I think you could probably use the word ‘discover’ instead of ‘realize’ in all three of your examples, and it will still be accurate, and more obvious that they are Action drivers. Even for the last one it would work.
Although is it possible an even stronger Action driver existed, like the duel itself? showing that Obi-Wan is outmatched?
Sure, and this goes to the idea that “Actions” don’t have to be single events, but can be a string of related events.
Seriously, though, you think he was outmatched?
Hmm… I think my judgement on the matter is forever clouded by being 4 years old in a dark theater, clutching to my dad because I was terribly afraid of the man/machine in the black suit…
haha, good point. I don’t remember how I felt then. But now I see Vader as a bit desperate when he stoops to calling Obi Wan a weak old man.
From an arrogant bully to a desperate old man…funny.
Aren’t most arrogant bullies desperately weak inside?
From a kid’s eye view to a teen’s, and now to a man’s. You should enter one of those story-in-a-sentence contests.