Enyalus
MALE DOMINANCE!!!
Originally posted by ares834
Mace kept what up? Blocking Palpatine's lightning... Yeah he did. But what he did not keep up was stopping his lightsaber from bending into his face as both my quotes show. He had no strength left to fight against his blade so it began to bend up in his face. Had Palpatine countinued his storm of lightning he would have killed Mace.
You conveniently leave out the entire context of those quotes of yours. It goes like this:
"Help me! I can't hold on any longer!" The yellow glare from Palpatine's eyes spread outward through his flesh. His skin flowed like oil, as though the muscle beneath was burning away, as though even the bones of his skull were softening, were bending and bulging, deforming from the heat and pressure of his electric hatred. "He is killing me, Anakin-! Please, Anaaahhh-"
Mace's blade bent so close to his face that he was choking on ozone. "Anakin, he's too strong for me-"
"Ahhh-" Palpatine's roar above above the endless blast of lightning became a fading moan of despair.
The lightning swallowed itself, leaving only the night and the rain, and an old man crumpled to his knees on a slippery ledge.
"I ... can't. I give up. I ... I am too weak, in the end. Too old, and too weak. Don't kill me, Master Jedi. Please. I surrender."
Victory flooded through Mace's aching body. He lifted his blade. "You Sith disease-"
Sidious' own lightning was already killing himself by the time Mace's blade became unsteady. And despite the author noting it, he has Mace continue to stand there and deflect lightning for another sentence of Palpatine's and then some, until Palpatine fires a final gout and shuts things down. How much longer do you really think Palpatine could continue to keep eating his own lightning? Because clearly, Mace could have continued reflecting it...as the novel makes clear.