I like how Barriss is like “oh yeah I’m gonna fight Anakin” initially and when he starts taking it seriously she’s like “wait oh no FUCK, I’m fighting Anakin Skywalker”
Barriss: The only thing the Jedi Council believes in is violence!" Anakin: "And I'm not the Council." Also Anakin: *peacefully ignites second lightsaber with murderous intent*
I love that when Barriss pulls out Ventress’s sabers, Anakin says “you should have gotten rid of them!” Like, he’s disappointed she kept the evidence 😂
If her new found position was an actual protest, she didn't need those sabers and had every reason to get rid of them. Her keeping them means her thoughts on the jedi weren't really much more than her simply being seduced by the darkside. Anakin would have actually respected her more if she wasn't just another person back sliding their convictions.. The great irony of his character is how he goes so far beyond her when he falls but he probably does see something of himself in her.
@@jonno9238 That’s a good point, Anakin would respect someone making their own path and not being constrained by the Jedi order so long as they weren’t completely evil.
@@wiiplayxbox360I would. Now that he is a sith he would probably think Barriss was right if anything. He also probably wouldn’t care about what happened with Ahsoka considering how quickly he turned against Obi-Wan (who mind you was probably the only jedi closer to him than her) and the fact that after discovering she survived in rebels the first thing he did was try to kill her himself
@@manitobant6738Obiwan doubted Anakin initially in the Phantom Menace. He trained hom only because it was Quigon’s dying wish. Yes they got close, bit there was this shadow of doubt which this relationship was built upon. Also in deleted scenes from ROTS Palpatine manipulated Anakin into thinking Owi-wan and Padme had a relationship, which explains “you’re with him, you brought him here to kill me” and instant transition to rage/violence when he sees Obiwan on Padme’s ship
I love how everyone has their lightsabers drawn just in case, but they just don’t step in because EVERYONE is like “nah, it’s fine, Skywalker’s got this”.
Anakin Skywalker, the one known as the chosen one, war hero, destroyer of armies and disciple of the greatest defensive master ever. I If i was staring at that fight i’d just be thinking “yeah if he loses we’re all dead”
I love how the stakes are so clear in this fight. In a normal duel to the death, Anakin would absolutely paint the walls with Barriss, but he needs her alive for her confession, hence why Barriss so often seems to have the upper hand as she's completely fighting to kill. But the moment she pushes him back enough, as well as brings things close to younglings who she could seize as a hostage, Anakin lets his Vader rage kick in and it's over in moments.
The cool thing about this show is the detail they put into mannerisms. Look at how Obi-wan fights and compare it to Anakin. Obi-wan fights more lightly on his feet. Anakin prefers to be a spear often closing the gap in a fight.
lol it’s literally who he is, thats him using the dark side because he wasnt winning 😂 he’s destined to become that as part of his prophecy, not to get deep or anything
@@lastmanstanding7155 well this happens Dew to deferend form of combot Obi wan use the third form which use defend Base movement Anakin use 5 which is an aggresive form of combat
It’s called form V the way of the Kyrat Dragon ((Massive lizard from tattoine the bones in episode four are the remains of one)) it’s very much a counter and heavy attack style. The user focuses a lot on returning blaster bolts and parrying and overpowering opponents.
Can we just take a minute to admire Anakin in this arc? While everyone is convinced that Ahsoka is a murderer, he is being a detective and working his ass off to find the true culprit and succeeded Edit: ALMOST everyone as Rex, Padmé, Obi-Wan, Plo and Yoda also believed in Ahsoka’s innocence and even though he DID find the true culprit, she still left the order
First pair of temple guards: ‘Cease hostility!’ Second pair of temple guards: ‘We trust the other two guards already told you to cease hostility, so we can save our breath.’
I can't believe nobody's pointed out the excruciatingly irony during Barriss' speech. She's essentially saying "we are responsible for this war and the pain it has caused" to the very man who caused the Jedi Order to be responsible for the war.
But it's something so obvious that no one _needs_ to point it out. _Everyone_ who's watched the prequels knows it because it's explicitly _shown_ who Palpatine is.
