Originally Posted by
DrNewGod
The lightsaber duel in The Phantom Menace (still unequalled in all SW, IMO, and thank you Mr. Park) offered an interesting contrast. There are two intermissions in the fight, and the Jedi in each react very differently.
Qui-Gonn seeks calm, and centers himself. Obi-Wan seeths, almost mirroring Darth Maul.
Result: Maul skewers Qui-Gonn, and Obi-Wan bifurcates Maul. Granted, Maul throws OWK down a shaft in the course of all this, but everything OWK does after getting cut off from Qui-Gonn, up to and including his checkmate move seems born of rage.
Was Obi-Wan Kenobi channeling The Dark Side in his duel with Darth Maul?