I love that he used his armor offensively as well as defensibly, purposely having his helmet and gauntlets slam into the lightsaber blades to take them out.
The next panel of that comic is so funny. She is bragging about how smart she was by bringing a cortosis blade just for Vader immediately disarm her and snap her neck with his robot arms. Then he procedes to use the cortosis sword to cut of the other jedis sabers and kill them. In another comic, some Imperial Knights use a cortosis alloy vambrace to defend against a siths attacks
That Jedi Master was unbearably smug and really set the group that gathered under false pretenses (she basically told Vader their location to force the group to fight him) to fail. True the remaining Jedi nearly overwhelmed Vader after he killed several of them, but it was enough time for the 501st to show up and blast them to death. But yeah, it was just plain black comedy for her to just die immediately after assuming she got him defenseless.
Especially since the first Jedi just stood there on his blade with her left hand seemingly wrenched by the blade in her gut, *to then* be beheaded together. Had to watch it a few times, I was shocked they decided to be more adult with their combat
@@9and12wholepizzas I know, but that’s an animated series before Disney Star Wars. I don’t like the show as a whole either so you can kick and scream about it elsewhere if you can’t stand people praising a singular moment of a tv show
@MasterofMonkeys16 Maybe not unnecessarily hated. More like overly hated for things that don't deserve hate. But there are already a good amount of actual things to hate about it.
@@MasterofMonkeys16Of course. It’s Star Wars. The new one gets hated to high holy hell until the next one comes out. This cycle has repeated since the 80s.
Not carrying, just a small plus to the most miserable star wars experience ever. Ok this isn't the most miserable star wars thing ever I just remembered Kinect star wars dance mini game exists
Hopefully the next episodes are going uphill so gar it's been a slow burn until this climax. Loved this fight so much . Theu finally took the complaint of bad lightsaber fighting seriously
Y know what, I’m gonna say it, this is the best coreography style Star Wars ever had, and don’t misunderstand me, I hated this series, but this coreography is just the perfect fusion of prequel style and a more realistic danger showing one, loved it
Agreed. It's the type of style I've been waiting for. It's really good. I'm not sure if I'm ready to call it the best yet, but it's definitely the perfect direction.
@@christiannoriega428 I agree. That’s also what made this episode enjoyable to me, the writing is still bad, but this episode side lined it for fights and choreo that I can genuinely enjoy. The writing is terrible, but visually? Well, the show is very good visually. I like most of the character designs so far generally, and paired with the fights having good choreo, it allowed me to actually somewhat enjoy this episode if I ignore the writing aspects.
@@thecodfather6280 The Wookie Jedi dies off-screen after they hyped him up so much, Yord tried to take the blaster that Osha had (which was the only thing she could use to defend herself) for no reason whatsoever, Mae decides to give up on her quest of revenge out of nowhere, they just happen to have a piece of clothing belonging to the Wookie Jedi that still had his smell on it which they used to track him down etc. There is a few other things but you get the gist of it.
Bro, that fighr was so good that I actually rewatched ep 5 just to see it again. Episode 5 is so far the absolute best episode of the show, without a doubt(mostly because all the other episodes were just so damn bad)
I feel bad for the people who all collectively decided to hate this show before it was even released and continue to find the smallest reasons to justify the hate. I can understand the criticism the show gets for some inconsistent plot with the prequel trilogy but at the same time there’s still a lot of the story that has left to be told. Star Wars fans still haven’t learned to wait for the whole story to be told before judging it so harshly.
He's not the first in canon there are jedi with that exact lightsaber. Dagan gera and Cal kestis but their lightsabers doubled as staffs with the latter's being able to become a crossguard. In legends there's blade master Kasim
The duels were super cool. WhenI saw the light sabers short out for the first time I had half a second where I was like wait is he wearing bescar? Since that was my only basis for comparison. Then the lure part of my brain kicked in and I was like no that’s cortosis! Very cool.
More like a Fallen Jedi or someone who trained outside of the Jedi and Sith. During this time period, this would've been around Darth Tenebrous and his master as the two main sith (Twi'lek) from the Rule of Two.
@SonnenRitter92probably a fallen Jedi or a failed Sith apprentice that hadn’t been dealt with. BUT he could be a Sith apprentice and the Jedi council in their vain arrogance just wrote him off and refused to acknowledge he was actually a Sith. 😅 does track with the foolishness that was Jedi Council…
People that gave up watching this show are missing out this show has potential to be the best Star Wars we got since revenge of the sith the way they all got killed like that was not something I saw coming but dang is this fight brutal
Haven't seen the show and likely won't watch it, but I wanted to add that while Cortosis can short out Lightsabers people often forget that Cortosis - when pure - is very brittle and toxic that easily seeps into the skin and kills whoever is touching it. The only way to fix that is by refining the Cortosis into an alloy - it makes the metal more durable and long lasting but loses its ability to short out lightsabers. Cortosis isn't the only metal that is resistant to lightsabers, aside from Beskar there are metals like Songsteel, Phrik and Ultrachrome which are resistant to lightsabers.
