Originally posted by: Tiptup

Oh, and I agree about the old-men-and-inexperienced-warriors comment by Lucas. That's bugged me for a long time now. He completely negated his own reasoning in episodes two and three.

All in all though, I did like the lightsaber duels in TPM all around. They were a bit too flashy, sure, but the feeling of intensity present within them was fantastic. The final duel in that movie made the Sith seem very threatening (too bad the scene where Obiwan sliced him in half seemed so cartoony). I believe Darth Maul was a pretty sweet villain despite not being explored as a substantial character (as he should have been).

I agree with both of those statements. The TPM Duel was the best part of the entire PT as far as I’m concerned despite the fact that it went a little overboard.

Dooku and GG totally negate George’s rationale for the Duel on the Original Death Star. Then again most of the PT seems to go to great lengths to negate elements of the OT.

I didn’t like anything about the ROTS Duel between Anakin and Ben. The early dialog was destroyed by GL’s inept attempt at an insult of George W, “Only Sith deal in absolutes.” What a load of crap. I guess Yoda was a Sith when he said, “Do or do not, there is no try.” The late dialog was destroyed by Ben’s “I have the high ground” statement. Did the high ground matter when Obi-Wan killed Darth Maul? I won’t even go into the actual Lightsaber duel and how difficult it made it for me to maintain my suspension of disbelief. I think the music was probably the only thing that was close to right in that sequence.

Congratulations to Darth_Evil; that is probably the most generous way to discard a load of tripe that I’ve ever heard of. I hope your cousins enjoy themselves.