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Amphistaffs
I appreciate the need to give the Yuuzhan Vong a signature weapon, but I have a really hard time accepting that these snake things can just no sell lightsabers and shoot venom "20 meters." Like, sure, they can spit venom sixty feet. Okay? Against any kind of serious army, that's a joke.

George Lucas Poetry Line
I want to feel bad for Lucas, that all of his lines were taken out of context by RLM and turned into hurtful memes... but they're just so damn funny. The poetry line in particular is a thesis for everything Lucas is as a person: he tries, and he has ideas, but he clearly just does not know what he's doing or how to express his thoughts in a coherent manner.

Star Wars Rebels
Besides the Ahsoka episode, I have seen none of Rebels. As soon as I saw that the main character had a lightsaber slingshot, I knew this wasn't for me. No offense, I mean no offense, but it just isn't my style. I like shlock, I can prove this by how many times I've watched Kirk fight the Gorn, but this show seems a little too childish for my tastes, so I can't really comment on it at all.

General Grievous
General Grievous, okay. Let's just ignore his name here. Interesting concept, I guess? It makes sense that the Separatists would have a military leader. But we get zero information on who this guy is. Why does he collect lightsabers? What is he fighting for? Why does he follow Palpatine? All we know about him is that he likes to fight Jedi and he's not very smart, even though he's a general. I feel like this character only exists because Dooku dies in the first five minutes, and Lucas didn't think at all about what personality or motive to give him. Grievous should have been set up in a previous movie. I can imagine it being cool for Obi-Wan to kill him if they'd had an established rivalry. Like, okay, the idea of a guy who fights using lightsabers by using technology instead of the Force has some merit, but Grievous is basically just a blunt idiot who's not an equal challenge for our heroes at all, so his death emotionally means nothing to us. It's merely the last thing Obi-Wan does of note before everything goes to hell.

Star Wars Epic Duels
Having looked this up now, I see that you choose a character who has a friend with him, like Luke gets Leia, etc. Several characters get generic clone troopers or battle droids? Like, what? Who is going to choose Count Dooku and his Super Battle Droid assistant when you can choose Han and Chewbacca or whatever? Very odd.

Guide to the Races of Star Wars
No joke about Twi'leks? Very odd. I enjoyed the Germans and Coneheads jokes, but this is definitely weaker than his Star Trek video.

Darths & Droids
The only Star Wars-related webcomic I've read, or know of, Darths & Droids takes the idea of DM of the Rings and... that's it. It's just DM of the Rings, but with Star Wars.

I enjoy the attempt at giving Star Wars as different a plot as possible while using still images from the movies, that's a funny idea. Darths & Droids is also famous for largely redeeming Jar-Jar, who's downright great in it. It's so good, that I follow the comic and read every new one to come out. It'll be impressive to see if they can make Luke's death in TLJ be less awful.

Chad Vader
I've heard of this, but it's way too much for me to watch, sorry. I'll have to not rank this one.

Obi-Wan/Qui-Gon vs Darth Maul Duel
I'm of two minds on this one. Like RLM said, there's no emotional weight to this duel at all. It is purely a duel between swordsmen. But it's also the only visually interesting thing in the entire movie. Why is there a power generator in the Naboo palace? Who cares! It's a weird Star Wars-y place for a fight scene. I don't know, honestly. Darth Maul revealing his double lightsaber is a legendary moment, but Duel of the Fates is really doing most of the work to make this duel work, and it's not quite able to pull it off. This is probably the best part of PM, but I wouldn't say it's good, exactly.

Chelli Aphra
I just spent like twenty minutes reading her Wiki article. Um... I don't really know what to say? She seems like a fairly standard adventurer archetype who falls in with Darth Vader. Sorry, I've got no insights here.

Yoda vs Palpatine Duel
Okay, I get it. Obi-Wan vs Anakin is the technical duel, where you have master swordsmen doing flips and stuff. They have the emotional core of two friends fighting. Yoda vs Palpatine is the Force duel, where you have guys who are wiser (at least in terms of knowledge of the Force) so that they're more One with the Force dueling using more overt magic powers, and they're the masters of the two other guys who are fighting (even though Yoda isn't really Obi-Wan's master, ESB be damned). Also, the duel takes place in Palpatine's office and in the senate chambers, the two places Palpatine has spent decades trying to corrupt. Conceptually, all of this makes sense and should work.

Does it actually work? Kind of! It is visually interesting to see Yoda flip around Palpatine in a circle while he stands in a floating senate pod thing. It's cool to see Palpatine chuck Senate chairs at Yoda and Yoda use the Force to stop them. It's all very spectacular. But again, there is zero emotion to this fight. The audience knows that neither character can die, and the characters themselves don't really know each other beyond their professional duties?

This is a hard duel to rank. I would probably call it the second best in PT, after Anakin vs Obi-Wan, though.

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Started: July 6, 2005