Unless he can use the force to bend light around him.
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He gots you noobs cryin' out fo' mom
Leave the scene lookin' like Vietnam
Might as well call him "Matt Atom Bomb"
Like his name suggests, he's quite atomic
And this fool - he likes DC Comics
Two energy swords make up his symbol
And trust me, dawg, this homie's nimble
I don't think its a mind trick. In Black Fleet Trilogy: Its the Fallansi Technique that successfully hid Fallanasi village from Yevetha "sensors" (Wiki)
It was also used to create a phantom fleet of ships that also fooled the ships sensors.
Ah, yes. Let's discuss the great Luke Skywalker and how he has been so terribly neutered by LFL.
[SPOILER - highlight to read]: He duels Lady Rhea and Vestara (the Sith's answer to Ben) to a standstill before Rhea gets distracted by an opening door and Luke dismembers her. The narration specifically notes that he is trying to kill her and the only way he defeats her is when she is distracted. He also suffers multiple injuries.
lol, i'll get the book tomorrow. I couldn't resist that spoiler alert there though! [SPOILER - highlight to read]: they are so desperately trying to make it seem as though ben and luke are in life-threatening situations, they are making it seems as though,
A. Luke is pathetically weak, and we better backtrack and call LOTF Luke's peak.
or
B. everyone Luke ever meets now is as powerful (or moreso than Caedus.)
Actually, wouldn't the results of this fight imply that Vestara==Caedus?
The truth to the matter is that outside of the Bane novels, authors don't go out of their way to aggrandize their characters of choice. Which is both a positive and a negative. Really, all throughout Legacy of the Force, Lumiya and Vader were used as measuring sticks for power. To be Lumiya-level in LotF is to be enormously badass.
Luke, simply put, has become lame. And it's obnoxious. No one says he has to own everyone with a gesture. But as a duelist, he really should be pretty much peerless.
On the one hand, Jaina, Jag, and Zekk all muse in Exile or Tempest that "Lumiya fought [Luke] to a standstill," thereby concluding that she's "clearly Master level."
Yet the same series also depicts Lumiya being critically wounded against Jedi Master Tresina Lobi...
[SPOILER - highlight to read]: Even when Lumiya has the assistance of Alema Rar in combat.
I think i'm going to take a vacation....To Skywalker ranch. I'm going to bring my video camera and film it as I'm kicking the force out of George Lucas for being a ****.
he really should be peerless. Maybe not everyone, but I would enjoy the books more if he were to be honest. Maybe he should continue in his "if i fight i'll go to the darkside" approach, as lame as that was.
EDIT: Also, i guess we have to compare this to the 501st losing to the ewoks... (just by reading threads around here that you won out on PIS in the end Gideon, and who am i to fight the institution, especially when its so darn convenient this time?)
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I agree. I'm done reading this series. If they have to continue their LOTF bullshit about unrealistically trying to weaken luke, then there's no point to continue. These authors are incompetent beyond belief and the fact that Lucas doesn't put a stop to it really shows us how far the original idea has fallen.
Yeah, strange how the most powerful force user in history, AND a master of multiple styles, gets his ass kicked around, AND nameless people beat the person he lsot to. If that is the fact of the matter, then force users were incredibly weak across history.
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Lercuvanten i moli Mordoreo
Isil
Turgon aran Gondolin tortha gar a matha, i vegil Glamdring gud dae lo, dam an Glamhoth.
Luke could probably pwn lots and lots of battle droids, but ALL of the battle droids???? There are a quadrillion +!!!! Even if he killed hundreds a second and the battle droids just stood there, it would take multiple lifetimes to kill them all.
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And @Gideon, Luke at that point was so weak that he could barely speak, and yet he (with some help from Ben) beat 12 sith. In my opinion, that's actually a feat to be added to his feat list rather then a bad showing.
__________________ Introduce a little government. Upset the established gangs, and everything becomes order...
Democracy is the very definition of awesome.
Personally if Luke isn't going to be chellenged in a fight, then the writer shouldn't write him fighting.
We've gone past the point of speculating on Luke's power (the Vong Wars should have ended any and all speculation on his power level). Now the focus should be on writing a good story to wrap up his legacy.
If he comes to blows with anyone or anything it should be in a challenging situation, nothing less (if the authors have to wax poetic about the relative difficulty of his challenge to maintain fictional consistency so be it).
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Aug 18th, 2009 06:46 PM
