Obi-Wan's Most Powerful Ability Is A Dropkick | Wiki Weekdays

[@thekeytoairpower]

The lich king had just had the tendons in his knee and calf cut by a sword forged and magically imbued and specifically to be used against his people.... So maybe give him a break about not getting up immediately.

[@FactFiend]

In the the books not the films. As far as we know from the theatrical cut of LOTR it’s just a regular dagger and if you want to argue they’re not distinct universes that means the Shadow of Mordor games become canon and nobody wants that.

[@srenrasmussen3178]

@@FactFiend Well his tendon was still cut so I would say it is fair he doesn’t stand up right away, but besides that he could at least have attacked her while on his knees.

[@ryankunst668]

@@srenrasmussen3178 Do ghosts have tendons?

[@srenrasmussen3178]

@@ryankunst668 when they stand before the only person who can kill them they do. Honestly don’t know, guess it depends on type of ghost and universe

[@banterbus4176]

My most powerful ability is doing thekeytoairpower’s mum!

[@daniaalkhan4702]

The reason is why the dropkick is dangerous is because he channels the high ground in his legs.

[@kalpeshrawat418]

Or he climbs to the top of a high ground to perform a drop kick

[@Noone-jn3jp]

Fantastic

[@hyperactivespeed]

This is technically true

[@Fra-gee-lay]

You made my day. Thank you for this.

[@daniaalkhan4702]

@@kalpeshrawat418 he probably should have done that with black Krasantan

[@Verbose_Mode]

Turning the blade off is actually a thing in Legends! Called "Trakata", it's particularly difficult because turning the blade off isn't instant and in fact has a small unpredictable delay based on how long the blade has been on and how much it has clashed with objects and other lightsabers (in other words, handwave bull). Mara Jade (Luke's wife) was very good at it. You also can't turn a lightsabe off while it's in contact with a lightsaber, they keep each other on, so the timing is even more ridiculous. Those well-trained could predict it and absolutely did use it to pass through parries, but the issue was that it was very easy for that to turn what would have been a net neutral of you attacking and getting blocked into a double-hit, where both of you get yourselves killed. And generally, that's unacceptable in a fight. The more common trick is one we've seen quite a bit of: turning the blade on when it's pointed at someone to just instantly poke a hole through them.

[@goombaluigi8681]

Also both the Jedi and sith hated this technique

[@Dangerdude42]

@@goombaluigi8681 yeah, Jedi thought it was underhanded and sith thought it was cowardly.

[@goombaluigi8681]

@@Dangerdude42 I know that I just had forgotten in the moment

[@Lord_Phoenix95]

@@Dangerdude42 so you're saying the Jedi and Sith agreed on something?

[@ivanfrias2605]

@@Lord_Phoenix95 yeah but for different reasons

[@EvidentlyEezy]

The fact that "The Negotiator" isn't one of Obi-Wans' aliases was deeply upsetting.

[@zoltar0205]

also bold one should be in there

[@BloodandlatexFX]

I’m super disappointed in that not being included in the wiki

[@daleunsaque]

I know what you mean. In episode 1 he literally is a negotiator in his first scene.

[@BloodandlatexFX]

@@daleunsaque And he was right about one thing. Negotiations were short

[@jmurray1110]

They didn’t even call him geveral kenobi

[@wisecrack3461]

What's even worse about the clone wars is that drones tend to gain sentience over time, regularly being reset so that they don't develop a sense of self preservation or a will of their own. R2 has never been wiped and is why he act's of his own accord frequently, while C3P0 was wiped in-between trilogies due to him being a blabbermouth. The droids that the Separatists used were cheaply made so they tended to gain sentience VERY fast, many begging for their lives in combat, betraying the Separatists for personal gain or deserting for freedom.

