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this is to bring attention to the fact that due to Gl's special effects that we cannot assume that all the ligtsaber duelists from eps 4 5 and 6, are worse than the ones from ep 1 2 and 3 because the pt had the advantage of cgi and coreographers

Who's assuming anything? I didn't even think it was a stated 'majority opinion' that the OT fights were worse. Sure, in Star Wars it's all pretty poor, but the battles in Empire and Jedi are great.

Watto and Jarjar not in The Original Trilogy

this is to bring attention to the fact that due to Jarjars antics that we cannot assume that all the sidekicks from eps 4 5 and 6, are better than the ones from ep 1 2 and 3 because the pt had the advantage of JarJar and Watto

Originally posted by Man of Christ
this is to bring attention to the fact that due to Gl's special effects that we cannot assume that all the ligtsaber duelists from eps 4 5 and 6, are worse than the ones from ep 1 2 and 3 because the pt had the advantage of cgi and coreographers Vader's wearing a mobile iron lung, Obi-Wan is 19 years out of shape, Luke is a Padawan with several weeks of training, Yoda is in the same boat as Obi-Wan except he's also dieing, and Palpatine doesn't even stand up too often.

So there's your in-universe explanation as to why the OT fights seem slower and less fancy than the PT.

Out of universe it was due to lack of camera and digital technology.

Originally posted by Tangible God
So there's your in-universe explanation as to why the OT fights seem slower and less fancy than the PT.


That lame excuse only came with the PT though. We thought it was cool at the time.

Bloody is still cool. Bespin is the best SW duel by far, but it has been out stripped by films such as Rob Roy in my opinion.

Time does that to great classics.