen Marek pulling a Star Destroyer out of orbit is still dumb, even in the context of the rest of that game).
I think the whole pulling a ship out of orbit thing was a bit over the top as it was presented, but it could fit in with the broader themes of the Force in a better written narrative.

There's a thread that runs through Star Wars that the Force can do almost anything if you have the ability to conceive of doing it. The main hurdle to Luke lifting his X-wing or Savage lifting obelisks is psychological, they don't think it's possible so it isn't. The idea that a Sith could be so arrogant that they fully believe they can pull a ship from orbit or a Jedi being so detached that they can conceive of the problem as no more significant than lifting a pebble isn't all that out there among the feats of Force Wielders in the EU.

It's a rather flashy use of the Force, but stuff like the 'battle meditation across the whole imperial navy' thing attributed to Palpatine is probably more conceptually out there. Or Nihilus eating the life force of worlds.