@@QuatarTarandir I didn’t know about it until I watched this video so to many people it was going to act like they would break the lore like they broke the light sabers, but they just somehow randomly come back on
@@CameronFulkerson Like I said, the nerds who know stuff so well (which includes myself) that they complain about the Acolyte are the types to know about this metal. I mean it has been established for a while since it was introduced in the EU. As well, the complaints usually revolve around adding things that contradict canon, or thing added on that don't make sense, not already made things. And anyways, even if someone would complain about it, they would probably be immediately told that it actually existed before. I saw the same thing when someone complained about the whip lightsaber
@@QuatarTarandir I mean people got extremely upset about them giving Ki-Adi-Mundi a canon age, which he didn't actually have before. People also complained that the witches had a different name for the force, even though the force in lore has many different names in many different cultures. It seems like the people who claim to care about the lore the most, don't actually know any of it.
@@Voxalyst Eh, I still don't really like the Ki-Adi-Mundi thing, since like why? Like they have a big budget, why do they use him and not Yoda who we already knew was super old? I think it's dumb, and unless somehow no one knows about the Sith guy, then his line in the Phantom Menance is just messed up. And I think the force thing mostly revolves around them controlling the force, or like they just did some weird things with it. It's not like we didn't already have different versions like the Nightsister, but they just do weird things. But I haven't seen the show so idk
I still wonder if he's actually the sith master though. Like imagine if at the end of the show, everyone is dead and there's some kind of ending scene with a Bith and a young Muun.
I like the theory that this guy is just a pretender, he'll be offed by the actual Sith before the show is over and one of the twins will become the Acolyte to that Sith. Meanwhile the Jedi will not learn who offed him, but will learn he's a fake, keeping Ki-Adi's line from Episode I intact.
Agree I’m looking forward now at this point for any actual twists, or if we get to see a young Palps off this pretender or if he actually is the apprentice. I can see the Jedi defeating him and actually just believe he was a pretender, which will just confirm Ki-Adi commenting that the Sith have always been extinct. Doesn’t count if the one dark sider they do come across was just deemed a Sith pretender.
@@theazurefire91 I agree. I majorly get that sense especially because of what he said “A Jedi like you would call me.. Sith?”(paraphrasing as I don’t recall the direct line, but if you remember it roughly), the way he said it was.. off. Like he wasn’t exactly stating “Yeah, I personally call myself a Sith” or that he actually believes he is one, but more like he just figures that’s how he’d be profiled in a sense. Or I get the sense he considers himself a Sith in it that he’s maybe a darkside user who discovered a few aspects of Sith beliefs in recent and dug into learning them a bit, however isn’t a proper true full Sith that has been preserving the ways of the Sith like the true rule of two Sith. In turn I speculate that yes, following that theory, the actual Sith will kill him seeing him as a potential rival and issue.
@@theazurefire91the only sith would be tenebrous and canon wise he had Plagus, and Plagus had palps. This guy might be a failed apprentice and I think his master might show up and kill him as qimir is. Own getting on the Jedi radar and tenebrous didn't want that
Nice to see Cortosis back. Jedi Outcast was the only thing that properly utilized it, imo, as something that felt like more than just a gimmick. The Admiral Fyyar fight was hard as hell.
From a epicness standpoint choreograph really did an outstanding job, whole battle looked sick but Disney doesn't seem to understand that jedi are trained with the sword for at LEAST a decade for even youngest of them. They just swing the sword around like some Moff Gideon, completely ignoring weakpoints, disarmament techniques, learning of an enemy, etc. Jedi after jedi trying to hit the helmet in a same identical move may look epic, but it just doesn't make any sense inside any melee training, let alone star wars main swordsman's. And we can't even say "well, it's a High Republic, they forgot the ways of war", cause specifically duels is what every single jedi on that screen was trained in literally non stop...
Also for the first time we see a lightsaber constructed out of two lightsabers in live action. Asajj Ventress had one for like 5min into the clone wars movie and Cal and Dagan Gera have one, too, I know. But LA might be a first?
