Obi Wan in TPM-Amped or Hindered

Originally posted by LordOfTheLight
That is Obi Wan's initial aggressiveness working to his benefit.

Initially Kenobi's dark sided emotions did work to his benefit. If they had drastically hindered his overall powers, he wouldn't have been taxing Maul in that moment of anger/rage/frustration.

But as I mentioned: it was clear that said emotions were controlling Kenobi; he was not controlling them. They ultimately made him sloppy/careless, and Maul was able to capitalize on that.

And the Visual Dictionary excerpt I posted confirms that Kenobi wanted to tap into those dark sided emotions because they would allow him to defeat Maul. If said emotions were meant to hinder Kenobi's overall powers in that moment, he likely wouldn't have even considered giving into them(why would you willingly embrace something in a battle if you know it weakens you..?) Hence why it was worth mentioning here.

This is contradicted by TOTJ where dark nexi hinder lightsided users.
I don't see how anger helped Kenobi defeating Maul? He just performed a Force jump and ambush-lightsabred his foe.

It seems like Obi-Wan’s anger helped him at first because it made him fight much more aggressively, taking Maul by surprise, which isn’t surprising because Maul underestimates almost opponent he meets. But it became a hindrance in the long run because of Obi-Wan’s lack of mastery of the Dark Side. He has little experience using the Dark Side, so he’s not going to know how to correctly use and focus that anger in battle. And using anger against Maul is risky because he can somehow feed off that anger.

Given Maul was a match for both Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan together, I think its pretty evident Kenobis rage boost helped him when he was able to single handedly not only hold his own against Maul, but even chop his Saber in two.

Originally posted by Darth Thor
Given Maul was a match for both Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan together, I think its pretty evident Kenobis rage boost helped him when he was able to single handedly not only hold his own against Maul, but even chop his Saber in two.

True. Obi-Wan's rage boost definitely helped him at first, but in the end, it became a hindrance because it expended him of a lot of energy and he lost control over his anger because he hasn't mastered the Dark Side.

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