He's the chosen one

Facts

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Second place must be Ewan defo.

And he's still got them, if Ahsoka S01E05 is any indicator...his fights with Ahsoka in the World Between Worlds definitely included stuff he learned 20 years ago from Nick Gillard for RoTS. Didn't hate the saber battles in the prior 4 episodes... but episode 5's fights were a new level just from Hayden getting to use prequel trilogy saber choreography moves 😊

@@generalilbis Yeah, not that the fights are bad, but man the first scene with him when he does the twirl I was just like JFC I miss this guy.

@@generalilbisEntirely agree. disney needs to bring Nick Gillard back

This is for the ROTS movie tie-in game

Now a days they do 2 weeks and it looks like garbage

The techniques on those padawans were extraordinary. Jokes apart, he is my Hero for being patience

I wanna see Hayden and Ray Park in an epic lightsaber battle with prequel level moves.

I don't disagree Coming from the creation himself, Anakin Skywalker, that makes me say, "hmmm"

@@theblasteffect4499 indeed

@@anakinskywalker6347 now that I have your attention, you have something to attend to, right? If I'm right, I sense you have some stressful dreams or smth to attend to. Hope it all works out!

@@theblasteffect4499 I hope so too , I shall seek obi wan's help ASAP

@@anakinskywalker6347 hi

Good, exponential power, exponential fall

Do u still love him

He has returned again tonight and WOW

​@@yachiyous9110Great one

Seeing this now and learning that Hayden really put in a lot of direction of how Anakin should be the aggressor during the duel, and the way he portrayed it, gives me so much more appreciation for him on top of what I already had. The whole fight Anakin has Obi-Wan back pedaling. He's trying to cut him down the whole way through. Knowing Hayden understood this and made sure to portray this as much as possible makes the fight so much more rewarding. The final duel is literally the best thing in the prequels, and knowing Hayden had some creative freedom to execute that is so cool to hear.

And now watching him in action in the Ahsoka series once again, we can really really appreciate what he brings to the table as far as lightsaber dueling. Anakin is supposed to be the greatest warrior of his time. Hayden does it justice. No one really matches up to him when it comes to his lightsaber choreography.

I always consider Hayden/Anakin as my childhood super star when it comes to star war. Never understand how people could hate the guy.

Hayden's physical performance was Vader in the flesh.

Hayden is a really good actor... But as you say, dialog and more importantly, direction (the director that is) definitely contributes a lot. Let's face it, George Lucas is a horrible director. Most of the best of Star Wars he no hand in the direction (Empire?).

​@@WHJeffBLet's be real Empire was the only good one.

Came to say just this. All this behind the scenes has given me such an appreciation for Hayden that wasn't there back in the day. He was clearly enthusiastic and dedicated to it. Man was given dud dialogue to work with though.

Hayden's wooden dialog was him trying to replicate the way Vader speaks in the original trilogy. think about it

It’s just muscle memory. It’s like playing an instrument, singing, dancing, doing a sport, swimming, cycling, typing fast on a keyboard, gaming, whatever, very simple.

Also highlights how little training Rosario did. Hayden completely carried her and did all the work.

@@Biscuits645 I think she did a decent job but it really highlights how far apart the prequel duels were from all the more recent stuff. They were on another level and especially any involving Hayden. When Rosario or other current SW actors in recent works, I've enjoyed their lightsaber scenes but put them with a pro like Hayden? And the difference becomes apparent.

@@Vixin24 I probably would have liked it more if I didn't know Ahsoka as a character. She doesn't fight anything like the Ahsoka I know. She's slow and doesn't really use agility. No clever moves, she's very basic. You are right about putting anyone with Hayden though, he is just THAT good. It was nice to see he still has it. You're also right about how far apart the prequel duels are to anything else we have. They were on a different level. I wish they would hire Nic Gillard.

@@Biscuits645 animated Ahsoka duels amazingly but realistically that sort of stuff is almost impossible to pull off in live action (just like the length of her lekku/montrals). It bugs me a bit but I have to just separate the animated and live action stuff in my head and see the animated as taking more creative liberties. Like that scene in Ahsoka where she went outside in the space suit would be super normal in animation but many people thought it looked too cheesy in live action. It's a difficult line to cross. Plus I guess the character is in her 40s now she wouldn't be as agile as when she was a teenager. I would really love for them to hire Nic Gillard and bring more of that fluidity back to the duels like in the prequels. Hayden is proof that it can look amazing if the person trains hard and it's choreographed well so I hope whenever they make another star wars movie, they bring that back.

