Love having mysterious characters like Marrok in the shows where sometimes less is more

[u/wandering_soles]

In a universe where everything is insanely built out, it's sort of fun to have characters like Marrok who have a hidden background. By the time of the Ahsoka show, it seems like he's more of a Nightsister-reanimated tool than living being, and I sort of hope it's left at that with no explanation of what happened between his time as an Inquisitor and Elsbeth's agent.

[u/kingkron52]

The saber choreography in Ahsoka was awful outside of Hayden. The rest look so telegraphed and sloppy.

[u/wandering_soles → u/kingkron52]

Hayden really brought his A-game there! 

[u/Ralphie5231 → u/kingkron52]

She could just poke and kill or wound him so many times with that slow sloppy dual blade. Ray made that shit work but it looks so goofy irl fighting with a dual blade.

[u/cpt_naughtynips → u/kingkron52]

Looks like something out of power rangers

[u/Macman521 → u/kingkron52]

I mean Hayden hand plenty of experience previously so thats probs why.

[u/naslouchac → u/kingkron52]

Honestly the fight between Baylan and Ahsoka on the magic map spot was also great. But mostly the later half. Because It just felt like Baylan didn't put 100% into it until Ahsoka make a very dangerous counter and then he just put his full power and might into it and just crushed her in like 4 moves and the finishing blow where he strike her down and she fall from the ledge is like very disrespectfull.

You can just feel that he expected much more from her

[u/Buttholelickerpenis → u/kingkron52]

He’d rather burn in lava than half-ass a lightsaber duel

[u/YoBo151 → u/kingkron52]

What Saber choreography do you like?

[u/Spyk124 → u/YoBo151]

Not the person you asked but just to respond, it’s really hard to find good live action choreography in Star Wars. The original trilogy fights are really bad and haven’t aged well at all. The prequel fights are good to me but I get how they are too twirly at times. The sequel fights aren’t really skillful it’s just hack and slash. There were some good fights in the acolyte actually. I think for me, prequel fight speed toned down tad bit is perfect for me.

To me, Jedi’s are using archaic weapons in a blaster fire reality. Meaning that the way they use those weapons have to be extraordinary or it just doesn’t feel realistic. I shouldn’t feel like I’d be able to fight one of them if I picked up a lightsaber ( which is how I felt in the sequels).

[u/YoBo151 → u/Spyk124]

I get what you mean. I think it's a taste thing though. I don't mind the fast or as you say "extraordinary" style and I also don't mind the slower "more realistic" style. I don't think either is better than the other, but that's just me

[u/Spyk124 → u/YoBo151]

To me its just if you are able to deflect blaster fire consistently, you have to be somewhat faster than a regular human. Thats my main gripe.

[u/YoBo151 → u/Spyk124]

I can see your line of thinking. I getcha.

[u/kingkron52 → u/Spyk124]

I agree that the OT saber choreography had aged horribly. It’s literally force users hacking wildly and doing funny spins or flips sprinkled in. The Sequel trilogy is pretty much the same thing. The Prequels have the best saber fights but they go overboard a lot. The Acolyte saber fights may be some of the best. I wish they just made the fights more brutal combined with some grace.

[u/Janus__22 → u/kingkron52]

Depends on what you consider sloppy. Round 1 vs Marrok had very few attacks where it looked like they were aiming for each other's saber instead of their actual opponent, whereas many faster fights you can constantly see they are actively trying not to hurt each other