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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Crichton" data-source="post: 2268842" data-attributes="member: 4779">This particular topic is great simply because there is no correct answer until Lucas says something.  Speculation and being able to have an opinion about it is quite fun and allows each viewer to taylor what they want to believe to make the story work for them.While watching it I got the distinct impression that the entire fight, just like Palpatine's play for Anakin's loyalty (I am the Sith Lord) was a calculated risk and somewhat staged.  Mace is a great lightsaber wielder and knows what he is doing which basically amounts to him not going out like a chump against Sideous.  Without Anakin there, he held his own and beat Yoda who is at least on the same power level as Windu.  So basically, Palpatine wants to accomplish two things:  gets Anakin's simpathy by showing him that the Jedi are corrupt and find a way to not have to hide the fact that he has been a dark side force user for quite some time.  He accomplished both.But I could see him also playing the whole deformed thing up.  He's a great manipulator but he is also a great judge of situations/people.  Many of the events that happened were him subtly doing things and rolling with the punches to sway things his way.  Yeah, there was a master plan all along but not even Palpatine is powerful enough to control everyone and predict everything.  I don't think the lightning feedback did it to him, but it could have.  I'm just of the other opinion right now.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  I reserve the right to change my opinion upon future viewings.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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