Palpatine Vs. Mace - Lucas closes the debate for good!

Originally posted by Council#13
Well, when Sam said "You have lost" that was pretty bad acting. I see you havent defended Hayden 😉

yeah, that "You have lost" line was pretty chessy, but still. 😂

Sorry, but I don't think Hayden did that good a job. Definitely better than AOTC though.

Yeah I second that

I thought Hayden's acting was good in AOTC, playing the lovestruck & Hamlet-esque kid whose life is torn inside out.

This thread is excellent, but I hate the posts that end with "End of Story." That's not a very good way to have a debate, and very poor form to your fellow posters.

Originally posted by ((The_Anomaly))
ok, Ush, I never said anything about the saber fight. I said that he was faking the whole thing.

did he lose the saber duel? possibly, but what GL says is that as soon as he loses his saber mace could have just threw mace out the window with little effort. it was all a ploy.

palpatine was NEVER in any danger he could have just force lightninged windu out the windu had anakin not showed up.

did he lose the saber fight fair and square? im inclined to believe he just underestimated mace and DID lose, but had he fought for his life (like he did against yoda) he would have been able to beat mace in a duel.

also he would have already known anakin was going to show up, so weather he lost the duel on purpose is still up for debate.

whats not up for debate is that palpatine could have wasted mace with the force at any point he wanted too.

If you weren't talking about the sabre fight, what the heck was the point of opening the thread? There was no other debate other than about the sabre fight.

In fact- as a thread called Palpatine vs.Mace rather suggests- you WERE talking about the fight and you are simply now trying to back out. Sad.

Anyway- having confirmed that GL has not cleared this up, and as this debate has been done to death in other threads... closed.