Maul, wasnt truly beaten by obi wan, he was surprised by a sudden feat that obi wan, placed, there is a chance that given time to recover, maul would've won against obi wan, however bastila, trained in a time where double bladed lightsabers were common as well in a rather war placed situation, while maul had little experience in combat, yes he had oppenents but the experience of entering the Dark lord of the sith and confronting Revan? i dont think so...bastila on this one. btw ( Lightsnake favours movies and the time after it so his comments are biased)
It only makes maul better that he was proficient in a time were double staff weren't common, only means he had to be that much more skilled.
Sidious had his choice of virtually anybosy in the know galxy, and yet he picked Maul, meaning the standards are much higher to to the quantity, whereas is Bastila's time, basically if yo were force-senstive you would be recruited. Saying Lightsankes comments are movie-biased only means that your comments are anti-moie biased.
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I don't see how this makes Maul better? Sword fighters were common in the dark ages they aren't anymore. Does that mean a sword fighter from now is automatically better? IF anything he is not.
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Sorry. But that's nonsens. The more people you have using a weapon and fighting each other, the better their average level is and the better is the "best" of them. If you take an Katana swordfighter from "ancient" Japan and put him against a todays Katana user, the "ancient" one will most likely win because he practiced with that weapon and against that weapon.
Bastilla possibly did fight against people using a weapon like that and Maul - being the only person wielding such a weapon - had no other person using it to fight against. And Bastilla has shown that she's able to survive fights with Sith, Dark Jedi, Revan (top of the ancient temple), Malak (Leviathan) with the last one being somewhere near Dooku or Mace at least when it comes to duelling skill.
How could Sidious have the choice of taking anybody in the known galaxy when most people powerful enough to become Jedi in Republic space were joining the Jedi Order ? Maul wasn't exactly uber powerful compared to people like Dooku, Mace or Yoda. He couldn't even use force lightning after decades of training when Dooku - with less Sith training - managed to do that quite effortless. He's a great duellist but he didn't have as much experience as Bastilla with "fighting other force users".
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Sidious, the great mastermind of manipulation could have basically manipulated any jedi/force-sensitive into turning to the darkside. Maul, one of the only jedi/sith in his time to wield a double-staff, means that it only makes him better at it because he had to teach himslef how to wield it, which makes him more skilled at it. Whereas Bastila's wielding one makes it extremely easy because it was so common. If you take a Katana user from Japan, the lesser of all the users, would be far lesser than the users of today.
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Sidious couldn't have just taken a Jedi any one he wanted...
And that last thing... Think about this logically
You have one person who fights with a dual saber like many others at that time, fights Dark Jedi, Sith, Jedi and whatnot with that lightsaber and has experience against people with that kind of lightsaber. Which as you yourself said was common so they must have trained well with it.
Against somebody who has not fought anybody with that kind of weapon let alone stand so many people.
Not to mention the fact that if something is more common people ussually become more skilled with it.
A Programmer from 30 years ago could not program the shit programmers today program. Why not? Because computers are far more common now and because of that far more evolved.
In Maul's time an opponent wouldn't expect a double bladed opponent, so the doublebladed has an advantage, but in Bastila's time, double bladed weren't rare
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