xhonzi said:

Alright, is it just me, or did hal have a good point even if he sort of botched the delivery?

... ... He probably did it because he thought it would 'look cool' and the pervasiveness of Asian culture in the West led him to think that he had to have the Jedi be superninjas just so they could be competitive with the other superninjas in recent pop culture... ...

There's this weird assumption inherent in that argument that the OT duels weren't meant to 'look cool.' They clearly are.

Luke and Obi both do the same "spin around for no reason and then barely block Vader's saber" move. Luke does a crazy backwards flip onto a bridge in ROTJ. Vader pwns Luke with ONE HAND during the start of the fight in ESB just to be badass.

And I still stand that I don't see any clear EAST vs. WEST difference in the sword styles of the trilogy as a whole. Moving quickly or jumping high doesn't make you Asian.