Let us not dear friends forget our dear friend Trask Ulgo who served on the Endar Spire in KOTOR who kindly and calmly explained that the swords you carry were made of cortosis
"The only other metal we've seen come close to this is Beskar" Not entire correct. There is at least one metal called Phrik that can also withstand lightsabers. At least in Legends the pikes/staffs used by the Magnaguard droids of General Grievous were made out of or at least coated in Phrik
I have a mild concern that I don't want Canon to get oversaturated with metals and materials that can resist lightsabers like Legends did over time, but where we're at currently, I actually do like having Cortosis and Beskar, both of which interact *differently* with lightsabers on contact- just surviving the hit vs absorbing enough energy to temporarily disable the lightsaber. I do think that the setting is stronger with some restraint in the long run on introducing more stuff like this, but this addition was fun, and is strong in this specific story, showing how much Qimir is specifically equipped to fight and kill Jedi, and what an absolute terror he is to the Jedi he encounters, with strange weapons they've never seen before used in creative and dangerous ways.
It makes more sense to me honestly. Have a different offensive weapon that can still do the job, while having excellent protection(against lightsabers at least). Though I would consider having a different metal layer more durable under it, as how brittle it is is a problem, as shown in the actual show which I also appreciate they covered and used to their advantage.
So Qimir’s helmet prevents Sol from reading his mind. Then the helmet breaks and the idea doesn’t even cross Sol’s mind. Like Sol literally started asking Qimir who he is and what he wants all while using this “mind reading” ability is all possible, according to Qimir himself.
There's enough things to hate about the show, but there are many good things in episode that deserved to be praised and highlighted moving forwards. The writing is still ass though.
Cortosis was also meant to be used by the clones executing order 66 at the Jedi temple - you learn about this in the second Thrawn book - Thrawn: Alliances
I read an article saying that they showed the trakata technique in this show, can anyone confirm this?🤔 I could be misremembering what I read however....😅
When I saw this even I was thinking is that helmet made of solid cortosis and that's why it's deflecting and even busting lightsabers? In SWTOR when you play as an Imperial Agent during Act II you had to shutdown a production line of droids that are made with cortosis from being produced saying that they are immune to lightsabers. There was even a Jedi Master in the Empire side of the Correlia storyline in SWTOR that was hinted to be wearing cortosis armor. Quite funny I learn bits and bits of lore from Star Wars merely being engrossed in a game. While cortosis is quite powerful. Like Beskar Alloy it is again very rare and it's also not as durable as shown when Qimir's helmet eventually broke off after being elbowed a bunch let alone busting so many lightsabers. That or Qimir did a hack job of making the helmet as shown with the cracks on it. Cortosis being used to make armor while rare is honestly much better than making it into a sword.
@@VanishEclipse4867 Pretty much, in legends at least nobody says "I HAVE CORTOSIS LOOK AT ME" they always seem to emphasise it being an alloy and that the weapon just has it interweaved rather than it being rawly made out of cortosis I remember this because this one Exchange thug kept bragging about it before I fed him his own wiring
@@historicflame972 To add to that, I believe thats why KOTOR/The Old Republic soldiers used cortosis alloy instead of pure cortosis in their equipment. Not enough to short a lightsaber, but enough to resist a blow. And at the same time, avoiding the brittleness of cortosis because it might stop a blade but not the kinetic energy behind it.
@@TheLeveledUpMan Mixing Cortosis with Durasteel I beckon. I can imagine that was during a time before Beskar was discovered and used and even then those were mainly used by Mandalorians.
I didn't like the beginning of the fight. They used big ass trees to block most of the camera when he was up against multiple opponents. The rest was pretty good, minus some complaints
With 7-8 Jedi Masters present wouldnt they all collectively be able to force hold Smilo Ren in place until hes incapacitated? I think Ahsoka did that to defeat Darth Maul at the end of Clone Wars or am I thinking too much?
He is no Sith. He‘s the founder of the Knights of Ren. Kylo‘s theme is clearly hearable in episode 5‘s last scene. Qimir is probably Ren. „He said JEDI would call him Sith. He has no name.“
Never thought I would see someone fucking headbutt a lightsaber
It’s metal af tho
Having a cortosis helmet would make you confident headbutting a lightsaber.
It's so raw
Finally an interesting lightsaber battle in a Disney Star wars project.
Whoever the stunt/choreographer is needs to be in more projects, not a fan of the show but the duels were honestly epic
If you ever watched daredevil he directed the prison* fight scene
I don't know... plenty of openings where the sith should have died.
@@Bayard1503You can say that about most duels in SW to be fair
@@davahn122 the Daredevil hallway scene was sick,no wonder this fight was so good
@@Bayard1503. The show isn’t great and breaks canon but you are full of shit if you say the combat scenes aren’t dope as fuck.
