SunRazer
Back From The Dead
Originally posted by UCanShootMyNova
Nova, even disregarding the fact that the scene you're using to make your argument is non canon and thus posseses no bearing on anything
You already know how I view this stuff, lol. Non-canon means it doesn't happen in the official timeline. But it's valid because the character's power levels haven't been altered. We're not here to discuss what did happen, but rather, what can happen, with regard to the character's power levels.
Sidious force pushes Marek in the midst of a blade lock. It shows Sidious turning off his lightsaber and while the blade is shutting off Sidious dropping the hilt and using a force push that sends Galen flying back.
If you watch it in slow-motion, you'll notice that Palpatine deactivates the lightsaber, then throws away the lightsaber, then hurls Galen. The last two were possibly done in simultaneity, but my case isn't altered. Sidious deactivating his lightsaber means that Galen's application of pressure would make him continue to move forwards, but Sidious hurled him back before that could happen.
Don't you obsess over physics? If so, this is really just inertia. Palpatine deactivating his lightsaber means that there's no longer a force balancing out the pushing force Galen's putting on his lightsaber, so it should move forwards. And since they were so close, Palpatine should've been cleaved in half, but he managed to push Galen back before that.
Watch it at 0.25x speed. Sidious deactivates his lightsaber, and before Galen or his lightsaber can even move forwards, Sidious is hurling him back.
Since you probably won't accept the fact that it's an animation error then we have to ask why Sidious would logically do this? Well for starters shutting off his blade while in a blade lock is not only going to surprise his opponent but also off balance him. If he did manage to blitz him as your suggesting then that means Marek wouldn't have been able to actively shield himself. And if Marek did manage to actively shield himself then Sidious isn't capable of actually blitzing someone of that tier. Even assuming the former it's unlikely that Galen wouldn't have reacted because Sidious was too fast for him but for the reasons stated above.
What animation error?
My case would suggest that Galen isn't actively shielding himself, which is fine since Sidious isn't even hurling with the intent to kill, just to leave him on the floor for a while. Which is precisely what happens. Galen only gets up and starts running after the ship starts coming towards him, by which time it's too late.
In either case ( Galen having put up an active barrier or it just being a passive barrier ) Sidious didn't demonstrate telekinetic domination only managing to blast Galen back. In the former case it confirms his inability to blitz an opponent of Galen's power and in the latter it means that he can only push back a Galen level Force user who wasn't even actively shielding himself. And in that case it would still be unlikely that Sidious landing a Force push was because he was too fast for Marek to react.
The use of the word "unlikely" seems to suggest that you're admitting my case is a possibility at the least.
In any case, Galen wouldn't have been able to put up an active defense. Which doesn't harm my point. Sidious was only attacking to floor Galen, and he succeeded. Nowhere did I mention telekinetic domination. That only appears in another DS version.