haljordan28 said:

"You're looking at this from the perspective of being defensive because kids in the park with a broomstick are pretending to be Darth Maul instead of Luke, and that deeply bothers you."

thats hogwash

what bothers me is the OT duels at least had a sense of realism to them where the PT was nothing more than 2 hr long power ranger episodes.

Aside from the overall overkill of saber usage in ATOC, I think the PT duels were the one thing that made them good.

If I had made ROTS though, I would have made the fight just as fast, but I would have Anakin be the clumsy, out to kill person, and Obi Wan the defensive master.

In the end, they both seemed to fight the same, their was no contrast until Obi Wan had the "High Ground".

"I was but a learner, now I am the master!!" should have been, "I didn't have the high ground, now I am taller!!". If we are going by what was represented in the duel.

Saying that the PT duels were shit is just foolish, yet it is your opinion. I would've hated TPM as a child, had it not been for how dynamic the duel was. To me, Darth Maul is the closest to an OT character you could hope for. He is a bad guy, we know it. He doesn't talk much, makes him likable.

AOTC gets no respect from me, the amount of Lightsabers on screen made the weapon unremarkable. Then Yoda's display of fanboy orgasm, saber twirling put a nail in the saber coffin.

In all honesty, it isn't the duels in the OT I like, it is how they are built up to the duels that make them good.