@@Vixin24 To be fair when she fought maul in the clone wars in the last season they used motion capture suits and they absolutely nailed it. So it can be done. Also force sensitive Togruta can live for 200 years so she might not be that old. I do agree she wouldn't be as agile as a teenager but just some agility would have been nice or even just some better pacing on her duels would have been better. We don't need her to be flipping around everywhere but she could be a bit faster with some more creative choreography and it would have made all the difference. Yea I agree not everything translates well to live action, that scene with the space suit was god awful, but I don't think it was because of her going outside, it just didn't make sense that the enemy ships would start doing fly by's on a ship that can't move when they could just surround it and destroy it or instead of shooting Ahsoka they could have shot the ship. If she had gone out to fight some droids on the ship that might have been better. It would be awesome to bring Nic back and like you say, Hayden is proof that even in your 40s with the right training and choreography it can be done.

Seems ridiculous they hired him for the moves but not the voice.

Maybe he was too expensive

@@infoluminux Yeah, movie actors are far more expensive than normal voice actors .

@@elfather2045 this was at the time of revenge of the sith, maybe Hayden was being payed a lot more than a current voice actor, even for doing voice acting. Never asked yourself why we didn't get the official actors to voice The Clone Wars series ??? Take a hint.. money. And yes, they voiced TCW movie, I know. Different budget (movie-wise).

@@infoluminux Im pretty sure the clone wars was voiced by another guy because hayden was keeping it on the low for a bit. He was most likely done at this point because of all the hate

He also played tennis and hockey in high school, so he's no stranger when it comes to using sticks.

@@SpFlash1523 gifted eye-hand coordination

👍🏽 and let me assure you that a lot of us old people have always been there, we just didn't always have all the now-well-developed technology resources or skills to hook up and express ourselves to larger audiences. I say well done to everyone who kept the faith

The entire issue with the prequels was bad writing. From nonsensical choices to retconning or outright ignoring previously established facts from the original trilogy. The performances were all fairly grand. Not saying everyone gave it their all or that they couldn't have used a few better takes, but I've no problem with the performances and never have.

I lived through the early 2000's days of people panning the prequels for being "flashy" and lacking the substance of the Originals. Star Wars is supposed to be FUN. When I think of ESB, I think of the At-At battle and Luke vs Vader. To me, an actor putting in 11 weeks of training for a lightsaber duel is just as valuable as putting in the same 11 weeks training for a dramatic role. That's what's missing from most of Disney SW. The fun and imagination is gone. The fact that they aren't trying to recapture the frantic action of the prequels in any medium is infuriating. Well, we'll see what The Acolyte has in store...

​@nahor88 "We'll see what The Acolyte has in store." I don't understand why you people keep shitting on new Star Wars content, but you just keep watching it. You people will never learn.

@@ZombieAndroid Because not all the new content is shit, DUH. They're capable of making great shit (Tales of the Jedi was right up there with peak Clone Wars), but they also churn out fucking garbage.

But that game is almost 20 years old. Imagine what some 2024 mocap could do for those movements.

Yes that

Yep. He's the reason I want to try swordfighting.

it's Vader not Anakin.

@@anjaymabar996 it's both

Hes back in Ahsoka, I still cant believe we got to see him again

@@Green-IV and he did an amazing job

He's the best.

Nah... Definitely looks older, but yeah, the skills with the lightsaber are definitely still there.

Put those sequel saber fights to shame

@@spawn9129 110% agreed

Christopher Lee as well.

Considering all the training and actual saber fight scenes that Hayden's had, compared to Rosario, is it really that surprising?

To be fair, that's what they ASKED for, bad direction, bad choreography, what is she supposed to do about that?

Also, her character isn't a trained Jedi. Which is like 90% of what she gets flak for, since Rey has impressive force powers... *too* impressive, in fact, as she accomplishes way more than any other untrained Force user should ever be able to. Literally none of it is on Daisy Ridley. I would love to see all of the Sequel characters get a second chance like Hayden and the others have been getting, to really show what they can do with a competent writing team and prequel-level choreography.

imagine a duel between viggo and hayden.. that would be epic

@@Lyaagato unstoppable force vs immovable wall. round 1.

You just described most of the lightsaber fighting in Star Wars prior to Disney. Yeah sure, there's some exceptions, but you watch it an all it looks like is two guys trying to hit each others blades, rather than actually going for their opponent. Let's face it, in a real fight, the first time you twirled around and showed your unprotected back to your opponent, you'd be dead.

I loved it as a kid too.

Was just thinking this while playing Wild Hunt! He's got the pirouettes and overall style down, and the prequels choreography is so Witcher.

Hayden actually played a witcher-like character in "The Outcast."

As the next witcher? Nah. I'd rather there be no next witcher with how they butchered the lore at this point. Hayden gets a bad rep for his acting in the prequels sometimes, but I don't think that has much to do with him. He would be great for action scenes but I just can't see him carrying the story beyond that. The monotone part as you mentioned, yeah he can do it. But the rest of the entire persona? I don't know about that. Henry Cavill struggled to do it even though he was trying to remain as faithful as possible to the lore and books. Cavill did a decent job. I can't imagine who in the world they think can do better than "decent" with their script that is better used as toilet paper.