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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 2100465" data-attributes="member: 707">I can see this.  If the director had had the presence of mind to tell the guy who plays Palpatine to deliver his Palpatine lines sincerely, instead of dripping with evil intent, I might not have so much of an issue with the lack of "phantom menace" in tPM.  As it is, Palpatine may as well be smirking at the camera, so blatant is his evil intent in every line he delivers.  "Have no fears, Queen Amidala, I'll take care of everything..."  Ugh.True.  But the fact that the voices are the same, combined with Palpatine's "deliver every line as if you were the Emperor, despite the circumstances" acting choice (whether director-mandated or otherwise,) still makes it seem painfully transparent, IMO.Sure, if you aren't a badass like Darth Maul. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />Perhaps to be more realistic, the middle grip should have been lengthened to allow for a longer grip.  Interestingly, in the game I mentioned earlier it often looked like the character avatars were gripping the double-bladed lightsaber dangerously close to the "live" ends, even to my untrained eye.  But still, as a non-staff fighter, the logic and execution were close enough to plausible for me to suspend disbelief and really enjoy Maul's fighting style.Fair enough.  My father is a 20+ year firearms expert, and second-hand knowledge of firearms has ruined my suspension of disbelief regarding most treatments of guns and ammo in movies in a similar way.I agree, he was badass then too.  That's the shame of it, really.  I'd have liked to see the fighting prowess and the symbolic and stylistic greatness of the design combined with a character with the depth and staying power of Darth Vader.  Maul was perfect for a series long villain, and Vader replacing Maul would have been a great transition.The bent lightsaber just struck me as stupid.  Nobody else has such a thing.  It is like Mace Windu's purple pimp-saber.  Only present to give the character something special, with no reasoning why that character should be the only one with something special, and no effect aside from a cosmetic peculiarity.  That, and it did indeed remind me of a pistol-grip, which seems even more silly on a sword, Final Fantasy imagery aside.I understood what you meant in your previous post, even without the excellent visualisation in your latest.  My thougth is that it doesn't have to be done in the most utterly effective way that you describe.  In the game, the floating lightsabers behaved basically as if an invisible person were wielding them.  The same could have been done with Yoda, where he isn't necessarily controlling the blade as if it were completely independent, but merely using the Force to provide him with "invisible hands" that are stronger and taller than he is, but still operate as "hands" connected to him by an invisible thread of the Force.Or it could work exactly as you claim, and Yoda could have thrown Dooku onto the defensive immediately, showing what a badass Yoda is in lightsaber combat for exactly the reasons you mention.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />In either case, it's not a big sticking point with me.  I did like the Gummy-Bear Yoda.  My only really small quibble was how quickly he goes from being Super-Ninja to weak-and-dying on Dagobah in only a few short years (relatively speaking for Yoda's race.)  All I can think of is that that swamp planet really did a number on his health.I agree completely.  That's what I hoped to have from Maul (who incidentally is not loved by me at all, exactly because his potential was so wasted.)  Thus far, the new trilogy has nobody even close to Vader's stature in the original series, which is a shame imo.</blockquote>

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