As we know, Lucas likes to link his stories on a mythical level.
Star Wars has been inspired by many religious stories, fables and so on, but in this particular case Star Wars was inspired by the story of Samson and Deliliah and how Samsons hair was the key to his power.
Qui-Gon has sh*tloads of hair, and therefore was THE MAN.
Mace is bald, and is therefore a f*cktard.
Simple as that.
Well as i have seen Mace is very arrogant so i would not be surprised if he would have come alone 🙂 He probably thought they could handle him, but were there really 200 jedis or more in the temple? I did not catch that, maybe i was not attentive. Mace should have been more precautious, but on the other hand we can see that GL wanted to show that Mace and Sidious are far more powerful than other jedis that were there, so i guess it doesnt matter how many would he bring with him if they are not Yoda or Obi-Wan. That has actually disturbed me, that those three jedis did not give more resistance, i mean c'mon they were jedi masters.
Mace just thought 4 MASTERS on the council would be enough they are the elites of the order, but those three got raped. If I was Mace I would have thought WTF, how did they get on the council, and jumped through the window. Mace had 4 jedi "masters" which apparently means nothing because they got totally owned. They just make anybody a master these days...
Except Anakin. 😆