FILMMAKER REACTS TO STAR WARS THE OLD REPUBLIC - RETURN CINEMATIC 4K
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1:43 Filmmaker Reaction
8:16 Filmmaker Breakdown
20:11 Final Comments & Outro
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In regards to the swift defeat of the Jedi, I would say that there was some characterization of the Sith there. They struggled to fight the Jedi together, because cooperation isn't the Sith way, as evidenced when he just kills his own master. So when the master exits the fight, Malgus is able to fully concentrate on his target, instead of trying to work around another sith. Fighting as a team in melee is harder than you would think and requires a level of trust in the other. It really shows the difference between the Jedi and Sith.
This nails it on the head, it was actually showing the dichotomy of the light and dark. Teamwork vs brutal force, calm fighting vs rage filled constant attacking. Once the Master lost the second saber for that extra defense, the sheer brutality of the Sith overcame him.
Oh I like that! KZ
also the theme, that Jedi are good together that make them stronger, but they are stronger when they fight to defend what they believe, thats why Master Jedi, could defeat 2v1 and kill the Lord Sith, but Sith are solo as you said, and thats why The new Lord Sith beat the lonely Jedi.
I actually think the sith master was holding back malgus from how the fight went like the saber throw and force lightning being deflected to malgus
More then likely, after all the best way for a Sith master to not be killed by their apprentice is to keep them in check, hold them back until you need them then put them back in their place.
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“That reminded me of why I used to love Star Wars” - I feel you on that one brother 🥲
Tell me about it! Thank you for watching, KZ
Same, though part of why I don't like it is a sizable part that accepts anything bad simply because it wasn't awful.
Its like they didn't like what made star wars Star Wars.
I love that your honest reaction is "why couldn't the recent 3 movies have been like that?!" and I laughed hard, that was exactly what I thought going into every teaser/launch cinematic for SWTOR, they are so PURELY Star Wars
Disney threw out decades of established lore outside of the movies and then it just went further downhill from there. "Sequels" made and written by people who disdained the original Star Wars and dead certain they can do better.
@@MoreEvilThanYahweh Still better than the godawful Prequels which isn't saying much.
@@mandalore1089 haha your funny
@@mandalore1089 you disgust me 🤮🤮 the sequel is far far worse then the prequel, the prequel and the original is sooooooooooo much better.
The sequel is god awful and a copy of the original
The orignal 3 cinematics for SWTOR are still some of my favorite game cinematics ever made.
The expansion ones are also quite good
I will be covering at least six of them, that's how many I had on my list. This being one of them. Thank you for watching, I hope you enjoyed it. KZ
@@kaizammit If you're gonna be covering multiples, here's the order in case no one's told you yet:
Original 3: Return (this one), Hope, Deceived
(NOTE: The next 3 are still part of the timeline, but involve MOSTLY new characters from the third faction that appeared to wage war against both the Republic and the Sith Empire more than a decade after the events in the first three)
Expansion Content: Sacrifice, Betrayed, Disorder
Thank you for this, Dude! Loving your profile pic if it's what I think it is. Have you tried Bomb Rush Cyberfunk? KZ
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I hope you react to the other cinematic trailers for the Old Republic, there's such good storytelling in them!
They are coming so stay tuned! I'm just trying out lots of different franchises like a box of chocolates to see what you guys (viewers) like. Thank you for watching, means a lot! KZ
God yes i need more reactions to SW:ToR cinematics. The first one will always be my favorite, especially with ol' Nico.
I hope you enjoyed it! KZ
Hi Kai,
if you liked the trailer, you have to check out the "Betrayed and "Sacrifice" trailers from Star Wars - The Old Republic. They are absolutely amazing. I have rarely seen such epic and emotional trailers.
yes please!
the reaction of the padawan to feeling her masters death is amazing. she just accepts it for the time being and concentrates on the task at hand. thats how the real jedi should be
I’m 100000% on board with more Old Republic cinematic reactions. They’re so visceral, so fun, and so…Star Wars. As you said, cinematics like this keeps me invested in Star Wars, shows me why I love Star Wars. I’m excited for you to get to the rest! They’re all so good!
I'm excited to see where they go, it's also nice knowing I've got another 5 to watch too. I'm in for a good time I hope. Thanks for watching man, KZ.
The other interesting thing with this cinematic, is that it actually shows many of the class options available in the game. The smuggler, the trooper and 2 types of Jedi, as well as the 2 types of Sith. And yeah, this is probably some of the best star wars you're going to find out there! :-P
It also showed the abilities of the classes even if they're only showed for barely a second, like the Sith Inquisitor's shield before the Trooper's missile hits him @ 5:01
The same happens in Hope-trailer, when Satele switches at the end from Telekinetic to Disturbance or Turbulance.
