The Force Awakens [SPOILERS! DO NOT ENTER!]

[FallenKnight]

To @Rinzler

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Lightsaber duels feel heavy and slow. Most lightsabers are light and allow quick and intense combat. In the movie they act like they are swinging a Axe and its a pain to watch them get hit by those slow dodgeable strikes

Well, you forgot the fact that from the 3 characters to carry lightsaber in this move, only 1 of them had a slight idea how to move it accordingly and it was Kylo Ren. Finn had no idea at all how to fight with it and due to its light weight he was easily knocked off and had his saber thrown away. Rey on the other hand participated bad from the start and after she let the force guide her - the force did compensate for her lack of skill.
Key moment was that awakening and its the reason why the movie carry this name. The force awakens - within Rey, turning her from simple force sensitive human in to a potential, strong in the light side - future padawan learner.
In the movie it was very distinctive to see how these 3 characters carry the legendary weapon and how each one of them represented a kind of style:
- Finn was the "amateur", simple human who was given a lightsaber, trying to use it as an old sword/axe.
- Rey was the "learner", who let the force to guide her hands and overall predict Kylo's moves, so her style was more close to those young lings from clone wars or simple padawans - no combat style but guided by the forces.
- Kylo was the "master", but not a master close to anyone we've seen. He simply had an obvious combat style, sadly - too rusty due to the lack of fighting against jedi and definitely out of performance. Still, he did well but he did not had the support of NEITHER the light nor the dark side for he was inbetween them, confused (which was part of the plot of his development). The reason why he survived was due to that crack in the land...not that Rey would've kill him but if they kept going - Rey would definitely score a killing blow.

You made a point but your accusation sounds like you did not paid attention to why these characters performed so "bad".

PS: Using lightsaber means to have both fighting style (wont type their names) and use the force or the dark side. Once you have either duo of these implemented in yourself while using it - then you can do such quick strikes and deflections. Otherwise - you would perform just like Finn. Its great the movie had such moments. I've noticed them and was happy to see something new. Yes this was not an epic battle like Anakin vs Kenobi nor Yoda vs Dooku but it's new and was fun.

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