[@lordofuzkulak8308]

Don’t know if it’s still canon, but the retcon I’ve heard to explain the Jedi robes is that the Jedi deliberately dressed like poor people as a sign of humility and as a statement that they were there to serve the common man, which would explain why Obi-Wan could get away with dressing like a Jedi. The explanation I’ve heard for Stormtroopers being so bad shots is that in scenes like the escape from the Death Star they were ordered to miss on purpose so that the heroes wouldn’t realise that they’d been allowed to escape (like with how the Falcon only gets chased by like five TIE fighters even though the Death Star should’ve had hundreds on hand that it could’ve deployed). That’s why they have a higher kill count when fighting common red shirt Rebels. To be fair to ObiWan not recognising R2, a) R2 is supposed to be a mass produced model and there’s not really anything to set him apart visually from many other droids of the same model, and b) remember ObiWan is big on his “from a certain point of view” truths, and, iirc, his exact line was “I don’t recall ever owning a droid”, which technically is true as R2 was never his property and the droids he does get shown using in his Jedi starfighter is presumably property of the Jedi Order, not ObiWan himself.

[@kevinthiago413]

in the clone wars he talks about how he dont really care about droids

[@420roachdoggjr]

It's still kinda the writers covering their own asses since Jedi are basically the only people that ever wear them

[@AbigatorM]

@@420roachdoggjr yea but thats the writers fault to begin with. why i liked anakins choice of clothes. i think some star wars channel said it best "Not all jedi should wear desert clothes like obi wan and luke."

[@Altar360]

What’s amazing is that the people who wrote for shows like Clone Wars had to take these plot holes into account, so in an attempt to explain why Ob-Wan would not recognize R2, they wrote in that he doesn’t really care much for droids. It’s crazy… like I love this franchise but it’s fun to point out dumb stuff like this.

[@rumsmuggler30]

Obi Wan also lies or bends the truth a lot.

[@greenstrix31]

@@rumsmuggler30exactly. he said he didn't recall OWNING a droid

[@the123joker]

The animated version of grievous gets brought up alot because of how much of a beast he is in it, but I completely missed when he fought Dooku for abit and it was so damn good

[@Jedi_Spartan]

Please say you're talking about the 2003 animated version.

[@the123joker]

@@Jedi_Spartan oh yea

[@shadesofdusk4031]

mf was terrifying in that samurai jack art style

[@the123joker]

@@shadesofdusk4031 all I can say is that Genndy is good at what he does, really good I still need to watch Primal

[@pennyforyourthots]

Honestly, I love everything about the 2003 adaptation except the voice. I think movie and clone wars grievous had an infinitely cooler voice.

[@jaghow1531]

Obi-Wan's line "I've never owned any droids" is accurate because both R2-D2 and C3PO were owned by Anakin Skywalker. He Never says he didn't recognize them only that he never owned any droids

[@jmurray1110]

Also R4 was most likely republic property leant to him

[@adhirg]

just like the kicking fact, the most accurate character with a blaster in all of Star Wars is Princess Leia. every one of her shots, other than like one, hit their mark and do what Leia was trying to do. such an awesome stat.

[@adhirg]

BBY means “Before the Battle of Yavin” (aka the destruction of the first death star). it was a huge moment in the galaxy’s history, marking the beginning of the end for the empire. disney trilogy kinda nullified this since the First Order replaced the Republic out of nowhere. that was supposed to be a Post-Empire period of history.

[@RyanRad01]

They actually do explore the “turning off the lightsaber” trick by it being an internal battle of the force to control the light beam and the “binding” and “winding” like in real sword fighting is also a collision or battle of the force of mind

[@TheTrapBoi]

The thing about turning the saber on and off is something people did in some of the legends comics

[@TheStrangr2112]

And if I’m not mistaken neither Jedi or Sith would use the form because to Jedi it was to deceptive and to Sith it was seen as a form for weaklings

[@biggsdarklighter0473]

I think that tactic Was called "Trakata". And it was used by few and far in between. It was also fairly dangerous to the User, since he is left without or at least half their strength on defense, if the user is dual wielding.