So the reason the Sith Apprentice won against the Jedi Master so quickly is because his fighting style is centered around super aggressive strikes using his physical strength around breaking the enemies defense. Thats why he bested the jedi padawan so quickly because she couldnt keep up with his attacks. But when the Jedi Master was fighting him, he was able to predict his attacks and quickly counter the sith UNTIL he threw the explosive ship part at the sith. The sith used that explosion as a distraction to get close to the jedi master, which allowed him to catch the jedi master off guard and put the jedi on full defensive mode which ended the fight because the jedi masters defense wasnt able to keep up with the aggressive nature and physical strength of the sith apprentice
I think a small part of it (not a correction but an addendum) is Kao Cen Darach (the Jedi master) is extremely smart and intuitive as a duelist, hence him having the Battlemaster title. Basically playing a chess match, putting his opponent into the position he wants.
So they show him using a single bladed and double bladed sabers both as a single for a while making his opponent react to a very specific fighting style, then right before a hit turning the double bladed into a true double bladed.
He pushed his opponent into a position where he could capitalize on an angle his opponent wouldn't think he could reach (him killing him with his back turned was also a good way of showing people with less experience/knowledge of fights and duels).
When the fight becomes a true 1v1, Malgus knows enough / senses enough, to know he can't let this Jedi dictate the fight or give him even a second of time to think, so he keeps going, from every angle as hard and fast as he can.
Malgus knows his opponent is a smarter fighter than him, so he takes that away.
The fight just turns into like Batman without prep time V Doomsday.
I also like how its kinda implied Malgus wanted his master to die during the fight, hoping to use it to his advantage, which shows how intuitive and battle savvy Malgus is. As right before that moment he repositions.
Boy i love Malgus ! Such a badazz.
My fav Sith is Darth Marr tho, but that's just me. :)
yeah that's all good points, especially like when Kao Cen Darach uses the sith master's lightning and deflects it into Malgus@@colinboerboom1607
@@colinboerboom1607 To add onto this too, Sith apprentices always hid their true power from their masters because it was common knowledge that the only way to advance within the Sith order was to kill your master and take their place. That's another reason why Malgus seemed to have turned it up to 11 after his master fell to the Jedi because he knew that his master was no longer a threat to him and so there was no strategic disadvantage to not show his full power anymore.
Cao Cen Darach was exhausted. After fighting a 2v2, then a 1v2, in which one of his foes stepped aside, allowing himself to catch his breath a bit, let his master/Jedi opponent hopefully kill each other, then clean house afterward. Calculated thinking and ferocious execution
Even the older cinematics are just awesome. But the new ones are just breath takingly amazing
I look forward to watching them, exciting times! KZ
These cinematics are amazing honestly, can't wait for you to react to them all!
Oh... they are coming! I hope you enjoy those videos too. KZ
I'm usually watching reactions to game cinematics when I'm on RUclips, if you wanna know some gems let me know xd but you probably will react to them
Give me your list! This channel is about sharing the fun ;) KZ
@@kaizammitSorry about the late response, been working all week and i am on holidays now :). You should watch all the warcraft cinematics they are amazing, diablo has some cool cinematics as well (Cuz blizzard's team for cinematics is the only thing blizzard's good at xD) here are some more game cinematics: Overwatch, starcraft, Warhammer40K, elder scrolls online, league of legends (one of my favourites) and also i think you should react to some game trailers from gamescom.
Also i see that you kind of sped up things xd. Like you should watch diablo 1-2-3 cinematics and from 1-2 their remakes, also starcraft 1 cinematics are cool and Warhammer 40K space marines and a lot more I'm sure you will get a lot of suggestions
"Why weren't the last 3 Star Wars films like that" I ask myself that question everyday lad.....every.....day
glad you make it
each of these ~5 min trailers are better than all Disney StarWars movies combined
and what even more fascinating about them - most of these trailers were made back in 2012
Wow, this is why I say it doesn't matter how old something is, if it's done correctly, it becomes timeless. Thank you so much for watching, KZ.
You were right. I did love this reaction too! Best comment from you must've been "Why weren't the last 3 films like that?" Already there I knew I was gonna love this reaction. Keep up the good work. I really enjoy hearing about how a film maker thinks about camera work, lighting, positions and has given me a bigger appreciation of storytelling.
Thank you so much for watching! I'm glad you enjoyed the video. I hope you stick around with the channel, KZ.
That is his best comment, and its such a raw emotion to say as a star wars fan. Sad to think that executives push merch and franchise over good and rewarding story telling. Like im a film maker whos not proffessional and you see some of the most missed opportunities of camera work and pacing in new story ...aside from the story feeling like it got run over by a clown and then by that clown's tri pod.
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The two on one fight felt like the Jedi master was dominating because Malgus (the Sith apprentice) wasn't going all out and the Jedi also used his enemies' weapons against them, redirecting the lightning from one Sith to the other, which knocked down for a bit Malgus; but after Malgus recovered, we see the change, as he channels his emotions to build up his power and his strikes become faster and stronger, something the Jedi master wasn't expecting. There's also a mistake made by the Jedi master at the end, when he launched the last object, as it exploded, he lost balance and didn't have enough time to recover before being attack by the Sith, who overwhelmed him like an avalanche.
