Spoilers 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' series [Spoiler Discussion]
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It honestly doesn't bother me that much, because on a certain level, I get it. They needed to explain how they kept loosing and being ambushed by the Inquisitors on the outside of a pyramid (not exactly a lot of places to hide.) Making the action more elaborate with complicated moving platforms, or have the whole thing break into parts and spin like a giant rubix cube or something would have done the job, but made the action way more involved (and expensive) when the focus needed to be on the character dynamics between Kana, Ezra, & Maul. So: Inquisicopters it is!
Mandalorian-style jetpacks. Problem solved.
Not really. For one thing; why would they suddenly have those having never once ever used them? Second; those would be too effective because now there's no reason why they'd not just fly straight to the top and wait for them there.
Again; I'm not advocating for whirlysabers, but I get the argument. Sometimes with this kind of this they just have to go with the most expedient solution, and remember not to take it all too seriously.
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Meh, at this point the only Mary Poppins tributes I want are the ones with Michael Rooker shouting "I'm Mary Poppins y'all!"
I wish it was. And this is 100% canon by the way.
The YouTube music had me laugh though.
They were good, yes, although the previous season was better.
naw, it was incredibly stupid.
I take cartoons to be cartoon depictions of the events. If they were depicted in live action that's not how they would have happened.
Well, they've had spinning sabres since season 1, no?
Sure, to a point. The same applies to any medium though from prose, to comics, to videogames. They all have their own quirks and requirements that won't always directly translate between mediums.
How would someone experiment with that?
Two contained plasma beams spinning around a central unit. What would it do to the air and could it generate lift? Or would the feedback loop need to be shaped with angled planes to simulate something like a helicopter blade?
Two contained plasma beams spinning around a central unit. What would it do to the air and could it generate lift? Or would the feedback loop need to be shaped with angled planes to simulate something like a helicopter blade?
It looks dumb as Hell. It also didn't bother me afterwards.
There are repulsorlifts in the hilt. The blade doesn't generate lift.
Like I said, I don't think they're creating lift at all, just stabilising them on long, slow jump glides on a low gravity, high atmospheric density world. Indeed most of the time we see them using them, they're descending, not ascending, and when they are, it could just be a parabola. I'm going to go on the theory that the times they came out of nowhere, they were scaling up one of those long spires that stick up through the crust since they were the only things taller than the temple, and jumping across.
Right. So... how do Inquisitors not violate that rule, again? They have Force powers. They have red lightsabers. They fight Jedi, and serve the Sith. Are they then not Sith? Are we really to believe that, while they may squabble amongst each other, none of them hope to kill/replace Vader, and become one of Palps' rule-friendly two?
some probably would like to, but they know all too well that they got no chance.
There's more to being a Jedi than robes and a laser sword. Likewise there's more to a Sith than a taste for black outfits and red blades. It takes a level of focus, inner balance, and raw power. Also just as it takes a Jedi to make a Jedi, it takes a Sith to initiate a new Sith. On top of which there's doubtless all kinds of secrets to power that the Master always hordes for themselves, and the apprentice only gets once they finally off them.
The Inquisitors are attack dogs. Blood hounds. Nothing more. Their job isn't to be effective at fighting Jedi, it's to pick off the weak ones, and flush out the strong ones so that Vader can come in and deal with the surviving Jedi that are actually worth his time. If an Inquisitor gets killed in the process: oh well. It's not like they weren't all going to be killed eventually anyway. Their being disposable is part of the point.
They weren't picked from the Jedi's best and brightest, they were picked from the dissatisfied, the half-trained, and the rejects. Those that weren't already broken, were by the time the torture droids and mental reconditioning equipment was done with them. This is also what the point of the whole spinney blade thing is too; it's a crutch to compensate for their lacklustre skills, and a leash that keeps them dependant on tricks and gimmicks. The Grand Inquisitor was the only half-decent sword adept among them, and he was just a temple guard.
So yeah, we are to believe that none of them have a hope in hell of challenging Vader directly. Indeed, two of them tried it, and were eviscerated. If they hold any hope at all, it's not to challenge Vader, but to be the one he picks as his apprentice when he inevitably goes after Sidious. It's a vain, deluded hope, but it keeps them clawing and gnashing at each other so that they'll never even try to cooperate to either escape or dominate. Crabs in a bucket squared.
If by some miracle one did manage to become a threat . . . well there's two very powerful Sith that won't hesitate to murder them to death. Indeed, this is exactly what happened with Ventress. Officially, she were merely Dooku's personal assassin. A half-trained, emotionally broken padawan that fell to the dark side and into the service of a Sith Lord (sound familiar?)
Unofficially, Dooku was training her as his apprentice (I suspect he really preferred Kenobi, but he wasn't biting, so she'd do in the interim) because of course he intended to have her help him eliminate Sidious . . . which is why Sidious ordered him to execute her the moment she became powerful enough to pose a credible threat. He allowed Dooku to get away with it for as long as he did because she was useful, until she wasn't. The same is true of the Inquisitors.
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The Inquisitors are more along the lines of Asajj Ventress or Galen Marek/Starkiller in the old EU. Not a Sith Lord but trained in the Sith combat arts and how to use the Dark Side of the Force to overpower and defeat their enemies, but they exercise independence and strength only to the extent they are tools and weapons of the Sith Lord that commands them.
Or Jerec and his ilk.
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