Maybe Maul had the flu or something.matrixman wrote:Good point, Malik. It also always bothered me a little that all Darth Maul did was to stand there frozen while Obi-Wan had time to leap up and summon the lightsaber to his hand. I guess the intent was to show how fast Obi-Wan moved and how surprised Maul was, but the way it looks on screen, it just makes Maul look stupid. What happened to those lightning Jedi/Sith reflexes?
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Right!Fist and Faith wrote:I chalk it up to yet another instance of overconfidence. Always does the bad guys in.
Maul, to himself: While I have this hated Jedi hanging by his fingertips into what appears to be a bottomless pit, instead of killing him right away by using Force-push, I'll just toy with him by swinging my light saber back and forth, causing sparks to fleck off into his eyes.
More like, "Man, I wish I hadn't have drank all that cough syrup this morning".
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Having been rewatching the entire saga lately, I've come to a few conclusions about the prequels, and what they were missing:
First off, the Han Solo type of character. The character that's in it for himself; he's not a Jedi, he doesn't have any high ideals. He just wants to get paid and go home. I can't think of any major characters in the Prequels like that. They're all Jedi, Sith, or on one definite side or the other. It's too cut and dry; us or them in the prequels. Han added a nice little spice - he's definitely a good guy, but he has his own motives.
Second: The comic relief in the original trilogy (Or A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back, at least... I haven't gotten to RotJ yet) is effective, but it doesn't dominate. Mainly it's just R2 and Threepio picking on eachother, but it's fairly clever and not... painful to watch, unlike Threepio's antics in Episode 2, or the big, bad battle droids turning into bumbling buffoons in Episode 3.
Third: The original trilogy's love story was far superior... Mainly I'm talking about it as compared to Attack of the Clones, here. In Attack of the Clones, it was just disturbing. I couldn't refrain from shouting "Creeper!" at Anakin every time he tried to put the moves on Padme. The whole "I've thought about you every day..." thing is especially creepy. He was 9 years old. She's gotta be at least double that. Right? Either way she's nearing her 30s in Episode 2 while Anakin is still in his late teens. And so she rejects him. Until all of a sudden she's declaring her undying love. I missed the part where he stopped being creepy.
For comparison, you can watch Empire Strikes Back, and you can somewhat trace the growth of Han and Leia's relationship. In their various encounters, you can slowly see them warming up. Sure, you don't watch the whole process, but that's because it's not the main plot point.
There's more, but you've probably stopped caring by now.
First off, the Han Solo type of character. The character that's in it for himself; he's not a Jedi, he doesn't have any high ideals. He just wants to get paid and go home. I can't think of any major characters in the Prequels like that. They're all Jedi, Sith, or on one definite side or the other. It's too cut and dry; us or them in the prequels. Han added a nice little spice - he's definitely a good guy, but he has his own motives.
Second: The comic relief in the original trilogy (Or A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back, at least... I haven't gotten to RotJ yet) is effective, but it doesn't dominate. Mainly it's just R2 and Threepio picking on eachother, but it's fairly clever and not... painful to watch, unlike Threepio's antics in Episode 2, or the big, bad battle droids turning into bumbling buffoons in Episode 3.
Third: The original trilogy's love story was far superior... Mainly I'm talking about it as compared to Attack of the Clones, here. In Attack of the Clones, it was just disturbing. I couldn't refrain from shouting "Creeper!" at Anakin every time he tried to put the moves on Padme. The whole "I've thought about you every day..." thing is especially creepy. He was 9 years old. She's gotta be at least double that. Right? Either way she's nearing her 30s in Episode 2 while Anakin is still in his late teens. And so she rejects him. Until all of a sudden she's declaring her undying love. I missed the part where he stopped being creepy.
For comparison, you can watch Empire Strikes Back, and you can somewhat trace the growth of Han and Leia's relationship. In their various encounters, you can slowly see them warming up. Sure, you don't watch the whole process, but that's because it's not the main plot point.
There's more, but you've probably stopped caring by now.