This trailer is still my favorite of all the SWToR ones, because it takes all the iconic elements that made Star Wars great and blended them together in a short movie that also serves to present some of the core classes of the game, plus a couple of subclasses.
I liked how apprentice beat the jedi master there at the end. You could see how Malgus was slowly and slowly building up his rage and anger - which is a source of sith power and overwhelmed the master in the end. His blows became more brutal and powerful, reminded me of Vader's technique, and in fact of Luke when he finally defeated his father.
Edit: just wait until you see Knights of the Fallen Empire and Knights of the Eternal Throne cinematics.
"Why weren't the last three episodes like this?" Buddy, we have all be saying this for years.
I feel your pain haha. Thanks for watching fella! KZ
It is, first and foremost, a commercial for the game. It highlights the video game's classes (especially the Smuggler class), and the starship combat. It also introduces us to Sateel (who will become the head of the Jedi council. It's, overall, a pretty good advertisement for the game.
But it also does a great job in four minutes of telling us this whole story. We get the character of the smuggler (even though we never hear his name or the name of his ship - because he's supposed to be the Player). And a bit of the Trooper class (we'll see him in later videos). We see Sateel and her master, and that Sateel is apparently more sensitive to the force, though we see how much more skilled he is (at least in combat). We see Malgus and his master (since Sateel and Malgus are NPCs you meet in the game, they get to have names), and how nasty he can be when he gets mad, (followed up with the whole the Sith apprentice only graduates to master by killing off his master scene).
We get how surprised the Jedi are that the Sith have reappeared. We see that the Sith are proud to have retaken the Sith homeworld as their first step to their attack on the Republic. We see design elements Star Wars fans are familiar with: all the Sith Empire ships share designs that visually link to the Star Destroyers and TIE Fighters we're familiar with. The smuggler's ship is obviously reminiscent of the Millennium Falcon.
And we finish the video with both Sateel and Malgus becoming masters in the wake of their own masters' deaths. And they pull of this whole story of the escape from Coroban in a four minute trailer. It's not the best CGI animation ever (the faces, though rather flat, still express enough emotion for you to get what they're feeling.)
The only real Big Question it leaves hanging (and, as I recall from playing the game - never really answers) is where the heck has the Sith Empire been hiding for a thousand years that they could build a fleet that big and none of the Jedi were even remotely aware that they were out there.
"This is why I used to like star wars." That hurt, because it's true.
Yessss. If they only made an entire movie with this level of quality…
Can’t wait for you to see the rest of them! They are all top level
yeah :D ! The best star wars cinematics out there, you're going to enjoy them ^^
In order here is the full list if you don't want to miss one "Return", "Hope", "Deceived", "Sacrifice", "Betrayed", "Discorder"
Amazing, thank you so much for watching and supplying me with the list. KZ
Decivied is the best one in my opinion
I look forward to it. KZ
You should react to all of the trailers for this game. This, “Hope”, and “Deceived” are all continuations of that story. Particularly in that order. And then there’s “Sacrifice” and “Betrayed”, that are a different story and characters. They’re all amazing
I enjoyed this one very much, I will be returning to this franchise so keep an eye on this channel. Thanks for watching fella!
I watched this cinematic years ago and never really understood why I latched onto the smuggler so quickly. Sure the slow motion shots emphasize the "cool factor", but being placed in the center of clones and jedi at the beginning really does establish his importance from the first instance we see them. Also the iconic sounds and music in star wars almost feels like a cheat code. The degree of information an audience member (both those savvy to to star wars and newcomers to the universe) can immediately grasp onto is staggering. Lastly, the editing was absolutely on point. Before I even realized the Thomas the Tank Engine theme put a smile on my face. Really hammers home your point!
Glad you enjoyed it. The power of amazing films and if they are done as well as this, then they leave that lasting impression. Sadly, a lot of films don't do that this day and age. Quick, get it done and out the door... we need money! Thank you again for watching and commenting! KZ
Ive seen all these trailers a million times, but since im fascinated by "the behind the scenes" of how shots are made or why a certain scene is done...I loved this video! Can't wait to see the others!
This is the star wars cinematic universe I would love to see on big screen but am afraid of it at the same time. With how damaged of a reputation the franchise has I wouldn't dare get my hopes up on the era before "Rule of two" became a thing.
Would be interested to see your breakdown and description of how the new films tarnished the franchise (and what was good about them). It's been done a before, but I'd like to see it done in your style.
