Originally posted by Galan007Interesting, all the sources I was thinking off seem to have been published before 2014. There was one trading card guide i recall from after the merger, but I can't find it, and that's probaby doesn't have the same weight as what you've listed. I guess you're right.
Such as?And even if there are multiple canon quotes stating they're equal, are they more recent than everything provided here?
Originally posted by juggernaut74According to multiple other sources(including some released after the VD) Palpatine had the advantage.
Well according to the canon Star Wars Visual Dictionary Yoda and Sidious are equals.
*Also want to note that I don't have a problem with them being equals. Just pointing out that far more canon sources than not tell us Palpatine was superior.
They were near equals, with Palpatine having the slight advantage across the board(as confirmed in multiple canon sources.) Your personal interpretation of their battle in the film does not change or contradict the abundance of canon material stating that Palpatine was superior.
Like I said before: the AotC film itself certainly did not depict Yoda as leagues beyond Dooku (IMO)... But in canon, Yoda was 2x Dooku during that battle. So that was the canon discrepancy between them at the time, regardless of personal opinion. Same concept applies to Palpatine vs. Yoda.
There's really no need to make things this hard. 😬
Originally posted by Galan007
They were near equals, with Palpatine having the slight advantage across the board(as confirmed in multiple canon sources.) Your personal interpretation of their battle in the film does not change or contradict the abundance of canon material stating that Palpatine was superior.
Personally speaking it seemed to me yoda had the edge given sidious was falling backwards before the explosion, but at some point you need to get with the program.
It's possible there was a point of time sidious was intended to get lucky(the deleted scene seems to support that), but that's ancient history.
Exactly. 👆
Prior to all of this information surfacing, I had always considered them to be about equal -- with Palpatine perhaps having a very slight edge in the Force, and Yoda perhaps having a slight edge in sabers.
But it's different now. Palpatine was simply better across the board(as several sources indicate)... Not much better, but still better.
Palpatine is very powerful but prone to bad judgement. This much is apparent from his battles with Mace Windu and Yoda respectively.
Palpatine succeeded in electrocuting Yoda [early on]; perfect opportunity to subjugate/eliminate Yoda right then and there but Palpatine got cocky instead and wasted precious time gloating (i.e. lapse in judgement), giving Yoda sufficient time to recover and mount an offensive of his own.
What a bummer.