Who Really Won the Yoda vs Sidious Fight in ROTS?

Originally posted by SunRazer
Earlier edits had Yoda beating Sidious but deciding for some reason or other to not go through with a victory, IIRC. However, later editions of the script were changed to Sidious being too strong and simply overpowering him (which is what the adult novel's based off), before it was presumably changed back to the explosion at the end.

Looks like they originally had Palpatine below the two, then decided to make him the GOAT.

I mean they can't have yoda succeed or the ot wouldn't work. I didn't see the second part though.

Yoda beating sidious and leaving it at that makes absolutely no sense.

Ah, you mean that. Yeah, they obviously realized that no justification would've worked for Yoda leaving Sidious alone, so they had to change it to him being unable to beat Palaptine.

Also, early edits had Palpatine explicitly creating Anakin with midi-chlorian manipulation and having a "I am your father" type moment.