And while I admit that too much use of the Force would become daft after a while, the endless lightsaber fights are just as bad at times, especially when you consider how in the original trilogy most of the action was limited and it was usually a duel of wits between Obi-Wan and Vader and Luke and Vader? Most of it was trying to psyche each other out and used to further the narrative, instead of a five minutes of silent flynning while they stop for the odd quip as in the prequel trilogy?
What? OB1 vs Vader wasn´t even a duel, they barely exchanged blows before OB decided he was more useful dead. Calling ESB a duel is insulting Vader, he´s always in control, and in RotJ... there I agree the fight itself wasn´t the point, as until Luke goes berserk they aren´t really trying to kill each other. So really, OT duels never actually involve both fighters actually trying to kill the other one. PT ones did, it´s not like there was much to say until the Battle of the Heroes, where OB1 does wrong everything Luke does right 20thing years later.
Personally I like when fights are silent if there´s really nothing to say between the rivals. Considering most of the time the bad guy ends losing, few can pull being arrogant and despising and so on and not end up looking like an idiot after the fight. Only one I can think of now is Freezer, and only because until Goku goes SS, he really is as superior as he thinks.
About old Jedi, why must things from the past always be more powerful? They have several millenia less of transmited knowledge, yet the magic sword from the past is always better than the ones in the present even when there´s no dark age in between. SW wise, it would be very sad if the main thing old Jedi transmited was the no love rule which always appears when they are about to be wiped out. Ayyway, I find TOR videos too animesque, even the non Force trained mooks can match a full trained sith. Please.
About using the Force to attack, to compare with more modern stories, it´s like the unforgivable curses from HP or magic in Dresden files. Doing nasty things require the "caster" to feel them. For a Jedi, that involves giving him/herself to negative emotions, which are the DS. Guys are pretty much screwed there, especially because they have given up positive emotions too. When Yoda fights Palpatine, and briefly gets the upper hand, Palps fear serves him, Yoda only has willpower, but he´s no Green Lantern.
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