darth_ender said:

I know the movies are riddled with continuity errors, but one that recently started bugging me (I don't know if it was ever brought up here or elsewhere) is when the shields close that separate Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, and Maul in TPM. Why couldn't a slice or two on the side where the shield was generated shut the whole thing down? A couple of blasts shut down the hangar shields in the opening battle of ROTS. Why can't a lightsaber do the same?

And if Darth Maul had known how to block, maybe he would have survived long enough to be killed by Obi-Wan on Utapau.