The Silent Hero
Senior Member
Originally posted by Ascendancy
Is it really so hard to understand that when two users are both in tune with the Force precog is for all intents and purposes nearly negated, where as when fighting those who are unable to touch its power or only do so negligibly it is a vast advantageHence, two Force users are akin to standard fighters in that they have little time to react to one another even when giving themselves over to the Force. However, in situations such as facing blaster fire, etc, they can react beyond the speed of visual or aural acuity.
As to the Jedi killed by Order 66, many reacted but most were literally surrounded and fired on from all sides. Only the most powerful users were able to sense the others being cut down and react in time. Sidious was only the most powerful Sith ever, so perhaps that explains some of why he was able to cloud there judgement.
Boba Fett is a non Force user yet he still killed Jedi with simple pistol shots. He went toe to toe Obi-wan and made Mace flee using a flame thrower.
Ignore the music, but Obi-wan is getting hit here with a bunch of slow-moving, predictable attacks. Rockets, the ships turrets, grapple gun, etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIOq5WMd5Uo
Here it's just Boba vs. a Jedi one on one, the Jedi wasn't surrounded and had plenty of time to counter-attack (Boba missed the first few shots), but he still got killed. And for what it's worth, next scene Mace gets bowled over by the beast, while Boba got out of the way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzdMyqZsJ2k
Now if they can't move react quickly enough to those attacks, how do you expect them to stop Voldemort from simply flicking his wrist and sending a killing strike at them?
Regardless, every "instantaneous" attack mentioned in this thread in reality either required time, speech, mannerisms, or some combination there of to pull off for the wizards. I'm sorry, but very few in the HP series were killed in singular attacks, so I don't forsee it going down that way here either. However, once you've been mind-raped or had your body crushed from the inside out it's game over.Force for the win.
Here is a part of the Voldemort vs. Harry duel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4w6E-hh_gvg#t=71s
Based on this, let's say it takes a fraction of a second, next to no mannerisms, and no speech for Voldemort to cast lethal spells. At 1:35 he also disapparated and reappeared behind Harry, battle-ready, in about a second. Have any Jedi shown the ability to react to that? They can't block spells and will have to stop him from even casting them, which they can't do either.
And this is only Voldemort, using "regular" spells. Snape, Bellatrix, and Dumbledore would be doing the same thing. They could all use Petrificus Totalus and suddenly Team Force can't move at all.