I love that he used his armor offensively as well as defensibly, purposely having his helmet and gauntlets slam into the lightsaber blades to take them out.
The next panel of that comic is so funny. She is bragging about how smart she was by bringing a cortosis blade just for Vader immediately disarm her and snap her neck with his robot arms. Then he procedes to use the cortosis sword to cut of the other jedis sabers and kill them. In another comic, some Imperial Knights use a cortosis alloy vambrace to defend against a siths attacks
One of my favorite Vader moments tbh
That Jedi Master was unbearably smug and really set the group that gathered under false pretenses (she basically told Vader their location to force the group to fight him) to fail. True the remaining Jedi nearly overwhelmed Vader after he killed several of them, but it was enough time for the 501st to show up and blast them to death.
But yeah, it was just plain black comedy for her to just die immediately after assuming she got him defenseless.
Is it like beskar where it deflects blasters and lightsabers or does it just absorb it.
Can a saber cut through it?
@@haiderz4510
It dissipates blaster bolts too, the flaw is that it's very brittle against physical damage
Is that comic canon or legends just for interest?
Bro Qimir is so jacked
Ben Swolo got some competition
Ben Swolo vs Extra Miller. Battle of the buff boi’s
Ahh yes, gymir
@@Dan1el7493that’s lowkey genious😭
@@juancabardo21you can hear kylos theme in the episode at 28:01
Jackie's death was CRAZY no mercy, no pause for drama... just 3 stabs
Bro fr said "Disney ain't saving yo ahh this time little girl *TRIPPLE STAB SPECIAL* "
Well these days you gotta be careful since one stab usually ain't enough
@@Isaacisaperson4677 last time I checked you can get stabbed and shot and stull survive
Too bad she wasn't well written
@reconpuffen7715 what about is you get stabbed by a plasma rod that can melt through steel in seconds
Not gonna lie, watching him skewer a Jedi by force pulling him onto another skewered Jedi was brutal.
Especially since the first Jedi just stood there on his blade with her left hand seemingly wrenched by the blade in her gut, *to then* be beheaded together. Had to watch it a few times, I was shocked they decided to be more adult with their combat
@ryanp5790 this show is garbage
@@9and12wholepizzas did I say it was good? 😂
@ryanp5790 you do understand they had military style execution in clone wars animated series right?
@@9and12wholepizzas I know, but that’s an animated series before Disney Star Wars. I don’t like the show as a whole either so you can kick and scream about it elsewhere if you can’t stand people praising a singular moment of a tv show
Jecki fought like young Ahsoka from Clone Wars
But worse because she's a corpse now.
Makes you wonder why they don't have Ahsoka move like that in her own live-action show
@@Gumballrulez21 because she's FORTY SEVEN YEARS OLD ffs
@@Gumballrulez21Well, we saw how that turned out for Jekki. It didn't end well.
@@ste-fa-no That's very young for a Tortuga, even young flashback Ahsoka didn't fight that fast
This episode surpassed the first 4 episodes BY FAR
It’s still really bad.
@@mooliciousmaul6514 i actually really enjoyed it. At this point the show is getting unnessecarily hated but that’s just my opinion.
@MasterofMonkeys16 Maybe not unnecessarily hated. More like overly hated for things that don't deserve hate. But there are already a good amount of actual things to hate about it.
@@christiannoriega428agreed it already has some major flaws but it not freaking god awful as most are saying
@@MasterofMonkeys16Of course. It’s Star Wars. The new one gets hated to high holy hell until the next one comes out. This cycle has repeated since the 80s.
Manny Jacinto's back must hurt from carrying this show
The power of Mannyyyyyy
@@chewchillathewookiee3515lol
@@chewchillathewookiee3515😂😭
Not carrying, just a small plus to the most miserable star wars experience ever. Ok this isn't the most miserable star wars thing ever I just remembered Kinect star wars dance mini game exists
@@ThePlecoPal
“I’m Han Solo, I’m Han Solo, I’m Han Solo~lo~lo...”
I havnt been a huge fan of the show but this episode was easily the best. they def stepped up their fight choreography and it shows! was digging it
Hopefully the next episodes are going uphill so gar it's been a slow burn until this climax. Loved this fight so much . Theu finally took the complaint of bad lightsaber fighting seriously
Y know what, I’m gonna say it, this is the best coreography style Star Wars ever had, and don’t misunderstand me, I hated this series, but this coreography is just the perfect fusion of prequel style and a more realistic danger showing one, loved it
Agreed. It's the type of style I've been waiting for. It's really good. I'm not sure if I'm ready to call it the best yet, but it's definitely the perfect direction.
