Thinking about how one of my favorite moments in Star Wars is one that doesn't actually have any dialogue.
In The Phantom Menace when Qui-Gon and Darth Maul are fighting each other and then get cut off by the laser wall between them there's a great bit as the two are waiting for it to open back up. Qui-Gon just sits down to compose himself while Maul is pacing like a caged tiger and takes a swipe at the laser wall with his lightsaber, which doesn't do anything.
And it also tells us more about these two characters than an entire movie's worth of dialogue ever could.
Honestly if Lucas learned how to lean into moments like that I think he would get less shit for his character writing.
I'm also planning to directly steal that moment with Alcio Metus because Marco's backup plan for dealing with her is to trap himself in a force cage with her. But she knows will almost certainly end in his death but it's going to buy the party some time.
The funny thing about that spell is the first time I encountered it a player used it, and I thought it was broken as shit because there's no save, and you're basically just stuck if you can't teleport.
But it has its uses and that's exactly why Marco would carry it.
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