Originally posted by Sinious
No, I don't have to prove why the bridge feat doesn't put Snoke above Sidious. You have to explain why one non combat applicable and near impossible to quantify force feat puts him above the GOAT.
Sheev stalemated Mother Talzin in the new canon, so maybe he's not as far above everyone as he was in legends. And I know he's grown since then, because of Lords of the Sith but it just goes on to show that it's more likely he's not the GOAT.
Regarding what you said in response to DP12: I haven't read what was said before, but I don't understand why you guys assume what Snoke did is the exact same of what Palpatine did with Dooku and Yoda. More importantly, is it stated that Snoke didn't use any form of ritual to pull it off?
Sidious was stated to create a "dark illusion" in Yoda's mind by taking advantage of the bond him and Dooku had in the force. Snoke was stated to take advantage of the bond Rey and Kylo had. (I'll admit this is also a little shaky, since Johnson confirmed Luke used the same power at the end of TLJ, so maybe a pre-existing bond wasn't necesary, as it was Sidious' feat.)
The reason I think Snoke didn't use a ritual is because in Sidious' ritual Dooku actually had to create the dark illusion, whereas when Snoke did it, Kylo didn't even realize it was Snoke.
The most important question is, how do any of this keep Vader from force choking Snoke?
He probably has a greater force barrier. As I said, he used some unknown power to call to the mind of Sidious from the unknown regions, and knew what happened on the second death star before it exploded. This might be proof he's penetrated Vader's and Palpatine's force barriers before. Galan didn't accept it because "it wasn't confirmed", but there's no reason Chuck Wendig would have put that into the book if it wasn't Snoke.
Originally posted by One Big Mob
And protecting from the force is a natural reaction from a force wielder. Why would he keep his wits about him not to try and save his life because he's scared of Sidious? There's a difference between not questioning someone and doing all you can to not get choked.
Sidious was showing him his authority. Resisting his actions, therefore resisting his authority, would have been the worst possible thing to do.
You yourself already admitted he could have likely choked him anyway, so why are we assuming he just had no defenses in place or set them up when he was trying to stop getting choked, and what would it matter?
It wouldn't matter. We really shouldn't be talking about this, of all the comments I made. The reason I think he had no defenses up is because he didn't need the defenses, it's not like Sidious would have actually crippled or killed him.
Plus the Sith training we've seen has a lot to do with the Masters shitting on the students and forcing them to do something.
Not injuring them to a point where they're less useful in the master's grand plan.
A Stormtrooper and one of the most powerful Jedi of all times who then gets his powers amped by being a Sith are just standing in the same room.
Are we to believe that it'd be harder to ragdoll the Stormtrooper than it would be to force choke and levitate the *unnamed* Sith Lord?
Your defenses can be retroactively put up in order to protect you, and your defenses can be taken down to show your master that you're not challenging them.
Originally posted by Rockydonovang
there's holistic arguments to be made for snoke.Feat wise, clouding the jedi order and unbalancing the galaxy prolly beats Snoke's light year feat.
See, people keep thinking of Sheev as we knew him. This is a different Sheev. He never unbalanced the Galaxy. And without the other uber-powerful feats, there's no reason to think that the clouding of the jedi's mind was due to Sids' force powers rather than the Clone Wars.
Sidious is likely the better combatant anyway by virtue of being virtually unparalleled in swordmanship.
That gives him a fighting chance, but he's still less powerful in the force.
Originally posted by Galan007
The willful ignorance demonstrated in this thread is cringe-worthy, tbh.I feel like Zentrex has to be trolling at this point.
You have no idea how stupid I can be.