[@jsalas5400]

They do it in the new trilogy...the last jedi rey uses the trick when her and kylo are fighting together

[@TheHengeProphet]

I love the notion that Obi Wan knew exactly how to counter Anakin's flip on Mustafar because that is the same move he used to kill Darth Maul.

[@yunume]

Kenobi was baiting Anakin on Mustafar. He's a master of overcoming the so-called 'high ground' as evidence in Ep.1 against Maul, so he tempted Anakin into going high.

[@MorgenPeschke]

As far as retcons go, the one for why the duels in the 2nd and 3rd movies were so much less polished and showy than the prequels is pretty clever. "It's a most of an old man stuffed in a tin can, trying to beat up a half-trained kid, it ain't gonna be pretty."

[@FigmentForever]

I am still forever sad we didn’t get more General Grievous. He has to be my favorite SW villain. He was literally MODOK with battle upgrades.

[@roetheboat1]

So, there are two instances (that are animated) that I'm aware of where a Jedi turned off their lightsaber while fighting. One was one of the short stories in the Star Wars: Visions movie. The second one is during the middle of a duel in the Star Wars: The Old Republic trailer "Return". Basically, a Jedi is dual-wielding a regular lightsaber and a dual-blade saber (like Darth Maul's). He deactivates one of the blades on the dual-blade saber, and then stabs a Sith by activating that blade at the right time. I tend to prefer the "Old Republic" era (Knights of the Old Republic, KotOR 2, SWTOR).

[@randomhistorynerd1199]

As someone who has been interested in HEMA and other forms of sword combat for many years I'd like to propose that it wouldn't be very hard to counter someone turning a lightsaber on and off if that is a common tactic in the star wars universe, the act of flicking a switch twice to turn the blade on and off while trying to maintain the motion of combat could be easily countered by the opponent simply pushing their lightsaber forward resulting in most likely a double death as both opponents would likely hit each other and die, it is deceptively easy to thrust or counter anything with a real sword, and with a lightsaber, which would only weigh as much as the handle it would be even easier, although turning off and on the lightsaber would be extremely effective if not many force users ever do it, which can be seen in star wars legends where in one scene it is shown that ¿a sith? Correct me if I'm wrong it's been a bit since I've seen it, uses the technique against his opponent, surprising them and ultimately killing them. And I much prefer the idea of it being in lore a difficult thing that only highly advanced force users can do because of some weird lore mumbo jumbo which makes it a rare, surprising, and devastating attack.

[@kevinthiago413]

on the lore it really is super rare and difficult to pull it off, mara jade, the luke wife is very good at it

[@randomjunk1977]

Grievous made the dumbest possible use of having four arms and four lightsabres. More than once he swings all four into one point so it can easily be blocked by a single blade. He should be swinging all four in different angles to make a single blade block impossible but he never does.

[@cappinjocj9316]

And he should drop at least one saber and use a shotgun instead. Mandalorians had the right idea.

[@randomjunk1977]

@@cappinjocj9316 In at least one Clone Wars episode he does drop one for a blaster to kill an overconfident Padawan. TV Grievous is actually pretty dangerous. Movie Grievous comes off like a punk.

[@en-men-lu-ana6870]

@@randomjunk1977 Legends Grievous is horrifying, movie Grievous is a dumbass.

[@mandi8345]

When Ledger looked over his shoulder in the party scene that was him expecting the line. After that he just kept going until he heard cut.

[@albinre3637]

The baby yoda joke had me on my arse love the good work lads. keep it up

[@carlchapman4053]

I never understood why if a Jedi can move a full Starfighter using the force they could not just crush the brain or heart of their opponent, I would just throw my lightsabre at a Sith and tear their jugular while they are focused on the incoming threat.

[@noisy_killjoy]

They see it as dishonerable. In one of the comics Obi-Wan tells young anakin off for setting someone on fire with the force.