That would take me a while if I did it in my style as it stands. Also, I'd have to re-watch the last two as I've scrubbed them from my mind. Sadly, that immediately tells me something about those films. If a story doesn't leave a lasting impression, then it has missed its point. I like the idea of me covering it though, nice one! Thank you for watching. KZ
Im a beginning filmmaker and i really appreciate the feedbake you give on these cinimatics and the indepth breakdowns you give! It really gives me insight on examples I can use to what you are explaining to help me better focus on what I need to improve on and what I can learn from! Thank you very much!
Star wars is my favorite series and I really apprecieate the examples you give on this feedback and helps me progress my cinimetography!
Amazing to hear and welcome to the storytelling family! I've just recorded two amazing breakdowns so stick with the channel, I was very inspired by what I watched. I'm excited to share with you guys.
I'm really glad I can help you grow as a storyteller. Amazing stuff! KZ
Malgus Is the name of the sith Apprentice. If you pay attention., after it becomes 2 on 1, he is sand bagging in the fight. He is waiting for his master to take a serious wound. That way Malgus can supersede him easier.
There are still another 4 videos. I hope you do them all..
Thank you for telling me his name, Malgus. Got it! He's an animal and I love it. I will be covering the rest, I hope you enjoy them too. KZ
@kaizammit Sat-eal is the female jedi apprentice, notbhow you spell her name, but thats how its pronounced. Both are in other vids.
Fantastic, I get to see these characters growth from one to the other. Wicked! KZ
You are doing all my favourite cinematics. Love your work man. Great breakdowns. I know nothing about film and dont ever plan on learning alot but hearing some of the comments you made on some videos has made me look out for things in movies and tv shows im watching to see why im enthralled. Means you are enthralling too!
🙏🏻 Thank you so much! KZ
just imagine a hole movie like that.... O.o
I think I would melt! KZ
Man I can't wait to see your reaction to the other old Republic Trailers. They are all Top Notch! Have fun!
They are coming, after watching this, how could I not watch them!? KZ
Please, Please, PLEASE breakdown the rest of these!! They're all AWESOME!!!
Oh I will be! This one got me all excited, I'd be stupid not to cover the rest. Thank you for watching and commenting! KZ
Just my take on why Malgus was able to beat the Jedi Master: The Sith use emotions like rage to harness the force and make themselves more powerful. I suspect that having his master run through by the Jedi, and then having the Jedi throwing those huge pieces of debris at him fueled his rage and, in essence, he literally did level up from 50 to 100. I'm not an expert on Star Wars lore, but this is how I interpreted it.
yes, in this game, while all the other classes have a stock of energy or ammo they deplete as they use skills, Jedi Knights & Sith Warriors do the opposite, they have to build up from scratch.
The Jedi build focus (and some of their best attacks take, say, 5 focus points, which takes a while to get)
The Sith build... RAGE. And Malgus was more and more enraged, literally, "on fire". So this is a FANTASTIC way of conveying how rage buiilds up for a Sith warrior in SWTOR, so seamless. But then again, Malgus is kind of rage's own Chosen One....
Which makes me think of.... have you seen the reimagined Death Star Vader vs Obi-Wan fight ? It came years before the Kenobi series, and it's BONKERS.
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@@luketimewalker Yes! I did see that video, and it was very cool!
4:58 Pretty much every Star Wars fan has asked that question
Personaly i thought the sith apprentice just started to fight with much more brutal force then before when he tryed to fight with his master together, now in single combat he was more focused on just forward kill.
We all also wondered why Disney couldn't make Star Wars movie like this lol.
The swift death of the Jedi(can’t remember his name) was to show that Malgus is a brute, he has complete control of his rage and anger and uses that to become stronger.
grew up watching these and love them and love star wars and wish disney could get their crap together and make movies i this era like everyone wants and not trying to tear star wars apart like their doing now
Dude, these Old Republic games have rekindled my love for Star Wars. Play them
Kao Cen Darach, the Jedi master at one stage during that barrage right at the end lost Satele Shan's double bladed blue saber, then he's very much on the back foot and Malgus's approach was masked by a giant explosion, so might have been a bit quick, but it is just a trailer and we're then trying to get back to Satele and Nico on his ship, keep going though, they're all awesome, about 20 minutes of trailer for the original game then another great cinematic trailer for each expansion, I think it's passed a half hour closer to 45 minutes of awesome star wars footage, I'd love to see them do a full cinematic movie or series with that kind of quality in that Star Wars era.
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I'm with you on this one. The score is epic, to say the least.
The 30min collective video on yt is better than the sequels and solo put together
Something to Note about when Malgus faces off against the jedi master is that he wins by disabling the right arm. If you watch carefully, there's a moment where he swings his right blade past the jedi and then reverses the point of the Saber back towards the body, in that same motion he stretches just enough to jab the shoulder/pectoral of the jedi causing him to drop his padawan's Saber and leaving him at half his defense. Add to that, the fact that Malgus is swinging with tremendous force as made evident by how seamlessly he dismantled the thrown wreckage, and you can see how his power and precision overcame the Master Jedi.
