From there he jumped up again, angling away from her to avoid giving the Jedi the advantage of height, but she was there ahead of him, driving him back down with a series of blows so rapid he barely caught them all.
If they were on even ground Ti wouldn't have the advantage of height, which the text makes clear Marek attempted, but failed, to prevent her from gaining.I wasn't suggesting it was a show of superiority for Marek, merely pointing out that Marek regained equal footing with Ti. After which point they appear to be at indeed an impasse.Not in the slightest:
The fight progressed around the sarlacc's center rings, blow and counterblow accompanied by the roaring of the beast. The apprentice cut off teeth and threw the fragments at his adversary's head. In return she took tighter control of the beast's distributed intelligence and sent its food-seeking tentacles flailing for him. He repulsed them and fought on.
Down they drove each other...
It's just an extract from the fight, in which they were raining "blow and counterblow" upon each other, and after a brief Force exchange fought on.
The fact that neither of them were driven anywhere by this exchange pretty much debunking the idea regardless.And I never suggested it did, you are the one honing in on their particular extract. What I did note however is how Ti was using her control over the terrain to her advantage.Fair I misread that, but switching up the manner in which he used the environment to off-balance Ti in response to the shifting terrain does not necessarily suggest he was at a disadvantage, merely employing all the tools he had at his disposal.
And I never said she wouldn't be also disadvantaged, just not to the same extent.He appears to struggle with her initial assault yes, but I've already gone over that, a combination of stylistic factors and terrain advantage were responsible. But within the overall contexts of both Marek and Ti 'driving each other down' I don't think it demonstrates conclusive superiority at all.
And the fact that Ti was able to block (or evade) Marek's attacks means nothing, as so did he, but nothing suggests she did so easily or easier than he did.You didn't dear. And as for those citations, please go on, because overextending as you put it, to the point where your opponent simply having their weapon upheld equates to certain death, still strikes me as desperate, despite these supposed pay offs. Or in other words, Marek's first hand assessment remains accurate.Aside from a powerful Force nexus yeah. But then she the act of 'holding back da darkness' was draining her amirite?
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So the argument that Shaak wouldn't have been impaled because she would've speared Galen's head before he could've raised his lightsaber is bullshit.
"He had raised his lightsaber by reflex. She had, in the desperation of her final assault, practically thrown herself on the blade. Perhaps she had meant for the two of them to defeat each other at the same time."
You can argue this is from Galen's point of view, but as flawed as limited perspectives are, Galen isn't a complete retard. He's cognizant enough to know whether or not he raised his blade after blocking Shaak's lightsaber strike with the Force, and from this perspective (ie., he clearly ****ing didn't raise it after blocking her barrier) it's clear Galen's blade was in that position before her blade would've pierced him, and possibly before Shaak leapt at him to begin with.
And as far as how the comic fight ended, Shaak was in a fight and she realized some sketchy shit with Galen was going on so clearly she would've raised a barrier, which is apparent by the fact that she wasn't flung several meters back, and yet she still got severely wounded by an omnidirectional telekinetic strike (so it wasn't even focused on her) that had to tear through a meat shield of sarlacc tentacles before hitting her. And as far as the argument that Galen was "rage amped" Shaak felt his power fading beforehand because he was being slowly crushed by a bunch of tentacles, so if anything, Galen was actually hindered at the time.
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