Slowed down for the movies is one thing. I know Darth Sidious vs Mace Windu wasn't as slow as depicted by Ian and Sam. They wanted to go Practical for the Saber fights in the movies. I get that.
However there's no excuse for TCW.
In any case, going from what we've been shown to "they do hundreds of moves in 1 second" is just seriously stretching, especially given people like Pre-Vizsla going toe to toe with the likes of Darth Maul.
Smallville used to depict that sort of speed all the time, so I don't see why at least TCW couldn't. Well actually I know why. Because Jedi/Sith simply aren't that fast. I mean they are fast, but Spider-Man or Blade type fast. Not Flash, Quicksilver or Superman type fast, which is what people are suggesting with entire fights happening in under a second.
Oh man, you're totally right bro. I guess the movie characters are just pathetically slow compared to the rest of the mythos. Johun blitzes Sidious GG.
Lucas did show that Jedi had superspeed in TPM and Sidious blitzing the B team makes literally no sense unless either he's moving at superspeed or they were inexplicably stricken braindead.
I'll provide the context so you can draw you're own conclusions:
Revan's astromech launched a jet of flame at the Emperor, freeing Revan, who collapsed to the ground. In retaliation, the Emperor disintegrated the offending droid, strode over to where Revan lay, and picked the vanquished Jedi's lightsaber up off the floor.
It all happened in the space of only a few seconds.
It's only referring the above paragraph, not to the entirety of the conflict that takes place over separate paragraphs, sections, chapters etc.
Again where did I even hint they don't have super speed?
It's your "entire fights in 1 second" I have an issue with, given the entire TCW series never depicted or even hinted at such a thing. And given people like Pre-Vizsla go toe to toe with Darth Maul (confirmed as one of the deadliest Sith in history in both the old and new canon).
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I've argued that given the indication that said action lasted only a few seconds then the entire battle would itself only have lasted a good 30 seconds tops.
Ant has once or twice argued that said statement could indicate Revan vs Vitiate as a whole would've been similarly fast.
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Yeh.. because y'know, given how that part lasted 3 seconds and the rest of their battle wasn't that much bigger then it was undoubtedly seconds. The entire battle as a whole was certainly less than a minute long and was -doing the theoretical math- about 30 seconds.
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The entire battle between Revan and Emperor Vitiate, including the aftermath, all happened in only a few seconds. This included crossing a 120 foot walkway twice, releasing pulses of energy, defending against immense lightning attacks, and the destruction of T3-M4.
"It [his fight with the Sith Emperor] all happened in the space of only a few seconds."
Obi-wan managed to hit almost 20 strikes per second in one fight and there are characters much faster than him. Do you really want them to be depicted that fast? The speed we saw in the last movie is pretty good imo. Perhaps it can be a bit faster but if they overdid it, it would look ridiculous and if they made them move as fast as they actually are, we wouldn't even be able to perceive them. So its not about special effects.
You're arguing they don't move at superhuman speeds where they can perform dozens of actions in a second. They can.
The TCW series never depicted that because they didn't depict superspeed. We know that Maul can move faster than the human eye can see and various characters can move so fast they appear to be in multiple places at once or wielding a dozen lightsabers. Leneer was experiencing seconds as minutes or something. Vizsla can keep up with Maul partially because Maul was likely holding back and partially because non-force sensitives can reach superhuman (by our standards) levels in star wars.
Nah.
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