Originally posted by: darkshadow
and i dont think palpatine intentionally got defeated, sids is not even close to the lvl of close combat mastery as mace, and as you noticed mace not only BLOCKED his ultra powerfull lightning, he reflected it as wel ( btw this part of the post is not for you knives[img][/img]), sids knew already he would win because of anakin, if anakin didnt show up however, mace would've ended the empire right there
Ya, and I'm sure he really was weak and in great pain like he said just before he lit windu up and then seemed perfectly fine.

Windu was only "winning" because plapatine allowed it. The whole thing was to play on Anakin's emotions and get him to make a move rather than being uncertain the whole time.

The fight was way too fast for windu to have won too, do you think he could have pulled that off on Yoda? Yoda and palpatine seemed to be on even grounds, no?