Ah, I was only up to episode 217 when I got really sick and had to stop painting, so I hadn't bumped across that one again.

It's in the "mystery of chopper base" episode (or the one right after. Its the giant killer spiders episode.) nearing the end of season 2. Kanan and Ezra are training to go to Malachor, and both blades are a transparent blue color while also making a much different sound.

Which, since his sound and saber color are as per usual, means that Kanan is using a live blade against Sabine in her training.

Interesting.

It's in the "mystery of chopper base" episode (or the one right after. Its the giant killer spiders episode.) nearing the end of season 2. Kanan and Ezra are training to go to Malachor, and both blades are a transparent blue color while also making a much different sound.

Which, since his sound and saber color are as per usual, means that Kanan is using a live blade against Sabine in her training.

Interesting.

Possibly the darksaber doesn't have a 'training mode' and would otherwise cut through a regular lightsaber so configured - IE., only having a 'kill' setting, the lightsaber it trains against needs to be set to the same to block it.

It's in the "mystery of chopper base" episode (or the one right after. Its the giant killer spiders episode.) nearing the end of season 2. Kanan and Ezra are training to go to Malachor, and both blades are a transparent blue color while also making a much different sound.

Which, since his sound and saber color are as per usual, means that Kanan is using a live blade against Sabine in her training.

Interesting.

Possibly the darksaber doesn't have a 'training mode' and would otherwise cut through a regular lightsaber so configured - IE., only having a 'kill' setting, the lightsaber it trains against needs to be set to the same to block it.

That's a pretty plausible idea. Makes perfect sense to me, considering who made the Darksaber.

It's in the "mystery of chopper base" episode (or the one right after. Its the giant killer spiders episode.) nearing the end of season 2. Kanan and Ezra are training to go to Malachor, and both blades are a transparent blue color while also making a much different sound.

I found a clip of the scene. Kanan's Saber even strikes the wall and it doesn't leave any kind of mark.

While it's a reasonable assumption to make, none of that is conclusive that those sabers are on any kind of "nonlethal" mode.

Thank you for that. I needed someone to reinvigorate my love of Grievous. Im just salty that the Clone Wars never truly confirmed his amazing EU backstory from Labyrinth of Evil. In fact any Grievous James Luceno was able to write was incredible.

The only Grievous episode I cannot justify in my mind is the Gungan one. I can imagine Griwvous being overwhelmed especially considerimg those ball weapons they have. However we never, NEVER needed that visualized.

I consider all of James Luceno's work canon in my head-canon. After all, every piece of writing he's done for the new canon has directly reference all of his previous works.

On the one hand, I can see where you're coming from regarding the Gungans beating Grievous. On the other... Gungans were kind of a warrior race. I mean, they were very, very militaristic, and all of their weapons were super effective against Grievous. Keep in mind, the rest of the Gungans hated Jar Jar Binks even more than we as an audience did. So, I wasn't too upset by his loss there, especially considering how outnumbered he was.

Guys, Ezra and Kanan had training mode once. Don't have the time now to look up what episode it was. I remember them making a different sound and everything. Also, looking foreward to some actual Sabine Character development.

Oh thank god someone remembered.

This discussion was driving me mental.

Uh.

I've been rewatching the episodes very, very recently while I've been painting Malifaux minis.

There is no training mode sabers anywhere in season 1 - there's a scene where Ezra's trying to deflect milk crates; there's a scene where Ezra's deflecting stunbolts from half the crew (and has a vision of that Treyviss guy), and that's it for training with sabers in Season 1. Season 2 doesn't have any that I remember either; it's got too much 'real life battle against bloodthirsty Inquisitors' to spend time on a training montage.

I think you might be misremembering something Orrin, unless it was in a comic book or novel.

Pffthahaokay sure except

look pardon my upfrontness in this but come on man all I had to do was search "Ezra Kanan training lightsaber" and bam, first result.

What boggles my mind is that this is actually a topic we're having.

I'll believe it when I see someone take a hit from one of those and shrug it off, or someone actually says that's what's happening. Until then, it's just speculation.

I'll believe it when I see someone take a hit from one of those and shrug it off, or someone actually says that's what's happening. Until then, it's just speculation.

Yeah... Lower brightness... Completely different sounds, no scoring left on thewall, just sparks, to demonstrate a low power setting... Nah. Nah you're right.

