They have special “training sabers” they give to the kids.
Was fun watching Vader’s badassery on display this episode.
The flashback with Obi-Wan telling Anakin that he’ll always be a padawan as long as he needs to prevail- was the implicaton that Anakin/Vader at present still hasn’t learned and is thus still at padawan-level in Obi-Wan’s eyes?
I believe they are trying to loop in the dialogue from “a new hope”, when Vader meets kenobi.
Yeah, to even call his fight with Reva a fight, would be giving Reva way too much credit. He didn’t even need his lightsaber.
It was light exercise.
The people at Hogwarts could learn a thing or two.
Well! Never saw this before. 
I remember a YouTube video a few years back about some young adults who get lightsabers delivered to their house. They go to the tennis courts to practice using them. Their girlfriends show up as well and are impressed to find out you can change the lightsaber colour by twisting the bottom part of the lightsaber.
I realize that they’re making this parallel the original trilogy, and I liked Reva being a surviving youngling, but I really wish that, if they were determined to have her try to get revenge on Vader, she would have died from her wound. I think she’s going to have that redemptive arc that Vader had in Jedi.
I think it would have been better if her actions consumed her, and she had stayed evil. She had plenty of reasons to hate Vader. She had the same for the Jedi, and the government on Coruscant. She could certainly have been more intriguing if she had lived but not redeemed herself, or died coming up just short of her goal.
I don’t blame the actress, who is doing a great job. But I’m a little tired of the “bad guy redemption” trope.
Supposedly she died originally, but they changed it since they have gone from “this is a limited series” to “we may do a second season if the response is good enough”.
Seems like her attempt to backstab Vader was pretty clumsy, she should have blanked her mind and done the “touch the lightsaber to his back and ignite it” trick.
Yeah, it was so dumb. She waited way too long, best time would have been while he was trying to hold back the ship.
One of my all-time favorite Star Wars parodies/tributes. 
And, turning on the saber before a big overhand swing just gave Vader more time to react. It’s a lightsaber, it doesn’t require being wielded like a claymore. Quietly walk up behind him, hold the un-ignited saber hilt a foot from his back, and turn it on.
Then again:
- We’re led to understand that her motivation is rage, and revenge against Anakin/Vader, which seems to be making her less than smart about tactics
- Even setting aside the fact that Vader is likely much stronger in the Force than Reva, it’s not like she was going to succeed against a character who has plot immunity, because he needs to appear in canonical films set a decade later
Dudes. You are both being too complicated. Force-crush his heart or brain from 50 feet away. Learn from Indie.
Yea, that’s the main thing, I knew he couldn’t die. I just would have just written her attack differently, like after all that time plotting she had a good plan but something random and outside of her control stops her at the last second. Instead it seemed like a thoroughly incompetent attempt.
Yeah the advantage he was offering was while he was focused on Obi Wan. Attacking after only thinking, well,
his back is turned? Dumb.
But it was made clear that he always knew who she was and what her intent was. There was never going to be catching him surprised by her.
Plot wise leaving her alive is of course a necessity, but character wise for Vader? Makes no sense.
My hopes for a good story become dimmer and dimmer.
That is just a general problem with most prequels; the fate of the major characters are known so there can’t be any really serious impacts upon them. This wouldn’t be so crucial if they were only ancillary characters but putting them in the main narrative arc means that nothing of any real significance can occur, and also often means that in order to give them any meaningful ‘agency’ the writers actually have to fundamentally change their character motivations in ways that are wholly inconsistent with what has been previously shown, e.g. Solo.
Stranger
The sheer amount of “Well… they’re flying away. No chance we’ll ever catch them.” in this show is killing me. The Empire has had decisive air (and space) superiority in every single encounter we’ve seen so far but not one TIE fighter has so much as looked sideways at our heroes.
Two airspeeders attack Fortress Inquisitorius, one of the most impenetrable bases in the empire, and the best they can do is throw a can of gasoline at one of them. Are there no pilots scramble-ready for the dozens of fighters hanging from the ceiling? Are there no anti-aircraft batteries?
A Star Destroyer is in orbit and knows exactly where the proto-rebels are. It has a full compliment of fighters. None of them are stationed above the hangar door. They know a ship is going to take off but the only one capable of stopping it is Darth Vader, who can only cast “Hold Spaceship” once before taking a long rest. The Star Destroyer doesn’t bother pursuing it or shooting it down because… that would be inconvenient to the plot.
Speaking of that…it wasn’t entirely clear to me what happened when Vader dragged down the ship, and started to tear it apart – and then the rebel ship suddenly escaped. Was he holding, and then destroying, a decoy ship? Or, had Obi-Wan managed to, momentarily, create a Force illusion of the ship, to distract Vader?