[@anna-flora999]

A star destroyer has no force, sith do. Iirc all living beings but especially force users passively generate a sort of force field around them making it more difficult to use the force against them. That's also why turning your opponents saber off with the force isn't really a thing

[@TheForrest05]

Playin the analytics vs stumbling into em. Well played

[@truck-kun941]

Of course the drop kick is his most powerful move, that's why the high ground is so powerful.

[@dameanbailey9828]

There was in one of the starwars tv shows where two friends found some storm trooper gear and mess around. One who was a ace at shooter wore the helmet and shot at some targets….he missed every shoot and was laughed at. He took off the helmet and said he can see a thing with it on. And then hit all the targets perfectly.

[@banditodestiny]

Obi-Wan has had 3 different lightsabers so he is not in fact the only jedi who ever had just the one 😂

[@alexbg9658]

Glad someone else clocked that aswell 😂

[@landonletterman831]

It's fun realizing that most of the biggest bad guys Obi-Wan beat, he did so from the low ground.... Darth Maul- hanging off a ledge (the ultimate low ground), flips over his head, ends his leg having career Grievous- hanging off a ledge (noticing a theme, here), flips over his head, and cooks him most uncivily

[@oops6876]

My impression was that the pure pressure of the energy coming out of the end of the lightsaber is what makes it appear “heavy.” Like trying to wield a firehose

[@Jedi_Spartan]

Also his second most powerful force power is probably repulse (360 force push) as anyone who's watched the 2003 Clone Wars knows.

[@lordnul1708]

Cal Kestis from Jedi Fallen Order does do the turn off and on trick once toward the end, and being a padawan the context he uses it in makes more sense (2nd Sister had the strength advantage in a sword bind), compared to Darth Treya (also a video game character) who used it more actively.

[@beepingsheep85]

turning off the lightsabre is what's done in the star wars visions (recommended watches btw most of them are amazingly good). I think its ep 7 the elder, a jedi goes against an old master sith, both the padaowan and the jedi know they cannot beat the sith master with skill or the force and had to resort to underhanded tactics. One being using the force to throw a lightsabre and the other turning it off and on again to get the kill. although its seen as un-honourable going against many of the teachings, even against a sith lord.

[@67mckay]

the french version of the lightsaber, lightsabre, just like how the first killer instinct on snes, has the french canadian were-wolf sabre wolf. yet announcer introduces it as saber wolf. lmfao

[@Kattlarv]

Reminds me of the "But sir, we're clones. We're meant to be expendable. - Not to me..."

[@MorgenPeschke]

One of my favorite parts of the Clone Wars series was how they tried to work around the canon they were given. I love how salty the Clone Troopers got about their situation, because of course they would. Having the Separatists play around with bioweapons to try and keep the moral high-ground from getting too skewed was a pretty clever workaround.

[@ReverseKing88]

One of the main reasons they don’t turn their lightsaber off is because it’s considered unsportsmanlike

[@christopherjamesboudoir]

I firmly believe that Lucas made the best movie he could at the time in A New Hope due to budget and technology constraints. And then he spent the absolute rest of his life trying to ret-con that movie (and later Empire and Jedi) with the original story he came up with.

[@terronjackson7755]

With the fighters old age Yoda is 900 and only stopped fighting to 18 years. Obiwan was in his 60's so he stopped fighting in his 40's.

[@Helldestroyr]

Shoutout to the dude who remade that fight scene between Vader and obi wan in the original trilogy. That was extremely cool to see.

[@do0Mbot]

Who says you don't learn anything from older YT videos?? I'm _forever_ calling BBY *'Before Baby Yoda'*

[@joshnunya324]

8:19 The Canon reason is that both sides think it's unfair

[@TheSwiftNinja1366]

you sir, are one of the FEW I give a like too before the opening ad even ends because you NEVER disappoint and always deliver an amazing experience time after time. love your content man!

[@MorganScott82]

"Count Dooku has taught me your Jedi Arts... Also, I can be a helicopter, turns out lightsaber helicopter more effective and easier..."

