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Originally Posted by Coach
Best lightsaber duel ranks. Not just skill and choreography, but emotional stakes.
Anakin v Obi Wan (Ep. 3)
Ashoka v Vader (Rebels)
Vader v Skywalker (Ep 6)
Vader v Skywalker (Ep 5)
Obi Wan/ Qui Gon v Maul (Ep. 1)
Rey/Ren v Red Guard (Ep 8)
Rey v Ren (Ep 7)
Rey v Ren (Ep 9)
Nothing else is really that memorable as far as emotion goes. There are lots in the prequels, but none of them have much for stakes. I was surprised where the Duel of the Fates came out on my list, because as a kid it drove me nuts. IN hindsight, it's well choreographed and cool and Qui Gon's death adds a lot to the stakes, but the actual emotion between the characters isn't there, because we really didn't know Maul at all. That music though.
If you havent seen the Ashoka/Vader duel, I recommend watching all of Clone Wars just to enjoy that piece. So well done. It feels like Vader's final turn away from Anakin. Makes me wish parts of the Clone Wars was actually Ep 1 and 2 instead of what we got.
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I liked the Dooku vs Anakin fight at the start of Revenge of the Sith. When Dooku and Anakin were fighting and Dooku says something like "You have great anger and fear and you should use it" And Anakin's style changed at that point and became more hard hitting and brutal and he battered down poor Dooku as a great piece of story telling.
When you look at Ashoka vs Vader, the one thing that stands out, Vader isn't fighting some sword fight, his style is powerful but a bit clumsy because of his suite, he's still pretty much in his early days of being Vader, he's intensely powerful and hard hitting, but you sense that he's still a man hampered by the suit he's in. Even in his fights against Luke, it was the same thing, he wasn't using technique, he was just beating the crap out of his opponent and over powering them.