-Side note from the writing perspective, everything was set up to be that the Master would die in sacrifice. He was never going to win anyway according to what they had set up.
thats Malgus speciality, he building up rage over the fight and because his master lost it was giving him a boost, and longer he is in the fight the stronger he is getting because he focusing more and more to the fight
"I wasn't expecting that!"
Yeah, well, neither was that Sith Lord, lol.
Also thats Malgus, who was Vader before Vader. The dude is in the same tier as the "Chosen One". The woman in the cinematic will become the Grandmaster of the Jedi Order and her master was the Battlemaster (greatest duelist of his time) and he still knew even together they might not make it so he sends Satele away and buys her some time. Also the trooper she escapes with is gonna help her make a baby who, when fully grown, is one of my favorite characters.
I just wish for a star movie like this and this mature.
They might do but it won't be for years. Thanks for watching fella! KZ
Nah 4:57 killed me hahaha the deep concern is what all Star Wars fans felt when you said that.
In regards to your question: to my understanding of SW lore one of the reasons the rule of 2 was implemented for the Sith is because they have to “share” the dark side. More dark side users means they are all collectively weaker. So when the master goes down and is struggling I would assume that his portion of the dark side was relinquished a little making his apprentice that much stronger. And he was able to over power the Jedi Master.
Also with the rule of 2: 1 master 1 apprentice. And there is only 1 way to become a sith master.
Can't wait for you to watch "Deceived" Trailer... my absolute favorite!
Great Video as always! Loved it.
I'm looking forward to seeing the rest, this really has set the bar or at least my hype for it. Thank you for watching. KZ
I am so glad I was among who recommended this. You are going to love the rest, they get better. Really enjoying your analyses
For those who never realise, teh Zabrak jedi master in the return was the, at the time, Temple Blademaster(the one considered the best duelist at the time, teaching the new generation. Could so be Battlemaster and not Blademaster). Those guys are badass incarnate in an era of badasses XD
His name is Kao-Cen Darach. And he is, in fact, a complete and total badass!!
"This reminds me why I used to love Star Wars." Yeah...
About the last fight between Malgus and the Jedi Master… I’m a film student but also a historical fencer, which is something that changes my point of view in many of this types of fighting sequences, and I’d say that even though there’s are lot of human imposibilites (obviously, it’s Star Wars), it would still be normal to be completely exhausted after fighting for that long, with magical space powers and all. So in realistic terms, it is not bad at all that Malgus finishes him off that quickly, considering he stopped fighting when he was pushed with the force.
Also, fighting against two opponents and winning is not impossible, but it’s well damn closed to be, and the fact that the Jedi Master endures that ordeal on his own is also a great factor to consider how drained he is to be an easy target afterwards.
Just found your channel today and I am absolutely delighted by the immediately apparent amount of work and care you put into your videos, I love your very detailed breakdowns, supplemented with all the necessary visual material to facilitate understanding. You give a lot of great insights and manage to deliver them comprehensively. Plus, your honest joy while watching the trailer is just bliss for someone who has loved these cinematics for years. Looking forward to more Warcraft and Star Wars ToR in particular!
Thank you and welcome to the channel! Sadly I've had to change the format due to time to edit them. Now I break them down with you rather than highlighting. I hope you enjoy the new format as much as this one. Thank you for watching. KZ
youre in for a treat with the other SWTOR cinematics! love the breakdowns, feels like im learning more about why i like certain things or feel a disconnect for other things when watching movies or anything really
my understanding for sith apprentices is that they can sometimes tend to be super powerful because theyre often unbridled wrecking balls of passion/anger - whereas jedi masters tend to be more atuned to the 'cosmic force' rather than the living force. this just means where straight up combat is concerned, sometimes apprentices can overpower. darth maul fighting qui gon and obi wan at the same time in ep 1 comes to mind.
i think blur studio did these? they also did the elder scrolls online cinematics. they go hard
I'm looking forward to them! This made me fall back in love with Star Wars man. Glad you still feel like you're learning, yay✌🏻.
The Jedi master was completely overwhelmed, it was quite something. Thank you again for coming back and watching, means a lot fella. KZ
4:57 millions of SW fans asked themself this question
17:53 - It's all characterization in that this is the first introduction to the world of The Old Republic for the cold callers (love your term here), and it's important to see that the Jedi are stronger together and the Sith are stronger on their own. The Sith way is built on personal power and rivalry, so while the Jedi are fighting with each other, the Sith are fighting each other to get to the enemy targets.
Also - the Jedi Master has been fighting two on one for a while, and the first Sith he defeated is primarily a Force user rather than a lightsaber duelist (it's like he was fighting the Wizard of the group) while Darth Malgus (the victor of the battle) is a Sith Warrior rather than a Sith Sorcerer.
