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From: anybody@anywhere-anytime.com
In article , Merrick
Baldelli wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 09:08:13 +1200, Anybody
> wrote:
>
> >> 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.
>
> There's something else going on in that scene, and
> unfortunately I'm not at my DVD player to replay it. Windu still had
> every opportunity to kill Sidious without second thought -- even after
> he reflected back Sidious' lightning bolts.
>
> Could be that Windu stayed his hand on the working assumption
> that the lightning bolts that he reflected back from Sidous were
> enough to seriously weaken him -- but somehow I seriously doubt that
> such damage would be permanent when it came to the powers of the
> Force.
>
> It's still a perfect opportunity that he had more than enough
> time to take advantage of before Anakin stepped in.
Mac Windu probably hadn't wanted to literally kill Palpatine until the
Sith Lord had started pretending to be so weak and the innocent one in
front of Anakin. At that point he fully realised how dangerous
Palpatine really was - not just powerful, but cunning too.
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