[@Khajitxi]

I feel like approaching a Yoda holding a giant ball of force lightning is a good way to get thunder punched in the face.

[@DjErrour]

the corridor digital dudes made a video about more realistic lightsaber combat and it was SICK

[@ll4m4k1n9]

He said he doesn't recall owning any Droid not that he didn't know them

[@justinc5967]

Just use the force to tie their shoe laces together or make their trousers fall as they are trying to run at you.

[@metrostatistics9807]

He said he doesn't remember owning a droid not that he has never seen them, he was retroactively side stepping the question

[@hatch8011]

Haven't watched this channel in years, reminds me of 2018.

[@jdp3578]

The light Saber itself (the hilt) should be fairly heavy shouldn't it? All the tech inside, the crystal, parts to focus the blade, and the material its made of has to withstand the heat, and protect the user. Usually need a heavy metal for that.

[@davidmcgill1000]

Even so it'd be at most the same as holding a dumbbell. Still balanced for holding in your hand while the saber is weightless, unlike a sword where you'd have to compensate for the weight of the blade.

[@jdp3578]

@@davidmcgill1000 true, but then once you hit something, or cross blades, or cut open a door, your going to feel sudden resistance/weight on the blade. You'll have to have a good grip on it or you might drop it due to the sudden change from no wieght/ resistance with the blade normally.

[@MultiBalto123]

deep cut. Obi-wan " hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello." god i love video games. there was a button just to say hello as many times as you wanted with Obi-wan

[@kagekitsune5859]

"Why don't they turn off their saber and get through the blade?" (Points at Legends, Exar Kun and his twin-bladed saber modified with an intensity setting for the specific reason of effectively _ghosting_ through an oncoming saber to strike his opponent [turning it to minimum to pass through, then cranking it back up in an instant to strike])

[@Jedi_Spartan]

18:51 Well... until the Inhibitor Chips get activated for Order 66.

[@TheAustralianMapper5378]

I look at franchises like Star Wars and what it’s doing and go, “You know what I’m going to make my own fictional universe with with consistent lore and logic.”

[@DuckForPope]

When you drop kick your feet have the high ground.

[@jamesbook9028]

The turning your blade on and off is a whole school in the lore but its so hard to do right no one can master it

[@RobskiBobskiPower]

To answer a few things brought up here: 1. Turning a Lightsaber on/off during a fight is used sometimes but only ever by a few, as the Jedi considered it unsporting and the Sith viewed it as a sign of weakness. 2. Lightsabers fluctuate between being both heavy and light when they power on, which is why typically only Force users wield them because the can attune with the Kyber crystal inside them and/or use the Force to aid in their movement. 3. Apparently, one of first things any Force user learns is a basic forcefield/aura to stop others from taking their weapon.

[@DjVanillaGuerilla]

There is a fighting style or technique that turns on and off the lightsaber. But it's forbidden to use. It's kind of a super high risk high reward thing.

[@notavailabul]

Regarding the Expanded Universe explanation around force use in lightsaber combat: The Darth Bane books explain that force users project a force field(pun intended) to keep other force users from interfering with them.

[@vhms123]

I fucking lost at the baby Yoda joke

[@ellec7188]

Speaking of utilization, in that one series of anime studio productions one of the characters sends the Lazer from the pistol back into the gun

[@67mckay]

STAR WARS INSIDER, has a short right now, Mark hamill ends the debate, "Perfectly executed FORCE KICK" hahahaha.

[@IGStevenWHY]

"That's f*ckin Obi Wan Kenobi"

[@domri4203]

He said I don't recall owning any droids. And he didn't.

[@killerpenguin5502]

1. Obi-wan doesn’t say he doesn’t know the droids just that he doesn’t recall ever owning one. Which would be true to the cannon of never owning r2 since that was anakins droid. 2. Turning off your lightsaber and then reignite it is considered dishonorable in the eyes of the Jedi. There are lightsabers that have been made to flicker on and off in random intervals to confuse the opponent but is outright banned by the Jedi. I will say some things are just outright stupid in the cannon but other things are well thought out.

