Lightsaber combat has come a long way from the days of the original trilogy. What are some of your favorite duels (if any) from the EU? How do they contrast from the hyper choreographed fights in the PT? Were you rooting for the Sith or the Jedi?
I like Naga Sadow vs. Ludo Kressh, Exar Kun vs. Ulic Qel-Droma, and Exar Kun vs. Vodo-Siosk Baas.
I definately share a fondness for the duel between Exar Kun and Vodo-Siosk Baas myself. As for others, though, I can't really say; so many of the duels either occur in books without any visual aids or in Clone Wars-era comics that I couldn't care less about.
I do know I liked this duel that occurred in the Star Wars: Rebellion comic series:
A non-Force sensitive protagonist with a red lightsaber holding his own against two Force users? There's no way on Earth or any other planet I couldn't love that.
I must also mention the various duels in the Dark Forces Trilogy. At the time I first read those books, I didn't like the idea of darksiders wielding non-red lightsabers, but suffice it to say, I've more than warmed up to the idea since the prequels came out.
When Jedi Knight first came out, I didn't like that Kyle ended up (in the Light Side ending) with a yellow lightsaber instead of something more conventional like a blue blade.
Now I love it and wish they'd kept that in Jedi Outcast, instead of giving Kyle a brand-new blue saber from out of nowhere.
“That Darth Vader, man. Sure does love eating Jedi.”
ATMachine said:
When Jedi Knight first came out, I didn't like that Kyle ended up (in the Light Side ending) with a yellow lightsaber instead of something more conventional like a blue blade.
Now I love it and wish they'd kept that in Jedi Outcast, instead of giving Kyle a brand-new blue saber from out of nowhere.
They did that to virtually all Jedi characters once AOTC began rearing its ugly head, even when it didn't make any sense in-universe (this character, for example, chronologically goes from having a violet lightsaber to a blue lightsaber then back to a violet lightsaber if you take the comics at literal face value).