"The only thing the Jedi believe in, is violence!" Gotta love how at THAT moment is when Anakin takes out his own Saber like "OH I'LL SHOW YOU VIOLENCE FOR BETRAYING MY PADAWAN!" lol
This arc shows that, just because a villain has a point, they are not in the right. Despite having a noble motive, Barris has clearly succumbed to the dark side. First she kills a bunch of innocent people, frames her friend, says that Ventress' red lighrsabers "suit her" and then, despite having the opportunity to flee after kicking Anakin from that height, still chooses to come down and fight him.
Sounding like a model Jedi, warping things to come up with excuses to genocide any force using group that isn't yours. Me being a wiseass aside, you're taking a few things out of context. Bariss didn't "succumb to the dark side" or else her eyes would be yellow. They're very much blue here. Bariss 's mentality isn't that of a sith, but more of an anti-jedi. Generally fluctuating anywhere from chaotic good to lawful neutral in the way she acts, since her entire goal is essentially reforming the Jedi order since the Jedi have long lost sight of what they're supposed to stand for. So for Bariss to say that the red sabers suit her is more of aking the lines of Ashoka's "I'm no Jedi" line from rebels. But Bariss knew from the start that if she didn't try to deal with Anakin, he'd come after her since guy is literally the Jedi version of Eren-fucking- Jaeger with how dogged and driven he is.
@@wholesome_masochist4113Dooku's eyes were almost always normal, too. Much like Barris, he did what he did because he was dissatisfied with the Jedi order, yet still lost his way. You don't have to be a Sith to succumb to the dark side either.
@@wholesome_masochist4113 The means to the end and the catastrophic consequences of that pursuit IS succumbing to the dark side. In fact that's the central lesson Star Wars teaches about the Dark Side: it is seductive, appears to be the easy path, often paved with good intentions, and only when you are knee-deep in it do you realize that you've succumbed to it without even realizing it. Dooku, the Sith Lord Darth Tyranus, is absolutely succumbed to the Dark Side with the murder of SIfo-Dyas and Yaddle. In regards, Barriss, if bombing the Jedi Temple, killing innocents, murdering her co-conspirator, and framing two individuals (one a friend, and the other Ventress) who weren't involved isn't succumbing to the Dark Side, I don't know what is. And to note, Palpatine's eyes aren't yellow when he's out and about as the Chancellor. They aren't yellow until he fries himself dueling Windu.
@@joejoejoe532That's because Palpatine is using a Force Mask, in reality the Dark Side deformed his face but he uses a fake mask to hide it, it was absolutely destroyed when Windu deflected his Force lightning. EDIT: Apparently he also got his face even deformed by the Force lightning, it was a mix of both things
I always liked how Anakin uses physical hits as he progressively starts to turn. He kicks and punches in the middle of the fight, surely distracting and demoralizing his opponent. You see it more when he becomes Vader. He just pummels his opponent with brute force, especially with those heavy gauntlets and cybernetic hands he gets shackled in.
Well it only makes sense. Hes like 6`3 and propably weighs around 230lbs of muscle lol. It nearly doesnt make any sense that the fight even lasted that long, considering the physical difference, shes half his size
@@Bavarian_Liftinghe was holding back quite a bit for most of the fight. Probably because it would look bad if she showed up to the trial missing an arm.
@@skull1161 yes but that goes for both. If both use the force to enforce their physical strength, the person whos body is stronger to begin with has a massive advantage nonetheless. Yoda is the exception because he is Yoda
@@DoctorWhoKage The Wookiepedia says she was born around 40 BBY(I didint knew that, shes some years older than Ahsoka, what explains why she was so wise-looking around Ahsoka), and by that, i think she was 19-20 by the time of this episode(which may be happening around the second year of the Clone Wars), and Anakin was about 20-21(He was about 1 year older than her). Considering that Anakin was 10 years old when he joined the Order, and Barriss was probably like the other normal Jedi and joined around 3-4 years old, she had more training than Anakin(What explains why she could hold on the fight against him) as a Jedi. But Anakin was the chosen one by that time.
