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So was Anakin wrong when he threw Palpatine down the shaft in Episode VI? I mean he even attacked him from the back.
The Mace/Palpatine fight achieved a few things:
- it shows why Palpatine fears the Jedi so much in the OT, he can get got.
- It was a false parallell to Anakin vs Dooku:
Anakin didn't kill Dooku for any reason other than revenge.
Mace goes for the kill because he realises that if Palpatine lives, the Jedi will lose....and he's 100% right. He also knows Palpatine is PRETENDING to have lost his power, unlike Dooku who literally had his hands cut off.
"Don't listen to him Anakin...He controls the senate"
At this point some of the Jedi also feel Order 66 coming "I sense a plot to destroy the Jedi".
Anakin brings up the Jedi code, this isn't to show that Mace was wrong - it's to show that Anakin is. What does he do when Mace tells him Palpatine is too dangerous?
"I need him!"
ANAKIN is the one who doesn't give a shyt about the Jedi code in this scene, and Mace is the one truly doing his job.
"Destroy the Sith, we must"
That moment was all about Anakin, not Mace and Palpatine. Anakin was supposed to help Mace and bring balance to the force, Palpatine would absolutely have fought back ("UNLIMITED POWER") if Anakin didn't step in - and Anakin was then supposed to kill Palpatine by attacking him while he was fighting Mace.....EXACTLY what he does to Palpatine 30 years later.
The Jedi code is about killing the defenseless, Palpatine was anything but and he proves this the moment Anakin steps in. This was Anakin's chance to help the Jedi and bring balance but he fails.
This is important to note - Mace would not have killed Palpatine, Anakin is the chosen one. Palpatine would a 10000% have fought back, or if Mace would not attack he would've a 10000% attacked Mace anyway. If Anakin was there on some Jedi shyt, he was more than free to step in when Palpatine started frying a truly defenseless Mace (proving to Anakin that Palpatine was pretending to have lost his powers). Anakin witnesses Mace telling Palpatine that he will arrest him, he witnesses Palpatine saying "no no no you will DIE" and he still chose to help Palpatine instead of Mace.
He'll do the right thing by murking Palpatine when the same happens to Luke, and he'll help Rey murk Palpatine's clone AGAIN in the same way he was supposed to with Mace.
George Lucas