Ever had? Slow your roll.
@@christiannoriega428 I agree. That’s also what made this episode enjoyable to me, the writing is still bad, but this episode side lined it for fights and choreo that I can genuinely enjoy. The writing is terrible, but visually? Well, the show is very good visually. I like most of the character designs so far generally, and paired with the fights having good choreo, it allowed me to actually somewhat enjoy this episode if I ignore the writing aspects.
@@MannequinMonarchgenuinely asking, what was bad about the writing this episode?
@@thecodfather6280 The Wookie Jedi dies off-screen after they hyped him up so much, Yord tried to take the blaster that Osha had (which was the only thing she could use to defend herself) for no reason whatsoever, Mae decides to give up on her quest of revenge out of nowhere, they just happen to have a piece of clothing belonging to the Wookie Jedi that still had his smell on it which they used to track him down etc. There is a few other things but you get the gist of it.
I loved this lightsaber battle
Same still don’t like the writing but the duels were absolute fire, a straight up slaughter
Bro, that fighr was so good that I actually rewatched ep 5 just to see it again. Episode 5 is so far the absolute best episode of the show, without a doubt(mostly because all the other episodes were just so damn bad)
@@SkepticalSardaukar indeed
@@SkepticalSardaukar facts bro. Facts.
@@Anaxxis not exactly a high bar, but true nonetheless
Great choreography too
I had just finished Thrawn: alliance
So cortosis as armor was fresh in my mind during this fight.
Bravo Acolyte. You win this round
This episode was awesome. They needed an extended well made fight scene with many jedi deaths to keep me watching and they actually delivered.
I feel bad for the people who all collectively decided to hate this show before it was even released and continue to find the smallest reasons to justify the hate. I can understand the criticism the show gets for some inconsistent plot with the prequel trilogy but at the same time there’s still a lot of the story that has left to be told. Star Wars fans still haven’t learned to wait for the whole story to be told before judging it so harshly.
The bad guys lightsaber was so cool, spliting into two, giving him a lightsaber dagger thing. Amazing loved that so much.
He's not the first in canon there are jedi with that exact lightsaber. Dagan gera and Cal kestis but their lightsabers doubled as staffs with the latter's being able to become a crossguard.
In legends there's blade master Kasim
That was the fastest lightsaber dueling since 2005, also didn't anyone notice that 5 is the lucky number for Disney shows
First episode I actually liked so far. Super cool and dark. Now I mant a m rated star wars
This episode was CRAZY!!!
I said "Holy shit that's Cortosis!" 🤣
Nice to finally see it in action off the pages of books and comics.
The duels were super cool. WhenI saw the light sabers short out for the first time I had half a second where I was like wait is he wearing bescar? Since that was my only basis for comparison. Then the lure part of my brain kicked in and I was like no that’s cortosis! Very cool.
This sith lord is the only reason to watch the Acolyte
A Sith Lord?
@@kapitankapital6580 I'm just calling him that until we get a bit more about what exactly he is
More like a Fallen Jedi or someone who trained outside of the Jedi and Sith. During this time period, this would've been around Darth Tenebrous and his master as the two main sith (Twi'lek) from the Rule of Two.
@SonnenRitter92probably a fallen Jedi or a failed Sith apprentice that hadn’t been dealt with. BUT he could be a Sith apprentice and the Jedi council in their vain arrogance just wrote him off and refused to acknowledge he was actually a Sith. 😅 does track with the foolishness that was Jedi Council…
@@kapitankapital6580 Yes, the one we've been looking for
That double deception in this sequence was cold 🥶 this episode was the best by far. Choreography was pretty solid.
The lightsaber combat was amazing, it struck the perfect balance between the prequels and sequals.
I’m glad to see they’re swinging the lightsabers with actual SPEED AND SMOOTH MOVEMENT
I'm so glad there's an explanation to this. I was so confused why it happened so many times. This is actually sick
Honestly the choreography was amazing, loved seeing cortosis, they moved fast, they moved with heavy hits, it was good.
Like Endymion said: Give credit where it's due he enjoyed this entire action sequence
Cortosis is also a brittle metal, so it will break if struck with enough force.
And he will now be forever known as Darth Leroy Jankins.
People that gave up watching this show are missing out this show has potential to be the best Star Wars we got since revenge of the sith the way they all got killed like that was not something I saw coming but dang is this fight brutal
Did anyone else catch Kylo Rens theme at 28:01. Maybe Kimir is the first knight of ren?
