It was a thing of the time. In the 80s and 90s and likely long before that too, it was quite a big thing in media and society that emotions were bad and logic was good. Think Spock or Data. A computer was seen as perfectly logical, impartial, incorruptible, because it didn’t have illogical emotions.
You can see this kind of reasoning today too with e.g. Albania instituting an LLM as a government minister, because it would be incorruptible, thus stop corruption. (Guess what was used to facilitate massive amounts of corruption.)
Lucas followed that line of thinking in the original trilogy. Yoda is logical, not emotional. He is a Spock-type figure. Very intelligent, almost all-knowing. He warns Luke not to follow his heart, but instead to follow logic, and he’s right. Following his heart is a mistake that cost Luke his hand and his friends almost their lives. His character development is that he learns to follow logic.
When the prequels were made, Lucas wasn’t the young guy high on Star Trek ideology anymore. He learned that emotion was important and pure logic wasn’t the right thing. But he also wasn’t free of that logic either, so we got the prequels, where both following logic without any emotion was bad, but emotion without logic and restraint too.
It was a thing of the time. In the 80s and 90s and likely long before that too, it was quite a big thing in media and society that emotions were bad and logic was good. Think Spock or Data. A computer was seen as perfectly logical, impartial, incorruptible, because it didn’t have illogical emotions.
You can see this kind of reasoning today too with e.g. Albania instituting an LLM as a government minister, because it would be incorruptible, thus stop corruption. (Guess what was used to facilitate massive amounts of corruption.)
Lucas followed that line of thinking in the original trilogy. Yoda is logical, not emotional. He is a Spock-type figure. Very intelligent, almost all-knowing. He warns Luke not to follow his heart, but instead to follow logic, and he’s right. Following his heart is a mistake that cost Luke his hand and his friends almost their lives. His character development is that he learns to follow logic.
When the prequels were made, Lucas wasn’t the young guy high on Star Trek ideology anymore. He learned that emotion was important and pure logic wasn’t the right thing. But he also wasn’t free of that logic either, so we got the prequels, where both following logic without any emotion was bad, but emotion without logic and restraint too.