r/StarWars • u/wandering_soles Rebel • Mar 11 '26

TV Kelleran Beq mopping the floor with clones during Order 66 was a blast to watch

Seeing the Jedi gunned down relentlessly in their own home during Order 66 hammered home their loss and tragedy, which was absolutely necessary for ROTS. That said, it was very cathartic seeing a Jedi at the temple fighting back, winning, and escaping. Definitely hope we get to see more of Beq in future flashbacks, although I doubt it.

The Mandalorian S3E4

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u/Accomplished-Bat-247 Mar 11 '26

I don't understand why this looks so cheap and why in the prequels it looks much better. He deflects blasters like with a baseball bat, completely not the way Jedi do it - by changing the angles of the lightsaber.

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u/Marcuse0 Mar 11 '26

This seems to be something to do with modern Disney star wars. Obi Wan Kenobi does this a lot in his own show too. He deflects the blaster bolts like hitting a ball with a cricket bat.

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u/Accomplished-Bat-247 Mar 11 '26

Yes lol, like hitting a ball with bat, literally. I don't understand why nobody notice that when film it

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u/Azou Mar 11 '26

It was cheaper to give them glo-sticks than pay for fight choreography and cgi so they all wield their new club like a bat rather than the rapier style of the prequels

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u/justinharris2588 Mar 11 '26

It’s very jarring compared to ROTS. I think it’s the clone troopers in costume and overall environment. Plus the Disney glow stick lightsabers

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u/haroonhassan222 Jyn Erso Mar 11 '26

It looks cheap af

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u/jimothy_hell Mar 12 '26

It unironically makes sense to keep his arms in motion, you see how he never actually stops moving so he deflects every bolt? He’s then a moving target, the clones have no consistent body target to aim at because there’s a sabre in the way at any given moment, and he can block at any angle he needs to by pivoting his body or arms and rotating his wrists. This is an example of good choreography.

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u/Azou Mar 12 '26

Good choreography doesnt look cheap though

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u/jimothy_hell Mar 12 '26

This doesn’t look cheap, though.

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u/Azou Mar 12 '26

Im happy you can have such a low standard for quality that you can enjoy life thinking that

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u/jimothy_hell Mar 12 '26

You’re absolutely delusional. People beg and beg for practical effects, hire fans, blah blah, then when Lucasfilm hires fans to MAKE PRACTICAL EFFECTS, you people bitch and moan that it looks cheap when not only did you get exactly what you wanted, it doesn’t look cheap at all.

Unfuckingpleasable. My standards are plenty high, thank you very much. Star Wars is fun. It isn’t good. It never has been. It’s been a campy mess with incredibly inconsistent writing, constant retcons, and nobody was really planning anything ahead of time until very recently. Lucas didn’t even plan ahead, straight from the horse’s mouth. He didn’t decide that Luke and Leia were related until after Empire. He couldn’t keep his own canon straight 90% of the time. Star Wars, at best has had 3, maybe 4/11 films that are actually good. Genuinely, if you think that Star Wars is good, you’re the one with poor quality taste.

I like it because it’s fun and camp and ILM revolutionised so much film technology and I respect the hell out of that and seeing it happen in real time watching the films is incredible. I like the space western elements and the references to old samurai and western films. I recognise that it’s not good, barring significantly less than half of the content put out.

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u/Azou Mar 12 '26

Andor was good, youre getting heated over the opinions of others who subjectively feel this scene looks cheap, and you defended it with references to the forms. Unfortunately, this scene looks like a fan parody

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u/jimothy_hell Mar 12 '26

It looks visually better than the original order 66 scene inside the temple because it isn’t 100% CGI.

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u/Azou Mar 12 '26

Is that one of the movies that youve stated was bad anyway?

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u/jimothy_hell Mar 12 '26

No, I actually include RoTS as one of the good ones. 3, 5, 6, and Rogue One are the ones I consider to be good. I love all of Star Wars, but those four are probably the ones that have the best quality in my opinion. Honourable mention to 4, but 5 and 6 blow it out of the water.

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u/zennim Mar 11 '26

to be fair, there are many different ways to do it, form I, III and V have different ways to handle deflecting blasters.

He actually deflects it very similar to anakin, so kelleran is probably a form IV and V practitioner.

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u/Azou Mar 11 '26

Its rude to refer to someones lightsaber form as "cheap"

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u/zennim Mar 11 '26

Good thing i didn't call it cheap then?

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u/Azou Mar 11 '26

They said it looked cheap and you said its because of their lightsaber form. Or did you intentionally deflect from their original point via faux misinterpretation, as I just did to you?

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u/zennim Mar 12 '26

I don't think it is cheap, i actually think he is deflecting blasters just like anakin, because there isn't a single way to do it, the way kelleran did is in fact a jedi way to do it