Originally posted by truejedi
GL said SIdious faked being able to continue.
He didn't fake losing the fight, and even if he HAD continued, all factors seem to be for him losing anyway.
it says "This was beyond Vaapad; he had no strength left to fight against his own blade."
then Mace says: "Take him. It's your destiny." Skywalker says "Destiny..."
Mace says" Help me! I can't hold him any longer!"
Sidious says "He is killing me, ANakin--! Please Anaaahhhhh"
AAAAAHHHHHH!"
THEN SIDIOUS QUITS
Clearly the quote saying: "Mace couldn't fight against his own blade" is in error. Otherwise it would go "mace had no strength to fight against his own blade, then mace's blade went into his face killing him."
Also, all Mace had to do was step back from the source of the lightning (sidious) and the force on his blade would have decreased exponentially. Mace wasn't going to lose. He might have been forced to allow Sidious his feet. That was all.
Nah. He has no strength anymore to hold his blade in place. The blade is getting pushed up into his face. In fact when Sidious quits it says "Mace's blade bent so close to his face that he was choking on ozone."
Originally posted by truejedi Also, all Mace had to do was step back from the source of the lightning (sidious) and the force on his blade would have decreased exponentially. Mace wasn't going to lose. He might have been forced to allow Sidious his feet. That was all. [/B]
Originally posted by ares834
Nah. He has no strength anymore to hold his blade in place. The blade is getting pushed up into his face. In fact when Sidious quits it says "Mace's blade bent so close to his face that he was choking on ozone."
nope: Pg. 333, 334
There is a paragraph of dialogue after the "Mace had no strength left" line.
free to your opinion i suppose. The worst thing that could happen here is A. Mace steps back (as i said) and distance does make a difference with force lightning, or else it would never shove someone away.
B. Mace gets hit for a moment by lightning that took many minutes to kill Luke. (and even then, he got up, and back to 100 percent in moments) then recovers and kills sidious
All good cases all end with sidious chopped in half, or falling out a window.
I still can't see a scenario, even if mace were forced to step away from the lightning, where sidious is going to be able to get enough of an advantage to win this fight.
Originally posted by SIDIOUS 66This fits in perfectly with RotJ Palpatine. In most other incarnations, he's clever enough to pull off a Xantaos' Gambit (thank you Ven for TV Tropes), but as of RotJ, everything was in the freaking bag for him, and he let his overconfidence and arrogance bring him down. Ewoks, Vader, and in a sense, Luke. If he had killed him outright then Vader likely wouldn't have turned, but he just had to savor his victory over the last Jedi threat.
Also, Sidious reduced three dark prophets (using one hand) to charred bones.Sidious was taunting Luke. He wanted to teach him a lesson before killing him. Sidious would pause the attack and say a few lines and then attack again. Cleary he was not going for the kill right away.
Not the last Jedi, the last threat they posed. None of the surviving ones had the potential and capacity that Luke did. I doubt very, very much, that Luke, writhing in agony and pleading for his father's assistance, was offering up some sort of mental resistance that was slowing down the lethality of the most powerful Sith Lord's lightning.