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  1. In Topic: The "higher ground" advantage niptick

    Posted 14 Mar 2010

    View Post DarthTherion, on 12 July 2005 - 02:38 AM, said:

    <!-- QuoteBegin-SithAvenger+Jul 11 2005, 08:25 PM--><div class='quotetop'> QUOTE (SithAvenger @ Jul 11 2005, 08:25 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'> <!--QuoteEBegin--> The worst thing of the ''higher ground'' line is that Obi-Wan won the duel with Darth Maul...when he had the higher ground.

    The higher ground means nothing.
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    The "higher ground" line is supposed to emphasize the already obvious parallel between this and Obi-wan's other victory over a Sith.

    You're right, SithAvenger, higher ground does mean nothing -- in and of itself. I think this is the point...a true Jedi can turn any position into an advantage. Only a Sith would deal in the absolute of "higher is better than lower." This is Maul's mistake -- and ultimately Vader's mistake as well.

    Then why does Obi-wan say "It's over Anakin; I have the high ground"? Quite simply because Obi-wan is trying to get Anakin to stop fighting. What better way to get a Sith to surrender than to appeal to the foolish idea of higher = better?

    An alternate interpretation is that Obi-wan is deliberately provoking Anakin into trying to jump over him -- just so he can slice him up. I disagree with this interpretation, mostly because Obi-wan sounds very sincere when he says, "Don't try it." He would prefer that Anakin surrender and give up the dark side.


    Nice try, but your interpretation of why Obi Wan told Anakin that it was over because Obi Wan had the high ground is simplistic. Obi Wan understood Anakin's character. He knew that Anakin was not a strategic thinker. Anakin was instinctual and abrupt. By telling Amakin that the high gound = advantage Obi Wan knew that Anakin would attempt to get the advantage by possibly vaulting over Obi Wan. What happened next? He did just that. The statement that Obi Wan made really made no logical sense. First, all Anakin had to do was run away. After all it started with Obi Wan pursuing him and not the other way around so Obi Wan having the so called high ground ended nothing. Second, Obi Wan was there to kill Anakin and end the threat, so to call it a draw was not in Obi Wan's mind. Obi Wan was tempting Anakin. And it worked. Or at least that is the way they wrote it.

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