Originally posted by Galan007
Sure.It's not like it takes Palpatine a long time to put his saber away, after all:
So that's likely what he did before the actual pod-hurling began.
Palpatine's overall superiority has been confirmed in pretty much every noteworthy source in canon:
http://www.killermovies.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=17122410#post17122410The disparity between he and Yoda wasn't vast(in both sabers and the Force), but it was enough to say that Palpatine was > across the board.
And an alternative explanation, one that aligns with sources which say sids was disarmed was provided by gillard when he said "at tier 9, the fighters are close enough that circumstances like enviroment, come into play". Yoda may well have disarmed sids, but it wasn't by virtue of being better, merely comparable along with favorable circumstances.