What you saw was before the buy from Disney, where George expected a certain quality for his creation.
18:14 It's part of the visual storytelling, after his master is hurt, the sith gets scared, and channels that fear into anger - his fight or flight response is most definitely, fight. He's not going to LET the jedi kill him, no matter what. By resuming the fight when all hope would be lost for him, the sith takes control over his future. The jedi, meanwhile, had resigned to death the moment he sent his padawan away. Then, there's the interaction between the padawan and her dead master, and the sith apprentice and his still-living master.
If you want to go really deep into it, both the fight and its aftermath is like a dialogue between the jedi and the sith, as ideologies.
The spirit in which every act starting from entering the hangar is as follows: Jedi: "We know what they are and we are not afraid of this enemy. Go, we will defend you." - There is no emotion, there is peace. There is no ignorance, there is knowledge. Then when he sends the padawan away, "Go and do not worry for me. This is my fate, but not yours." - There is no passion, there is serenity. As he fights off both of the sith, deflecting their blows and keeping them at bay, he sends yet another message, "I am not moved by your reckless attacks." - There is no chaos, there is harmony.
Then, we start "hearing" the sith reply, "If peace is so important to you, then I'll give you the peace of death." - Peace is a lie, there is only passion. As he approaches, "You will not kill me. I will survive. I will show my master that I am better than he is." - Through passion, I gain strength. As he keeps cutting through the objects thrown at him, he continues, "I am the one who decides my fate, not you." Through strength, I gain power. As he kills the jedi, once again, "And that is why you were doomed from the start." - Through power, I gain victory.
Then both the jedi and the sith say their final pieces as they confront their masters - the padawan, contemplates that death is not an end - but the beginning of a journey, "There is no death, only the force", while the sith goes to his master and confirms the last part of his own code by breaking the chain of command, killing him and ensuring his own ascension: "Through victory my chains are broken."
It adds up from the beginning that the story is being told from two perspectives at the same time. The jedi are on a station above the sith homeworld, in ruins. We can only surmise they were at least part of the reason why it's in ruins, and that they're blockading people from landing or taking off. More than that, we learn that the world is being desecrated by smugglers looting the graves. The jedi are implied to be the ones in the right, but they are quite literally occupying a former enemy's homeworld and making sure it remains uninhabited. They're not necessarily 100% in the right here. The sith are the aggressors, yes, but to themselves, they're liberators, while to the jedi, the republic are only keeping the peace by preventing resettlement. We see the "good guys" winning, Nico and Malcolm (presumably) slaughtering the empire's troops, but at the same time we see an uphill battle to retake what was theirs to begin with. It culminates with the sith themselves boarding the station, and from then on the philosophical back and forth in the form of combat is had.
It's all on purpose, so you can view the scene from either point of view, because the game itself also allows you to play from either point of view. It's a little curious that you haven't picked up on those subtleties - if you don't know too much about star wars I can understand not getting the philosophical choreography, but the rest is stated and shown in the trailer.
Malgus, the Sith Apprentice, was holding back during the fight until the point that his Master, Darth Vindican, was injured. He was planning on succeeding his Master.
My kind of villain! Love it! KZ
Would love to see your reactions to the other Old Republic cinematics
I will be covering the other 5/6 cinematics. This was me trying it out and yeah, loved it. I want more please! Thanks for watching and commenting, KZ.
I think these cinematics really drew what a lot of invested Star Wars fans believe what the universe should entail. Which lead to the great disappointment of what we received following the prequels in terms of saber duels and the scale of the stakes. While they were bigger, they felt more detached and random than impactful and relevant.
Great vid, glad to see a video made on this.
10:34 Tip: Always be heard before you are seen, so new people you meet know you're the main character.
Every Fan: "Why did her master stay behind when there was no reason to?"
“Why weren’t the last 3 films like that?!”
That’s what we all said mate, that’s what we all said.
I feel your pain fella, I feel it. KZ
As a film maker, if you liked this cinematic you'll love the one called "Sacrifice". That one is so powerful.
I'm very excited to watch it now! You've hyped it up for me. Awesome sauce. Thank you for commenting, KZ.
@@kaizammit you won't regret it. I'll watch your reaction the moment you post it.
The Jedi Master was tired by the time Malgus reached him. He thought that he could defeat the Sith Apprentice via his telekinesis.
Great idea for videos. Always love that games look more and more cinematic.
Thank you! Someone noted the camera focus during lightsaber duels. One of the biggest issues I found with the Kenobi series was the screen shake during the duels. Felt like I was going to vomit trying to get through it. Lightsaber duels have to have that unique focus to bring people in.
