Originally posted by: Darth-Adroit
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.
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.
The "high ground" line didn't bother me troo much, the problem was the visual context presented for the line. Obiwan was on a fairly low hill of dirt and we all saw Luke perform jumps in Empire and Jedi that would have been sufficient to leap over Obiwan, surely Anakin could have done better. And, yes, via the force we saw many PT jumps that would have dwarfed a small mountain. I scratched my head at that climax over the lack of consistency.
Otherwise, the dig on George Bush was probably unintentional somewhat. GL woudn't purposely alienate a large part of his audience.
Also, that scene where Obiwan jumped out of that pit, flipped over Darth Maul, picked up Qui-Gon's lightsaber, landed behind Maul, activated the lightsaber, and then sliced Darth Maul in half was absurd. That awesome duel deserved a much better ending. All of the alarming strength and skill that Maul exhibited was totally thrown out the window at that scene (unless you assume he was distracted by his over-confidence or something silly lie that). Oh well, I suppose inventing a physically complicated climax would have taxed Lucas' logical skills too much and so he made up some crap ending at the last moment and then deemed it "good enough." Spending ten minutes to invent something better is obviously too haaarrd.
