LoveMinusZero
Super Freak
Well, Obi-Wan does step back with concerned once Grievous starts spinning those blades... but I get you're point, and yes he spends too much time running away.
But I always chalked Grievous up to one of those type villains, much like Hux. You can't have every villain be as cool as Vader, or no one would be cool.
Sure, but then Grievous loses 2 hands in like 5 seconds and runs away.
Grievous can never be as cool as Vader, but he doesn't have to be, he can be something else. He was that something else in the Micro-Series. The real problem isn't Grievous, it's the fact Lucas never made the heroes afraid of him, they were never in danger of him hurting them, or even intimidating. Obi-Wan was smug and invincible, which is a major gripe I have with the entire PT. IF Grievous had done some damage to Obi-Wan, if he had him on the ropes, if he had taunted and attacked Obi-Wan and THEN Obi-Wan gets the upper hand and wins in the end, Grievous would have been a much more satisfying villain. Such as it is, he ran away a lot and then died without protest, so he'll never be a great film villain and no one outside SW fans will ever know him.
Grievous isn't a Hux, a talking head type villain, he's an action villain. He needed to do threatening, violent, bad guy things to the heroes, but all he ended up doing was cough a bit, run away and then die.
I would still buy him though, lol.
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