They lost the art of it with the new Star Wars, it's just old fashion action camera work.
remember when starwars actually had their actors take swordsmanship lessons, and the choreographed fight scenes were well paced and practical with the actors putting in the work to learn the moves and timing? Makes me really miss the prequels XD
and this animation, damn, makes me want an Old Republic aniamterd show
That throwing saber block is to Jedi, it really is one of my all-time favorite scenes ever. Nico (the Smuggler) is crazy funny well written. One of the more entertaining companions and he's in the expansion. (Not to undersell ANY of the other's stories, his dialogue is just a hoot)
I'm looking forward to covering all the rest, hopefully you stick with the channel and enjoy the videos. KZ
As a fellow SW fan, it feels awesome to fan-boy with you when watching this. The Old Republic era is just on a whole different level. I really hope you're planning to watch all the cinematics (in order)! :)
Also, we don't talk about...the latest 3 movies, hahaha.
That's hilarious! Do you know what, I don't normally think of them when I think of Star Wars, tells you something right?! I want my videos to be like we're hanging out and then at the end, I tell you something nerdy from the filmmaking side of things. Thank you for hanging out with me fella! KZ
P.S. I will be covering the other 5/6.
need more of this!!!!
Than you shall have it! ✌🏻 KZ
Darth Malgus is amazing. From a simple sith apprentice (this trailer) to the commander of the invasion of Alderaan, "the Devastator of Coruscant", one of the most influential Darths in the Sith Empire, "the Traitor" and just a very cheerful and powerful old man. All SVTOR cinematics are actually about his life.
The reason he was able to beat the master so close is how the sith work. They thrive in pain and rage. So when his master got struck down he fed off the pain and the rage making him more powerful.
Think Vader would have a word with you about losing just cause you use telekinesis.. Seems to recall it working out well enough for him in Empire, tho granted that was more of a playing with your victim than trying to kill off Luke..
Malgus wining swiftly i think comes down to his selfishness, his focus increases as his rage builds and he gets more into the fight, and he becomes stronger as that happens, he is not vexed by his master being taken out but almost vitalized by it.
Also someone mentioned the difference between Sith/Jedi, working as a team/your own game, again his focus and rage as it builds, Malgus is neigh unstoppable in lore i think it really showed this well..
@everyone @kaizammit Thank you for this great reaction video.
And this is gift for you Whatch this before Ashoka show.
Its so good for all people who are didn't seen Clone Wars, Rebels, Tales of the Jedi, or even didn't read comics and books.
Ezra in Rebels that moment in World between Worlds created second Universe in this moment becouse in Star Wars legends Comics a books where is even Ahsoka Novel by E. K. Johnston after fighting on Malachor she die when Vader kill her.
Even Calleb Dume order 66 comics is in part retconed you know batch season 1 episode 1
#Star Wars fandom Wookipedia.
And he has Sith Apprentice Galen Marek alias Starkiller in SW game Force Unlished 1,2.
#Star Wars Canon
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#Star Wars Visions
This is Old Republic 3700 years before the movies.
I haven't read all the comments so I don't know if someone mentioned it, but I would say the camera movements looked so organic because they may have done the scene with motion capture and with a camera guy there filming them. I don't know how would it work though, that's just a guess.
That could totally work! KZ
One of the best game cinematics ever all of the TOR ones are great
I look forward to covering the other 5/6. Fun times ahead.
To me the the Sith apprentices rapid shift in power level was a sign he was deliberately underperforming to conceal the threat he posed to his master. Notice that Darth Maglus only unleashes his full power "AFTER" his master has been severely wounded; he saw that now was his moment.
"OH! I didn't see THAT coming!"
Yeah, neither did that Sith Master! lol
The trailer/ cinematics for this game are just AMAZING! (I've never played the actual game [yet], but I LOVE these trailers!)
When you play a juggernaut in the game it feels excatly like Malgus in this video. A brutal sith warrior who jumps right into the action and brings death and destruction.
Maybe Malgus had to build up enough rage to get from lvl 50 to 100 or he held back when his master was involved because he wanted him to get stabbed and wounded to finish him off like he did in the end. It is the way of the Sith that the apprentice will kill his master, sooner or later. The apprentice know it and the master know it, too. So it is a matter of time and chances, before the master get rid of the apprentice beacuse he became a thread, or the apprentice kill the master to become the new master.
Malgus is an important character in the game and you get to know his story when you get into dungeon missions. He is a military leader and set up multiple tasks, which the player gets invited to.
I`m a bit surprised you didnt realize the Jedi Master was the same species as Darth Maul.
Good stuff, very educational, as always!
