Originally posted by KuRuPT Thanosi
Lucas uses the words overpower and overcome when describing Mace beating Palps. Both are pretty damn clear. You cannot escape the reality of Mace beat Sids. He did, and Yoda didn't.
He overcame him in the Saber fight. But so did Yoda (according to the script). So I don't see how Mace fought better. At most you can say he fought equally as well as Yoda, but only in the Saber fight, and only due to a clash of fighting styles, like you like to point out.
Then when it comes to the Force Lightning vs Saber, that's a bit of a dodgy comparison, because Lucas confirms Sidious stopped trying because he was faking weakness and faking losing power. Plus now in the new Canon we know he had a 2nd Saber, so he was faking being helpless in more way than 1.
Then that opens up other doors, like if Mace didn't come with 3 Jedi Masters at the beginning of the fight, then Sidious could have began the fight using his Force Powers (like he did against both Yoda and the Maul brothers). And then we have what looks like a very different fight, one where Sidious will definitely seem like the superior one.
So there's really nothing to say Windu fought better against Sidious than Yoda. Only that the Odds were more on Sidious's side against Yoda due to being able to unleash his Full Force Powers on him, much better than he could against Windu, due to 2 reasons:
1) The environment they fought in.
2) Yoda not having any aid at the beginning of the fight.
Originally posted by KuRuPT Thanosi
No, the circumstances don't have to be the same and you're better than this DP. maybe arguing with Quan has got you to same things you know not to be true. IF every fight in comics needed the same environment to compare... we'd have nothing to compare. We could always say.. well he didn't fight him on a popsicle... thus him beating him was different... Ummm Yeah but WHO CARES. Just like somebody not using a power doesn't mean they weren't trying. Even the rules specify that doesn't mean he's not trying. Everybody is trying to win unless stated otherwise. So no, you can't say Palps could've done this or should've done this and since he didn't he wasn't trying. No, doesn't work that way and you know it
Come on man, you should know better. Circumstantial and Environmental Context is everything. You yourself say "Styles make fights." Surely you must then see that Circumstantial and Environmental Contexts will effect different fighting styles in completely different ways.
In fact TCW consistently proves this:
Why is it that one time, Kenobi and Ventress together are outmatched by Maul and Opress, then another time Maul and Kenobi fight equally, then in the same episode Kenobi fights off and arguably defeas Maul and Opress together?
Why is it one time Kenobi solidly defeats Ventress, then another time gets KO'd by her quite quickly?
Why is it that Grievous can defeat Kenobi sometimes?
Why is it Dooku fights off equally against Anakin and Kenobi once, then another time really struggles and barely bests a far inferior duo- Ventress and Opress?
It's all to do with Environmental and Circumstantial Contexts. As well as the state of mind of each individual in every fight.