It’s insane how Vader-esque his approach here actually is. Formally addresses the issue & unhesitatingly activates his lightsaber because he’s 99% certain that Barris is guilty. Rash, but dominant. Throughout the fight, he’s trying to subdue until he gives in to his rage and uses his physicality to overpower a weaker opponent: peak Vader moment. The way he speaks & approaches the situation in this clip has HEAVY Vader vibes and you have to appreciate that as it shows you that Vader’s always been caged inside Anakin, they’re not 2 separate beings - they had always been one and the same till Anakin fully embraced his inner darkness.
Honestly, the only reason I think she lasted as long as she did against Anakin was because he needed her alive. If he'd wanted to, he could have ended her shortly after the fight began. Also, it always bugged me that Master Luminara wasn't present at all during this arc. This was her padawan after all, and the two were practically inseparable. I'd imagine Barriss turning into a terrorist would hit her pretty hard.
remember what she said to anakin on geonosis, “unlike you i am ready to give up my padawan”, i believe luminara was a huge reason in barriss’ fall, she’s a good person at heart but she is extremely arrogant with an uncomfortable sense of superiority and a dogmatic, rigid view of the force and strict adherence to the jedi code that makes her one of the symbols of the orders failings, the jedi were supposed to serve the force, not the code
Tbf I don’t think Anakin would have a problem with disabling or cutting off Barris limbs. The main reason she lasted as long as she did is more due to the fact Anakin wasn’t necessarily a god level fighter at this point other than some decent attempts at fighting Dooku. If it was ROTS Anakin I don’t think she’d even land an attack but would be fighting for survival.
@@ethantombs2608 Why? I doubt Anakin would have finished his swing and cut her in half if she hadn't defended herself. That would have been incredibly hard to justify to the rest of the Jedi Order.
All she had to do was to keep her cool. Anakin was testing her by swinging that lightsaber at her. If she didn't fight back, Anakin would think that Barris was innocent
Bariss: "The only thing the Jedi order believes in is violence!" Also Bariss: *casually bombs the Jedi temple, killing many people and then trying to kill Anakin*
Yes but she got drawn to this the same reason why those Anti-Clone faction helped bombed the Temple to begin with Barris like Ahsoka witnessed the hypocrisy of the War and the Jedi’s part in the War In truth the CIS isn’t evil, only it’s leadership is. The common Separatist member wishes to secede from a corrupt Republic and start over in a Confederacy that promises a Government where businessmen or politicians doesn’t have too much power In reality the CIS leadership is dominated by businessmen and Sith Lords, that run this sham Independent movement to help Palpatine become Emperor, and run all sort of corrupt and illegal activity that publicly brutalize the CIS as a whole In hindsight the CIS, outside their leadership didn’t wish to bring harm to the Republic, simply secede and coexist The Republic didn’t fight the CIS, because they run slavery or have an army that threaten them. They simply threaten their Sovereignty, while threatening with the existence of a Droid Army The Clone Wars in some ways was a War of ideals between those who remain Loyal to the Republic and those that want to Secede and start over. Not unlike the RL Cold War ideals between Capitalism and Communism Half the time, the CIS truly did commit War Crimes. But that was under the command of the true dark leaders of the movement, with aid of Droid Armies under their control The Republic had their fair share of offenses For Barris, she witnessed Jedi who were supposed to be Guardians of peace and become super solders blindly following orders of a corrupt Senate. The worlds they “liberate” ultimately become occupied under Republic control, setting the stage of future Imperial Worlds Barris saw the truth that the Jedi were unknowing serving the Dark Side. Helping to expand the Republic borders, helping Palpatine become more powerful. Ultimately helping the Republic transform into an Empire before it became one officially Barris knew no one would listen to her through normal means. So she helped Anti-Clone Radicals bomb the Jedi Temple out of protest, to try spread her message in a dark way, that the War was wrong, and the Jedi through their apathy are responsible for it Her methods was wrong, she clearly gave into the Dark Side at that point. But she was right in her motive and point of view.
