Originally posted by Lightsnake
Palpatine is more powerful and just better. According to Lucas? You need to be Mace Windu or Yoda to compete with Palpatine. Is Anakin one of those two? Nope.
he mentions anakin as well.
"you have to be mace or yoda to COMPETE with the emporer, anakin would have DEFEATED him had he not got all beat up."
no Lucas's statement didnt give any refernce to some distant future perioed save for him not getting burned(because thats when he lost his unlimited force reserves), nor did he give any reference to Aankin accomplishing this when he grows stronger.. it was in the same statement where he said you have to be mace or yoda to compete with Sidious.
In other statments where hes talked about Just how Powerful Anakin Could have become, he talks about him being something like Twice as Powerful as the Emporer by the OT.
Originally posted by DARTH POWERNo it wasn't.
no Lucas's statement didnt give any refernce to some distant future perioed save for him not getting burned(because thats when he lost his unlimited force reserves), nor did he give any reference to Aankin accomplishing this when he grows stronger.. it was in the same statement where he said you have to be mace or yoda to compete with Sidious.
In other statments where hes talked about Just how Powerful Anakin Could have become, he talks about him being something like Twice as Powerful as the Emporer by the OT.Who cares?
From Page 205 of "The Making of Revenge of the Sith" by J.W. Rinzler:
When Palpatine easily strikes down Mace's three associate Jedi at the outset of the scene, Knoll says, "Look at this- Mace brought the B-team!"
"You have to be either Mace or Yoda to compete with the Emporer," Lucas says. "If Anakin hadn't got all beat-up, he could've beat the Emporer."
So as you can see... it was clearly all part of the same statement by Lucas. Not to mention that Nick Gillard in the same book calls Anakin a level 9 swordsman up there with Mace, Yoda and the Emporer.