[@theodorequakins2636]

Well, its great that jedi think its dishonorable, but sith exist.

[@MrTBoneSF]

@@theodorequakins2636 Then again, at the time of TPM, they Sith were "extinct" for over a millenium. And the Jedi in the prequels were meant to be seen as arrogant, rigid, and complacent (which led to their downfall).

[@MrTBoneSF]

At this points, droids settled into standard models for decades if not longer. They get reused (memory wiped) and passed around like used cars. We've seen lots of R2 and C3 models throughout the Star Wars universe. Expecting Kenobi to recognize a specific instance is like showing someone a pre-paid Android phone ten years later and asking them to identify it as theirs.

[@rexorchid9745]

Ah I see Might Guy's "Dynamic Entry" kick is multiversal. The kick is all powerful.

[@shadowanderson2004]

BBY stands for before the battle of Yavin. Also strangely enough George Lucas wrote the first 3 as 1 movie but decided to make the first park cuz it was cheaper. He also had the drafts for the prequels but never approached anyone about making them.

[@raccoonja5905]

Obi-Wan has another alias: During the Clone Wars series he asumed the identety of bounty hunter Rako Hardeen for a couple of months. He reused that disguise later.

[@charliehunt3281]

Day 1: this channel deserves more recognition

[@cask82]

In canon when Ben, Luke, Han and Chewy break into the 1st Death Star, Vader had ordered all Stormtroopers not to kill the would be rescuers but to corner them to capture.

[@Haaalp]

Then why didn't they use the Stun Setting?

[@cask82]

@@Haaalp Good question??? Surprisingly I have not heard an answer on that. Maybe Vader believed the force would protect them. 🤣🤣

[@emperorleachicus2199]

I thought they were supposed to be deliberately missing because they wanted to follow them back to the rebel base. The location of the base is a much more valuable target than a handful of rebels after all.

[@cask82]

@@emperorleachicus2199 yeah I forgot about that. Thanks. So many "missed" opportunities...🤣

[@Haaalp]

@@emperorleachicus2199 They could just either torture or use the Force to get the location out of them.

[@elliottreadings8029]

I mean, the first film starting at episode 4 isn't the weirdest thing. That's like, Lord of the Rings for example.

[@piercebuckley7699]

I just laugh my ass off reading the Episode 3 novelization where Obi Wan just casually slices off the tops of 3 of Grievous’ sabers like Kermit in Muppet Treasure Island

[@tk-zay5073]

In Star Wars visions a Jedi master turns his light saber off mid fight and then turns it on, impaling his sith opponent. It was awesome

[@Matan1313]

The sights for stormtrooper blasters was retconed (I think) and now it’s cause the armor is cheaply made and clunky causing them to miss. Since there was a clone trooper that wore the stormtrooper armor as a disguise in one of the shows and he missed all the shots until he threw the helmet at a bunch of storm troopers and wrecked their shit.

[@IcefireC67]

I guess this confirms that obi-wan is, indeed, a kamen rider

[@potatocannonmk3]

On the subject of Master Yoda's combat style- there's a reason Yoda is a banned character in most Soul Caliber tournaments

[@d-monfromthetip3073]

I saw a video from someone explaining that the Jedi and the Sith both saw turning their lightsaber off as bad form.

[@witherwolf3316]

BBY stands for "Before the Battle of Yavin" otherwise known as the battle where they blow up the first Death Star. It is in-canon how they measure time. It is measured in years before and after the Battle of Yavin.

[@monody]

So... Rey can beat an injured guy, but Finn can't? Because between the two, Finn had more time actually using the saber by that point (plus trained by first order, obviously not with saber, but those batons are closer to a saber than a staff is), and he wasn't the one that had just gotten their spine massaged by a tree.

