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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 2283967" data-attributes="member: 4720">And this is worse than the several times in tPM where Obi-wan noticeably waits for Maul's block to get into place before swinging?I fail to understand how someone with martial arts training can prefer that fight to those in Revenge of the Sith.  Ultimately, it come back to different strokes for different folks, as martial arts training is apparently telling the two of us very different things about the fights in question.  But as you are fond of saying, that's OK. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Personally, I found only 1 moment in the fight that I really didn't like from a technical standpoint (though the whole thing was so fast that it was tough to spot glaring errors, and I'm happy to chalk up the kind of blocks you're complaining about to Obi-wan seeing the attack coming before Anakin launched it).  I merely find myself wishing that there had been a bit more conversation between the combatants.  The Yoda-Palpy duel was just fine with little conversation.  After all, what do those two really have to say to each other after the initial trash talk?  But I would have loved to see Obi-wan and Anakin really get into it emotionally.  They knew each other Master and Apprentice and as brothers.  Obi-wan could have thrown Anakins beliefs about democracy and love in his face, and followed that up with asking him if what he just did to Padme is the act of someone who truly loves her.  Ideally, I would have liked to see Anakin's doubts about his course be the reason he lost the duel, not his arrogance about his abilities.  But that's just a difference in perspective between me and Lucas, and doesn't really affect my enjoyment of the film as it stands.  Now, if someone puts me in charge of a remake in about 20 years....</blockquote>

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