@@christophersanchez7731 if she really wanted to spread the message after bombing she herself would have surrender to republic and given her message, but she framed ashoka for it which dosen't make any sense, if she is not giving the message that need to be given then what is point of bombing, and again she could have destroyed ships without clones and humans in it to give the message,why killing them at all
I honestly love the fact that even though Anakin clearly didn't trust Ventress in this arc, given how many times they had crossed sabers during the war, he also gave her the benefit of the doubt and followed up on the lead that she had provided. The way he also so subtly calls out Bariss in her quarters, not only in taking her saber moments after walking in and acting like he's just inspecting it, but even in his line of questioning. He's completely calm, makes it seem as though Barriss isn't in any trouble, just wanting to get to the bottom of everything, and even just the way he raises his eyebrow when Barriss basically matches up perfectly to what Ahsoka and Ventress had told him. I loved the way he got his read on her without giving anything away until he forced her hand.
The entire fight is amazing, and the details are astounding. Anakin’s clear strength over her, for one. When she force pushed Anakin it was like he tripped, but with little effort Anakin trapped Bariss against a tree so strongly she couldn’t move. How the temple guards say “cease hostilities,” warning both of them to stop. Also when Anakin gets kicked down from the building, the Jedi training the younglings pulls out his lightsaber immediately, and as Bariss and Anakin fight, he remains in a defensive posture to defend the younglings if necessary. Also several of the younglings are from a story arc earlier in the show, as is the master training them. The whole fight is amazing, and is in my top three favorite fights from the show.
The Clone Wars are astoundingly good at recycling characters to make the show feel like a consistent world. Even side characters like the various bounty hunters, Clone Troopers, younglings and one-off Jedi Masters like Tera Sinube are routinely brought back.
I love the old mentor, he took a defensive stance and placed himself between the danger and his pupils and keeps there. He has no stakes in the fight, his one job here is to ensure the violence doesn’t spill over to his kids, and by the looks of it, he’s ready to fight and die on that position. Honestly, I adore it. As someone in education I cannot tell you how easy it is to place some random shit kid who never listens to you above yourself whenever anything slightly dangerous arises.
@@bellgranddue to the timeline it’s somewhat correct, Asoka leaves it’s a while they see each others, the final episode he gives her two lightsabers as she tweaked them to be blue.. it’s the last time he sees her as she goes after maul, after that order 66 begins, by that time Anakin has fallen.. even Maul tried to warn her, he had been groomed to be his new apprentice from the start
@@CSTITAN576she is literally a terrorist who blew up part of the temple. You wanted Anakin to let her go without resistance while his padawan would be unjustly condemned?
“The only thing the Jedi council believes in, is violence!” Anakin in his head: Ahh, in that case *ignites his lightsaber to duel wield* let me demonstrate
Ashoka was getting closer and closer to her death sentence by the moment, Anakin was going to do whatever he had to do to bring bariss in as soon as possible.
I also wonder about the old Jedi instructor and the padawans... like moments later "so kids... what did we learn from Master Skywalker's demonstration today"?
Throughout the entire episode Anakin HATES Barris for framing Ahsoka, but throughout the entire trial rant scene, his expression changes from contempt towards her to a more concerned realisation. A realisation that Barris thought of the Jedi the exact same way Anakin has come to think of them, and at the end of the rant, he gently holds her back as if telling her that it's enough, unable to hate her anymore. Because deep down he understands her points. I feel like this and Ahsoka leaving the order for feeling betrayed by the Council, was what fully cemented his actions in Episode 3. Clone Wars was one of a kind.
You can really feel the Vader coursing through him when he's trying to apprehend her. And the only thing holding Vader back is the knowledge that he can't get a confession from a corpse.
It sure prepared him for his life as Darth Vader loyalty was a huge thing always for Anakin as a Jedi he fought very hard for his friends and in this scene to clear Ahsokas name
@@warlynx5644 I wholeheartedly agree. It’s not Anakin’s trademark form 5 with quick fancy strikes putting his opponent on the defensive. But instead he uses heavy hits, overpowering his opponent
Here after the Tales of the Empire trailer and it's so friggin ironic that Anakin put her in jail and yet, as Vader, wants to train her to be an inquisitor.