[@anna-flora999]

If Luke can use the force to make an impossible shot mere days after learning what the force is, and beat darth Incarnation of Death, Walking Apocalypse, God of Destruction Vader with less training than ashoka had in her introduction, Rey can defeat an already weakened and tired Kylo

[@monody]

@@anna-flora999 You seem to not be aware of the timetable of the original movies. Not only that, there's prior implication that Luke passively had some skill in making similar shots from his time practicing piloting. The use of the force was not going unguided there either, hence the voice of his master. The Vader fight is a whole 'nother level of misunderstanding. You mean the last Vader fight, after Vader was already struggling emotionally with the conflict of his children versus the empire and Luke had been training for four years in the interim? That one? The one where Luke was being pushed by the Emperor as well to defeat Vader? Luke could not defeat anyone in his first fights, and was ok at a blaster. His main skill starting off was piloting, and they showed how he lost his first fights and grew as an individual and combatant. Not so with Rey, who had just gotten her spine slammed into a tree no less. So a weakened Rey versus a weakened Kylo. No to mention I was comparing Rey and Finn, so you bringing up Luke was largely irrelevant on top of being misinformed.

[@anna-flora999]

@@monody he wasn't struggling in the novel versions. He full on wanted to draw it out as much as possible to make 100% sure Anakin would fall to the dark side. And the original movies didn't make clear that he had piloting experience, at all. We saw him drive his hover car, and the way it was presented in the movies made it sound like he was shooting the rats with a rifle, imo. It always just made him sound arrogant to me. Yes farmboy you can hit things with your rifle, that's not the same as space combat The original trilogy was revolutionary, yes. But they weren't masterworks And the force use was "guided" how exactly? I wouldn't consider reminding him that hey, the force is a thing is the same as being guided through it.

[@anna-flora999]

@@monody and yes, in the OG, vader comes across as an old man way past his prime. Him losing to luke swinging his sword like a baseball bat kinda makes sense there But the amalgamation of fanfiction calling itself "legends" hyped the hell out of vader.

[@monody]

​@@anna-flora999 The T-16 that is directly referred to when Luke is commenting on practicing back home is a Skyhopper, a small shuttle. Not a rifle. One of the first things Luke comments on when still on Tatooine meeting Han was the fact he could fly a ship instead of hiring Han as well. Luke's piloting is one of the few skills he's initially established as having. And seeing as you reference the books, it is curious you seem to not be conscious of Luke being guided by Obi's ghost and the force, something that was not remotely an isolated instance for him when he was learning the force. One of the big things Obi imparted to Luke was the concept of feeling and acting with the will of the force, something Obi had learned from Qui Gon's ghost and a principle of becoming a force ghost. Also it was the emperor trying to coax Luke to the dark side. Vader was at that point conflicted emotionally, and yes as you admit Vader was also at the end of a very strenuous couple decades as a cyborg in constant pain physically and mentally. Glad you admit there is in fact pretext and conditions set with Luke's narrative.

[@bernadettemontembault665]

I'm not seing anybody mention this in the comments, but (light spoilers for Jedi : Fallen Order) Cal used the technique of turning his lightsaber off to throw off the second sister's parry and put her off balance, allowing him to force push her to the ground, that's a fun way to exploit a lighsaber's differences with a real sword

[@derekrivera3487]

The turn off/on the lightsaber trick absolutely has been addressed from what I understand.. the Jedi saw the tactic as not honorable and the Sith saw it as a pathetic trick for the weak so very few of either clan ever used it but there have been instances of it in the comics/ EU

[@johnson1735]

Turning the lightsaber on then off mid combat is known as trákata and is frowned upon by jedi for being dishonorable and unfair, as well as sith for showing you were too weak to beat your enemy by just overpowering them with your abilities.

[@Khajitxi]

The stormtroopers were missing on purpose in the first movie. Then everyone memes on stormtroopers so hard that writers make them shit at it as a joke. I suppose Obi wan last saw stormtroopers back when they were mandalorian trained too.

