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Message: <blockquote data-quote="driver8" data-source="post: 2267953" data-attributes="member: 17559">It will be interesting to hear the audio commentary when the DvD comes out. However, given that Mace was supposed to be a sword master, I think Palpatine was seriously on the verge of losing. He lost his saber, and his lightning attacks were being deflected, deforming him.From a story point of view, its important that Palpy was been defeated. Anakin up to that point is on the brink-he's ambitous and kind of in favor of a strong man running the show; but he respects the Jedi code and thinks the Jedi Council is bending it to their own agenda. And the thing that tips the scale is that regardless of all that, he wants the knowledge that Palpatine has to save his wife.If its just Palpatine deliberatly losing the fight, its not as much of a turning point-without Anakin there is no Empire.And I think that the lightning did deform him, since like alot of other things in these prequels, we get to see how things came to be how they are in the OT.</blockquote>