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Jango Fett vs. Mace Windu.....
what might jango have done differently to survive the duel he had with mace windu?
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He could have NOT attacked Windu in the first place.
That said, it was odd they had to fight at all, seeing as Windu had his sabre at Janho's throat earlier- a threat to kill him if Dooku tried something which Windu simply did not carry out! Despite having plenty of tiem to when the droids approached. Oh well.
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a jedi cant kill someone in cold blood, regardless of how evil they are, right? jango was defenseless. for mace to strike him down then would have been of the dark side. this is what ive been led to believe, anyway.
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Then Mace holding that sabre to Jango's throat at all was an utterly pointless gesture. I agree a Jedi should not kill in cold blood but he was really achieving nothing there. He could at least have disabled Jango.
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probably he was letting jango know that if he made a move" i will kill you". sort of like when a cop pulls his gun and yells"FREEZE, POLICE!" if you make a move, they will open fire.
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I agree that Jango's unfortunate trampling was probably the mitigating factor leading up to his death. Remember, it was only his jet-pack that saved him when he met Obi-Wan a few scenes before.
No grounded non-Jedi can hope to best a Jedi when a few scant feet is all that separates them.
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If you look, he was actually surprised. When Mace is running forward, a little burst of smoke and sparks come out of the jet thrusters. He would have timed it perfectly, and escaped in a very cool way. But, time and money was short, so Lucas decided to have him trampled instead.
The fact that he TRIED to escape doesn't negate the sorrow, but it softens the blow a bit.
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maybe he should have done a "fly by", you know like an LA drive by! his biggest mistake was diving for maces lightsaber.
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Mace was playing for high stakes; he had made the threat on Jango, and he should have carried it out. If a cop points a gun at someone in a gang and tells the gang to stop and the gang tries to kill him, no-one would blame the cop for shooting the guy before attending to his own needs; he gave perfectly adequate warning!
As it is, Jango killed another Jedi before Windu had to kill him the hard way. Though not THAT hard, for Windu...
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but mace killed him in battle, not while he was defenseless.
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Look, the moment Windu lowered his sabre Jango was taking a crack at him with the flamethrower. This was not some innocent civilian- it was a highly dangerous criminal whom Windu had put under forcilbe armed restraint. Jedi are not pacifists; they have to be prepared to kill under guidelines of reasonable force. Windu did not kill him out of hand- he made a reasonable threat to Jango and only endangered himself and everyone else by not carrying it through.
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you cant just kill someone in cold blood. ESPECIALLY if you are a jedi. are you saying that mace would have been justified if he took jangos head right away? regardless of how dangerous a person is, thats murder. i know that sounds crazy, it sounded crazy when i was typing it. but its the way i see things.
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sorry, but it would probably be a weapons based battle.
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