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From: anybody@anywhere-anytime.com
In article , Merrick
Baldelli wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:29:35 -0700, SFTVratings
> wrote:
>
> >Merrick Baldelli wrote:
> >
> >> I don't know about that -- it seemed pretty apparent that
> >> Windu had beaten back Palpatine to the point that the Dark Side of the
> >> Force energy bolts had taken their toll of Palpatine thereby weakening
> >> him for an easy kill. Windu did demand that Palpatine relinquish his
> >> Marshall Powers granted to him by the Republic's Senate and wanted to
> >> end it peacefully with Palpatine in irons rather than kill him
> >> outright and then have to explain it to the Senate.
> >>
> >> Windu, no matter
> >> how much one hoped he would strike the death blow -- simply didn't
> >> have it in him to kill that mercilessly. Remember, Jedi Knights
> >> aren't ruthless killers, nor are they ones to act rashly, or even in a
> >> vigilante sort of way. ....
> >
> >If Windu was not the killing type, why did this conversation happen:
> >
> >ANAKIN: "You can't kill him; he must stand trial."
> >WINDU: "He is too dangerous to let him live."
>
> So what you're saying is that the next time you say "I'm going
> to kill..." about someone doing something that you don't like and I
> hear it, I should pick up the phone and call 911?
>
> >Windu was going to chop-off Palpatine's head right then-and-there.
> >(IMHO Windu should have listened to Anakin, then Anakin would have had
> >no reason to interfere.)
>
> Really? What stopped him? Certainly not Anakin's presence.
Anakin's lightsaber stopped Mace from killing Palpatine ... it was a
mirror of the Return of the Jedi scene where Vader stops Luke's
lightsaber killing the Emperor.
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