Mace Windu runs the gauntlet!

Mace changed his mind after Sidious tried to fry him with lightning. Do you have proof that Mace changed his mind after his company of Jedi were killed?

can you prove that mace didn't have to take a huge dump and that is why he tried an overhand strike instead of a simple push forward a few inches.. It was the dump that allowed Sids to live. Prove me wrong

Originally posted by Intrepid37
Mace changed his mind after Sidious tried to fry him with lightning. Do you have proof that Mace changed his mind after his company of Jedi were killed?

Irrelevant. Let's ignore the fact that you're still thinking through Mace's eyes rather than Sidious's, and just look at after the lightning.

After Sidious stops and says that he's too weak:

Explain how HE knew Mace would NOT cut his head off immediately.

When Mace tried to, Anakin came to the rescue, the same Anakin that Palpatine trusted/relied on.

Originally posted by Intrepid37
When Mace tried to, Anakin came to the rescue, the same Anakin that Palpatine trusted/relied on.

Only because Mace used a slow overhand hack. Prove Palpatine knew he'd make this stupid move.

Precognition.

Originally posted by Intrepid37
Precognition.

🙄 Precognition isn't so precise that you can predict precisely what your opponent is going to do before you even engage him. Otherwise, Palpatine wouldn't have been so surprised by Yoda's force push.

Depends on the opponent you're facing. Sidious could literally sense Maul's and Savage's moves before they had happened.

You mean like, any Sith can?

With Precognition?

Originally posted by Intrepid37
Depends on the opponent you're facing. Sidious could literally sense Maul's and Savage's moves before they had happened.

Your theory would require that he could do so hours in advance, and know precisely that Windu would do an overhand hack instead of a quick stab to the throat.

You know as well as I that this is pure bullshit.

Never has Palpatine demonstrated such ridiculous levels of foresight, or else he wouldn't have ****ed up all the times he did.

Uh, not everyone's precognition is at the same level. Palpatine's is extremely strong. He'd sense if Mace was going to attack him.

Originally posted by Master Han
Your theory would require that he could do so hours in advance, and know [b]precisely that Windu would do an overhand hack instead of a quick stab to the throat.

You know as well as I that this is pure bullshit.

Never has Palpatine demonstrated such ridiculous levels of foresight, or else he wouldn't have ****ed up all the times he did. [/B]

Originally posted by Intrepid37
If that's not enough then I'm not sure what is. It's just how the fights in the movies are done.

🙄 You still don't get it; it's not enough for Palpatine to know when he's already lying helpless on the ground that Windu is going to try to kill him in this way; he has to know it when he decides to throw the fight, presumably even before he revealed himself to Anakin.

That's a level of foresight beyond anything we've ever seen.

But he wasn't ''helpless''.

Ummm yeah he was... He had just exerted a lot of energy and deformed him face with his own lighting... he was clearly struggling and you can see this in the movie. Sure, he had some left in the tank which Lucas confirms that he wasn't totally devoid of energy like he made out. But he certainly wasn't in peak conditions and had just had a long grueling fight and exceted a ton of energy and force reserves. He was pretty helpless.. not totally.. but he was not in an advantageous position thatis for sure.

Originally posted by Intrepid37
But he wasn't ''helpless''.

What could he do if Windu had stabbed him while he was scurrying away?

What if Windu had taken advantage of the opening Palpatine supposedly left willingly to stab him in the face?

So many what-ifs.

There's no need for all the what-if's. There's no need to try and explain those inconsistencies. Not my job.

Originally posted by Intrepid37
There's no need for all the what-if's. There's no need to try and explain those inconsistencies. Not my job.

It is your job, because those inconsistencies only exist with your theory, and your theory's holes are certainly marks against it.

Not really. Lucas line-edited the novelization and approved the theory, despite the inconsistencies in his own movies. I'm in no need of explaining those.

Lucas approved your theory?