He beat Maul so quickly and skillfully and even though Maul had atrophied a great bit, he still was powerful. Vader is above Maul, but maybe Obi-Wan held back on him, to buy Luke time to escape. Thoughts?
How would Ben holding back to "buy Luke time" make any sense? Pretty sure killing Vader is a better option versus dying in terms of "buying time".
Regardless, the whole reason Ben beat Maul so easily is because Maul used a move Ben was anticipating and had already seen before. It isn't hard. Ben isn't leaps and bounds above Maul in terms of skill like everyone is naively believing now -- the fight was mostly a result of Maul's predictability and impulsiveness.
Good points, but I feel Obi-Wan felt it was Luke's destiny to destroy the Sith. Killing Vader might lead to Luke being killed by stormtroopers and then their would be nobody left to challenge Palpatine. True, we have Leia but I don't think Obi-Wan had a lot of faith in her, as Yoda had to remind him "their is another" #Obi-Wanissexist
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The situations are entirely different and how you draw some kind of idiotic parallel between the two because of the recent rebels episode. For ****s sake the one was filmed decades before so please stop asking retarded questions.
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If I catch a dimwit licking a window I don't need other points of reference to determine their intelligence level. When you say something as painfully brain dead as your op and disregard the words of the guy who came up with the fight then you're a dolt who shouldnt be taken seriously.
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Uhhh I'm pretty sure there's still quite a gap of time between the fight with Maul and ANH. Even more time for Ben to not practice.
My theory of the duel between Vader and Ben is this: last time Vader saw Kenobi and got overconfident, he lost three limbs and was almost burnt to death. His comment "your powers are weak old man" confirms that Vader was aware that Ben did not keep up his slills. However like I said, Vader didn't want to be humiliated again, so he was cautious. This is why the fight appears to be more poking and probing each other's defences rather than going all out, along with some tricky fencing sequences as well.
I don't believe Obi was holding back, I think he was playing with Vader's cautious mentally to make him even more careful and reserved.
__________________ The Sith are not placid stars but singularities. Rather than burn with muted purpose, we warp space and time to twist the galaxy to our own design. - Darth Plagueis
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Absurd. Maul later went on to be a rival to Sheev's galactic authoritative pan power. This was too far past his prime and he was a broken individual at the time of their final duel. This has all been stated as a fact by the man who created the fight. I'm right as rain you're wrong and childish. I suspect you're quite young and immature. You have no objectivity and once again I embrace the facts whereas you try to spin them.
Mar 19th, 2017 11:13 PM
