Originally posted by Arhael
Well, Sidious dropped lightsaber himself in favor of regaining balance, not a clean disarm. 💃Regardless, I never disagreed that Sidious will win majority against Windu. In fact for me Sidious wins majority against both. I consider stalemate between Yoda and Sidious as victory for Sidious because tired Yoda becomes frail helpless midget, while Sidous is still a large human with vast physical advantages.
I think we agree on most points. The only thing I'll say is.. Yoda looked superior in that fight. He might not have won.. but he looked slightly superior. The script from Lucas even makes mention "The emperor looks doomed" before yoda lost his balance. DP likes to mention difference in fights. Had yoda not been on the edge of a ledge.. he could've also very likely beaten sids.. Lucas says so... Thus, it's not a matter of Windu winning and Yoda didn't.. how can this be.. it doesn't make any sense. There was also context on why Yoda didn't win.
Yoda disarmed Sids of his saber. We can say he dropped it to regain balance but that is irrelevant. If you force your foe off balance with your strikes and he drops his saber.. it's the same as doing a fancy disarming move. All the same. So Yoda won that aspect of the fight. Force power.. Yoda overpowered a TK senate pod throw from Sids and sent it back at him. How about lighting.. well as I touched on... Yoda was seemingly about to overpower him and sids looked like he was done. To say Sidious beats yoda more times than not is a bit of a stretch imo considering how Lucas presented the fight.