I hope not. I hope they treat TROS like it doesn't exist.
@@Juel92do you really think Lesley Headland of all people would leave out the sequels
@@Juel92 literally all star wars is based around the main 9 movies
@@KangaZune I have no idea. I know next to nothing about her lol.
@@jamesarnold7253 No the main 3 movies. The rest can be ignored lol. Just look at Andor/Mandalorian.
Darth Bane grew up mining cortosis, dangerous af.
Haven't seen the show and likely won't watch it, but I wanted to add that while Cortosis can short out Lightsabers people often forget that Cortosis - when pure - is very brittle and toxic that easily seeps into the skin and kills whoever is touching it. The only way to fix that is by refining the Cortosis into an alloy - it makes the metal more durable and long lasting but loses its ability to short out lightsabers. Cortosis isn't the only metal that is resistant to lightsabers, aside from Beskar there are metals like Songsteel, Phrik and Ultrachrome which are resistant to lightsabers.
Well you should watch it.
I love this fight. They even use kyloran's theme song. When Force healing.
WHY IS NOBODY TALKING ABOUT QIMIR BEING THE REN FROM THE COMICS?!
Thanks for mentioning that I was worried people were going to argue that would break the lore hard.
Dude, if people care about lore so much that they get mad at the Acolyte, of course they're gonna know about Cortosis
@@QuatarTarandir I didn’t know about it until I watched this video so to many people it was going to act like they would break the lore like they broke the light sabers, but they just somehow randomly come back on
@@CameronFulkerson Like I said, the nerds who know stuff so well (which includes myself) that they complain about the Acolyte are the types to know about this metal. I mean it has been established for a while since it was introduced in the EU.
As well, the complaints usually revolve around adding things that contradict canon, or thing added on that don't make sense, not already made things.
And anyways, even if someone would complain about it, they would probably be immediately told that it actually existed before. I saw the same thing when someone complained about the whip lightsaber
@@QuatarTarandir I mean people got extremely upset about them giving Ki-Adi-Mundi a canon age, which he didn't actually have before. People also complained that the witches had a different name for the force, even though the force in lore has many different names in many different cultures. It seems like the people who claim to care about the lore the most, don't actually know any of it.
@@Voxalyst Eh, I still don't really like the Ki-Adi-Mundi thing, since like why? Like they have a big budget, why do they use him and not Yoda who we already knew was super old? I think it's dumb, and unless somehow no one knows about the Sith guy, then his line in the Phantom Menance is just messed up.
And I think the force thing mostly revolves around them controlling the force, or like they just did some weird things with it. It's not like we didn't already have different versions like the Nightsister, but they just do weird things.
But I haven't seen the show so idk
Rare acolyte W
Disney just do more of this please!
it’s so badass when he just head butts the lightsaber
This had so much potential…the fight scenes were incredible.
Now that's cool. I was always a fan of cortosis.
Fight scenes and Master Sol is what’s making me still continue to watch untill the end.
I still wonder if he's actually the sith master though. Like imagine if at the end of the show, everyone is dead and there's some kind of ending scene with a Bith and a young Muun.
He screams mad apprentice vibes
I like the theory that this guy is just a pretender, he'll be offed by the actual Sith before the show is over and one of the twins will become the Acolyte to that Sith. Meanwhile the Jedi will not learn who offed him, but will learn he's a fake, keeping Ki-Adi's line from Episode I intact.
Agree I’m looking forward now at this point for any actual twists, or if we get to see a young Palps off this pretender or if he actually is the apprentice.
I can see the Jedi defeating him and actually just believe he was a pretender, which will just confirm Ki-Adi commenting that the Sith have always been extinct. Doesn’t count if the one dark sider they do come across was just deemed a Sith pretender.
@@theazurefire91 I agree. I majorly get that sense especially because of what he said “A Jedi like you would call me.. Sith?”(paraphrasing as I don’t recall the direct line, but if you remember it roughly), the way he said it was.. off. Like he wasn’t exactly stating “Yeah, I personally call myself a Sith” or that he actually believes he is one, but more like he just figures that’s how he’d be profiled in a sense. Or I get the sense he considers himself a Sith in it that he’s maybe a darkside user who discovered a few aspects of Sith beliefs in recent and dug into learning them a bit, however isn’t a proper true full Sith that has been preserving the ways of the Sith like the true rule of two Sith. In turn I speculate that yes, following that theory, the actual Sith will kill him seeing him as a potential rival and issue.
@@theazurefire91the only sith would be tenebrous and canon wise he had Plagus, and Plagus had palps.
