It’s sad to see how lightsaber fighting went from this to this….

[thebattledroid]

For all the people who don’t understand why he put the fights he did, He did it on purpose to show that literally any fight (not the original trilogy) can and is better than the fights in the sequels.

[rishimallepally]

It’s awesome how Kylo Ren, who has been training since he was a teenager, is at the same skill level as a girl who picked a lightsaber two weeks ago and her only form is Baseball Bat form.

[Mazarine-Msm]

Back in my day, when you were stabbed by a lightsaber, it meant you were dead.

[hzwrkpc]

Prequels had the best fights by a fucking mile

[FuzionnDaGoat]

“I’m all the Jedi.”
You wield the youngling slayer 9000 yet you fight like a youngling.

[MsCreepyChan]

"Compared to the Sith and Jedi of old, we are but children playing with Lightsabers" - Kreia

[kickballjedi]

Thank you for adding the story scene from the video game The Old Republic. I've always felt that was the greatest lightsaber battle choreography ever.

[Sirbozo]

Bro 💀 darth sidous turned airplane mode on

[cryoetta]

Rey: lemme freeze his lightsaber in place, then swing at his frozen lightsaber🤡

[lusor_lucky]

The Old Republic fights are probably the best looking Light Saber fights ever created

[cardinalhamneggs]

It was a more civilized age. Obi-Wan said so himself.

[corie_]

Old republic era was on a whole other level. Much tougher back then.

[ncleasure]

Let's remember that Christopher Lee was a masterful swordsman both on and off screen. He still holds the record for most number of swordfights in film and personally designed the curved lightsaber hilt. If anything, he was woefully underutilized.

[hjk]

“If you were to face an ancient Sith Lord in combat, you would learn that we are as children playing with toys compared to the prowess of the old masters.” - Traya

[animalhalo]

Hot damn that throw to deflect Malgus was smooth AF. I miss these cinematics. I wish We could get an animated series in the style of the old republic trailers

[Pailzor]

I was hoping the "to this" would be two old men slowly clashing lightsabers in the Death Star.

[X-man]

"They don't raise Jedi like they used to" the nineth sister

[The_Backman]

Finn wielded the saber better than Rey tbh

[XMBY]

Even darth Vader who literally could not lift his arms above his head had more technique and style then Kylo and Rey combined

[TheBriguy]

So I have a theory that revolves around this.

In the prequels (and all predating SW stories), the Jedi/Sith were trained in many different styles of lightsaber combat (Makashi, Soresu, etc.). After order 66, the few surviving Jedi, went into hiding, and stayed hidden. Anakin, now Darth Vader, was limited to his Form V (Djem So) and couldn’t do what he used to do as Anakin because of his injuries & his suit limited his movement. Obi Wan and Yoda aged and weren’t able to keep up with it. So during the originals era, Luke had no true teacher of lightsaber training (Obi Wan died shortly after meeting Luke, and Yoda never trained him, so far as we know, in lightsabers. Only the Force) or the forms of combat, thus he basically taught himself, and then taught Kylo & Rey. They fight the way they do because they don’t know any different. Hence why the acrobatic, amazing lightsaber battles died off. There was no knowledge of the forms to be passed down.