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The Empire Strikes Back or Return of the Jedi?

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Re: The Empire vs The Ewoks

Postby Sling » Sun Aug 17, 2008 10:02 am

Exactly. How Maul lost to Obi-Wan Kenobi after already having beaten Qui-Gon Jinn is beyond me. Fair enough he could have been knackered, but due to his intensive training this is unlikely. The only 2 options are a)Obi-Wan caught him by surprise or b)Obi Wan was so angered/determined becuase of the loss of Qui-Gon that the suden rush of emotion led him to win. As he was supposed to be a Jedi we must discount b) as they are trained from an early age not to let emotions rule them etc. If b) was the case he just broke the fundamental principal of being a Jedi, which is the same principal Anakin Skywalker broke. This leaves, a)Obi-Wan catching Maul by surprise which is still pretty unlikely. All in all they could have made the battle better and more realistic.
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Re: The Empire vs The Ewoks

Postby Forerunner » Tue Aug 19, 2008 7:55 am

Oh yeah, I vote Jedi. I've never deconstructed them to find why, it's just the Star Wars movie I enjoyed the most.


Also, II was almost worth enduring through just for the Yoda/Dooku lightsabre battle.
Almost.
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Re: The Empire vs The Ewoks

Postby Angel_OA » Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:14 am

Sling wrote:b)Obi Wan was so angered/determined becuase of the loss of Qui-Gon that the suden rush of emotion led him to win. As he was supposed to be a Jedi we must discount

The only reason Luke beat Vader was because he lost his mind. Jedi's can use the Dark Side to their advantage as long as it doesn't overpower them.
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Re: The Empire vs The Ewoks

Postby Forerunner » Fri Aug 22, 2008 10:07 pm

Angel_OA wrote:Like Mace Windu, I've forgotton what it's called but he had both Light and Dark force powers.

I've never heard that, but I have read that the lightsabre style Mace Windu uses is extremely aggressive and allows him to channel his 'darker' emotions into it, with the risk that he could lose control and be tempted to turn to the dark side. However uses it to his advantage because (apparently) naturally he's a pretty angry guy for a jedi, and by channeling those darker emotions, he was controlling them, therefore suppressing the risk he'd go all black cloak and force lightning on everyone.
It's the same lightsabre style the Emperor uses.
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Re: The Empire vs The Ewoks

Postby Sling » Sun Aug 24, 2008 1:39 pm

Angel_OA wrote:The only reason Luke beat Vader was because he lost his mind. Jedi's can use the Dark Side to their advantage as long as it doesn't overpower them.
Like Mace Windu, I've forgotton what it's called but he had both Light and Dark force powers.

I was talking about the battle between Obi Wan Kenobi and Darth Maul.
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Re: The Empire vs The Ewoks

Postby [Gaius] » Mon Aug 25, 2008 7:00 am

I'm going to have to go with Jedi. Although they got owned in II.
(And their plunge skill/Damage threshold is through the roof.)
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Re: The Empire vs The Ewoks

Postby Angel_OA » Mon Aug 25, 2008 6:03 pm

Sling wrote:I was talking about the battle between Obi Wan Kenobi and Darth Maul.

Yes Sling, you were, well done.
I was also agreeing with you.
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Re: The Empire vs The Ewoks

Postby Sling » Tue Aug 26, 2008 6:41 am

I can see that now, but how was I supposed to know you were making a parallel? You failed to mention the Darth Maul/Obi Wan fight at all.
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Re: The Empire vs The Ewoks

Postby iamtheverb » Tue Jan 20, 2009 9:56 pm

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Re: The Empire vs The Ewoks

Postby tridon777 » Wed Jan 21, 2009 6:54 pm

Empire just because thats what I grew up with.
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