This guy might be a failed apprentice and I think his master might show up and kill him as qimir is. Own getting on the Jedi radar and tenebrous didn't want that
the Cortosis detail reminds me of the first Chapter of the Plagueis book where Tenebrous and Plagueis were inspecting a cortosis mine.
I’m so sad now though!! I really loved those characters 😢. Pretty shocking
Sooo can we just see more of these fights. Skip the rest cause DAMN these fights were epic!! 😂
Honestly that’s pretty cool
Nice to see Cortosis back. Jedi Outcast was the only thing that properly utilized it, imo, as something that felt like more than just a gimmick. The Admiral Fyyar fight was hard as hell.
Jecki was way more capable than yord 😂
Very glad to see that Cortosis is now canon in Star Wars lore once again.
From a epicness standpoint choreograph really did an outstanding job, whole battle looked sick
but
Disney doesn't seem to understand that jedi are trained with the sword for at LEAST a decade for even youngest of them. They just swing the sword around like some Moff Gideon, completely ignoring weakpoints, disarmament techniques, learning of an enemy, etc.
Jedi after jedi trying to hit the helmet in a same identical move may look epic, but it just doesn't make any sense inside any melee training, let alone star wars main swordsman's.
And we can't even say "well, it's a High Republic, they forgot the ways of war", cause specifically duels is what every single jedi on that screen was trained in literally non stop...
And this is supposed to be the Jedi at their pinnacle.
No. The Jedi haven’t dueled anyone in their entire lives. And Yord even says that the Sith defies the Jedi’s traditional rules of combat.
@@ericp1139No. this is a golden age. The Jedi are not the most powerful, they are not actually fighting often.
@@oXRaptorzXo according to the High Republic books, they were just having picnics then?
@@oXRaptorzXo duels is literally what jedi physical education was based of.
0:04 what was bro doing 😭
Taunting, true sith move
Also for the first time we see a lightsaber constructed out of two lightsabers in live action. Asajj Ventress had one for like 5min into the clone wars movie and Cal and Dagan Gera have one, too, I know. But LA might be a first?
Random small alien green lightsaber jedi felt good to watch in a fight
The best part about this show if defiantly the fights.
Let us not dear friends forget our dear friend Trask Ulgo who served on the Endar Spire in KOTOR who kindly and calmly explained that the swords you carry were made of cortosis
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Guys you can hate this show and Star Wars in general but credit goes to where it is deserved the fights in this show was actually great
Was pretty good.
"The only other metal we've seen come close to this is Beskar"
Not entire correct. There is at least one metal called Phrik that can also withstand lightsabers. At least in Legends the pikes/staffs used by the Magnaguard droids of General Grievous were made out of or at least coated in Phrik
I actaully liked the series from the beginning and this episode was so dope! Some of the best star wars action ive ever seen...
Agreed. Love this series
Love seeing cortosis outside of comics finally.
Brooooooooo Lets bring back the Cortosis Super Battle Droid?!?!?!
Imagine a FULL armor suit of cortosis....INVINIBLE sith lord!
0:50 I think he's Corvus Corax
This is where we see who actually knows their lore and who doesn't. Spoiler alert: too many people fall into the latter category.
This almost redeems Disney
I have a mild concern that I don't want Canon to get oversaturated with metals and materials that can resist lightsabers like Legends did over time, but where we're at currently, I actually do like having Cortosis and Beskar, both of which interact *differently* with lightsabers on contact- just surviving the hit vs absorbing enough energy to temporarily disable the lightsaber.
I do think that the setting is stronger with some restraint in the long run on introducing more stuff like this, but this addition was fun, and is strong in this specific story, showing how much Qimir is specifically equipped to fight and kill Jedi, and what an absolute terror he is to the Jedi he encounters, with strange weapons they've never seen before used in creative and dangerous ways.
I literally just read Thrawn: Alliances and immediately recognized it was cortosis
They should explain its non presence in the preexisting canon as “later lightsabers were made to endure contact with cortosis”
havent seen the show, but the fight scene looks cool, very prequel-like
I really like that they weaponized Cortosis as a armor and not as a sword or something
It makes more sense to me honestly. Have a different offensive weapon that can still do the job, while having excellent protection(against lightsabers at least). Though I would consider having a different metal layer more durable under it, as how brittle it is is a problem, as shown in the actual show which I also appreciate they covered and used to their advantage.
Saying it out loud it sounds hilarious, Darth Teeth is headbutting the light saber to turn it off lmao
So Qimir’s helmet prevents Sol from reading his mind. Then the helmet breaks and the idea doesn’t even cross Sol’s mind. Like Sol literally started asking Qimir who he is and what he wants all while using this “mind reading” ability is all possible, according to Qimir himself.