She... didn't. When she gets chucked in the hallway, she takes a second to assess her options. Re-engage Anakin in a fight or attempt to make a break for it. She chooses the latter, because she knows she can't take him. He forced the fight on her. She attempted to run away and only fought back because he kept catching up to her.
Imagine practicing your daily routines with nothing unusual happening until you see The legend himself, Master Skywalker dueling another person with two lightsabers, jump down to where you were with Jedi guards surrounding her.
For those of you wondering why Anakin wasn't granted the rank of Master by the council is quite simple. To earn that rank, you have to train your Padawan to the rank of Jedi Knight. Since Ahsoka left the order as a Padawan, Anakin didn't meet the requirements. All Younglings and Padawans called Jedi Knights and above "Masters" as they were quite literally their teachers, it was a sign of respect. Much like calling your boss or an elder "Sir" without actually having received a Knighthood.
@@imperatricedelaconstellati8523 All true, but he didn't even met the qualifications to "apply" to it (Ahsoka), so it was never considered. Even Qui-Gon that was at odds constantly with the council and defied them at every turn was granted that rank once his first Padawan was knighted.
that just makes it even more unfair for him tbh because he quite literally did all he could and saved his padawan, only to leave because the council had disillusioned her, not her teacher, they should've made an exception given the bullshit they pulled on him and ashoka
I love how smart Anakin is, as soon as he walks in, he grabs her lightsaber, to force her to use Ventress’s. Subtle, and excellent attention to detail.
Well actually in a way ir would of been bad had Anakin not been right cuz then Anakin could of been framed by her saying Anakin attacked her which wouldn’t be a lie since technically he did but good thing she had her lightsabers
@@leopardtree2249 yeah, Anakin only ignites her saber when she reaches for Ventress’s. He initiated the defensive move first, but she initiated the offensive move.
@@Sheogorath- I thought it’s always been canon that most red crystals used to be other colored crystals like a blue or green one and they turned red by having someone meditate with the crystals pouring out their anger and hatred
@@T-REX-KNIGHT Now it's all "Every crystal is kyber" and "the color reflects the user!" where i liked the idea of having many different kinds of crystals.
@@Sheogorath- idk why people prefer the old lightsaber canon. it was lazy and didnt explain why specific kinds of jedi typically held specific colored blades, and why dark side users exclusively used red aside from like one or two of them. i just think people love to hate disney and will use any reason to do so.
Who’s here for the trailer for Tales of the Empire? I’m just excited to see what became of Barriss herself after 11 years of waiting since we last saw her being imprisoned for bombing the Jedi Temple after being disillusioned of what the Jedi had become. At least this puts the rumors to rest of Barriss being The Seventh Sister to which she isn’t.
*Anakin ignites second lightsaber Jedi Temple Guards: "Cease Hostility!" *Anakin proceeds to ignore them and aggressively attack Barriss Jedi Temple Guards: "Okay, we will allow a little Hostility, but next time we will have to stop you"
Not quite. You can see at that point Anakin did stop attacking, and just watched what Barriss would do. If she came quietly the fight was over. But instead he saw her run for the window and he knew the peaceful option was off the table. The guards gave the aggressors a chance to stop the fight, but knew entering the fray themselves would escalate the situation. So they held back and waited for a chance to restrain them, while trying to surround the fight to prevent it from endangering anyone else.
Her monologue must have been absolute music to Palpatines ears. She's basically listing all of his accomplishments to his face without even realising it.
@@extraplain2412well he was manipulating the entire jedi already, I reckon she broke free at some point but didn't see any other option than to send a violent message as, as she said "the council only believes in violence"
“It is the Jedi who have lost their way and believe in violence” So her solution to this problem is to bomb the temple hangar full of innocent workers who just want a job? Genius
Fun fact: The younglings training in this scene are the same younglings that Anakin slaughters in cold blood in Revenge of The Sith. Have a nice day :)
“An army fighting for the dark side.” “We have so lost our way, that we have become villains in this conflict.” Funny how she makes these statements against the Jedi order, as if her joining the inquisitorius isn’t EXACTLY what she just described.
