The context is that the game gives no indication Mace is tired, weakened, or even had just fought Sidious.
From the perspective of the player in the game, no fight between Mace and Sidious even took place. The game never brings up the fight.
Thus, to assume the developers where snickering as they wrote the fight and remarked, "the player thinks he's beating Mace but it's actually a weakened Mace!" is silly.
If something as relevant as Mace being hindered to the point that Anakin therefore now wins was true, it's logical to assume that the game would (even remotely) convey that. It didn't.
That being said, Mace already beat Sidious, so I don't think his high-standing needs any more credence.
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Absolute stupidity for so many reasons.
The game and the novel were being worked on, separately, by two different authors, at the same time.
Further, as stated earlier, there is no indication Lucas ever made a definitive statement on the Drallig fight or Drallig's capabilities.
Thus, it was up to the creative liberty of Gillard, writing the game fight, and Stover, writing the novel fight, to portray Drallig as they wished.
It's not as if there was already definitive statement of Drallig's abilities and Gillard and his team were just ignoring it.
In the end, Stover's version, being of higher canonical authority, ended up trumping Gillard's and became the "true" version.
I can't fathom how one can hammer the game for not knowing something that had yet to be established yet (i.e. Stover's version). Worst yet, I can't fathom how one can use that as reasoning why the game is wrong on areas that had been established by Lucas and since Gillard is involved, would know said facts (such as the capabilities of Anakin and Mace).
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Last edited by Jaggarath on Sep 27th, 2017 at 03:07 AM
You realize that if we applied holistic intent the way you're applying it, it would be perfectly fair to argue that the feat you posted represents authorial intent regarding how powerful Windu is?
I'm talking about the feat you posted at the start of this thread Ant. If it's fair game to use authorial intent from n-canon material, then what you posted is perfectly valid for use.
That's different. We don't know why the feat was removed, but one of the most likely reasons is that Lucas decided Mace came off as too powerful (within the context of the films).
If you can get me a confirmation Lucas removed it for another reason, such as say to show Anakin's piloting skills, then sure, I'll accept it.
That being said, Mace can obviously replicate the feat in Legends, based on handling Sidious' telekinesis and such.
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Well, the novel, which Lucas line edited, and the movie both make a point of emphasizing Anakin's piloting skills, so I'd imagine that would be the reason here.
Sure, but Mace stopping Anakin would be at the point Anakin is just skidding down along the run-away. At that point his grand accomplishment would be over. Mace doing it would just be to stop him rather than have Anakin crash into a tower and, some would argue, dampen the greatness of the feat.
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My take was that the ship is skidding along the run-way and Mace extends his arms and the ship eventually slides to a stop. Looking back, the ship did rotate, but I don't think that was his doing - or at least not intentional.
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That's the shuttle they travel on later, not the big ship they crash on. Check the scan right before we see the three exit, the ship looks exactly like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cECriVkNsSA
That's retarded. It doesn't matter whether or not he looked tired after fighting Sidious. He's going to be after barely fending off an attack that he himself said he couldn't hold off much longer.
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