You're right. It's gotta be told to you directly. We can't just figure things out anymore. It HAS to be circled, pointed to, highlighted, given a snopes link and so on for anybody to actually believe anything anymore. God forbid we actually take hints at all, ever.

It's totally not a lower power setting.

All right.

A single scene in the entire series has a distinctively different looking lightsaber blades and sounds.

It happens to be a training scene.

The saber hits a wall on a close up and doesn't leave a mark.

SPECULATION

But here you go, end of the speculation:

All right.

A single scene in the entire series has a distinctively different looking lightsaber blades and sounds.

It happens to be a training scene.

The saber hits a wall on a close up and doesn't leave a mark.

SPECULATION

But here you go, end of the speculation:

Well there you go boys. Sourced and all.

It's like they knew somebody would suffer a terrible case of confirmation bias.

It's in the "mystery of chopper base" episode (or the one right after. Its the giant killer spiders episode.) nearing the end of season 2. Kanan and Ezra are training to go to Malachor, and both blades are a transparent blue color while also making a much different sound.

Which, since his sound and saber color are as per usual, means that Kanan is using a live blade against Sabine in her training.

Interesting.

Possibly the darksaber doesn't have a 'training mode' and would otherwise cut through a regular lightsaber so configured - IE., only having a 'kill' setting, the lightsaber it trains against needs to be set to the same to block it.

That's a pretty plausible idea. Makes perfect sense to me, considering who made the Darksaber.

What still does not make sense is that they use the Darksaber for training. It is a super silly idea. They have sabers which can be used for training, they should use those ^-^

What still does not make sense is that they use the Darksaber for training. It is a super silly idea. They have sabers which can be used for training, they should use those ^-^

Why add a training mode to a lightsaber in the first place when you could have specialised training sabers or plastic sticks?

Presumably they all handle slightly differently.

Shoulfnt the Darksaber have a training mode as the mandolorian who made it was a jedi?

They may not have had the technology to do it back then: the Darksaber's a little more simplistic than other lightsabers.

You're right. It's gotta be told to you directly. We can't just figure things out anymore. It HAS to be circled, pointed to, highlighted, given a snopes link and so on for anybody to actually believe anything anymore. God forbid we actually take hints at all, ever.

Though I realize nobody does those things anymore in this day and age now that we live in a post-fact society.

But here you go, end of the speculation:

Yes. It's called not making assumptions and fact checking.

It is if you're making a legal case. Creative works tend to avoid being anvilicious.

It is if you're making a legal case. Creative works tend to avoid being anvilicious.

....And it's kind of interesting that all these posts leaping on the incorrect poster (me, in this case) were made after I admitted I was wrong and withdrew my objection .

Kind of like, ya know, people would rather dogpile into a mistake than contribute something to the actual discussion at hand.

Man, I can't wait until we see Admiral Raddus on this series. Since he was voiced by Stephen Stanton and Rebels hires him almost on a regular basis now i'd say it'd be very simple.

Don't worry Captain! I was with you the whole time!

"Training mode" is very un-Mandalorian. It makes sense to our soft culture, and even to an order of warrior monks like the Jedi. It does not suit the victory or death culture of the non-pacifist Mandalorians like the Protectors and House Vizla. (Who do we know affiliated with those Mandalorian factions?)

"Training mode" is very un-Mandalorian. It makes sense to our soft culture, and even to an order of warrior monks like the Jedi.

It's not the morality of it that concerns me.

It's the idea that what is essentially a giant plasma torch has a "safe to touch" setting.

"Training mode" is very un-Mandalorian. It makes sense to our soft culture, and even to an order of warrior monks like the Jedi.

It's not the morality of it that concerns me.

It's the idea that what is essentially a giant plasma torch has a "safe to touch" setting.

Thats your scientific problem with Star Wars?

It's in the "mystery of chopper base" episode (or the one right after. Its the giant killer spiders episode.) nearing the end of season 2. Kanan and Ezra are training to go to Malachor, and both blades are a transparent blue color while also making a much different sound.

Which, since his sound and saber color are as per usual, means that Kanan is using a live blade against Sabine in her training.

Interesting.

Maybe he's tired of Sabine stealing the spotlight and is just using this as an opportunity to try to kill her.