Every word Barriss said during her confession is exactly something I've been believing after rewatching the prequels and clone wars for many times: that the Jedi Order being wiped out by the aid of the Chosen One was a drastic but necessary act. The Jedi Order, who are supposed to the biggest representive of the light side, have become so corrupted that the darkness are growing inside it. Before Barriss there're already people such as Dooku and Krell who used to be the elite members of the order, and yet even they turned against the creed they once hold as sacred words, what facilitated their turning towards the dark side was often the same reason: that the Jedi have become arrogant and blinded and nothing but instrument of the galactic politicians, turning their backs on those who actually needed help throughout the galaxy. I think that even if the Jedi had succeeded in thwarting Palpatine's plan in taking over the galaxy (and possibly kill him along the way), they are still going down a path that would eventually lead to the whole order being consumed by the dark side (IF they don't make any drastic changes to the way they operate their order). Had the Jedi not suffered the devastating blow in Revenge of the Sith, they would eventually become a new form of Sith themselves (an army of Sith who are equipped with knowledge of the light side in order to continue disguise themselves as Jedi before the public and is perfectly able to infiltrate in the Republic government and take over) which will be a million times worse than Palpatine who is only an individual Sith. Thus I always viewed Anakin's betrayal and aid to destroy the Jedi as guidance that came from the living force. The light side of the force has gone so off-rail that any attempt to course-correct is futile, and the only way towards balance is to have the Chosen One giving both sides a "hard reset". Thus, the will of the force first had Anakin turning against Jedi and wiping majority of them out along the way, and then it had Anakin turning back to the light, killing the only two Siths left (Vader and Sidious) along the way (by choosing to save Luke, he has forsaken Vader as his identity and became Anakin once again).
Well said. Also the truth is that the Jedi suppress their emotion to the point they're inhuman. While the Sith are consumed by their emotions that they practically feral. Thus, the Jedi and Sith are two sides of the same coin.
I always found a lot of that bullshit. In no way is becoming a genocidal, cruel fascist ever necessary. There were definitely better ways to go about reforming the jedi order. I'd also like to add that outside of them believing the sith were extinct and believing they were mostly in control of keeping peace, I don't really see the arrogance. Keep in mind that they constantly go out of their way to help and save others repeatedly and enter into a manufactured war in an attempt to help others as well as the fact that a constant lesson they seem to embody is to not look down on others no matter how weak they are. There was a lot wrong with the jedi but I dont think arrogance was one of those things really. I think it was being stuck in an unfortunate situation of wanting to be peaceful monks and also wanting to uphold principles of freedom and peace through a republic that has been undermined and corrupted (to a great extent, intentionally). The jedi either needed to separate completely or take a bigger role in cracking down on corruption in the senate. I'd also like to point out that pong krell defects because of visions he has, not because of any ideological differences; he wanted to live on the winning side. Dooku is manipulated after leaving due to ideological differences and desires to help others. And lastly, I always found anakin's "redemption" and returning to the light to be bullshit as well. What he does is save his son. Sure, it has ideological ramifications but he doesn't rectify any of his mistakes or live with his mistakes and try to make amends; he saves 1 person who he feels a deep, personal bond with. I think it would have made much more sense for him to have just been considered neutral at his time of death.
" that the Jedi Order being wiped out by the aid of the Chosen One was a drastic but necessary act. " lol the fact that you're terrible bad enough to believe that nonsense shows you have absolutely NO idea on what you're talking about at all. the jedi order didn't need to fall at all. Whatever "Darkness growing inside" the jedi order is done like that because of palpatine manipulating everyone, NOT because of the jedi order. Thinking that the jedi order needs to be wiped out shows you have absolutely NO idea on what you're saying at all as the jedi ARE the good guys and they ARE the heroes regardless of whatever flaws they might have had. This whole "thE jeDI wErE aCtuaLlY wROng" nonsense is absolute nonsense and garbage.
Seriously tho we have seen the younglings use the force before to construct their lightsabers, if they all worked together they could have apprehended her on the roof
Palpatine watching like “I expected my plan against the Jedi’s public image to bear fruit but this is exceptional. Also - maybe I could make a thing out of turning disgruntled Jedi into fighters on my behalf. Gotta get my own group of Offee’s
*"This republic is failing... an army serving the Darkside...."* Order 66 happens, Kenobi and Yoda sneak back to the Jedi Temple. Kenobi: Since we are here, you want to bust Barriss out of jail, since she was right all along? Yoda: Nope. Salty, I still am.
