Luke Skywalker in The Mandalorian but it’s Toxic by Britney Spears
I’m gonna propose something: if your combat/ass-kicking sequence can’t fit to a top 40 female-vocalist Banger like “Toxic” or “Mama Mia” or “I Need a Hero” you’re not Doing It Right.
At this point its starting to feel like Editors are using 140-150bpm as a standard for action sequences, and I cant say I hate it.
I agree wholeheartedly with every point above but I watched this first with the sound off because I forgot that was an option and what struck me most is how efficient Luke's lightsaber style is. Almost every flourish he makes and all of what, 2 entire spins?, is defensive to better parry blaster fire while nearly every offensive swing he makes is basically a head or chest level kill shot. If I had to make a guess about his character I'd say this vintage twink has probably Seen Some Shit and maybe comes from a background where resources are scarce and help is far away so if you get in a fight you have to end it before it starts or you're dead meat
deeply want a time travel fic where Luke visits the old republic and the Jedi are like “that’s not a dueling style” and luke is like “yea am not doing much dueling tbh”
I have long thought, and continue to think, that Luke's primary lessons from another person on how to use a lightsaber were his fights against Vader, and here it really shows.
As mentioned above, he's efficient and absolutely brutal. That is not at all a criticism, by the way. There's none of the flourishes of prequel Jedi. He's straightforward, and gets it done. He goes for the kill shot every time. He fights a lot like Vader- which makes sense. His primary teachers in the force were Ben (with about two days of instruction) and Yoda (old, doesn't have a lightsaber anymore).
But he had at least two fights with Vader, blade to blade. I can see a lot of Vader's techniques in how he fights here. Between ESB and ROTJ he learned a lot, and I'm fairly certain some of his technique was adapted from how Vader fought in ESB.
Even his use of the Force was efficient- using it to throw boxes at the dark troopers, or push them around, or crushing that one dark trooper. It reminds me of how Vader used the force to throw things at Luke in ESB.
In short, Luke fights like his father, because his father was the only real example of lightsaber combat he had.