But brittle enough for a girl to break it with the butt end of a saber haha
This episode. If only the rest of the show measured up to this episode
Cortosis is the reason why Anakin and Thrawn meet
There's enough things to hate about the show, but there are many good things in episode that deserved to be praised and highlighted moving forwards. The writing is still ass though.
Cortosis was also meant to be used by the clones executing order 66 at the Jedi temple - you learn about this in the second Thrawn book - Thrawn: Alliances
The only positive part of the series maybe?
This whole episode was really great IMO
Power of one: Cortosis; Power of two: Holiday Special is no longer the worst of Star Wars TV; the Power of Many: 14% Positive ratings on RT
ep 5 was rly good overall
@@alpinevicemotorsports1805 That's cool, I wish I experienced the same as you did✨. I love SW, and my heart bleeds for its current state...
@@alpinevicemotorsports1805the fighting was great. From the point of Yords death and on, it sucked again!
The Shadow troopers armour from Jedi Outcast were constructed out of Cortosis
Thats the first thing that ive remenbered while watching the scene
@@Trajanus me too 😀
That helmet is literally plot armor.
The helmet is cortosis a material that shorts out lightsabers. The word plot Armour is mindlessly being thrown around.
"Oooooh, they swung their LIGHTSABERS AROUND! That makes this best Star Wars EVAR!" - The Mouthbreathers complimenting the atrocious choreography
Ok this is cool😮
Bro got that Dual Action Lightsaber toy from 2009.
The best thing about this show is the fighting, that's it. Clearly, it had nothing to do with that clown in charge.
I read an article saying that they showed the trakata technique in this show, can anyone confirm this?🤔 I could be misremembering what I read however....😅
So how many jedi are now dead in this series
I wanted to ask what the grain/noise effect you used in the thumbnail was It caught my eye and looks so pretty
The show is damn bad but gotta give credit to the person who did the choreography, he or she deserves to be in more projects.
When I saw this even I was thinking is that helmet made of solid cortosis and that's why it's deflecting and even busting lightsabers? In SWTOR when you play as an Imperial Agent during Act II you had to shutdown a production line of droids that are made with cortosis from being produced saying that they are immune to lightsabers. There was even a Jedi Master in the Empire side of the Correlia storyline in SWTOR that was hinted to be wearing cortosis armor. Quite funny I learn bits and bits of lore from Star Wars merely being engrossed in a game.
While cortosis is quite powerful. Like Beskar Alloy it is again very rare and it's also not as durable as shown when Qimir's helmet eventually broke off after being elbowed a bunch let alone busting so many lightsabers. That or Qimir did a hack job of making the helmet as shown with the cracks on it. Cortosis being used to make armor while rare is honestly much better than making it into a sword.
Cortosis suffers from being brittle, ironically, if a Jedi is facing a guy in Cortossis, their best bet is just to throw a massive rock at him
@@historicflame972 So it all chalks up to blunt force being the weakness to Cortosis and it's why it broke when Jecki elbowed it a few times.
@@VanishEclipse4867 Pretty much, in legends at least nobody says "I HAVE CORTOSIS LOOK AT ME" they always seem to emphasise it being an alloy and that the weapon just has it interweaved rather than it being rawly made out of cortosis
I remember this because this one Exchange thug kept bragging about it before I fed him his own wiring
@@historicflame972 To add to that, I believe thats why KOTOR/The Old Republic soldiers used cortosis alloy instead of pure cortosis in their equipment. Not enough to short a lightsaber, but enough to resist a blow. And at the same time, avoiding the brittleness of cortosis because it might stop a blade but not the kinetic energy behind it.
@@TheLeveledUpMan Mixing Cortosis with Durasteel I beckon. I can imagine that was during a time before Beskar was discovered and used and even then those were mainly used by Mandalorians.
Pumpkin helm build
qimir and sol is the only reason im watching this
I didn't like the beginning of the fight. They used big ass trees to block most of the camera when he was up against multiple opponents. The rest was pretty good, minus some complaints
With 7-8 Jedi Masters present wouldnt they all collectively be able to force hold Smilo Ren in place until hes incapacitated? I think Ahsoka did that to defeat Darth Maul at the end of Clone Wars or am I thinking too much?
Hate the show, but the fight scenes are dope ngl
He is no Sith. He‘s the founder of the Knights of Ren. Kylo‘s theme is clearly hearable in episode 5‘s last scene. Qimir is probably Ren. „He said JEDI would call him Sith. He has no name.“
I love watching all the haters go "...yeah, okay, that was pretty cool"