Lucasfilm, Warner Bros., and Turner Broadcasting have just announced a deal that will bring a new 3D animated film (think Pixar), titled Star Wars: The Clone Wars, to theaters everywhere this August 15. The movie will be continued as a TV show on Cartoon Network and TNT shortly thereafter.
In response to the afterward: While the "Battlefront" games are not considered canonical, If you have ever played Battlefront 2 the answer is obvious. The lightsaber moves were taken directly from the movies, and Mace Windu's are supirior in every way to the Emperors.
If that were the only evidence, I'd be hesitant to rely on it, since as you said, games take great liberties for the sake of gameplay. But I happen to agree. The Emperor has Mace beat in terms of mastery of the Force, but Mace is the better swordsman.
I've talked to some people who disagree, and who say it was obviously all just a trap to convince Anakin of poor little old Palpatine's helplessness. That's true, to an extent. Palpatine was obviously playing up his defeat. And he probably could have escaped arrest without Anakin's help--he must have known it was coming. But once he was backed into the corner, I think he was pretty genuinely backed into the corner.
He knew Anakin too well, though, so even then there probably wasn't much of a risk. But in a pure 1-on-1 swordfight (no Force, no trickery), I think he would have been in trouble.
Hmm, so that wasn't much of a debate. There's always the Strongest Force User stuff, but that's tricky because some sources (like the old Clone Wars mini TV series) obviously exaggerate the "truth." Or one could always debate the best way to view the movies: I II III IV V VI or IV V VI I II II....
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In response to the afterward:
While the "Battlefront" games are not considered canonical, If you have ever played Battlefront 2 the answer is obvious. The lightsaber moves were taken directly from the movies, and Mace Windu's are supirior in every way to the Emperors.
If that were the only evidence, I'd be hesitant to rely on it, since as you said, games take great liberties for the sake of gameplay. But I happen to agree. The Emperor has Mace beat in terms of mastery of the Force, but Mace is the better swordsman.
I've talked to some people who disagree, and who say it was obviously all just a trap to convince Anakin of poor little old Palpatine's helplessness. That's true, to an extent. Palpatine was obviously playing up his defeat. And he probably could have escaped arrest without Anakin's help--he must have known it was coming. But once he was backed into the corner, I think he was pretty genuinely backed into the corner.
He knew Anakin too well, though, so even then there probably wasn't much of a risk. But in a pure 1-on-1 swordfight (no Force, no trickery), I think he would have been in trouble.
Hmm, so that wasn't much of a debate. There's always the Strongest Force User stuff, but that's tricky because some sources (like the old Clone Wars mini TV series) obviously exaggerate the "truth." Or one could always debate the best way to view the movies: I II III IV V VI or IV V VI I II II....
Battlestar Galactica is better.
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