[@louischasseriaud7529]

There is a homeless clone in one of the Kenobi trailers asking for spare credits. Definitely not the moral high ground for the Republic/Empire.

[@MrGregory777]

Jon Stewart named Obi Wan's planet

[@CocoMura]

To nerdout a bit; There were force users who would turn the blade on and off, but if memory serves it's kinda sithy and it's too underhanded for traditional Jedi to typically consider. Also I do stan obi wan ty for the vid.

[@CocoMura]

Also on the topic of ignition techniques, the lightsaber throw/boomerang is the coolest shit ever don't @me

[@connorboyle2585]

Saw a star wars channel try to explain why no one does the whole turning the lightsaber on and off again trick (which shall henceforth be known as the "IT Maneuver") and despite him blowing it up as this big deal in the lore it fully boils down to "I, the guy you are trying to murder, cannot come up with an effective way to deal with this tactic, so could you just kinda not?" Same channel did a video on why Dooku's fighting style was supposedly hated and it boiled down to the same thing, the Jedi considered it dishonorable for the sole reason that they couldn't deal with it.

[@Mara-ovo]

I honestly didn't think I would enjoy the clone wars cartoon but man is it enjoyable.

[@themanformerlyknownascomme777]

you should cover the time a Profesional Hockey Team lost to their own Zamboni driver

[@jayplay8869]

If you turn your blade off your open to being sliced too. It’s a bad move.

[@TinaRoxx]

He says he doesn't recall owning the droids, which is true. He never owned R2 or C-3PO.

[@SliphtrexInc]

So apparently the video "Michael Jackson Shot Down a Plagiarism Suit by Singing" has mid-roll ads. I guess someone forgot to take them out XD. Just felt the need to post that on the most recent video because I know they're very much against ads.

[@roypaden1523]

The light sabers turning on and off was explained by saying that it was dishonorable

[@Steph.98114]

There is a form that uses turning off your lightsaber but from memory it's considered unsportsmanlike.

[@treycampbell759]

I think a dual phase lightsaber can "cut on and off" like that.

[@Verbose_Mode]

Dual phase can get longer and shorter. Any lightsaber can turn on-and-off, there's just multiple things making it harder, such as a short, random delay. There's an entire technique dedicated to it, though: Trakata.

[@airos7584]

Episodes 4-6 come out before 1-3 because Yoda was in charge of planning

[@jaredhall1457]

in kotor2 theres a sith lord who, on top of her 1 red lightsaber she holds, also weilds 3 purple lightsabers with the force and its pretty dope

[@zakkroeker1239]

7:13 kenobi does loose a lightsaber in his dual with maul. When maul force pushes kenobi into the reactor pit he drops his lightsaber on the ground before tumbling and falling into the pit, maul then kicks the lightsaber down the shaft

[@bibbus3588]

I read Z-rex as a kid and remember it being a pretty good book

[@joshuarasmussen5679]

Ohhh... I just figured out why obi wan vs Darth on the death star sucked. Last time they fought on Mustafar and they had that weird stand off scene in the control room. Well that's what happened on the death star. They were predicting each other's attacks. But they were not as elaborate. And when obiwan gave up. Darth could tell he wasn't going to counter, so he went for it.

[@FigmentForever]

BBY will forever now be Before Baby Yoda. Thou sayeth, so it shall forever be.

[@andyhighroller8217]

It still drives me crazy that a guy named Obi-wan Kenobi, tasked with protecting/hiding the son of Vader-who may or may not be key to restoring balance- _from_ Vader+Empire, and all he does is 1. Brings Luke to HIS UNCLE on Anakin’s HOME PLANET, and 2. Changes only his FIRST name to frickin BEN, then calls it a day for 30 years. Kenobi better be Tatooine’s version of ‘Smith’ or ‘Johnson’ because otherwise, Ole Ben wanted to be caught.