Do you know what, I didn't until afterwards editing it. I was like, hang on a minute!?! 🤔. Thank you for watching another video of mine, glad you enjoyed it. KZ
Here's another thing about fighting against two opponents (this comes from my HEMA experience), it is very much possible to exploit the motion of one opponent against the other, like how the Jedi master redirected the lightning
Two opponents getting in each other's way are inferior to one of them have the freedom of movement and having the ability to really fight in their own style
So it's not just Sith vs Jedi, though it is used for that, there's a practical element to it too
You know, Malgus killing his master really is, in my opinion, is a reference to the rule of two, even though Darth Bane's time was still a long, long way off (at least 2,500 years later from Malgus' time). As it was, the rule of two states that there can only be two Sith at any given time, a master and an apprentice. However, this concept stipulates that even though there aren't as many Sith fighting each other after Bane's time as considered to Malgus' era, the traditions of Sith infighting never changed. Sooner or later, one of the two will end up killing each other for the sake of enhancing their own power. Either the apprentice kills his/her master and takes their place, or the master kills the apprentice and simply replaces them with another, and the cycle continues. You can even experience this yourself by playing Star Wars: The Old Republic, particularly the Sith Inquisitor and Sith Warrior storylines.
Why weren’t the last three Star Wars films like that!?
Brother…. That is the best question in the universe ):
Haha! Love these cinematics. You should definitely watch them all! You'll even see Malgus, the Sith apprentice, return a few times!
Is that his name!? Malgus interesting... thanks for the information fella. I'm definitely going to be watching them all, I'd be stupid not too. Thank you for watching! KZ
@@kaizammitYou can read portions of his journal in The Book of the Sith. Alongside the works of Sorsuz Syn, Bane, Plagueis and Sidious.
Again a very good analysis, it's always a pleasure to watch your videos ☺
Thank you so, so much! I wish I could give you one of my members badges for such a nice comment. I probably could but I have no idea really when It comes to youtube backend. KZ
IF you loved that one, you need to watch all of them! As a note, this is the old republic era, thousands of years before 'A new hope" movie.
Oh, I'm going too... I thought this was fantastic! Thank you for watching, KZ.
The Sith are fueled by the Dark Side of the force. So emotions such as anger and rage have an extreme impact on their power level. And among the Sith, the apprentice's goal is almost always to overthrow and cast down their Master. When the Jedi Master cut down the Sith Master, the Apprentice was enraged because essentially the Jedi robbed him of his opportunity to truly best his Master at some point on his own. So his rage actually did send him from 50 to 100 like you mentioned and it fed into his attacks. It caught the Jedi off guard just how ferocious Malgus became and he was overwhelmed in a short time. Which isn't unrealistic for swordfighting.
Well this came out of nowhere :) This was really entertaining and informative. These vids are amazing, the sequel fights have nothing on them tbh the less we talk about those movies the better. Can't wait for the rest, they're really good.
Don't you just love how RUclips does that. Thanks for watching, KZ.
@@kaizammit@kaizammit Thank you for this great reaction video.
And this is gift for you Whatch this before Ashoka show.
Its so good for all people who are didn't seen Clone Wars, Rebels, Tales of the Jedi, or even didn't read comics and books.
Ezra in Rebels that moment in World between Worlds created second Universe in this moment becouse in Star Wars legends Comics a books where is even Ahsoka Novel by E. K. Johnston after fighting on Malachor she die when Vader kill her.
Even Calleb Dume order 66 comics is in part retconed you know batch season 1 episode 1
#Star Wars fandom Wookipedia.
And he has Sith Apprentice Galen Marek alias Starkiller in SW game Force Unlished 1,2.
#Star Wars Canon
#Star Wars Legends
#Star Wars Visions
If you liked this one, you HAVE to watch "Sacrifice" and "Betrayed". They are regarded as the best SWTOR cinematics
I plan on watching them all! I hope you like them, KZ.
This one brief cinematic had better filmmaking quality than the entire sequel trilogy. My gods it’s good.
Without spoilers, how do the others compare? There's another 5/6? KZ
Awesome breakdown. Would love to see them all, also lol
They are definitely coming! KZ
When Jedi train students, they help them, they strive to make their apprentices better. Out of a 100 students, you might get a few failures that join the support side of the Order, the Agri Corps. Most students will be average, a select few will be amazing. They all train together, spar, no real threat to their lives until they become Padawans and join a Knight/Master on real world missions. Even then most missions are peacekeeping
When it comes to Sith, you start with 100 students, you might only have 10 or fewer left afterwards. Maybe even only one. Because the Sith are competing against each other, its more like the Spartan Agoge, but even more brutal. Sith students arent "allowed" to kill each other, but what it really means is "not allowed to get caught killing each other." So what you get is apprentices that graduate having faced trials much more demanding and deadlier than what Jedi go through. They've already had fights to the death against other force users who are fighting to kill, whereas Jedi fight defensively, without the intent to kill.
Your average Jedi Academy graduate is always going to be weaker than your average Sith Academy graduate, because Sith training is that much harder. It's like having someone who played a game on normal going against someone who beat the game on legendary go against each other in multiplayer. The skills, reaction times, and instincts will be vastly different.
That's really interesting, thank you for the information! KZ
Those Old Republic trailer were just stunning. My favorite one was the Knights of the Fallen Empire trailer with the two broders. Just sooooo good and a great example for the concept of show don´t tell