#imo cal is the reason he's so.... motions to all of him

[turnstechgodhead]

i think a!dave would be so so so stoked to have a little brother and he'd be very doting

meanwhile b!dirk/Bro's lil cal is getting more out-spoken

[gffa]

I am loving Jedi Fallen Order (and I’m right there with you playing on story mode heh). I haven’t finished the game yet (just got to Dathomir) and so haven’t fully unlocked all the skills. The time-freeze ability though is pretty integral and one I don’t recall seeing pre-force awakens. Has this ever been shown in media with Anakin/Obi-wan etc. doing that kind of thing? I mean can you imagine the chaos they could have caused freezing droids in the clone wars?

High five for playing on story mode!  It really is a fun game both ways, I can see the appeal in more of a challenge (something I’d be inclined to do if it were more my usual style) but also sometimes you just want to explore a beautiful world and learn all the lore stuff and solve puzzles, which is why story mode is fantastic.I’m never sure what to make of the skills aspect of the game, which is a similar problem I have with Vader Immortal, where a character learns the Force really fast.  I think, to a degree, you have to take it with some grains of salt, like how hyperspace travel in JFO takes just seconds, when it should really take days, and there’s no indication that it’s more than a minute or two.  That a game’s structure demands a little artistic license to make it interesting to play, so I’m not going to take Cal’s more outstanding Force abilities too seriously.I do think his ability to Slow the enemy is one that leans more towards being serious, because we see him use it in an important moment, in a cut-scene of significance (and it was definitely slowing the enemy, rather than speeding himself up), as well as his psychometry (a rare skill among Jedi) is a serious one.  But the way he levels up so quickly and gains all these new abilities so fast, eh, artistic license imo.We have seen Jedi use the Force to speed things up, like in The Phantom Menace or Revenge of the Sith, we see them moving SUPER fast:

Though, the second one might not be intended to be anything other than motion blur being used to cover the SFX not being quite there yet, but I think you could make a case that it was Force Speed, too.I also think you could argue that Yoda’s fights are often using Force Speed because he moves really fast, but you could just as easily argue that it’s a physically possible speed even without enhancing it with the Force.  I lean towards the former, because he’s moving noticeably faster than Dooku or Sidious here:

Wookieepedia has a bunch of appearances of Force Dash listed here, but I can’t think of which specific moments they’d be referring to, so there may be more examples of this?Anyway, it’s hard because something like Force Speed/Force Dash would kind of break the worldbuilding somewhat, like, if the Jedi can do that, why aren’t they doing it all the time in the Clone Wars?  But, then, if they did, that could make them supremely boring to watch, as a viewer?  So, I don’t think they should have included this kind of thing all the time, the hints we got of it (and my assumption that it’s something very difficult, that it’s achieved either through long mastery over yourself or in desperation when it’s literally life or death/your thoughts fly out of the way and the Force kinda takes over).Or, for another explanation, is it that Cal is a super genius in the Force to be able to do these things?  But that doesn’t feel right to the narrative, which I feel is saying he’s very talented, he has some uncommon skills, but the point is that he’s a regular Jedi, showing the strength of who he is, that the magic of Cal Kestis is in what a good boy he is, that he epitomizes his Order and the good in them, shown through a wonderful young man.  That he doesn’t have to be perfect to be good.But, no, the Slow thing is entirely new to the universe as far as I’ve seen!  Obi-Wan and Anakin and Yoda have shown to speed themselves up, but we’ve never seen someone slow down someone else before and I’d say it’s probably a skill that’s reasonably unique to Cal, if we take it more seriously, much like how all Jedi are at least a little psychometric imo, but Cal and Quinlan Vos are the rare Jedi who have a strong gift for it!