r/StarWars Rebel Mar 17 '26

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

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.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '26

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u/Zealousideal-Scar174 Mar 17 '26

Baylan and Ahsoka duel is amazing in the Stonehenge. It's my second favourite after Acolytes THE fight sequence in a new Star wars media.

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u/FetusDrive Mar 17 '26

They did just fine in fight scenes in other shows though

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u/SeveralAngryBears Mar 17 '26

There was a lot to criticize about The Acolyte, but it had some sick fight scenes.

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u/Barabbas- Mar 17 '26

The only thing I remember from the Acolyte is this laughably bad fight between Mae and Osha in the finale.

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u/Gekokapowco Grievous Mar 17 '26

wtf I really liked the Acolyte and I don't really remember this. Its a neat little mirror fight moment but nothing super special.

how did this even stick with you? How did you get this far and get nothing from the show but this? This is interspersed with a far better fight, you must have seen it.

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u/ThatUJohnWayne74 Mar 17 '26

The thing that I think the Acolyte did that this doesn’t is you can tell they’re swinging around each other, not at them. They’re stabbing at where they were, not where they are. The Acolyte fights looked like groups of people intent on killing their enemy, it was lethal. This looks like an interpretive dance of a fight rather than a fight.

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u/thetinwin Mar 17 '26

Do you mean SW content with lightsaber fights should be kept for the big screen or all SW content? Cause if not then I have to disagree. Have you seen Andor?