Praeothmin wrote:How will he parry so many rounds per second? There's got to be a variance in the angle, without even counting the muzzle's movements
I was talking about parrying 1 round fired by an automatic pistol, much like the bolts fired by blasters.
I never mentioned blocking shots fired in full auto... :)
Ok. I think the lightsabre would do more than simply melt a single bullet.
Considering what it does to an armored door, and considering that apparently a lightsabre can remain stuck in a droid's torso, I think the bullet would be mainly blocked and destroyed in the same process.
When have we ever seen such use of the Force vs a living opponent?
PG rating.
It seems to me, from what I've seen in the movies, that bringing such destructive powers to bear on a living opponent has always been harder then on unliving things.
Do you mean the Force automatically grants any living being a sort of anti Force power shield, because the Force is linked to life?
We'll never know, really. We didn't see that much combat situations with Sith, the guys who don't hesitate to use the Force for destructive purposes, actually facing creatures.
There's Anakin, but he just prefered to slay all the CIS representatives with his lightsabre.
And there's also the pesky little thing called "concentration", that seems to be needed everytime one calls or uses the Force.
It depends on the task. Dooku seemed pretty instinctive and instantaneous in his use of the Force, just like Sidious.
Example, Force push:
We see Obi-Wan Force push many Battle droids easily, yet never against Super Battle droids, or even Droidekas.
Super battle droids even punch standard battle droids! :D
But it's true, there's not that much Force Push used against droids.
Side note: Force push on droids always seemed to deactivate them as well (battle droids, C3PO).
Nor do we see him Force push the Magnaguards when he was fighting them.
I think it has to do with the school of thought. QuiGon Jinn had a rogue influence on Obi-Wan, but the young padawan was quite convinced that his master wasn't doing the right choice in staying distant from the ways taught in the Jedi temple, where the lightsabre is uber glorified and you must castigate yourself for using the Force.
Well, arguably, Qui Gon Jinn's master was Dooku, I think.
It explains his greyness and intensive use of the Force on living beings.
Obi-Wan was well more respectful of the retentive dogma.
Or even General Grievious...
They seem reluctant to use the Force against living beings, while they had no such concerns against crude matter.
So in this case, it seems that Force push requires concentration, and is more difficult against bigger, or heavier opponents.
Yes, the heavier the object, the more concentration a Jedi is seen needing.
But not that much. Yoda was near death in TESB. He didn't need to stop and concentrate like he did in the swamps years later, when Sidious threw him a saucer.
It was in the middle of a fierce combat, and he reacted just as fast against lightning bolts (well, most of the time) and stopped Dooku's trick.
But there's clearly a question of focus. Concentration as focus then, not as meditation. When it comes to combat at least.
Or, since we see Obi-Wan and Anakin use it on each other in RotS, it may simply be that you need to concentrate for one or two seconds, which is ample time vs slow, dull-witted Battle droids, but thougher vs faster oponents.
You'd rather think that using that power against a Force sensitive person is one of the rarest cases imaginable, but it happened.
That said, I've always believed that we only see the tip of the iceberg during such a battle.
After all, they're both tapping energy from a same "realm", and they're located close to each other.
It's like while there's a physical battle in our reality, there's a similar battle on the Force plane.
Sometimes, there's a crack in an oponent's Force aura, and a Jedi or Sith can use it quickly to strike a Force coup.
Much like they're trying to hack each other's Force code, with trojans, sniffers and firewalls.
It's like in Ghost in the Shell, while Kusanagi can both fire her guns and try to hack into the brain of her oponent at the same time.
Or even Force speed.
Many pro-Wars debaters often argue that all a Jedi needs to do to win, against faster opponents, is to use Force speed to fight a lot faster.
The problem is, aside from Luke in "Shadows of the Empire", I've never seen or read about anyone using Force speed in this manner.
All we've seen are Qui-Gonn and Obi-Wan in TPM use it to either escape the Droidekas super fast, or pursue Darth Maul.
But never to fight.
I don't even remember them using it to follow Maul.
Maybe this power is very tiring. OWK and QGJ used it for only one or two seconds, after that they kept running down the corridor normally.
Maybe a trained Force sensitive person can actually cast an aura that forbids an oponent from using most of his powers.
Most powerful fighters could actually overwhelm that barrier, and use that advantage to use the Force agressively if they want to. Like Dooku did.
This would also mesh well with that idea that Sidious may have been casting some kind of super shroud that dismishes most Jedi powers.
But frankly, it's one of the worst plot powers ever used.
That would also make boring and stupid looking fights.
Why must they always assumed that an ability never displayed by the Force user being debated is automatically possessed by him, or that an ability never used in fashion "A" will allow such use?
That's another problem. I think this is a mistake to make such assumptions.
For example, though Maul's KE sounded like thunder, he didn't seem able to do more than that.
We know that all powers are not granted. The Jedi phantom trick was apparently discovered by Qui Gon Jinn, and taught to Yoda and Obi-Wan.