The last few seasons of the Clone Wars had some of *THE* best stories in the entire Star Wars series. Also I love how around the beginning of the fight sounds like some sort of remix to imperial march as if it is trying to sound like it, which makes sense as Anakin is using an aggressive fighting style similar to Darth Vader.
So basically, George Lucas was sitting at a Starbucks trying to come up with a name for his new character. He looked at the barista by the counter. Then he looked at his coffee cup. Then at the barista. Then at his coffee again. "Barista... Coffee... Barista... Coffee..." He thought. And that's how the name Jar Jar Binks was born.
they know their reputation precedes them and that, aside from Anakin, Ahsoka, and the Council's Jedi Masters, they could kick the @$$ of just about anyone in the order XD
Anakin could have beaten all of them. However I think it was clearly aimed at the girl wielding the two red lightsabers, especially considering she’s the one who broke a window clearly trying to escape the situation.
I love how this type of duels show Anakin's true mastery with only one saber, when he was using two, they were fairly equal, even to the point that Barris managed to destroy one of them, but as soon as Anakin was back at using just one, he managed to overwhelm her and got her clearly scared.
One thing I really like about this fight is how it displays all of character skill, motivation, and thoughts. Anakin completely dominates the fight-- he's pretty much never on the backfoot and spends most of it on the offensive, constantly pushing Barriss back and forcing her to lose more and more ground. He owns the tempo. Barriss, on the other hand, seems focused mostly on fleeing. She knows she can't hope to beat Anakin, so she's always trying to push back rather than engage him in close quarters. Only instance where she failed to do this was near the end after she shoved him down a couple stories, but at that point I think she was too caught up in the tempo of the fight, and she was cornered anyway, with the guards on all sides. You can also see Anakin's change in style as he grows more and more aggressive at the end, and Barriss' subsequent reaction of fear as she barely holds off each strike. It's a little dark, but it conveys the tone very well
Joseph Sosa Palpatine was sorta the star wars equivalent to Hitler. Took power in a democratic government by taking advantage of a weak undeceive government, promising change. Turn the democracy into a totalitarian dictatorship through the use of a scapegoat to blame all the problems on, and trying to kill them off, hold power for just over a decade, then die in his stronghold at the end of a war that he started and lost. XD
The Jedi Order had grown stagnant, complacent and mired in hubris. Read Screenrant's article about "15 reasons why Jedi are evil". It might be written in a half humorous fashion but IMO the points ring true.
There's more than 4 guards, the ones at the trial could be different to the ones at the temple. Could be different divisions of the guard, some that stay in the temple at all times and some that can leave it, like a rank?
For Barriss, this is the fight of her life to defend and finally express her point of views on the jedi council. For Anakin, this is just a Tuesday afternoon.
Temple guards: "CEASE HOSTILITY!" Barriss: *escapes* Anakin: *fights Barriss outside* Every other guard: "we told her to cease. Our work here is done. We'll just watch Skywalker do our job"
@@oaooo8691 I agree, but I don't think he should be the only master for Anakin as he needed a master who could also help him control his anger and know when to use it (and Obi wan was definitely not the person for him!). The only person in the Order that has proven that they have such knowledge of how to do so was actually Mace Windu. He knew how to control the dark side within himself as he fights in which Anakin did not. So I think Anakin would need the presence of two masters, one for wisdom and compassion and the other who is very skilled and can control their anger. Now do I believe if Plo and Mace should have taught induI
Always admired how Anakin had an excellent offense, and then I realized why. He spent his entire life sparring the galaxies best practitioner of the defensive style of lightsaber combat. Anything but a perfect offense wouldn’t keep up with Obi Wan. It’s poetic, even.
Yeah Obi Wan uses Form 3 (Soresu) Anakin uses form 5 (Djem So). Which is a lightsaber form that focuses on raw strength and overpowering your opponent. Which funnily enough was created by Form 3 Masters during the old republic.
