"Now Skywalker... you will die."

Anyone else think the Emperor wasn't going all out at this point in the film? Luke took his lightning for a damn long time.

I still think the Emperor was torturing him at this point in the film... maybe going for long and painful kill? Because realistically a couple seconds of OT Sidious' (probably a step up from ROTS Sids who fried Mace Windu like nothing) lightning should easily kill Luke.

Gee. Never thought about it... 😐

i think he was toying with him

He was firing "lesser" bolts of lightning to torture Luke. He was about to up the intensity to kill Luke, but then got benchpressed by Vader.

Originally posted by Darth Traya
but then got benchpressed by Vader.

Really? I thought it was more of a military slam, but now that I think about it it does look more like a helicopter slam...or... I forgot what its called...

Hey Anakin got knocked against the wall which made him unconscious, it wasn't the lightning....Mace didn't die of the lightning either but from the big fall. But you would indeed say that the lightning on Mace was stronger since you could even see his skeleton. Either they didn't have the technique to show a skeleton of Luke while making the film (altho they did it on Vader, but he wasn't moving so fast as Luke, makes it easier to animate) or the lightning wasn't as strong on him.

They showed Lukes teeth?

Actually, Luke opened his mouth there.

Luke's teeth turn blue from the lightning . . . creepy . . . makes me think of the feeling you get when you accidentally chew on tin foil!

You've chewed on tin foil?

Who HASN'T?

Key word: accidentally. Like when you think you've peeled it all off a baked potato and you haven't. But if you want to see what it feels like to chew on aluminum foil, be my guest. Especially if you have metal fillings or braces! You'll feel just like Luke.

Originally posted by chinabing
Key word: accidentally. Like when you think you've peeled it all off a baked potato and you haven't. But if you want to see what it feels like to chew on aluminum foil, be my guest. Especially if you have metal fillings or braces! You'll feel just like Luke.

Unwrappng a Kitkat and finding out you didn't peel all the foil off when you bit into it = worst feeling ever.

The lightning killed Mace.

"The final blast bodily lifted him into the air, sending his form hurling into the Coruscant skies, to crash lifelessly somewhere in the vast cityscape below." StarWars.com

Perhaps you take that too literally. Such descriptions of deaths have been given to people who died FROM the impact, but are still reported as dropping "lifelessly" to the floor.

Well, Sidious was just kind of torturing him before finishing him off. Just for the fun of it.

Hey, what happened to overlord? Did he just like quit or something...

If Sid used the lightning as long as he did on skywalker then yeah it would have killed Mace, it also seemed intenser, but I think the fall killed him and even if a Jedi could survive such a fall, his body was too numb from the lightning to rescue himself

No one could survive that fall. It was probably the fall that killed him.

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