No.1056
What do you think of Mace, /starwars/?
People say Samuel L. Jackson was a bad choice for this character, and I guess I can see where the criticism comes from. But I think he managed to breathe some life into a character who otherwise would have been completely flat.
Apparently having Mace die confronting Palpatine rather than "like some punk" (i.e. all the other Jedi sans Yoda and Kenobi) was Jackson's idea, based BMF
No.1057
original scripts for E3 had windu survive the fall and get killed by boba fett
and slj was a great pick, it's not like we needed idris elba for the role or anything.
No.1061
>I think he managed to breathe some life into a character who otherwise would have been completely flat.
I agree. He seemed like a his script was written as a filler character, but jackson made Mace feel relevant as an active leader in the council. Yoda would sit back and chill, but Mace took on the onus of conducting meetings
No.1063
I didn't mind the character. I think a lot of the criticism of him comes from just a watching of Episode 1 where he doesn't do much, but it pays off in Episode 3. He was so hard on Anakin throughout the prequels that when it came to the confrontation with Palpatine he was probably the only Jedi that Anakin would have been okay with killing.
No.1065
>>1057>original scripts for E3 had windu survive the fall and get killed by boba fettReally? Shit. Wasn't Boba still a little kid at that time?
No.1067
>>1065he would be somewhere around 15-17 years old, having already donned jango's armor and started doing bounty hunting on his own
No.1069
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>>1056You mean the character that should have fallen but caught on to come taxi or something, then got a robot arm and became a badass space pirate? The wasted potential of a character? Yeah he's ok
No.1070
No.1073
>>1070dunno if this is official or fan-made but i remember reading some fun fan theories about mace surviving and becoming a hermit basically.
dunno about space pirate but if this does happen in rebels that would be legit.
No.1081
>>1070>>1073This is a fan made image. Ever since I was a young lad I always theorized that Mace actually survived, then I saw this image and freaked out. Turns out it's fake though. I'm just upset they didn't make him a badass Order 66 survivor
No.1104
>>1069>>1081When you think about it the way Obi Wan and Anakin handled falling through Coruscant Mace should have been able to survive.
Since Maul survived death in Star Wars needs to be more than falling some great distance.
No.1108
>>1104Anakin and Obi-Wan have George Lucas Plot Armor, and were able to conveniently land on those flying cars in Coruscant through the will of the Force.
Mace was temporarily possessed by Palpatine's mind control powers into falling to his doom.
No.1112
>>1108This makes sense and I hate it
No.1165
>>1057ROTS came out in 2005. Idris Elba probably wasn't even an actor then.
No.1167
>>1165no but he did start around the time ep 1 came out
so he missed the casting call by like like a year and a half
No.2511
Clone Wars Mace Windu was the shit
Actually made me give a fuck.about his character in.the movies
No.2512
>People say Samuel L. Jackson was a bad choice for this character, and I guess I can see where the criticism comes from.
The character was written FOR Jackson, what the fuck are you talking about? The reason he even had a purple lightsaber was because the actor demanded it so he could stand apart.
No.2523
>>1056
Never liked him until I saw 2D Clone Wars. Although he was too OP for me there, but still wicked.