Deflecting lightning: lightsaber vs. tutanimus vs. barrier

DarthAnt66 wrote:Well, Yoda did hold back Palpatine's power, he just slid backward and fell off the pod doing it. If you block a punch but still fall over due to the force, you still blocked it.

The junior novel states the lightning "knocked Yoda out of the pod," and the comic depicts him flying back much further than if he had simply slid off the edge. But this is getting into semantics at this point.