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Philip027 posted...

I think I'll always find it amusing how the whole "did Palpatine throw the fight with Mace" debate became kind of like the prequel series' version of the "did Han/Greedo shoot first" debate.

Characteristically speaking, there's a clear answer in both cases; yet they will be debated until the ends of time anyway simply because the films either never make it 100% explicit, or in the case of the Han/Greedo debate, they flip-flop on it endlessly between editions.

Because frankly, even if it was George Lucas' intent to show Palpatine almost be defeated, it makes absolutely no sense that after everything he had done up to that point he would blurt his plans to a Jedi and then say to himself "Welp, guess I'll go lounge around my office for a bit"