Pyron_Knight
Eater of Worlds
If you read any EU novels which is pretty clear you don't that luke stated at ANY given point of time during the duels in TESB or ROTJ, vader could have easily killed him had he wanted to. You seem to forget that vaders intention in BOTH movies was to turn luke, NOT kill him.
And Luke had no intention to kill Vader in ROTJ.
What’s your point?
And as for TESB i think it is pretty clear that vader wasn't trying to kill luke or immobalise him until he let his guard down when luke wacked his shoulder.
Looked more like he continuously underestimated Luke, first with the carbonite freeze pit and then later when Luke hit his shoulder.
He didn’t “let his guard down.” He just was outmaneuvered in a fair duel.
and when they both were holding back Vader was still winning the ROTJ duel.
Eh? There were a few seconds of even lightsaber dueling before Luke knocks Vader threw the air with one casual kick to the chest. Vader’s on his ass in less than 30 seconds.
Luke then “lowers his defenses” but is still quick enough on the draw to re-ignite his lightsaber and defend against every blow Vader dished out. There were two relatively even and long saberlocks before Luke turns off his blade and flips away after dodging a couple of Vader’s strikes.
Vader then throws his saber at Luke and then the taunting followed by Luke pwning Vader commences.
So, tell me, where in all that was Vader winning?
After Luke got the one kick to Vader,Vader was the one causing Luke to retreat until(no matter what the circumstances were, Vader was dictating duel)
Luke was retreating because he didn’t want to fight his father. Hell, his mind wasn’t even on the duel. He was busy reading Vader’s mind as evidenced by his line “I can feel...the conflict”
Then the next part of the duel is Vader on the offensive with Luke being force to retreat twice (up onto that bridge-like structure,then went into hiding) prior to using the darkside
A. He wasn’t forced into anything. He shut off his lightsaber and was refusing to fight.
B. Again, because he didn’t want to fight his half-crippled droid of a father.
Or whatever Lucas called Vader at this point.
Furthermore I would also like to point out that Vader has beaten more experience opponents(jedi) when he is going all out and that Luke even after ROTJ is having trouble with a force witch(nearly killed him), which is not on the level of a Dark Lord of the Sith such as Vader who can rival other sith like Malak,Dooku,etc. and I highl doubt ROTJ Luke can compete with them.
We also having Thrawn Trilogy Luke being around the level of Joruus C’baoth who would own Vader..