ParanoidObsessive posted... Except he absolutely wasn't. If anything, he might have been better if he was.
Mace was passionless cardboard cutout Jedi. It doesn't matter how much the EU or supplemental stuff tells you that he's secretly brimming over with rage and channels that into his fighting style, almost nothing Samuel L Jackson does acting-wise conveys that. It's part of what makes Mace lame - he's dull.
Lucas deciding that the old Jedi Council was basically just a bunch of serene monks with little to no personality was a mistake. There were better ways to portray both the order and its members in the prequels that would have worked way better.
yea, they just came across as stupid lol