In the General Grievous comic miniseries, Grievous attempts to create a number of Force-enhanced duplicates of himself out of several captured Padawans. However, the Padawans were able to escape.
Sorry for the hijack, but how did the Padawans escape? Last I saw, he had them trapped and cornered, about to be slain by him. Doesn't bode well for Grevious if the supposed 'Jedi-Killer' wasn't able to kill a bunch of kids...
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Blackjack Simmons wrote:
-In the same Clone Wars cartoon, General Grievous held his own against Count Dooku until he used force powers. But in terms of pure lightsaber skill they were pretty much even.
Bull, Dooku was toying with him, he was merely defening and giving him fight tips throught out that scene. And then disared him with contemptuos easy.
"You're holding you're sabre to tightly!"
*disarms*
"Now to lightly..."
To be perfectly honest, I wasn't entirely paying attention to the scene with Dooku. I was doing something else at the time and just glancing at the screen occasionally. The only thing I remember is Grievous pulling a bunch of pretty-looking moves and Dooku falling back. In any case, Dooku is still obviously more powerful then Grievous.
As to what was said earlier, someone questioned why Grievous was such a big target. I think it's for a reason similar to why the United States tried to take out Saddam Hussein early in the invasion of Iraq, or why Great Britain tried to have Hitler assassinated during World War II. Killing an influential and quite skilled leader is a good way to hurt a war effort. Furthermore, it has probably crossed the minds of the Jedi and Republic officers that if they find Grievous, they will ALSO find the other leaders of the Seperatists. This we saw happen in ROTS, the Seperatist leaders only just left for Mustafar when Obi-Wan arrives. I believe there was simply a hope of "cutting off the head" of the Seperatist movement.
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Kurgan wrote:Grievous certainly acts like he has Jedi reflexes in CW: Season 2. I wonder if at this point the writers thought that Lucas intended to make him that way in the upcoming movie?
Many of us thought Grievious had at least an elementary grasp of the Force, before this was finally ruled out by ROTS itself (and CW: Season 3 seems to have gone along with this).
We don't see him using force powers, but his speed and reflexes lead one to think he has Jedi type precognition.
Now I just rationalize his CW antics as more exaggeration in the general tone of the series.
The impression I had gotten of Grievious was that he had a measure of Jedi force/physical abilities until he was crippled by Mace Windu's TK attack. This would seem to resolve the contradiction between the Grievious of the CW cartoons and the Grievious of ROTS unless I am mistaken (I've only just gotten to see the collected episodes on DVD).
LadyTevar wrote:When all your training partners use a style similar to your own, going against someone wildly different throws you off. The 'body memory' of your normal parries are going to be at war with what you're being forced to react to. Since I'm drawing this from my experience of sword-fighting in the SCA, I'll give you the example I'm thinking of: a sword and shield fighter facing a Florentine (two-sword) fighter for the first time. The shield fighter often gets confused because he can never be sure where the next attack is coming from, especially if the Florentine fighter goes into a rapid exchange of blows. Thus, the shield dips at the wrong time, and the Florentine fighter lands a telling blow.
That reminds me of a quote from the movie The Masque Of The Red Death: "It is a true fact that the greatest swordsman would have nothing to fear from the second-greatest swordsman but rather the worst. For that one's moves would be unpredictable."
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