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Re: Upon Further Review...barrier answer
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Date: 
Tue, 25 May 1999 07:34:10 GMT
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On Tue, 25 May 1999 06:17:29 GMT, "Lorbaat" <eric@nospam.thirteen.net> wrote:

> In lugnet.starwars, Todd Lehman writes:
> > In lugnet.starwars, legoverse@geocities.com (Terry K) writes:
> > > What I want to know is why OBK couldn't run fast enough to make it all
> > > the way through the barriers.  Remember how fast he and QGJ moved when
> > > they were on the ship and facing the destroyer droids?  Then they were
> > > moving at "ludicrous speed"
> > 
> > Yeah, how did they do that, anyway?!  They couldn't've fooled the battle
> > droids -- they're immune to Jedi mind tricks, right?
> 
> Jedi Speed.  It's a commonly (read, in more than one Star Wars book/game/etc)
> used Force ability.
> 
> My personal guess as to none of them- Obi-Wan, Maul, or Qui-Gon- used it to get
> through the barriers is that they were busy using the Force in other ways, like
> to heighten their reflexes.  If one person swinging a saber in combat's doing
> it, it's probably close to suicide for his opponent not to...

But... but... but...  OWK was doing _one_ thing - trying to run through the
barriers.  If that is not a good time to use speed, what is?

So that is not a good, complete answer.  Unless in some later movie OWK, in
retelling this story, smacks his forehead and mutters "I shoulda use Jedi
speed!".

-- Terry K --



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  Re: Upon Further Review...barrier answer
 
(...) Let's see... he books it really fast into the little room with Maul, who uses his souped up reflexes to chop him down, because Obi-Wan's natural reflexes are unable to let him block the strike. A good time to use speed, to me, would be when (...) (27 years ago, 25-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)

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  Re: Upon Further Review...barrier answer
 
(...) Jedi Speed. It's a commonly (read, in more than one Star Wars book/game/etc) used Force ability. My personal guess as to none of them- Obi-Wan, Maul, or Qui-Gon- used it to get through the barriers is that they were busy using the Force in (...) (27 years ago, 25-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)

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